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I'm glad there are religious leaders like Rev. Eric Lee out there, and I'm appalled by the position of the SCLC leadership. For a civil rights organization to oppose civil rights for LGBT folks is unconscionable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/us/11g
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization, is seeking to remove the president of its Los Angeles chapter in response to his support of same-sex marriage.
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RU-486, or mifepristone, was approved for use in 2000 in the US, for medical abortions.
Shortly there after, something weird started happening. A handful of women who used RU-486 were dying from sepsis, caused by a really rare bacteria, Clostridium sordellii. Like, these women didnt have AIDS. They werent meth addicts o...r recovering from cancer. They were previously completely healthy 18, 22 year-old women dropping d
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RU-486, or mifepristone, was approved for use in 2000 in the US, for medical abortions. Shortly there after, something weird started happening. A handful of women who used RU-486 were dying from sepsis, caused by a really rare bacteria, Clostridium sordellii. Like, these women didnt have AIDS. They...
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We have previously written about the need for the sex work research community to influence the overall research agenda to ensure that resources are directed to research that is responsible, responsive to need and that informs public and social policy.
We are acutely aware of a number of problems with sex work research. ...There are major gaps in our knowledge, much of the scope of the work is disproportionate to realit
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We have previously written about the need for the sex work research community to influence the overall research agenda to ensure that resources are directed to research that is responsible, responsive to need and that informs public and social policy. We are acutely aware of a number of problems wi...
See MoreSex in the Public Square Here's an interesting blog I've found via Dolly. Rebecca Dakin, author of The Girlfriend Experience, is blogging about getting "back into 'normal life' after a whirlwind exciting 9 years of escorting". She wrote it, in her words, "to educate people about the infamous 'girlfriend experience' and challenge peoples views ...on escorting". So, what's interesting - she's been writing about how the media have portrayed her...
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We're back in 2010 raising money for Sex Work Awareness by showing you what "sexual freedom" means to us. Support us, and a very important organization, by buying a day in the calendar. Put your own message there for only $10. Or, buy a day and order a calendar for only $30.
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The last judicial review ocurred in 1990, and was lost in an interesting split of the Supreme Court along gender lines. It nearly succceeded however. It passed the first test, in that of two sections of the Criminal Code that were being challenged, the majority of the court held that;
Section 195.1(1)(c) of the Code... is inconsistent with s. 2(b of the Charter but is justifiable under s. 1 of the Charter
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There are essentially two ways to change unjust laws, by appealing to the legislature, or by referring the statutes to an independent judiciary for a determination of whether they transgress fundamental freedoms protected by the constitution. Both approaches have been tried in Canada with respect t...
See MoreSex in the Public Square Admittedly, I don't carouse around the right wing blogs often, preferring to have the straight stuff filtered for me by writers with a firmer grasp on reality. For that reason, I was thoroughly blind-sided by the utter credulity with which some blogger named Jill Stanek breathlessly repeated some pretty outlandish clai...ms by a Canadian child psychiatrist named Dr. Philip Ney. I had never heard of Stanek, but after ...
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I was actually looking for some good sex-ed resources for linking here at SitPS when I recently stumbled across one of the most bizarre and counter-factual rants I've seen outside of the Discovery Institute's network of self-referential web-dust-collection blogs.
See MoreSex in the Public Square The 11th issue of Research for Sex Work is now available online. Check it out at http://researchforsexwork.org
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Home page of 'Research for Sex Work', an annual journal about research on sex work.
Sex in the Public Square Must read Wendy Kaminer in The Atlantic "Child Porn, Animal Cruelty Porn, and the Right to Imagine" : http://bit.ly/C0bYi
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Last month, Christopher Handley, a collector of comic books, pled guilty to federal charges of importing and possessing obscene cartoon drawings of children; he faces a maximum ...
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