Branwyn Lancourt, The Faster Times. September 14, 2009. Kids today are exposed to vast amounts of sleazy, pornified media at the same time that they are hammered with silly puritanism. The future doesn't look good.
Jessica Hester, Bitch Magazine. August 28, 2009. If porn serves as a repository for images and ideas expelled from society at large, feeding porn seems inevitable.
Sarah Beldo, The Faster Times. July 29, 2009. Apparently, being openly married to a porn star while you're in a public service position is not allowed.
Lily Quateman, The Frisky AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. June 16, 2009. Porn star Grey, who has achieved success as a mainstream actress, has gotten tons of criticism for working in porn.
Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect. May 15, 2009. Like newspapers and other businesses buffeted by the financial crisis, the porn industry is in danger of extinction.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's Blog. May 9, 2009. Lou Dobbs cheers on anti-Latino backlash, while pornography provides the context for the dangerous stereotypes.
Katherine Forsythe, National Sexuality Resource Center. April 27, 2009. The original "Joy of Sex" emphasized pleasure. The new version of the book seems like one more manual on how to perform and impress.
Bonnie Zylbergold, National Sexuality Resource Center. April 17, 2009. The labiaplasty: Yet another symptom of our culture's need to assert control over women's bodies and sexuality.
Clive James, BBC. April 7, 2009. A political scandal rocking the UK over porn films charged to a govt. expense account raises the question: why do people enjoy skin flicks, anyway?
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. March 12, 2009. Lots of porn dovetails nicely with the conservative view on sex: that good girls dislike sex and bad girls who get down don't deserve respect.
Liz Langley, AlterNet. February 13, 2009. From pedal-powered sex toy delivery services to recycling vibrators, the adult industry has actually made going green sexy.
Judith Levine, The American Prospect. February 7, 2009. Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness.
Jason Linkins, AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. January 29, 2009. Employees at the National Science Foundation are allegedly knee-deep in online smut, and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley will not stand for it.
Shannon Rupp, The Tyee. January 22, 2009. The ubiquity of porn has rendered it invisible for most adults. But why has pornographic imagery become such an acceptable part of public culture?
Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 7, 2009. Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt has asked the government for a $5 billion dollar bailout package.
Marcy Marzuki, Spread Magazine. December 30, 2008. Prostitutes, strippers and porn stars are now as ubiquitous on cable as cops are on network TV. Is that good or bad for sex workers?
Andi Zeilser, Seal Press. October 16, 2008. Promoting pleasure for women has been difficult, thanks to a pop culture view of female sexuality riddled with moralism and classic double standards.
Dr. Marty Klein, AlterNet. August 29, 2008. Shocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is illegal.
