Men's Hour

Don't tell the French not to get burnt up about Joan of Arc. You could get arrested.

Jail sentence for sexist insults under new French law

The French cabinet yesterday gave its backing to a bill authorising penalties of up to a year in jail for anyone found guilty of making an anti-gay or sexist remark.

"This law puts the fight against homophobia and sexism on the same footing, legally speaking, as the fight against racism and anti-semitism," said the justice minister, Dominique Perben.

Of course, this is a politically correct one way street...

Save the rain forest. Have sex now! Where do I sign up for that?

From Ananova Couple had sex on stage at rock festival

A Norwegian couple face court action after they stripped off and had sex on stage during a rock concert.

Tommy Hol Ellingsen, 28, and his girlfriend Leona Johansson, 21, say they did it to help save the rain forest

Those of you of a more robust constitution can also see the unedited picture, but naturally you'll want to read more because you wish to save the rain forest...

Braveheart or bigot in Scotland? No gay sex in my house, says Tom Forrest of Cromasaig guest house. Removed from VisitScotland website.

B&B owner keeps 'no gays' stance

A GUEST house owner was unrepentant last night despite being dropped by VisitScotland for refusing a gay couple a double room and branding them "sexual deviants".

Score one more for the feminists - David Reimer, the "proof" that men and women are interchangeable, commits suicide

Once when I was young (shortly after the Ark landed) the words gender and sex meant the same. I usually only heard the word "gender" in French lessons at school, so I could tell which sex a table was in French. It didn't seem to matter much except to another table. "la table" is feminine by the way. Later on it seems feminists, having decided that men and women were the same, decided that something must be getting in the way of men and women being equal, even interchangeable. This they decided was "gender". Now gender came to mean a social conditioning imposed above and beyond the physical sex of the child. Gender and sex meant two different things and since gender was an ephemeral thing, not really having any definition or form, then it could be changed. About this time Dr. John Money started saying that you could bring up a boy as a girl or vice versa and they would act the way you bought them up. This seemed to work in his experiments with babies of indeterminate sex. It's clear where he got his ideas from. As little as 10 years previously any idea that men and women were interchangeable and that you could get boys to like dolls and girls to like train sets would have been dismissed as nonsense. In 1966 Bruce Reimer, a young baby, along with twin his brother, was circumcised. Both babies had had trouble urinating and this was to be the solution. Unfortunately for Bruce Reimer this turned out to be the start of his troubles. The circumcision went drastically wrong and his genitals were all but destroyed. The parents looked around for someone to help this now seriously damaged baby. They found Dr John Money. He said that Bruce could be surgically altered and become Brenda and everything would be alright. They thought they had the solution. Brenda Reimer was expected to grow to be a happy girl and women. The trouble is that Brenda didn't like dresses or dolls and was unhappy as a girl and didn't make friends with other girls and acted a lot like a boy. Eventually when Brenda was older they told her/him. Brenda immediately declared himself David and became a man, including surgery to turn him back into a man as near as possible. The public didn't know what was happening to David. While this was going on Dr John Money was being lauded as the man who proved that men and women were interchangeable. Although the change back helped, David had psychological problems and there were suicide attempts. At age 38, David Reimer killed himself on 4th May 2004.

There's a discussion on MensActivism Can Gender Be Socially Constructed?

More sex education equals more sex. More sex equals more pregnancies. So more sex education then...

From Melanie Philips, Daily Mail

Well, there's a surprise. A study by economists at Nottingham university has found that the government's strategy to reduce destructive sexual behaviour among teenagers has actually encouraged it instead. In those areas of the country where the strategy has been most actively pursued, sexual activity and sexually transmitted diseases have risen fastest.

Just think about that for a moment. This country's teenage pregnancy rates are the highest in Europe, twice as high as in Germany and three times the proportion in France. The rate of sexually transmitted infections among the young is going through the roof. The toll in terms of damaged young lives is immense. Yet the government's strategy has not merely failed to improve this disastrous situation. It has made it worse.

The reasons have been clear for a long time. The more sex guidance and contraception aimed at the very young, the more sexual activity there is. This is because what is happening goes far beyond education about the mechanics of reproduction. It is all designed to send a signal that sexual activity is the right of every child.

Yet the government and the family planning industry that it supports deny ferociously that this is the case. The only reason for our astronomical teen pregnancy rates, they insist, is that there isn't enough sex education and children are ignorant of the facts of life. If it wasn't so tragic, such a response would be hilarious. For has there ever been a time when children have had more sex education at school? Has there ever been such a society which bombards children with explicit sexual imagery on television, or in advertising, pop music and teen magazines? The one thing they patently obviously do not lack is knowledge about sex.

More at A green light for teen sex

That's So Gay - No, I Don't Mean Homosexual - Please could we have our language back?

Bernard Chapin has written a column for MensNewsDaily

In the seventies, before cultural Marxism ravaged and neutered our civilization, we could get away with being judgmental and, thus, be ourselves. Guys like Howard Cosell and Archie Bunker would never be broadcast anywhere today.

Those of us who smile when we recall campy videos by The Clash, The B52s, and The Police do not wish to negate the past. How bad can it be when you can wake up at 6 am and find chicks with feathered hair and purple leg warmers hopping around on your small screen? No, I’ll stand with my generation. I won’t sell them out for the kudos of a bunch of PC automatons.

Read the column at That's So Gay

Gay children need gay foster parents. So what are gay children?

Adam's gay. Isn't it obvious?

You've no doubt heard of gay fostering, but now there's a new aspect; gay fostering of gay children....

Please, mister, can I have my balls back? (Sorry, couldn't resist that)

I said in an earlier post that serious questions should asked about transsexuality, including is it really good for the person concerned? (Just for the record if your a transsexual and you want to go ahead, with your own money by the way, then it's your body but I think you're very likely making a mistake) Anyway one person has said you operated too quick and I was mentally unbalanced when I agreed to it, but the British General Medical Council has not upheld the complaint...

Men can be women except when it might compete with women (and they can still be rapists)

Women who are trapped inside a man's body (or men who want their whatits cut off, if you prefer) aren't being allowed to compete with women in sport because they might beat the little darlings....

German gay cannibal, Armin Meiwes, jailed for eight years (Will he ask for a special diet in prison?)

The case mentioned in What can consenting adults do together? Abuse, harm, kill or eat each other?Anne Robinson and Armin Meiwes say Yes, you can! has come to a conclusion. Cannibal jailed for eight years

Self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes has been found guilty of manslaughter by a German court and jailed for eight years and six months....