Category Archives: Sex

Obscenity and the web

October 4, 2008 – 7:22 pm

A landmark case is being brought against a UK man in relation to a blog post allegedly authored by him which details his fantasy of the kidnap, rape, torture and murder of an all-girl band called Girls Aloud. I must say that I’d never heard of the band before (indeed, Wikipedia says their efforts to [...]

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The Left Hand of Darkness

May 26, 2008 – 9:03 am

The other day I was reading Ursula Le Guin’s novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. I hadn’t read it for 10 or so years; I had forgotten what an excellent book it was.
Shortly, the book involves a male human diplomat and explorer arriving in a world, Gethen, where the sentient inhabitants are humanoid androgynes. For [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Books, Children, Law, Society | Comments (11)

Waxing lyrical

January 8, 2008 – 11:01 am

Perhaps I’m old-fashioned, but I’ve never understood the appeal of the Brazilian wax. In fact, I’m a bit disturbed by the thought that there might be guys out there who prefer women to be hairless. Do these guys like to imagine that the woman is very young? Erk.
There is a piece in The Age today [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Feminism, Media, Motherhood | Comments (15)

No wonder I cancelled my subscription to The Age

December 20, 2007 – 1:31 pm

I’ve been a bit out of it lately; no time to read blogs or newspapers much. And I cancelled my subscription to The Age when we moved hoise. Why? Because they keep publishing stupid opinion pieces by authors like Catherine Deveny and Tracee Hutchison. I think the final straw was Deveny’s opinion piece about changing [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Marriage, Media | Comments (6)

“Everyone wants you when you’re bi…”

May 10, 2007 – 9:57 am

That’s what Living Colour said in a song a few years back. But it seems that they might have been wrong.
I was surprised by the account of a recent decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal (discovered via Anonymous Lefty). Ali Humayun sought asylum on the basis that he was a bisexual Christian and would be [...]

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British sex ed not up to par

February 12, 2007 – 6:52 pm

I see that a recent survey by the Family Planning Association has established that there is widespread ignorance in Britain about contraception and “the facts of life”. This is interesting. As I’ve disclosed before, I attended an English secondary school after spending a couple of years at an Australian secondary school. When I arrived at [...]

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Prudish jurisprudence?

December 1, 2006 – 7:30 pm

A reader of the Soapbox sent me this interesting article about the furore created when a suit company ran a sexy ad in a legal magazine in the US. There are two questions arising from this:

Is it appropriate to run an ad like this in a legal magazine?
Is the ad demeaning to women? (The [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Feminism | Comments (3)