In The News: Department of Sociology

Marketplace

FOSTA-SESTA is shorthand for two congressional bills: the House’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017. As the names suggest, they were designed to reduce sex trafficking.

High Country News

‘Pollen-amorous’ leaders host marriages to the Earth in Sin City.

Playboy

ll around the globe, eco-conscious demonstrations develop in defense of our planet’s well-being, from scientists instructing us how to avoid a climactic doomsday to the 100-plus climate protesters who recently glued themselves to the tops of London commuter trains in the name of environmental justice.

Inverse

Pida Plaza, dotted with tall palm trees rustling in the desert heat, usually serves as an outdoor gathering area for the students of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But on Monday, it served as a chapel for the betrothed ecosexuals who decided to marry the planet to celebrate Earth Day. In a “Marriage to the Earth” ceremony, roughly 25 people solemnly declared their vows to the Earth before a raised stage as cleansing herbs burned and drums thumped rhythmically.

Washington Post

What is ecosexuality? And where is the earth registered?

BBC World Service

What's the best way to help sex workers? We hear the cases for full decriminalisation, versus abolition of what's often dubbed the world's oldest profession.

Newswise

On April 22, members of the growing ecosexuality movement will host a Marriage to the Earth ceremony during the UNLV Earth Day Fair.

Las Vegas Sun

 

Live and let live — and leave it up to the counties. For decades, that has been Nevada’s attitude toward legal prostitution in the 10 rural counties where the practice is permitted.

 

Thrillist

There is an oasis of beer in the desert of America’s expansive west, and yet most have remained blissfully ignorant of its bountiful brews.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

A Las Vegas mother of four received backlash online after sharing her postpartum story and has decided to stay offline.

Dallas Morning News

An anti-human trafficking activist in North Texas has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Nevada in a bid to end legalized prostitution there. The complaint, filed Monday morning in Reno by Rebekah Charleston, contends that Nevada's legal brothels are in violation of federal law preventing interstate commerce in prostitution, and that the market created by those brothels contributes to illegal sex trafficking. It names the state of Nevada, its Legislature and Gov. Steve Sisolak as defendants.

OR Today

Americans are known around the world for eating too much, but when it comes to time, we are starving ourselves. It’s called “time famine” – an unpleasant, uncomfortable feeling that we have too much to do in too little time. Social scientists have been studying it for more than 20 years.