{"id":2759,"date":"2008-06-17T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/17\/the-sexies-are-out\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:00:18","slug":"the-sexies-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/the-sexies-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sexies Are Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of the Sex Positive Journalism Award (The Sexies) have been announced!!!  And here they are:<!--more--><strong>News or feature<\/strong> (daily newspapers): &#8220;Never Too Old for Sex,&#8221; by Jill Bauer, Miami Herald<strong>News story<\/strong> (other general-topic news publications*): &#8220;Hysteria, Exploitation, and Witch Hunting in the Age of Internet Sex,&#8221; by Debbie Nathan, Counterpunch<strong>Feature<\/strong> (other general-topic news publications*): &#8220;Naughty Nursing Homes,&#8221; by Daniel Engber, Slate<strong>News or feature<\/strong> (sex-themed news publications): &#8220;Sex in Iran,&#8221; by Pari Esfandiari and Richard Buskin, Playboy<strong>Opinio<\/strong>n (all news publications): &#8220;Abstinence 1, S-CHIP 0,&#8221; by Amanda Robb, New York Times<strong>Column <\/strong>(all news publications): Between the Briefs, by Alysha Rooks, Res Gestae, University of Michigan Law SchoolFrom the Sexies Site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More often than not, sex seems to fall outside of the media&#8217;s standards for objectivity and fairness: The spectrum of sex-education opinions is assumed to run from abstinence-only to abstinence-primarily. Science-based information on sex, sexuality, and the diversity of human sexual practices is lacking, and sometimes misleading conventional wisdom is reinforced. A man in a court case who participates in BDSM is described as having &#8220;unsavory habits&#8221; and a professional domme is described as an &#8220;admitted&#8221; dominatrix. No sources are sought to counter the government officials who proudly describe how they are manipulating local ordinances to shut down a sex toy store or a venue that hosts &#8220;swingers&#8221; parties. Stories that treat sexuality as something other than a problem or prurient curiosity are few and far between.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many,  many more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexies.org\/news\/winners08.html\">here,<\/a> and the criteria are listed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexies.org\/criteria.html\">here.<\/a>Hat Tip:  Jake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of the Sex Positive Journalism Award (The Sexies) have been announced!!! And here they are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Iv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}