5/22/21 reaction to Anthony Bouchard scandal

Here is the link to my May 22, 2021, Twitter thread, reacting to a scandal regarding Wyoming state senator Anthony Bouchard's activities when he was eighteen years old.

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5/5/21 review of Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child pornography

Here is the link to my May 5, 2021, Twitter thread review of the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on HB21-1069, a bill that aims to broaden Colorado's child pornography laws, redefine some child pornography as being an extraordinary risk crime, and increase the number of penalties one person can face per arrest.

I gave testimony against this bill, as I feel the bill is too focused on surveillance, incarceration, and fee generation, versus methods for deterring people from exploiting children.

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11/21/20 reaction to Wall Street Journal article on teen sexting

Here is the link to my November 21, 2020, Twitter thread reaction to the Wall Street Journal article "For Teens, Sexting Can Be a Crime," by Amy E. Feldman. My thread has a lot of criticisms, both regarding US state and federal child pornography laws, but also regarding Feldman's take on this issue.

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10/10/20 the increasingly severe rhetoric of US laws about youth sexuality

Here is the link to my October 10, 2020, Twitter thread, where I list some documents I'd already studied, and some documents I haven't yet studied, that point to a transition in US law, from calling illicit youth sexuality "delinquency," to calling it "exploitation," and eventually, while still calling it "exploitation," linking it under the heading of "human trafficking" in a wide variety of situations.

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9/27/20 survey of proposed Sec 230 changes in September of 2020

Here is the link to my September 27, 2020, Twitter thread about some of the then-recent proposed updates to Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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9/25/20 review of the book Jailbait, by Carolyn E. Cocca

Here is the link to my September 25, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape, by Carolyn E. Cocca.

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9/16/20 review of the book Censoring Sex Research, ed. by Thomas K. Hubbard and Beert Verstraete

Here is the link to my September 16, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book Censoring Sex Research: The Debate over Male Intergenerational Relations, edited by Thomas K. Hubbard and Beert Verstraete.

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9/15/20 the intersecting history of sex work and age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 15, 2020, Twitter thread on why it's so important to recognize how intertwined the history of sex work laws is with the history of age of consent laws -- not just so we can critically examine those laws, but so we can try our best and undo the vicious cycle of sex paranoia in America that is underpinned by them.

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8/18/20 more thought on the 1977 child pornography hearings

Here is the link to my August 18, 2020, Twitter thread, where I try to show how the rhetoric of the 1977 child pornography hearings has flowed through to the child-sex-law language of today, and how I wish people -- especially LGBTQ folks -- pay attention to how dangerous the continuation of this rhetoric really is.

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1/23/20 review of the book The Fear of Child Sexuality, by Steven Angelides

Here is the link to my January 23, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book The Fear of Child Sexuality: Young People, Sex, and Agency, by Steven Angelides.

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1/9/20 discussion about a book I'd like to see made

Here is the link to my January 9, 2020, Twitter thread discussion of a book I'd like to see someone make one day called I Want Condoms, which would have to do with young people's access to birth control.

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10/19/19 thoughts on social and sexual issues and the environment

Here is the link to my October 19, 2019, discussion about how social and sexual issues in America actually do affect the environment -- especially when it comes to the US obsession with things like racial, moral, and sexual purity.

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10/16/19 review of an article regarding European age of consent laws

Here is the link to my October 16, 2019, Twitter thread review of a 1999 article that discussed the laws about the age of legally recognized consent to sex from a European perspective.

I'm really sorry that, in 2019, I was not putting the titles of these articles into the threads. I will find the titles and post them, with the links, as I look back through my notebooks.

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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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10/2/19 discussion of why I don't like COPPA 2.0

Here is the link to my October 2, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about why I do not like COPPA 2.0, one of the many proposed updates to Section 230 and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

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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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9/17/19 discussion about age of consent laws since the 1500s

Here is the link to my September 17, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about some of my ideas about the history of age of consent laws in the US and UK since the 1500s.

When I started researching the history of age of consent laws in 2016 or so, my initial feeling was that age of consent laws were property laws -- essentially saying that kids were the property of their parents until they could become the property of the state, and that their sexuality was part of the definition of their existence as property.

This thread explores that idea, going back to the 1500s, in order to raise a question I still feel is important. As, in the US and UK, access to wealth was increased across the population, were age of consent laws made and modified in order to control the way people in those regions generated and used wealth and property?

I haven't explored this question as much as I'd like over the past couple years. But I still think this is a valid question.

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9/7/19 discussion about sex work and age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 7, 2019, Twitter thread discussion -- essentially about how I felt sex work theorists and activists were ignoring the role age of consent laws have played in the history of sex work laws.

This thread is horribly written. And, honestly, I'm not a fan of my opinion pieces, the threads that are all opinion, with no new research. However I wanted to include this thread in this table of contents because I definitely still believe a lot of what I'm saying here.

There are some sex worker rights groups who include youth sex workers as part of their discussion. And plenty of folks who are involved in the fight to decriminalize sex work also talk about some really important aspects of the lives of LGBTQ youth -- such as rejection by parents, homelessness, and unemployment.

However, even in 2021, there remains an absolute refusal among sex worker rights activists to recognize the very close historical connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws.

It's hard for me to stress how important I feel it is to recognize the connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws. And, as I've continued to talk about sex work over the years, I've tried to keep my focus on this one aspect of the issue.

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