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Huffington Post SALT LAKE CITY — Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone. As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the TLC “Sister Wives” family is asking a federal judge to overturn part of Utah’s bigamy law because it …
CBC News B.C. Supreme Court has upheld Canada’s polygamy laws, but says minors who end up in polygamous marriages should be exempt from prosecution. In a 335-page decision released on Wednesday, Chief Justice Robert Bauman ruled in favour of the section of the Criminal Code outlawing polygamous unions. In his …
TampaBay.com A couple renting the big house behind the bright white fence seemed like excellent tenants, their landlord says. They paid their rent on time. They kept the grass neatly trimmed. Neighbors watched the pair light tiki torches along the driveway in the evenings. The torches led floods of cars …
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is pleased to announce the addition of a new board member—Race Bannon. Race is the founder of the popular Kink Aware Professionals free list service that refers people to kink-sensitive psychotherapeutic, medical and legal professionals. Race asked NCSF to take over the hosting and management …
Washington City Paper Proving that you can’t keep a good swinger down, the Crucible—a “pansexual alternate lifestyles club” that lost its lease at 1815 Half Street on Buzzard Point in April—has found a new home. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs just issued a building permit for a small …
TampaBay.com Hillsborough County sheriff’s detectives say they shut down a swingers club in a Seffner rental house Friday and arrested four people. Complaints from neighbors about the home at 11326 Brightridge Drive kicked off a six-week investigation by sheriff’s detectives and agents from the state Division of Alcoholic Beverages and …
ABC News Sex toys, adult entertainment and dozens of people. That’s what investigators say went on inside a Seffner home, which was allegedly used as a illegal swingers club. Deputies arrested four people, two married couples, in connection to the crime. On a normal Saturday night., deputies say people would …
Huffington Post An FBI advisory board overwhelmingly voted to update the narrow, archaic way the agency defines rape on Tuesday, a move that women’s rights advocates hailed as a long-overdue success. Currently, the FBI defines rape as the “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” This definition, …
NY Times How gay was the New York gay march in the infancy of the gay rights movement almost 40 years ago? Not very, according to The New York Times, which prescribed an older nomenclature. “March Is Staged/By Homosexuals” read the headline on Page 21 of The Times that June …
