The Gay Panic Defense Is Still on the Table In 30 states and five U.S. territories, a defendant retains the legal right to argue in court that his victim's sexual orientation provoked him into violence. The strategy is called the gay panic defense, and attorneys across most of the country are free to deploy it. Aaron McKinney raised it in 1998, after he and Russell Henderson beat a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard into a coma, tied him to a fenc

There may be no greater prank nature has ever played on humanity than the orgasm. Think about it. Entire civilizations have been built around the pursuit of power, wealth, status, and meaning. Philosophers have spent centuries asking why we exist. Religions have wrestled with the nature of the soul. Poets have sacrificed their sanity trying to describe love. And then there is the orgasm, a fleeting event that lasts only seconds, yet somehow convinces otherwise rational adults