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    MagentaAstyoche: If you would like to read a fairly objective article on the crime, Amanda Knox, and the whole cast of characters, please check out this one published ... more »
    laurasaurus: It's true: all the slutty girls I know have gone on to have meaningless lives punctuated by random, senseless, brutal murders. Correlation and causati... more »
    thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: Some of Amanda's friends were on GMA this morning, and one of them made a really great point about how much of her trial was based on slut-shaming (sh... more »
    Penny: For the people who will boycott Italian holidays and wine, I say thanks. I won't have to deal with you when I travel to Italy and....more wine for me. more »
    SeriesofTubes: Obviously, Americans who want to boycott Italian food over this trial are being reactionary douchebags. Amanda Knox didn't get a fair trial, though. ... more »
    onestrawplz: People get unfair trials in the United States all the damn time. Not to say that Amanda Knox shouldn't have had a fair trial (of course she should ha... more »
    JinxyMcDeath: Here's the thing, she changed her story a thousand times. She was in the house, she wasn't in the house. She heard screams, she never heard screams.... more »
    onestrawplz: Please boycott Italian wine and food so there will be more for me. K thnx. more »
    PilgrimSoul: It sure would be nice if that whole, "Kill gays in Uganda" bill generated this kind of outrage from (white) Americans. more »
    Athenia: You know, as a woman who has lived abroad, bringing home strange men is probably about the only way that you're gonna get laid in some foreign countri... more »
    likepenguins: I was unaware that one-night stands and enjoying sex for sex's sake precluded me to be a killer. Shouldn't Dexter be getting laid more often? And, a... more »
    Ms. Brooks v2.0: Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid rag is gleefully calling for a boycott of Italian products in the wake of this verdict? Colour me surprised. I gues... more »
    la.donna.pietra: When I was in college, I had a roommate who was seriously considering becoming a nun. She was very uncomfortable around any expression of sexuality a... more »
    UrbanAchiever: Oh swell, we're back to free sex = total breakdown in societal mores. Don't sleep around, girls, you might end up murdering someone when your mores su... more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: I sorta believed she was guilty at first but spending some time with my lawyer dad, listening to him talk about the case, changed my mind. He's livid ... more »
    wishing upon: I haven't been following this story very well — is there hardly any evidence for Amanda being guilty, which is why people are so upset? I read the w... more »
    CremeBruDont: It's hard not to see how Knox's dating activity in the months leading up to the murders definitely had an effect on the outcome of the trial. But tha... more »
    nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Are you kidding me? If her name were Keisha Knox we would have never heard of her or this case. more »
    morninggloria: Don't listen to the British. If I've learned anything from hilarious Monty Python sketches involving Michael Palin in a wig, British people are real ... more »
    SarahMC: some Americans supposedly "vowed to boycott Italian holidays, wine and food" What!? Some Americans are frighteningly stupid. more »
  • #laworder

    Hillary Clinton Gets Involved As Amanda Knox Backlash Begins

    Backlash against American student Amanda Knox's conviction in Italy has already begun: her parents are talking to the media, Hillary Clinton might get involved, and of course, somebody's blaming hookup culture. More »
  • #whorewhoresluts

    Is It Too Soon To Call SexReally The Worst Sex Website Ever?

    Imagine the last person you'd ever want to see writing a sex and relationships blog for twenty-something women. Is that individual hook-up propagandist and befuddled old person Laura Sessions Stepp? Then it's your unlucky day. More »
  • #casualsex

    There's Casual Sex, And Then There's Casual Sex