Dear Douchebags,
Last year you pursued (and last week convicted) Deborah Jeane Palfrey (pictured), a Washington DC escort service operator for several crimes including running a prostitution service. An hour ago, police announced that she hung herself in a shed near her mom’s house.
Those of you who made, uphold or support the laws against prostitution, […]

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Earlier this week I was amazed to discover that I had never written about the BBC licence fee, and I immediately remedied that. To keep with the theme of plugging gaps in my blogging catalogue I also discovered I have never written a critique of anything written by Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. So, I thought […]

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Instantly, upon reading that title, feminist hackles are raised. But I don’t think there are very good reasons for that. The news in the past week that the British building company Wimpey has banned its workers from wolf-whistling at passing women comes as no surprise to me:
“In the 21st century the wolf whistle […]

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It’s the nightmare of many men: being pregnant and giving birth. According to some commentators that very fear was played on by the series of Alien films, in which people would get infected and have baby aliens bursting from their bodies. Seemingly some men have maternal instincts. But I guess it helps if the man […]

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Tom and Stephanie sat on the grass in the Minneapolis sunshine, gazing lovingly into each others eyes. They were always glad of the short time they could spend together away from their spouses and kids. Tom regarded his family life as being “in a life I don’t want to be in” and dreamed of being […]

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Spitzer’s Sin has been of great interest to me, for a host of reasons. One of those reasons is obvious to our regular readers: we’ve always argued that prostitution should be protected in law as a legitimate right (and I recently wondered if banning it may be unconstitutional, a case I’d love to see […]

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The blushing bride was radiant in her 5 metre long sari, decked in flowers. The groom made his way to the temple amidst music, dancing and fireworks. Crowds flocked from all around to see these young love birds finally cement their relationship in marriage, and lavished gifts on each of them: including a gold necklace […]

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I want to make this assertion: that five women of Ipswich, England would probably still be alive today if prostitution were legal.
Our American friends won’t be familiar with this story since it received virtually no press here, but every British headline is reporting that an Ipswich man, Steve Wright, has been found guilty of murdering […]

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Christian attitudes to sex are so entertaining that it’s become one of my favourite subjects. Consider Book 22, a website for Christian married couples offering a variety of sex enhancement products like oils, aids and toys.
I’ll say this: the site’s founder Joy Wilson is a brave woman. In her native land of […]

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Point a remote control at your balls and click the off button if you want to have sex for fun. Point it again and click the ‘on’ button to get down to the business of making a baby. Yes… it’s an adjustable vasectomy. Love it.
Happy Valentine’s Day, readers and commenters.

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Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and I’ve lost count of the number of single people who have been lamenting their plight at this time of year. I decided to have a little look at Singleton town, so I opened the newspaper and began reading the personal ads: lonely hearts looking for love. Most seem […]

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I find it astonishing the things that people will get upset over. This photo is Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, mayor in the 500-resident town of Arlington, Oregon. The residents are so angry about this picture from her MySpace page that they’re issuing a recall petition against her (essentially trying to get her removed from office). […]

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What do you call a man with one testicle?
Geoffrey Jones.
The poor sod used to have two but he lost one when his now ex-girlfriend Amanda Monti ripped it off.
Ouch.
Ripped it off. With her bare hands. I can barely sit on this seat thinking about it without my own testicles trying to jump up into my […]

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You know, I genuinely find Fred Phelps entertaining. I know he’s a bigot and a hatemonger. I know his positions are unsupportable, and hurtful to some. I know what he says is utterly ridiculous, on so many levels. But that makes Phelps - as Chief Nut at the ‘God Hates Fags‘ camp - worthy of […]

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Having this ideology can be a wearisome thing, because I rarely agree with anyone. Usually I’m up to the challenge of disagreeing with everyone I meet, but in the past few days I’ve just been exhausted by it. Either they’re a religious zealot or they’re an atheist; I’m neither. Either they’re an […]

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This outfit was considered too sexy for SouthWest Airlines: last July, 23 year old Kyla Ebbert boarded a flight from San Diego, California to her doctor’s office in Tuscon, Arizona, wearing the outfit she’s pictured in here. She was called from her seat and lectured by a customer service representative in front of dozens […]

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Sorry to be so late on this: thanks to Liam for first raising the issue on this blog here, and Crawley’s made a comment here. For a summary of the debate so far, the BBC has a piece here.
For those who haven’t read the story, cleaners at a hostel unlocked and opened the door […]

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Remember this (Morford, ‘Christian virgins are overrated’)? Now a study makes a surprising conclusion: not only does teenage sex not contribute to delinquency, but the exact opposite may be true:
Perhaps most surprising, the Virginia study found that adolescents who had sex at younger ages were less likely to end up delinquent than those who […]

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A Belfast sex shop - Misbehavin’ - has been involved in a long running legal battle with Belfast City Council to be allowed a licence to trade in Belfast. Sex shops are permissible in law but they require a licence from the local government authority. The Court of Appeal decided in favour of Misbehavin’ but […]

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An AIDS charity working in Ethiopia has come up with a rather novel way of encouraging the use of condoms. DKT International received a lot of complaints about the latex smell of conventional condoms, so they found a solution: java-scented & flavoured condoms for a nation of coffee-lovers. Already 300,000 have sold in the first […]

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