It’s a little depressing, on multiple levels, to see Jessica Valenti and Pam Spaulding celebrating because protesters at Smith College managed to shout down some bigoted halfwit who’d been invited to give a speech to the College Republican group on campus. Apparently, the “awesome feminists of Smith forced [anti-gay speaker Ryan] Sorba out after a [...]

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A judge in Canada has ruled to sustain a sexual assault charge against a man whose wife says she consented to being choked to unconsciousness before sex. Apparently rough play of this sort was a routine part of the couple’s sex life. There is some question as to whether she actually consented or is only [...]

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Here’s what ought to be a very simple question, inspired by Katherine Jean Lopez: If some scumbag is peddling the body of an exploited 14-year-old girl on the street, does he become more or less difficult to catch and punish in a world where prohibition has created a black market in prostitution. Think about it… [...]

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I already Quick-Hits linked it in the sidebar, but this is easily the best thing I’ve read on all the Spitzer-inspired chin-stroking about prostitution, and I’d hate to deny those of you reading via RSS.

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The Spitzer scandal has prompted a lot of discussion of the legal status of prostitution. Andrew Sullivan quotes a commenter who asks:
Why is it illegal to sell, what it is perfectly legal to give away?
Indeed. But I always preferred George Carlin’s formulation:

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