10/8/19 review of a 2009 Newsweek article on the US history of sex education

Here is the link to my October 8, 2019, Twitter thread review of a Newsweek article from 2009, by Johannah Cornblatt, giving a history of sex education in the United States.

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10/7/19 review of Planned Parenthood's summary of sex education in the US

Here is the link to my October 7, 2019, Twitter thread review of Planned Parenthood's 2016 summary of sex education in the United States.

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10/1/19 discussion about Dems, GOP, and sex legislation

Here is the link to my October 1, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about how Republicans and Democrats generally agree in favor of passing legislation against freedom of sexual expression.

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9/24/19 discussion of my own youth sexuality and my sex studies

Here is the link to my September 24, 2019, Twitter thread discussion of how my own youth sexuality inspired my art, which inspired my studies of queer and youth sexuality and US sex laws.

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9/23/19 discussion about frustration with studying sex law and sex theory

Here is the link to my September 23, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about my changing feelings about studying sex law and sex theory.

At this time I was in the middle of my first attempt at reading Patrick Califia's book Public Sex. I discuss the book a lot more over the following weeks.

Nowadays, I don't agree with a lot of what I said in this thread. I do believe nowadays that it's important to study sex law and sex theory. I don't know how possible it is to change the law. But I do think it's very important to understand the history of the law.

Where I agree with this thread is, I find it very important to learn as many stories as possible about queer sex -- especially stories, and there are plenty out there -- about youth/adult love. The stories are, I still believe, way more important than the laws and the theories.

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9/1/19 review of the book Lust on Trial, by Amy Werbel

Here is the link to my September 1, 2019, Twitter thread review of the book Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock, by Amy Werbel.

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8/18/19 discussion wondering about 1800s sex work regulation proposals

Here is the link to my August 18, 2019, Twitter thread, in which I asked folks on Twitter what they knew about US sex work regulation proposals in the 1800s, and why I felt that historical detail was important.

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5/23/19 review of my previous sex scandal and sex policy thoughts

Here is the link to my May 23, 2019, Twitter thread discussion of previous threads I'd written about things like age of consent laws, moral purity, and sexual blackmail for political purposes.

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3/25/18 reaction to passage of FOSTA-SESTA

Here is the link to my Twitter thread reaction to the March, 2018, passage of FOSTA-SESTA by the US Senate.

The thread gives a summary and some background on HR 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA-SESTA, as well as my experience with having gotten to understand it over the preceding month. I provide my own perspective on the history of laws like FOSTA-SESTA, why they don't protect kids, and why they hurt women, the LGBTQ community, and freedom of sexual expression, online and in real life. It also discusses my belief, which I amplified over the coming years, that sex work should be totally decriminalized.

My understanding of sex laws, sex work laws, and child exploitation laws, evolved quite a bit after this thread. So while I agree with a lot of what this thread says, I do feel that some of it misses the mark.

The tweets in some of my threads are twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is greatly affected. My apologies.

11/12/17 discusson about being hit on as a teenager

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I wrote in November of 2017 about having been, as a teenager, hit on by an adult.

I wrote this story in response to some tweets I'd seen trying to prove that all youth/adult interactions involving attraction were traumatic to youth. A lot of the thread discusses my own youth trauma, which was actually the effect of Christian ideology claiming that LGBTQ people like myself were doomed to hell -- not the effects of random adults telling me, as a teenager, something pleasant about my appearance.

This thread is, by the way, my first mention of the term "manufactured consent" in relation to age of consent laws. And it's probably the first thread where I really discuss human beings, and especially young people, as legally being made the sexual property of the state.