Is there a link between the availability of pornography in a society and sex crimes like rape? And does watching more pornography lead men to see women as mere sex-objects? It’s a debate that’s bounced back and forth for decades. Both sides have plausible explanations as to how their claims can be true. Perhaps, after
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LiberalDemocratVoice 7 hours ago (via libdemvoice.org)
When it comes to compulsory sex education in school I am firmly opposed to it for a number of reasons. First of all, I am against it because I do not see that it is any business of the state. I am, I think, a responsible parent. I know my kids better than any government official and I know when they will need to know about sex and how much to tell them at any given time. As far as I'm concern...
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Ranting Stan 8 hours ago (via rantingstan.blogspot.com)
THE brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is expected to lodge grounds to challenge his extradition on sex abuse charges within weeks, a court has heard.
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Scotsman 20 hours ago (via news.scotsman.com)
As the issue of faith schools has often been debated on this site, and it’s been back in the news with the question of sex and relationship education, we’ve asked David Laws to explain the party’s approach to these issues: The recent Government climbdown over sex and relationship education in state funded faith schools has prompted
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LiberalDemocratVoice 1 day ago (via libdemvoice.org)
I don’t find this surprising at all. If people maximise it is their overall well-being that they seek to enhance. If he’d actually paid attention to his economics courses at Southampton all those years ago he would have known this. People maximise utility, not income, leisure, work, sleep, sex or any other one thing. All of that blackboard
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TimWorstall 2 days ago (via timworstall.com)
The things you learn from reading obituaries: because he showed the Greeks were hostile to sex between bearded males, How did that work? Was it beards in general? Or was the beard a signifier of age and or maturity in Greek society? And thus adult homosexuality was not on, while men and boys was just
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TimWorstall 2 days ago (via timworstall.com)
Selling sex should be legal, buying it illegal. Why not just make both legal between consenting adults?
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TimWorstall 3 days ago (via timworstall.com)
Men who have sex with "exploited" women will face fines of £1,000 under a new offence from next month.
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Telegraph 3 days ago (via telegraph.co.uk)
You'd think that after the revelations globally about child abuse within the Catholic Church that you've heard everything. Not so, new allegations are surfacing in Germany regarding their 'boys only boarding schools'. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they were scarred and haunted by alleged abuses has gro...
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TheCynicalDragon 4 days ago (via cynicaldragon.com)
Refusal to lift diplomatic immunity of alleged high-ranking perpetrator prevents case proceeding in US court
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FT on 4th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)