China: Unsafe sex rife as youths get their information from porn

05 November 2010
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“Chinese college students are developing increasingly open attitudes toward sex but do not have a strong awareness of safe sex, a survey released on Friday has suggested… Only 34 percent of respondents said they used condoms. Nearly 30 percent of respondents said they did not think it was necessary to use condoms.” “Zhang said that they should improve their awareness of safe sex and noted that about 17 percent of respondents had suffered from sexual diseases… Zhang attributed the lack of knowledge about safe sex to the way in which many students get their knowledge about sex – from pornography.” “In a separate recent survey conducted by the Beijing-based China Youth Daily, more...

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Individualization

02 November 2010
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Ulrich Beck, one of the most influential sociologists of our time writes of a two-fold tendency in society.  On the one hand traditional social ties, relations and beliefs systems that used to shape people’s lives in the narrowest way are today losing more and more of their significance.  From family unit, village community, through religion to class, occupation and gender role, things that once gave framework and rule to everyday life, are crumbling away.  Clearly for individuals this brings new options, new spaces. She and he can and should decide how to shape their own life.  There is much that is positive about those changes – no one disputes that. At the same time – and this is the other side of the individualization...

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How did porn get to be cool?

27 October 2010
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How did porn get to be cool? Pop culture’s unquestioning embrace of porn leaves Adam Carey searching for answers. Read the Sydney Morning Herald article here.

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Anti-porn conference stresses importance of awareness

27 October 2010
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Anti-porn conference stresses importance of awareness Students of all stripes came to discuss feminism and pornography during the Feminist Anti-Pornography conference held last weekend. The UNH Womyn’s Club, along with the New Hampshire chapter of the group Stop Porn Culture, hosted the event. Read the article by Caitlin Andrews for The New Hampshire here.

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The Wicked Wretch of the East (US), Bob Guccione, is dead at age 79.

25 October 2010
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The Wicked Wretch of the East (US), Bob Guccione, is dead at age 79.

image which appeared in Vanity Fair magazine is from here Bob Guccione, who died Wednesday 20 October 2010, at the age 79, was what might be termed one of several infamous U.S. pimperors, or rulers of pornography empires that trafficked in women and made exploitation and objectification into “sex” for heterosexual male consumers. He was the founder of Penthouse, a magazine of pornography (literally, the graphic depiction of ‘whores’) which started in England in 1965 and arrived in the U.S. in the late 1960s becoming tremendously popular and profitable through the 1970s and 1980s. It was Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine’s main rival for years. While Hefner made women into naked and less-naked Playboy Bunnies whose features were far from natural or normal, Guccione turned...

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NEWS: Bob Guccione, Penthouse Founder, Dies at 79

24 October 2010
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Obituary in The New York Times

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