Recent articles in our e-zine
Greetings from The Sex Party.
We are now posting at least weekly in our e-zine Public Sex: The politics of Erotic Life. They are outlined below. If you want to submit artilce or comment, please get in touch!
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March 14, 2007 He is a pious man. A believer.
He puts on a pack. Walks into a crowd. And detonates an explosion that will blow him and many innocent bystanders to bits
March 06, 2007 Picture this: 70 police officers, many heavily armed, assemble in a residential neighborhood. A police chopper hovers above a house in a suburb of Vancouver, BC. Months of investigation have prepared them for the raid they are about to conduct.
February 27, 2007 Several months ago phone provider Telus decided to sell images of naked people in arousing poses to age-verified mobile phone customers. The images were entirely legal and purely softcore. No sex acts were depicted.
In a democracy the news media is supposed to stand for openness and honesty. Right?
But the managers who run our news organizations regularly breach those principles when sex is in issue.
The most common example of this ethical lapse is in the censorship of the simple word fuck, defaced with hyphens so it appears: f---.
The fallout is settling. The controversy over the landmark December 22, 2005 Supreme Court of Canada decision democratizing Canadian sex law is beginning to subside. The long-term effect of that decision can now be perceived.
In one of his last news conferences as mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell announced a publicly funded community-based program to study sex work in Vancouver and said red light districts should be an option. The next day an editorial in the Vancouver Sun endorsed the idea.
by Allison Macbeth
The problem with living in North America these days is that our brains haven't caught up with our bodies when it comes to sex. We are bombarded with sexuality in movies, magazines, and music every day. And yet in the midst of all this sex there is very little actual information.
Conservative MP Mark Warawa, who represents a constituency from BC's Bible belt in the Fraser Valley, wants Parliament to investigate prison