Moral Outrage

I hate politics. I even hate writing about politics. That makes this site difficult to manage sometimes and it certainly becomes more tedious around election time when all the political show boaters come out of the woodwork. It was amazing to me, though not surprising, when the news about Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter surfaced and hordes of media wannabes clamored to Google and stumbled across this websit

In their new book “So Sexy So Soon” authors Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne write about the trend of children becoming sexualized at a young age due to media images and marketing campaigns that encourage youth to be “sexy,” and they offer advice on how parents can protect their kids. — MSNBCThe over-sexualization of youth became a hot topic with the great increase in “sexy” Halloween costu

This is the tragic story of Stacy “Doe”. For her privacy, I have concealed her last name. Last year Stacy contacted our website regarding her circumstances and requested contact with Michael Kuehl (a frequent contributor to our site). The following is Michael’s submission of the events that occurred. The reader should note that although I have removed Stacy’s last name for her protection, I

I’m happy to be a member of a recently formed Internet Safety Technical Task Force, but it has caused me to feel a bit of a disconnect. One of the major goals of the task force is to explore whether it’s possible to use technology to verify the age of people signing up for social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to give parents more control over whether their kids can use these services and to avoid i

Kate Zernike’s Ideas & Trends piece in the Times poses the possibility that while it may not be all that savory for adult women to have sex with teenage boys it shouldn’t be illegal — or rather that we should re-examine the age of consent.–By Evan Derkacz When it comes to consensual sex of differing ages the variables and attitudes splinter off into a thousand pieces. I won’t speak