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Correction:

An earlier version of this post misidentified Maryland's governor as Bill O'Malley. The Governor's first name is Martin.

Catholics debate minimum requirements for intercourse: Your sex and gender morning roundup

September 10, 2010 - 09:00 AM
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Catholics debate what qualifies as the only acceptable version of sex: "This would seem to require at a minimum that a man's penis penetrate a woman's vagina, that the man ejaculates while penetrating the woman's vagina, and that neither the man nor the woman intends to render the act non-procreative as either an end or a means. Those who contracept aim to render their act of intercourse non-procreative (i.e., unsuitable for the procreation of children). So they intend a non-marital and hence non-consummative act. It follows that should they conceive a child contrary to their intentions, they do so by means of a non-marital act."

I have never had sex.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has "suggested" that he would sign a same-sex marriage bill into law in the state, were the legislature to give him that opportunity, but that he doesn't have "a crystal ball to predict how this goes." Gay rights Ouija board results pending.

Deserving of woots: The U.S. Senate is set to hold a hearing on police under-investigation of rape cases.

The laid-off DCPS teacher that inspired Michelle Rhee to tell Fast Company that some of the District's fired teachers "had sex with students" is now headed to court. A 20-year-old woman who says she conceived his child while she was his 18-year-old student filed suit against him earlier this week; she's "99.9 percent" sure he's the father.

More grandparents are raising their grandkids, especially white ones.

Gloria Steinem will speak at AU next month during the school's "Breastival." Oh grow up, it's for breast cancer.

Kulture Korner! The British sexual repression stereotype rankles Alyssa Rosenberg. Slate's ladies "gab" about SNL's women. People don't like the Redskins very much, and also their name is still racist. D.C. intends to get fashionable, disappointing those of us who enjoy having low standards for personal appearance, so do not go overboard please.

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  1. squirrelygirl squirrelygirl

    squirrely girl

    Sep 18, 2010 - 03:53:34 PM

    "I have never had sex." Apparently neither have any of those priests that raped little children.

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