In his new comedy The Unicorn, director/musician Robert Schwartzman (lead singer of the L.A. band Rooney) presents a unique dilemma: What if your parents are more sexually progressive than you are? What if their relationship makes yours look like a dwindling balloon with the air sucked out of it?...
California legislators this week set aside partisanship to move toward reducing the state’s backlog of untested rape kits, with both houses passing separate bills targeting the problem....
Ryan "Wry" Mantione, advocate for polyamory, provocative performance art, fetishism and sexual freedom talks L.A. events and this Saturday's Whores' Day (aka International Sex Workers Day)....
On May 25, the state Senate Appropriations Committee will decide whether to advance two bills that would demand the speedy testing of California’s large backlog of rape kits and the timely testing of all newly collected rape kits....
A petition calling on music festivals to make a firm stand against sexual assault and harassment had gathered more than 25,000 signatures as of Monday, April 30. The campaign follows Teen Vogue writer Vera Papisova’s report from the Coachella Musical Festival, in which she detailed that 54 women she interviewed at the festival reported they had been sexually harassed....
Following last week's report about Lynwood Mayor Pro Tem Edwin Hernandez being accused of sexual harassment by a city employee, attorney Lisa Bloom of the Bloom Law Firm held a press conference on Thursday that saw Monica Ochoa bravely speak out, revealing herself as the employee who made the complaint....
Too many children are being exposed to porn watchers at city libraries, city leaders say. Even an adult video studio chief says he doesn't want his kids exposed to it....
To the good guys in the industry, You knew. Of course you knew. In most cases it was obvious. In others we told you. You even listened sometimes. You considered our words and made all the right sounds of compassion. Then you put our concerns on the scales and weighed......
Back in November, 1993 — years before the Internet became an almost universal utility like power and gas, and many years before the unstoppable rise of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — Time magazine published what was seen at the time as a highly controversial cover. Over the portrait of a......
