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The Death of Copyright
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(También en Español) News of Note: You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it’s worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won. It…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Dress For Success
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIpEbSTpYko” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] How frequently and how harshly are we judged because of our appearance? How does your dress affect credibility, even as women are pressured to be sexually alluring at all times? Have you ever thought about the root of this double standard? Do you think pornography plays a role in…
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(También en Español) News of Note: U.N. summit focuses on how to improve global happiness The United Nations turned its attention to happiness — and just how it might be achieved on an international scale. “Conscious that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal” and “recognizing that the gross domestic product … does…
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For more on Terasem… Today VenusPlusX launches a new category of discussion—Transreligion. This brings into focus a topic we have occasionally touched on in the past in our posts such as Do You Believe in Fate? I Believe in Destiny!, Can Atheism be True, Good, Beautiful, and Loving?, Can I Transition to be a Transhuman?, Where Did All This F*cking…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: The Weight of Tradition
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFN4IJwfitk” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] What does repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the US military mean to you? To society-at-large? Now lesbian and gay soldiers can serve openly, but what about transgender soldiers as well? Why have lawmakers and the media paid more attention to homophobia to the exclusion of transphobia? How big…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Catholic church abuse: at least one youth castrated for ‘homosexuality’ At least one boy under the age of 16 was castrated to ‘help’ his homosexual feelings while in Catholic church care in the 1950s, the NRC reported on Saturday. But there are indications at least 10 other boys were…
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También en español ”Death to the b**ches, I’m back” read a sign found next to the body of one of the nearly 1,700 Guatemalan women who have been murdered in the past five years. Since 1993, some 500 women of limited means have been killed or disappeared from the streets of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Shockingly Old Fashioned
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD_sD94oHDc” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] In today’s video, we meet several young women at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC who have strong feelings about owning vibrators, judgmental people, religious institutions, and shockingly old fashioned ideas. What’s your opinion? Can one ever really own too many vibrators? Should marriage be denied to people because of…
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The Unwelcome Mat
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(También en Español) News of Note: The Unwelcome Mat: How America Scares Away Tourists Imagine that you’re the citizen of a prosperous, democratic ally like Britain, Spain or Japan, and you’d like to visit America. Before traveling, you must pay $14 to complete an online United States government form called ESTA, short for Electronic System…
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-ngHR9iKY” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Basking in a park, this young woman shares her ideas about the differences between gender and sex, and how sexual freedom can vary in different environments. She says gender as a continuum, with extremes and many ambiguities in between. How does locale affect the experience of sexual freedom? What…
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