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Melinda Wenner
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com Tue May 29, 10:41 AM ET
People who are socially dominant and either very friendly or very antagonistic tend to be more sexually promiscuous, according to a new study.
Friendly, warm people may enjoy sharing their warmth with others by sleeping with them, whereas antagonistic people may sleep around to avoid having a monogamous relationship. And having a dominant personality makes it easier to approach potential partners. (more. . .)
. . At least, this was all the setting when Lara saw that one of her old self-portraits had been retouched to remove her watermark and placed on the online sales cover of 1982’s porn non-epic “Body Magic.” Unfortunately, this wasn’t Lara Jade’s first experience with her images being used by someone else. It’s also no news that buying porn online is a “buyer beware” environment where consumers must constantly be on guard for privacy and personal information issues (just like with online pharmacy and “cheap” travel sites). (more. . . )
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Figleaf writes:
Earlier this week I noted the annual return of the 2002 semen withdrawal causes depression in women pseudo-science story, and now another one has popped up. This time it’s Naomi Wolf’s New York Magazine story called “The Porn Myth,” wherein Wolf opines that porn and strippers have robbed men of all interest in sex with real women.
Hugo Schwyzer points out the Wolf article was published in 2004. (First clue? It begins with the line “At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin…” but Dworkin died in 2005.)
Still, Schwyzer uses the opportunity to reassess his initially positive take in light of what he now recognizes as Wolf’s assertions that, despite her opposition to porn, maintaining the husband’s sexual interest is a wifely duty rather than, say, a shared one. (more. . . )
Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company’s recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.
LiveJournal, which is owned by San Francisco-based Six Apart, confirmed Wednesday that it deleted around 500 journals this week in hopes of better “protecting children.” It said the deletion was prompted by activist groups, including one called Warriors for Innocence that claims to track sites promoting pedophilia, the sexual abuse of minors, and other illegal activities.
Legal experts say LiveJournal is clearly not liable for fictional stories and related discussions posted by its users. But despite customer outcry, Six Apart is standing firm in its position that the deleted journals violate company policy.
“We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn’t think met our policies and didn’t think they were appropriate to have up,” Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview. The site boasts about 13 million journals.
Some deleted LiveJournal communities went by names like childlove and little_children (a community permits multiple LiveJournal users to post entries, while an individual account is limited to one user). Others, however, broadly fall into the category of science fiction, fantasy or user-written “fandom” stories–and it is those that have sparked the outcry.
“As a queer, feminist writer who explores the darker aspects of human nature, many of my stories deal with incest, rape and child molestation,” a LiveJournal member named “bitterfig” wrote. “As such, I belonged to and contributed to several of the communities which have been suspended and frankly I’m pretty offended. I don’t like being lumped in with rapists and pedophiles and other ‘monsters on the Web.'”
Practically any attempt to sort works of fiction into tidy piles of acceptable and unacceptable material, of course, is likely to invite controversy. Works by noted authors such as James Joyce, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs have been lauded as masterpieces–and at other times prosecuted as obscene.
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