Reading Time: 8 minutes PornHub might be one of the most frequently-visited websites on the planet. Its owners, MindGeek (now Aylo), operate a number of similar pornography-based websites that enjoy their own good traffic. But PornHub has been through a lot of scandals in recent years regarding the content it allows and monetizes. In the past, those scandals concerned […]
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Posted inReligious News
Why no evangelicals stopped Joshua Butler’s toxic marriage suggestions
Reading Time: 14 minutes You’d think someone might have told the guy much earlier that his ideas perpetuated some really sickening and toxic dynamics between spouses. But nobody did. Really, nobody could have.
Posted inLGBTQ News
Why the Christian Right tried (and failed) to kill the Respect for Marriage Act
Reading Time: 9 minutes The Respect for Marriage Act finally passed a its last vote. It’s now on its way to the president’s desk, where he’ll likely sign it into law on Tuesday. But it got there over the kicking and screaming of the Christian Right, a loose-knit assortment of hardline evangelical culture warriors and creepily-authoritarian hardline Catholics.
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We all have butts: Uncoupling nudity and sex from shame
Reading Time: 4 minutes By the time I hit puberty, my mother had left her Catholic body-shaming god behind. Her message to me was simple: Everybody’s got one.
Posted inLaw
This week in progress: Colombia, Cuba, and the Indian Supreme Court
Reading Time: 5 minutes With Russia having formally annexed four occupied regions in Ukraine after a series of sham referendums, to strong rebuke and promises of escalating consequences from the EU and NATO, one can be forgiven for thinking this was an altogether bleak week. (The recent press of an extreme hurricane in Florida, and ongoing energy grid destabilization […]
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The Anglican Communion debates inclusion of LGBT members
Reading Time: < 1 minute From July 26 to August 8, 2022, bishops from across the Anglican communion will come together for the 15th Lambeth Conference. Once again, the issue of sexuality and same-sex marriage continues to cause deep divisions within this global body. As reported by the UK based Church Times, bishops will vote on the divisive Resolution 1.10 […]
Posted inGen Z Rising
A Gen Z shock: Among Zoomers with no religion, women outnumber men
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not since Madalyn Murray O’Hair has the image of non-religiosity been defined by a woman. That may change with Generation Z. A new analysis of data by sociologist Ryan P. Burge finds that, among people born after the year 2000, known as Gen Z, more women than men identify with no organized religion. The Zoomer […]
Posted inSexuality
Jada and Will’s open relationship is none of your business
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the main focus of the recent Oscars ceremony has been on the joke that played a role in the violent interaction between Will Smith and Chris Rock, I think the jokes about the Smiths’ open relationship bear discussing, particularly the false assumption that they cause violence. Before I jump in here, I want to […]
Posted inCulture
Why is Kim Kardashian yelling at us?
Reading Time: 2 minutes That’s the tweet from author and activist Glennon Doyle about Kim Kardashian’s recent viral advice for working women as part of a Variety interview shared on their social media account. Doyle, who is known for being outspoken and direct, but not unkind, summed up how many of us are feeling. Kardashian’s hot take is not […]
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A review of “The Body Is Not An Apology”
Reading Time: 5 minutes As a body scholar and feminist, I hunger for ways to explore and inhabit our bodies that are not bound by shame, and Sonya Renee Taylor’s book delivers exactly that.