Each Halloween, vigilantes demand the home of every registered sex offender be marked “to protect the public.”
Science says this is nonsense.
Changing the Way People, Politics & the Media Look at Sex
Each Halloween, vigilantes demand the home of every registered sex offender be marked “to protect the public.”
Science says this is nonsense.
In just 72 hours, the sun will set and young kids will start cruising up and down my street. Costumed, faces painted, they’ll have one thing on their Halloween minds—sugar.
However, their parents are supposed to be thinking about predators, who supposedly lurk behind every door, and inside every clown costume.
A new Alabama law requires that felons convicted of having sex with children and now getting out on parole take drugs that will chemically castrate them. If they refuse they can be kept in prison—even if they have absolutely no sexual interest in children.
This law satisfies the bloodlust of Alabamians, but will NOT make their children safer.
Florida has criminalized sex dolls that look like children. Arizona has declared porn a public health crisis.
Both were done without input from scientists, sex experts, or consumers.
“Consent” is only one aspect of sexuality; focussing on it too much distracts us from other important policy issues regarding sex. It also ignores the central role of ambivalence and ambiguity in sexual decision-making.
As a lifelong “liberal” it breaks my heart to say this, but “liberals” and “progressives” are making it harder and harder to write about things that matter. Here are examples of facts that I and others hesitate to write about: