A San Diego woman is auctioning off her virginity as part of a project for her Masters’ thesis in women’s studies. No, I can’t complete that sentence without closing my eyes and shaking my head in irony-free disbelief. Nor can… Continue Reading
What with all the governmental intervention in big finance, big auto manufacturing, big insurance, and big real estate, there are no doubt a lot of important industries that have been left behind. No one is offering to bail out big… Continue Reading
Guess what? “Virginity pledges,” in which teenagers vow to not engage in sex until they are married, do not work. Teenagers who take such pledges are just as likely to engage in premarital sex than those who do not. Teenagers… Continue Reading
In 2000, a defendant in a capital murder trial in Missouri was convicted. The jury had been sequestered, and one of the jurors complained to the judge that two of the other jurors had spent some time in sequestration having… Continue Reading
Outrage #1: Saudi court tells Muslim girl, aged 8, that she has no right to divorce the 58-year old guy who her father married her off to in exchange for about $9,000. Well, actually, the court told the mother that… Continue Reading
How did the cheerleaders text nude pictures of themselves to their boyfriends? You don’t text-message a photograph, by definition. Or is the verb “text” morphing into something other than “sending a text message from or to a cellular phone”? Otherwise,… Continue Reading
Okay, let’s see how many interesting hits I get while being cruised on Google with that headline! But the link is about a few articles concerning experiments churches are conducting, asking their married parishioners to have lots of sex.* The… Continue Reading
One of the interesting things about being a lawyer is that you do not necessarily have to accept money as a fee for your service. I have, at times, accepted a variety of things that are not money. Back when… Continue Reading
Once again, our great national fear of pornography manifests itself. That guy sitting ahead of you who paid good money to use wi-fi provided on board an airplane might surf a porn site. Forgive me if I seem blasé about… Continue Reading
Traditionally, Chinese society takes a dim but not completely negative view of homosexuality. The begetting of children, particularly sons, is a duty of a good Chinese man; this is reinforced by Confucian and Taoist teachings. So traditional morality in China… Continue Reading