The latest issue of Reason Magazine has much about sex! Pleasure, alas, has a price. As Katherine Mangu-Ward explains, “the legal risk of many common sexual choices is skyrocketing.” Several essays exploring that theme are now available online. Cyber vice squads and neo-Puritans run amok, see below. –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire
American Sex Police
With sweeping trafficking stings, the FBI returns to its roots as the nation’s vice squad. Elizabeth Nolan Brown’s wide-ranging investigation into Operation Cross Country, a series of ongoing stings that purport to be searching out evil men who traffic children into sexual slavery but in fact amount to a war on people engaging in consensual commercial sex.
http://reason.com/archives/2017/03/14/american-sex-police
Sex and Kids
The unjust, irrational, and unconstitutional consequences of pedophilia panic. Jacob Sullum’s account of the unconstitutional and wildly uneven legal treatment that accused consumers of child pornography experience.
http://reason.com/archives/2017/03/15/sex-and-kids
Safe Sex, Dangerous State
Mixing sex and the state has never been a good idea. Katherine Mangu-Ward writes, “As we increasingly infantilize teens and young adults while disregarding privacy protections that once shielded intimate communications, more “kids” are being caught in a legal dragnet that is purportedly designed to protect them.”
http://reason.com/archives/2017/03/14/safe-sex-dangerous-state
Laws should NEVER be based on emotion or public opinion but instead empirical evidence. I think many people trust that is a law is created then the legislators must know something that creates the need. Just the opposite is true…
CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT against the United States Government by Registrants is MUCH overdo, and much needed. Too many low-intelligence politicians with interests of their self-image who are in power making asinine laws which make absolutely no sense to humanity or public safety or a better society. It’s TIME for a change.
Couple of really good articles. Thanks for the links.