Sex is third
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
This has to be among the more depressing news stories I've read in a while.
Reading, watching TV more popular than sex (Toronto Sun)Remember, guys, take out the trash without being asked, leave the seat down and hope for the best.
The Sun Media-Leger Marketing survey polled 1,003 Canadian women above the age of 18, to find that even though women who are satisfied with their sex life are more likely to name sex as their No. 1 activity compared to those who are unsatisfied with their sex life (22% compared to 9%), those satisfied women will watch Sex and the City almost three times as much as they will have sex in the city.
Sexologist Trina Read, PhD, said she empathizes.
“All the women I deal with, sex is not their number one priority, reading a good book or having a bath is way higher on their list,” Read said.
Posted by Regin at 5/05/2009 10:45:00 PM 0 comments
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All men (and women) are created equally nekkid
Sunday, March 01, 2009
If it isn't obvious, I am American. Most of the time, I am proud of it. But just like a dotty old aunt, sometimes America sends some really weird messages.
Nowhere are we dottier than in our determination to make sex criminals of our pubescent teens.
See what I did there? (I mean, other than join the estimated one in five teenagers who has sent someone a nekkid picture of themselves.) It has to do with placing blame.
I don't blame kids for doing what kids have always done. I don't blame cell phone manufacturers for making it possible for two people to play doctor without actually being geographically together.
I do, in part, blame school administrators who think this behavior is within their ability to control. I mean, once a principal gets past the ideas of metal detectors, clear backpacks, locker searches, and strip searches, why, the idea of routinely inspecting the contents of confiscated cell phones must seem logical. (Since the nekkid pictures took them by surprise, I have to wonder what they were looking for.)
But only in part. They didn't, as the song says, start the fire.
I also blame the lunatic fringe of school parents, who (through desire to sue schools for an imaginative range of "failures" that are at least as much their own as the schools') have contributed to an atmosphere where teachers are less academic taskmasters than prison guards.
(I can't remember ever reading about a parent who sued the school because their child was graduated without the basic skills of readin', writin', cypherin' or thinkin'.)
I blame any fool who has ever uttered the phrase, "zero tolerance". It sounds promising, but what it really means is "zero thought", "zero discretion" and "zero initiative". It means blind adherence to any law, regulation, decision, policy, directive, speculation or opinion that flows from "uphill" regardless of whether it makes any sense in context. "Zero tolerance" can't be called a decision: If anything, it's an intent not to make a decision. There's no appealing such anti-decisions, no matter how stupid they are.
(The best possible light in which I can view it is this: Perhaps the "zero tolerance" people are intentionally imposing the most draconian consequences on the least sinister circumstances. It's really the only way they have left to show just how stupid the whole thing really is.)
Certainly I blame the federal and state legislatures, as they continue their proud tradition of being five or ten years behind available technology. And when they do address it, they usually get it wrong. It is they whom we can specifically thank for the laws that say a 13-year-old with a naked picture of herself on her cell phone is in possession of "child pornography". When she texts it to her boyfriend, she becomes a "distributor" and they both become "sex offenders".
There is no such thing as an "accused", "alleged", or "former" sex offender. It's a lifetime label.
We -- this alleged society of alleged adult humans we find ourselves in -- we have got to get over our perverse fear of nudity. How did we come to this? The most harmless people in the world are the ones who are naked. They're not showing us anything we can't see inside our own pants.
Maybe I'll just move to a nudist community and the hell with you all.
Posted by Regin at 3/01/2009 07:01:00 PM 0 comments
Distraction
Friday, February 20, 2009
Some of the sexiest photos I've seen look as if the subject wasn't trying for it. Like this one.
Posted by Regin at 2/20/2009 11:32:00 AM 0 comments
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February's Win a Blog Makeover Contest!
Monday, February 09, 2009
Rules for Isabella Snow's February blog makeover contest! Entering is easy! Just copy and paste this blurb to your blog (make sure the links still work!) and then email Isabella a link to your blog post. The contest deadline is at midnight GMT Feb 28. One winner will be selected the following day by a drawing of names; the name will be posted here; and the winner will be emailed, as well. New blogs will be completed within two weeks of winning. One entry per blog. Blogger.com customization only, see the Blogbunnie Blog Design portfolio for options.
Posted by Regin at 2/09/2009 02:09:00 PM 1 comments
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Why would anyone watch PG Porn?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Because it's funny?
Enjoy this short film with everything you've come to expect from porn except the actual sex.
