For the first time since Congress mandated its annual publication, a State Department report cataloging human trafficking across the globe includes allegations that American taxpayers financed such abuses. This year's Trafficking in Persons Repo
A Chatsworth, California film production company and a Tempe, Arizona video distributor and retailer, along with three owners of the businesses, have been charged by a federal grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona with operating an obscenity distribution bu
[Makes the politicians look tough. Makes the perps kill their victims, since they face the same penalty, but don't leave a witness.] South Carolina passed bills that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for some repeat child molester
For young women with a world of choices, even that monthly curse, the menstrual period, is optional. Thanks to birth control pills a growing number of women are taking the pill all the time. Been great for her marriage, preventing monthly crankiness
Florida legislators are scheduled to vote on whether to allow men to escape child-support payments and other legal responsibilities if DNA tests show they are not the fathers of children born to their wives or partners.
Dr. Curtis Rosebraugh, an agency medical officer, wrote: "... she stated that we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors ... that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B."
Lucy’s Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolina’s Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys.
But banning the sale of sex toys is actually quite common in some Southern states.
The South Carolina bill
A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said.
Adult entertainment giant Vivid Entertainment Group said it will start next month selling downloadable movies that viewers can burn to DVD and watch on their TVs.
Middle-aged and older people in Western countries were the first to take the contraceptive pill, challenge the institution of marriage and campaign for women's rights, and now they are continuing to reap the benefits of the sexual revolution.
State and federal authorities and the Mormon polygamist sect headquartered along the Arizona-Utah border seem finally headed for a showdown.
So far, there have been no reports of violence in the towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah,
When America's top sex researchers gathered recently to discuss the next decade in their field, some envisioned a future in which artificial sex partners could cater to every fantasy. A field dubbed "teledildonics" already allows people
In a sleazy hotel room, "Brittany," then aged 16 and drugged into oblivion, waited for the men to arrive. Her pimps sent as many as 17 clients an evening through the door. This didn't happened in Bangkok or Costa Rica, it happened in At
Two more women have died after using the abortion pill
RU-486, regulators said Friday in a warning that brought renewed calls for pulling the controversial drug from the market.
A recent flurry of activity on abortion is making Republican politicians nervous. With states moving to restrict abortion and the Supreme Court closer to when it might actually reverse Roe v. Wade, GOP leaders see big political risks.
If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. Hope to spark discussion even if they lose.
A Mesa Fire Department battalion chief was placed on administrative leave on Monday after being arrested in a bestiality case. Police say Leroy Johnson went to a residence and knocked on the door of a home where a 13-year-old girl was staying home al
A case pending in Judge Anderson's courtroom involving a teenage girl lured into prostitution prompted the judge to convene a roundtable group to discuss creating an educational video to combat childhood prostitution.
After reviewing the number of hits top local stories at his newspaper's Web site got in 2005, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat concludes, "As I look back at the year in news, it's clear I should have focused more on people having s
Group sex among consenting adults is neither prostitution nor a threat to society, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled as it lifted a ban on so-called "swingers" clubs.
Cingular Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone service provider, quietly has launched filtering devices and password-enabled blockers that help thwart underage consumers from buying adult content.
James Tait was accused of entering a barn without the owner's permission. Tait admitted to officers that he entered a neighboring barn with friend Kenneth Pinyan to have sex with a horse. Tait was videotaping the episode when Pinyan suffered inte
A proposal to impose a special tax on sexually oriented businesses is creating a dilemma for some legislators. They're socially conservative and would like to combat pornography and discourage the opening of new shops that sell X-rated videos and
Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss, whose previous career running a call-girl ring landed her in prison, is returning to the world's oldest profession -- to open a Nevada brothel catering to women.
A woman was sentenced to 6 years in prison for having repeated sexual contact with her daughter's 8-year-old playmate. One wonders if she happened to be a man ...?
When Hardage complained to his boss, she responded: "Why don't you just do it and get it over with? It may put her in a better mood." If it was a female being hassassed...?
A small group of UA men, constituting Delta Lambda Phi, has begun the process of officially joining the university's Greek system as the school's first gay fraternity. Sigma Phi Beta, became ASU's first gay fraternity.
Gay activists applauded a Kansas Supreme Court decision throwing out a measure that allowed vastly harsher punishment for older teenagers who have consensual sex with underage teens of the same gender.