A British court has banned a 41-year-old man with an IQ of 48 from having sex with his boyfriend after his local council decided he lacked the mental capacity to consent to intercourse.

The man had formed a relationship with another man after they were placed together in council-owned supported accommodation.

But when the council discovered the relationship, they sought an order restricting sexual contact between the two men and placed the 41-year-old under supervision.

In his testimony to the court, the 41-year-old expressed a wish to continue his sexual relationship with the man and that he wanted to kiss him again.

New Day Church, a year-old congregation in Hendricks County, Ind., is finding that sex helps sell its message of faith. An edgy marketing campaign asking, "What happens when God gets between the sheets?" promotes a sermon series that started Sunday focusing on the link between sex and religion.

Members of the congregation will hear Pastor Denis Roy discuss God's take on topics such as intimacy, pleasure, sexual preference, pornography, adultery and even sexual healing during the next four weekends.

Though churches are always evolving to meet the needs of parishioners, New Day's efforts are part of a larger outreach trend nationwide, says Philip Goff, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

A growing number of mostly start-up churches are trying increasingly creative approaches to appeal to people who have either strayed from church or had no interest in organized religion, Goff says.

"One of the things many of these new churches are trying to do is imitate culture to bring in people, instead of sitting back and critiquing it," he says. "This is a trend that is going to be with us for a long time, because preachers are realizing they may have to turn to non-traditional means to attract younger members."

"I'm not waging a crusade here any more. Just noting the persistence of a cliche." -- James Fallows, It Never Ends: The Boiling Frogs

In her article "Hard Core: The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women" in the January/February issue of The Atlantic, Natasha Vargas-Cooper argues that the modern phenomena of easy online access to sexually explicit material represents a near-perfect market catering to male sexual desire. She posits that the nature of the material available online and its popularity offers a window into the true nature of male sexuality, untempered by social norms; and that this gives lie to various tropes of sexual mutuality and egalitarianism that have misguided her own journey towards sexual adulthood.

In service of her thesis Ms. Vargas-Cooper cites various sex acts that she (quite rightly) claims are easy to find online and complements these citations with personal testimony from the trenches of singlehood and dating, as it were.

My own experience in making and marketing sexually explicit films makes me cautious about declaring the market perfect, let alone representative of anything, other than what aspects of the human sexual experience can be captured and distributed as a media product. I would further caution that attempting to draw any insight as to the nature of male sexuality or the fundamental dynamic of male/female relationships on the basis of what sort of sexually explicit material is being produced and distributed is, at best, a vast inductive leap, and fraught with hazard.

Markets are notoriously imperfect and notoriously misunderstood; and broad inferences drawn from misunderstandings of imperfect markets tend not to be particularly insightful.

The BBC has announced that former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is making a documentary about pornography for the corporation. Smith is an imaginative choice because she resigned her cabinet post in the last Labour government after it was revealed that she claimed back the costs of two pay-per-view porn films on her parliamentary expenses.

It later emerged that her husband had ordered the films while Smith was away from the marital home. She lost her seat as a Member of Parliament for Redditch in the 2010 General Election.

The Smith programme – Porn Again - is scheduled to be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live at 9.30pm on 3rd March. It will be followed by the Tony Livesey Show in which the former minister will take calls from listeners.

Smith told the BBC: “From my own personal experience, porn fascinates us - media and public alike. But we actually know very little about what it's like to work in the industry and what porn is doing to our society, our children and our relationships."

ETO has also learned that ITV’s This Morning intends going ‘behind the scenes’ at a porn shoot and interviewing performers and producers for a programme that is being broadcast in February.

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Many mammals advertise their fertility to the opposite sex in a period, when for dogs, they are referred to as being on heat. So does the same thing happen in humans? Until recently, it was thought not. But work with lapdancers has revealed an increase in tips when the dancers ovulated. As fertility fell during menstruation, tips dropped off. So is this change due to the dancers' behaviour, or is there a chemical cue detected by patrons? Expect to see more scientists studying lapdancers.

Source: The Science Show