A parent purchases a firearm for home protection and stores the weapon, fully-loaded, in the drawer of a bedside table for quick access in times of need. Some months or years later, the protective parent’s young son finds the weapon, plays with it, and ultimately kills himself...

CYBERSPACE – A funny thing happened recently as I was conducting research into the varying nature of “obscenity” regulations and related laws from country-to-country around the globe. On a whim, I tried a variety of searches that incorporated both the terms “united nations” and...

I’m concerned for the health of the American news media and representatives of our federal government. It appears both may be suffering from a serious affliction, or perhaps an addiction.With an insatiable appetite for the sensational and a reaction to all things tawdry that...

By now most of you surely know that the ICANN Board voted 9-5 in favor of scrapping the .XXX domain name proposal, ending what has been a significant threat to the adult entertainment industry for many years running now. This is just fantastic news and a great victory for the...

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Hey, Congress? It’s us again – your constituents.Please forward this correspondence to all your peers in State, City, County, and assorted other denominations of legislature along the chain, and your pals over at the White House, too. (We’d do so ourselves, but we’ve got real...

PANAMA — My case should have ended a long time ago. Instead, the case drags on. As some of you may know the prosecution returned the charges to the judge stating that a 10 foot wall is not high enough to keep kids from climbing trees to watch what’s going on the other...

Join Darklady for yet another lively online conversation, this time with the articulate and charming author of The Master’s Manual, The Compleat Slave, Partners in Power, and The Toybag Guide to Clips and Clamps as they discuss how sexuality – including “alternative” sexuality –...

Wake up, Mr. President, and get into the game. You seem to be letting the line between Church and State get blurred by some of the radical and hypocritical right wing Christians, and/or possibly even by your own personal subjective religious preferences. Worse, your...

Real estate agent and self-appointed arbiter of American morality James Lambert has identified a “new” scourge being disseminated via the Internet – reality porn.In a guest commentary written for the Christian news site Agape Press, Lambert asserts that “every day these Internet...