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Sexuality: Sex and the Law

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SF Chronicle

Phoenix, for example, prohibited live sexual performances in 1998, effectively outlawing swinger parties. An appeals court upheld the law in 2003, and Duncanville used it as a blueprint when passing a ban last month.

News Link • Global Reported By Chip Saunders
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AP/Daniel Lee

Georgia's high court upholds the sentence reduction for Genarlow Wilson and orders his freedom. Wilson has served over two years of a ten year sentence for having consensual oral sex.

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Reuters

Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto sewed their lips together as part of a hunger strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars ordered closed after violent protests by residents last week. "Tomorrow we will bury ourselves ali

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Mondoreb & Ginn

Seems like you just can't trust anybody these days. A Manhattan psychologist who works with children was arrested yesterday after he was found with child porn, police said.

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Death by a Thousand Papercuts

"A walk on the wild side" is just a phrase to some. To others, it's a game plan. From the New York Post: Tourists' eyes were popping and locals' jaws were dropping yesterday morning when a curly-haired hipster bopped around Tim

News Link • Global Reported By Randy Ricochet
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Houston Chronicle

For all of Al Capone's sins and transgressions, he did at least one thing of everlasting value to law enforcement: He failed to pay his taxes. That gave federal authorities the chance to do what their local counterparts could not -- keep "

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AP

The 46-year-old entrepreneur recognized four years ago that people would pay to equip their online selves — which start out with the smooth anatomy of a Barbie or Ken doll — with realistic genitalia and even more to add some sexy moves.

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Daily Mail

Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia." Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormito

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Christian Science Monitor

28 months ago, a jury found the former star athlete and high school scholar guilty of child molestation for having oral sex, as a 17-year-old, with his girlfriend, then 15. Even after a judge deemed his 10-year prison sentence "a grave miscarria

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AP

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, whose telephone number was disclosed by the so-called "DC Madam" accused of running a prostitution ring, says he is sorry for a "serious sin" and that he has already made peace with his wife.

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AP

A former high school football star who became a national symbol for the extremes of getting tough on sex offenders was ordered released from prison Monday by a judge who called his mandatory 10-year sentence for consensual teen sex "a grave misc

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USA Today

Major players in the adult-entertainment industry, long in the vanguard of technology use, now find themselves playing catch-up. Overall sales and rentals of X-rated DVDs have plunged 15% in the last year and up to 30% over the past two years bec

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New York Times

New Hampshire becomes the fourth state to allow same-sex civil unions, joining Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey, and the first to do so without a court order or a pending lawsuit. Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage.

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Boston Globe

After more than a decade of government inaction, gay-rights proponents in Congress have gotten several major bills moving through the Democratic-controlled chambers, a development that could result in the greatest expansion of federal protections