All Blacks rugby star Aaron Smith tried to cover up the full extent of his toilet tryst with lawyer Bridget Morton, an investigation has found. Smith was dealt a formal warning for 'inconsistencies' after lying about the sex scandal and attempting to force Ms Morton to sign a false legal document. He was suspended for one game after the incident in September , but New Zealand Rugby ordered an independent investigation be carried out into the affair between the star halfback and Ms Morton after explosive new details were revealed by Daily Mail Australia in August. Smith pictured with girlfriend Teagan Voykovich was suspended for one game after the incident in September but New Zealand Rugby ordered an independent investigation be carried out into the affair.

The arrest of two women teachers on charges of having sex with their male students has brought cries of lingering racism in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties and evoked some of the South's oldest and deepest-seated racial taboos. Some of the blacks who make up more than a quarter of Laurens County's 70, residents are upset over the handling of the two cases, particularly the release of the teachers on bail. They say the cases reflect the way crimes by whites against blacks in the segregated South were treated less seriously than other offenses, and blacks who leveled accusations against whites were less likely to be believed. Some blacks shudder to think what would have happened if the teachers were black men and the students were white girls.

Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press. Kim Gallon's systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field.