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Queer Clicks: December 3, 2016 | Are The Republicans Coming For Your Porn?, What Is The Most Popular Sex Postion?, & Other News

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Are The Republicans Coming For Your Porn?

“The election is over, and while your guns might be safe, America, you better hide your porn. The Republicans are coming! This is not a drill.

Although Red States consume porn at higher rates than Blue, the Republican Party has ironically declared porn a “public health crisis.” According to a provision set in July: “Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions.” ” Paste Magazine

What Is The Most Popular Sex Postion?

“Defining sex is easy, but having it is slightly more complicated—namely, because there are a lot of different ways to get it on. But is there a crowd favorite out there?

According to Dr. Ed, there is. In a survey of 2,000 people in the U.S. and the U.K., the team at Dr. Ed found that more people prefer doggy style than any other position.” Alternet

Taiwan Debates Gay Marriage

“ON THE eighth floor in a gritty suburb of the capital, Taipei, sits the ten-year-old Wei-ming temple, a Taoist house of worship—but an unusual one. Nearly all the visitors buying bundles of prayers or bringing handwritten ones of their own to be burnt by the priest at the altar are gay. The deity receiving the prayers, and to whom the shrine is dedicated, is the Rabbit Spirit, a 17th-century folk deity from Fujian province in mainland China who protects men who have sex with men. In late imperial China, “rabbit” became a derogatory term for homosexual. In this temple the rabbits are reclaiming the label.” Economist

On World AIDS Day, Look Back At The History Of The Epidemic In These Incredible Posters

“World AIDS Day, which has been recognized annually on Dec. 1 since 1988, is “an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died,” according to WorldAIDSDay.org.

In honor of this internationally commemorated day, the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries’ Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation is sharing a handful of its over 8,000 AIDS Education Posters with The Huffington Post.” Huffington Post

Gay Art Exhibit “Protected Beauty” Opens at Miami Art Basel 2016

“The Kinsey Institute and the World Erotic Art Museum (1205 Washington Avenue, South Beach) present an exhibition that examines masculine beauty and sexuality between 1890 and 1982. “Protected Beauty” opens this week and will be up until March 2017. The show was curated by Helmut Schuster, the Miami museum’s director, and Rebecca Fasman, manager of the Kinsey Institute’s traveling exhibitions. It includes many works originally deemed too controversial for public display by artists including Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes and others. WEAM was founded in 2005 by Naomi Wilzig, who passed away last year.” Accidental Bear