Queer Clicks: December 15, 2016 | A Prescription For Porn: Should Sex Therapists Recommend Pornography To Patients?, China’s ‘Tongqi’: The Millions of Straight Women Married to Closeted Gay Men, & Other News
A Prescription For Porn: Should Sex Therapists Recommend Pornography To Patients?
“A startling number of sex therapists recommend commercial pornography to patients. While it might sound surprising that trained psychologists, counsellors and sexologists prescribe porn, sex therapy and pornography have a long and intertwined history.” The Conversation
Jury Finds SDPD Did Not Discriminate In Gay Pride Nudity Case
“A federal jury on Tuesday rejected a claim that five San Diego police officers discriminated against a scantily clad man in a gladiator costume at a gay pride festival in Balboa Park.” San Diego Union Tribune
China’s ‘Tongqi’: The Millions of Straight Women Married to Closeted Gay Men
“The world is so tiring! Just let it finish, everything is gone!” Shortly after posting these words on her microblog, Luo Hongling, a 31-year-old professor at Sichuan University, stepped off a 13-storey building.
If it wasn’t for her husband, her death would have just been another a footnote in the metro section of the Chongqing Daily. Instead, her death became something of a touchstone in China, igniting public debate over a little known issue: Luo Hongling was a tongqi, one of the estimated millions of heterosexual women in China married to closeted gay men.” Broadly.Vice.com
Billy Gilman Joined Kelly Clarkson to Make ‘It’s Quiet Uptown’ from ‘Hamilton’ Even More Heartbreaking
https://youtu.be/vr3iIr9y4xc
“On the finale of The Voice, final 4 contestant Billy Gillman continued to wow viewers as he performed “It’s Quiet Uptown” from the musical Hamilton with Kelly Clarkson.
Clarkson covered the song on The Hamilton Mixtape and has already turned in devastating performances of the track about Alexander Hamilton grieving the loss of his son.” Towleroad
