New York is paying $35,000 to a grandmother falsely charged with prostitution. According to NYDailyNews.com, “The city – which has paid out $80,000 to settle four federal suits against Officer Sean Spencer – admitted he trumped up the case.”
Maybe we need a political party like this in the U.S. After all, Republicans and Democrats are both fully vested in the business of sexual morality fear mongering.
I guess if any western country needs a rebellion against government censorship it’s Australia after a 2008 exhibit (pictures can be viewed here – NSFW) by photographer Bill Hensen was shut down and a panel of “experts” (consisting mostly of prosecutors and cops) determined that mere artistic merit was no longer sufficient justification for free expression. This general topic deserves a more thorough discussion in a separate posting.
A Canadian study suggests women may have lower sex drive than men because of guilt. I wonder if that’s related to the social attitudes that a women with multiple partners is labeled a slut (bad) while a male is considered a stud (good). If so, shouldn’t women be really really pissed off about that?
A U.S. Justice Dept study revealed a “very high rate of staff sexual misconduct” against juvenile inmates in state prisons. So I guess we should start seeing a flood of convictions of prison employees and subsequent growth in the respective sex offender registries, right? I think I’ll forgo holding my breath for that. (link stolen from theagitator.com)
You have to laugh at the notion that China, notorious for suppression freedom of expression, is having to resort to stealing censorship software from the U.S.