The Dictatorship of the Few
How does prejudice perpetuate itself?
How is it, for example, that when most of the world accepts women as deserving of right equal to men, some countries such as Saudi Arabia or Iran vigorously repress their female population?
Turns out that a small number of people are key to the oppression. The king, the royal family, the elite mullahs.
Sex and the National Media
Sex and Islamic Suicide Terrorism
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
An Islamic suicide terrorist.
Police Attack Consensual Sex
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.
Sex Starved Priests Beat Phone Giant
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.
Journalistic ethics, the media, and sex words
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 New Sex Perverts
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.
Vancouver elections: Politicians and Prostitution
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.
Sexual Smarts Start in Schools
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.
BC MP says sexually explicit television "not healthy"
Conservative MP Mark Warawa, who represents a constituency from BC's Bible belt in the Fraser Valley, wants Parliament to investigate prisoner access to cable television shows that feature nudity and sexuality.