sexual

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A Ugandan gay rights group, Sexual Minorities Uganda, welcomed the acquittal but said it wasn’t enough because it didn’t challenge the law itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, a nonprofit that has urged improved child-safety protections online and has sought to restrict access to pornography, called on the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission to investigate X.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Emails released by the government later showed Prof Jay clarified that she made the comment "in the context of the England and Wales Public Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse," which she chaired.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

In 1979, Catharine MacKinnon published her breakthrough book The Sexual Harassment of Working Women, which theorized how sexual harassment violated the law.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

The Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Clinic, which he founded in 1968, had become the foremost facility in the world for the study and treatment of conditions of ambiguous gender.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides