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Latest Fact-Checks In Sexuality

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Eric Hovde
stated on October 8, 2024 in Public appearance:
“Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.”
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By Ricardo Torres • October 29, 2024
Taylor Swift
stated on June 1, 2019 in an Instagram post:
“The majority of Americans across ALL parties favor these nondiscrimination policies for LGBTQ people (liberals at 81%, moderates at 76% and conservatives at 55%).”
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By Tom Kertscher • June 5, 2019
Greg Abbott
stated on June 27, 2018 in a fundraising conference call with supporters:
“In Houston, Texas, there are more brothels than there are Starbucks.”
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 13, 2018
Colin Jost
stated on October 7, 2017 in a Weekend Update report on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live":
“There is a real law in Texas that says it’s illegal to own more than six dildos.”
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 13, 2017
Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 in a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact:
“There have not been any public safety issues” in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
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By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
John Bel Edwards
stated on November 11, 2015 in a campaign ad:
Says David Vitter “answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom.”
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By Charles Maldonado • November 19, 2015
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 in a public-service video during the Grammys:
“Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape.”
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By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
Arianna Huffington
stated on September 9, 2014 in a tweet:
A poll found that “20% of young adults use (smartphones) during sex.”
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By Jon Greenberg • September 10, 2014
Ilyse Hogue
stated on March 12, 2014 in an interview on "The Daily Show":
“Medicare has spent $172 million on penis pumps in the last five years at $360 a pop.”
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By Katie Sanders • March 24, 2014
Cecile Richards
stated on December 6, 2013 in an interview with Texas Monthly:
The “U.S. has the highest unintended pregnancy rate of any Western industrialized country.”
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014
X posts
stated on March 20, 2013 in tweets:
While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.
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By Molly Moorhead • March 22, 2013
Christopher Plante
stated on January 13, 2013 in an interview:
“The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment.”
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 23, 2013
Mark Neumann
stated on January 26, 2012 in a news release:
Says the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the “connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail.”
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By Tom Kertscher • February 20, 2012