Posted by Regin at 1/28/2009 12:51:00 PM 0 comments
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Get a load of these too...
Monday, January 19, 2009
Sources confirm existence of man who hasn't seen Paris Hilton naked via The Spoof on 1/19/09
Darrin Thorne a 33-year-old Spring Hills, Michigan resident, who supposedly is not blind, living in a cave or without internet access, says glancing upon the frequently exposed nude body of Hilton was something he just "never got around to."
As usual, it takes a foreign news source to call for an end to America's latest boneheaded legal policy: charging teens with "child pornography" crimes for photographing themselves nude [Obvious] via Fark.com RSS on 1/16/09
See The Register.
Delicious & Refreshing via Atomic Sex Kitten by James on 1/15/09
Considered a part of the Pop Art movement, Mel Ramos received his first important recognition in the early 1960s...
Fuck Buddies and why they’re necessary via girlfrisky by sjfbarnett on 1/14/09
If you’re lucky enough to have a Fuck Buddy, enjoy it [but certainly don't force it]. It can be incredibly satisfying, can renew your sense of self [I hadn't felt "hot" in a while until Fling came along] and can do wonders for your current relationship...
Posted by Regin at 1/19/2009 03:37:00 PM 0 comments
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Get a load of these...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
If you hadn't noticed, there's a box to the right labeled Regin's Shared Items. This is a function of using Google Reader to follow far too many blogs and RSS feeds. It also makes it easy for me to draw your attention to something (with or without comment from me) without going to the trouble of creating a new blog post for each of them -- which may be why my blog activity is down again.
For instance...
AnnaLynne McCord Goes Semi Nude for GQ - Hollyscoop
Another Ad Campaign Featuring NUDE Kids! - Mom Logic
What these two stories have in common is the attempt to work up some old-fashioned righteous indignation at the idea that children might be exposed to nekkid flesh...or might be encouraged to get nekkid themselves...or something. I notice that MomLogic is not so offended that they aren't prepared to use the offending photographs themselves to propogate their agenda.
Oh, and by the way? "Shirtless" does not equal "nude". Use the right word. I don't care how many click-throughs it costs you.
Defining Stupid - The Naked, The Nude and The Nekkid
No argument here. I cringe just looking at this photo. It has to be staged. Surely no one really is this stupid.
FOUND: Vintage medical humor - Gloria's Oversexed Mind
What's so wrong with being naked? - Stuff.co.nz
This has to do with the Australians' relatively low-key handling of the occasional sporting-event streaker. The main point of the link is the charming photo accompanying.
Do I really want to pose nude covered in paint? - MSNBC
Another example of a salacious headline that clicks-through to a sedate story, but at least it was an interesting sedate story.
Nudist Resort Renting Rooms to Non-Nudists for Inauguration - NBC
Okay, if I'd been the news director I would have run with this story too. The good news: We can still get a room in D.C. for inauguration. The, well, other news: It's a private nudists' club, so they're within their rights to require us to to get naked to get it. (Interesting photo they chose to accompany the article.)
Japan: Naked ambition - to not die of shame - NZ Herald
A short tutorial for Westerners about Japanese hot-spring pools, or onsen. Linked to because it sounds lovely.
THE TEXAS DILDO WAR - Sociological Images
Just because dildoes are illegal in Texas doesn't mean you can't sell, er, condom demonstrators, yeah, that's what they are. The link features a very funny interview with Molly Ivins.
Good: you and your partner go out sightseeing. Great: you have sex on an observation wheel 120m above the city. Bizarre: there's a photo of your "workout" in the Saturday paper - Brisbane Times (from Fark.com RSS)
Self-explanatory.
Posted by Regin at 1/15/2009 12:10:00 PM 0 comments
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Distraction
Sunday, December 28, 2008
The interplay of light and shadow on the curves and lines of the female form fascinates me. I can stare at it for hours.
Posted by Regin at 12/28/2008 04:06:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Flickr
Woman as (sex) toy
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Okay, yes, I know it's objectifying. Yes, as a life partner I prefer a living, thinking, physically imperfect woman. But...
Oh, well. Never mind. I could never master those game controllers anyway.
(Found at Sociological Images.)
Posted by Regin at 12/17/2008 11:16:00 AM 0 comments
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Weekend distraction
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Two great things that look great together...
"You got Christmas lights all over my naked woman!"
"You got a naked woman all over my Christmas lights!"
Posted by Regin at 12/14/2008 05:31:00 PM 0 comments
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