Rain and Thunder has kindly made this interview available for us to share with you. You may also download it as a PDF (33KB). Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of...

We are pleased to present Ellaraine Lockie's "She Reads Virginia Woolf", the winning entry in the 2008 Skysaje Enterprises Poetry Contest. It is reprinted with permission. She Reads Virgina Woolf by Ellaraine Lockie As she slept he'd finger-walk all the way up her underarm Soft, like snow falling ov...

We are pleased to present "To Mary Magdalen, with thanks". This poem won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Utmost Christian Poetry Contest. It is reprinted with permission: To Mary Magdalen, with thanks by Vicki Goodfellow Duke savior of pretty girls        slammed ...

The print edition of today's Springfield Republican reports: ...a 22-year-old man was shot in the head while sitting at the bar at the Mardi Gras strip club downtown... Police said Colon [the victim] had been involved in a "verbal and physical altercation with several other subjects" in the Mardi Gr...

Today's Springfield Republican reports: Ware selectmen OK written refusal to deny permit to Robbie's Place for nude dancing The selectmen have approved a document defining their board's opposition to a downtown bar's request for a 2009 entertainment permit including nude dancing... The document says...

Today's Gazette assesses the impact of Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop in Northampton. This shop, at 135 King Street, originally planned to contain 20 viewing booths. Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood [Douglas A.] Kohl [a co-owner of commercial property at 139 King St....

The 12/2/08 Huffington Post has an outstanding article on getting at the root of prostitution and sex trafficking. Far from an immutable part of human society, it is entirely possible to diminish commercial sexual exploitation--and the demand for it--within a matter for years, for countries with a w...

We are pleased to reproduce the following article with permission from Reiter's Block. California's Proposition 8, recently passed in a close vote, eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry. Marriage is an important path to happiness for many. It should be available to all regardless of sexu...

BMJ (British Medical Journal) published a study yesterday that traces social influences on personal happiness. The results: "People who are surrounded by many happy people and those who are central in the network are more likely to become happy in the future." To the extent that a person's consumpti...

This just in: The Norwegian Parliament has voted in favour of making payment for sexual acts a criminal offence in order to protect vulnerable women and children. The law passed with 44 votes in favour and 28 against and will come into effect on January 1, 2009. The legislation -- inspired by the su...