When does art become child porn?
I'm just catching up on my reading and really enjoyed Laura Cumming's calm and thoughtful piece in the Guardian about the Tate Modern's recent decision to remove Richard Prince's re-photographed image of a naked underage Brooke Shields. Cumming's draws no conclusions, but some of her other examples are shocking (like the Australian who was convicted of possessing child pornography after he was found to have images of Bart and Lisa Simpson having sex) and she does a nice job of providing an historic context without letting anyone off the hook for explaining their thinking today. I'm currently making my way through Alan Moore's fantastic

Doing It Decent - Hearing Your Parents Having Sex
Every other week Doing It Decent considers the ethics of a sexual situation from our readers. Grappling with a touchy sexual ethics issue? Send an email to sexuality.guide@about.com, and be sure to put DID in the subject line. All questions will be posted anonymously with identifying information removed. This week's question: Hearing Your Parents Having Sex My

Possible Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction Resulting from Priapism
Much more than a comedic story arc on your favorite hospital drama, priapism is a serious condition that remains a mystery to scientists and a curse for people who experience it. Recently researchers at the The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, with the help of some enzyme deficient mice, have discovered something that could lead to a better understanding of priapism, and to a preventative treatment for erectile dysfunction that often res

The Next Generation of Home Parties
Change comes to retail sex slowly. I got my first job in a sex shop in 1987 and over the almost quarter century I've been in the industry there's been a major change in the way retail sex shops present and provide services to customers. Much of the change has been superficial, but some of it hasn't. And what's most exciting about these changes is that they have come one the one hand from sexually progressive people entering the industry and on the other from consumers who are becoming more and more empowered to demand and expect quality products and good customer service.

The Ethics of Choice, Revisited
I wish I could be in New York next Tuesday for this talk. There are so many ways that disability studies, and more broadly my colleagues, friends and partners with disabilities, have blown my mind around issues like sexuality, gender, and embodiment. One of my earliest "aha" moments (which to be honest felt more like an "oh sh-t" moment) was hearing Pat Israel, a Canadian disability activist, talk about her struggle to identify as disabled, feminist and pro-choice. The position of so many feminist health organizations, that a woman's right to choose