Decent Exposure?
Published May 1, 2009
First the Keystone Komstocks started protecting teens from themselves by arresting them on child porn charges for “sexting.”
Now a Massachusetts legislator would criminalize the photographing of people over 60 and those with disabilities. Such adults would be statutorily unable to consent.
Sex crimes law is like a black hole: Once reason falls in, it can never re-emerge.
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Are lots of teens really ‘sexting’?
Published March 26, 2009
Remember “wilding” — the homicidal hellraising that poor kids of color were alleged to be doing in Central Park? It turned out to be an invention of some journalist or cop — a name for racist anxieties about invasions by the Other into a perceived redoubt of “civilized” (read: white) New York City. “Sexting” may [...]
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Poli Psy: “Call of the Wild”
Published January 31, 2007
It’s thrilling to watch people pulling together against global warming. Fights and fissures lie ahead. But a green Christmas from St. Louis to St. Petersburg has, for this panicked moment, inspired some previously unimaginable alliances. Businesspeople are lying down with regulators, Democrats with Republicans, religious fundamentalists with scientists. Amateur porn stars with Amazon Indians. I [...]