From Surveillance & Society, a special issue on Gender, Sexuality and Surveillance. Is federal stimulus money being doled out to convicted sex offenders? Yes, at least if you happen to be a felon registered in Miami-Dade. Mark Caldwell reviews Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York by Donna Dennis (and more and more). From The Economist, a look at America's unjust sex laws: An ever harsher approach is doing more harm than good, but it is being copied around the world; and America has pioneered the harsh punishment of sex offenders — does it work? How do we pass rational sex-offender laws with psychos like Phillip Garrido on the loose? From The Nation, a look at the crusade against sex trafficking: Do brothel raids help trafficking victims escape abuse, or skirt the reality that makes recovery so difficult for the "rescued?" There's now a proposal for a global sex-offender registry. The Polanski case revives debate about the age of consent — and how America stacks up against other countries when it comes to sexual permissiveness. UNESCO finds itself under fire from American conservatives for proposing a new set of guidelines on sex education in schools as a means of helping young people avoid potentially dangerous sexual activity. From Double X, hookup hysteria: Annie Lowrey on how the right gets 20-something relationships all wrong. Girls gone wild vs. virgins till marriage: Why is sexual life in America so schizoid?