A German brother-and-sister couple are fighting to have their country’s incest laws overturned. Will Saletan’s summary: Details: 1) They were raised separately. 2) They met when he was 23 and she was 15; they began living together a year later. 3) They have four kids. One has epilepsy; two have “special needs”; three have been […]

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Alfred Kinsey earned the permanent ire of social conservatives with his (in)famous groundbreaking studies of Americans’ sexual behavior—the first of which clocked in at number four on Human Events’ list of the most dangerous books of the past two centuries. And in fact, they’re probably right to think that Kinsey at least helped to erode […]

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In the course of a response to Meghan O’Rourke’s review of yet one more book bemoaning the “hook-up culture,” Ross Douthat writes: A less self-contradictory line of argument is suggested by her remark about “explorative sex lives,” which points toward what you might call the Julian Sanchez theory – which is that “interesting and varied […]

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By now, you’ve probably heard about the flap over former Miami Heat baller Tim Hardaway’s repugnant radio interview, in which he reacted to news that fellow NBA alum John Amachi is gay by proclaiming his hatred of gay people and declaring that homosexuality “shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States.” This morning, […]

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Via Feministing, the Eleventh Circuit has upheld an Alabama law banning the sale of “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of the human genital organs.” The court’s argued that, though the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas struck down state laws against consensual sodomy as infringements on the right […]

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Via Radley, I see National Review has a topical piece up claiming “Virgins Make the Best Valentines. Given the prevalence of that rara avis in my demographic, I can only assume he’s urging me to date teenagers. No doubt Derb would approve. The source for the various claims Heritage flack Pat Fagan advances in the […]

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Lindsay Gibson at DCist takes a look at how gay couples’ rights are faring in the DC metro area.

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There’s not a ton to add to Radley’s post about the case of two teenagers (16 and 17) convicted on child porn charges for e-mailing each other nude photos of themselves. It would be funny if it weren’t so grotesque. The real apex of stupidity comes in this bit from the majority opinion upholding the […]

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As we all know, the great peril of gay marriage is that it will break the ironclad link between romantic commitment and keeping your quiver full. Now, Ann Friedman notes, there’s a group fighting the even more serious threat of married childless heterosexuals. So join the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance today!

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The Cornerites are having a back and forth (and back again) on British conservative David Cameron’s stance against exempting Catholic adoption agencies from a ban on discriminating against gay parents. I’m on board with Andrew Stuttaford this far: This isn’t, or at any rate shouldn’t be, a “religious freedom” question. On my view, the right […]

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