News of the Day
Thursday, February 27, 2003
Yahoo! News - 'Sexist' Thong Ad WithdrawnOne, the woman is not half-naked. She is wearing a backless evening dress. Is this not obvious?
Spain's tourist board has temporarily withdrawn an ad showing a woman's half-naked bottom marked by the suntan outline of a thong with the slogan "Spain marks," after a deluge of complaints that it was sexist.
..."This resorts to the figure of a semi-naked woman as a tourist attraction, which is pitiful and it seems like we're taking a step backwards," said Micaela Navarro, responsible for equality issues at the main opposition Socialist party.
Two, we do not see her bottom. We see a tan line, which is very much not the same thing.
Meanwhile, in Kent, Ohio:
Beacon Journal 02/22/2003 Police field complaint about busty snow woman
Crystal Lynn went for realism when she built her snow woman - celery for the eyes, a carrot for the nose and two blobs of snow for the breasts.
The last turned out to be a no-no, as someone complained to Kent police about what he called an indecent snow figure.
...Lynn said she was insulted by the whole mess.
"It's just snow," she said.
And at Harvard:
The Harvard Crimson Online :: Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate"Meaning"? C'mon, they're college men. It's not complicated.
But regardless of the alleged circumstances surrounding the snow penis’ downfall, a controversy over the meaning of the statue lingers.
(Heard it from Andrew Sullivan: Here's the snow woman, and here's the snow penis.)
In London:
Yahoo! News - Gucci Gets Go-Ahead for Pubic Hair AdThose wacky Europeans have all the fun.
A Gucci advertisement featuring a woman with her pubic hair cropped in the shape of a letter "G" got the go-ahead from Britain's tough advertising watchdog on Wednesday.
...The advert, which is running in British fashion magazines, shows a woman wearing an open silk kimono and underwear which she has pulled part-way down to reveal the letter "G." A man kneels in front, staring at her pubic hair.
LATER: Okay, all right already, I know what you want to see. (Don't judge by the image on that page: Click on it and a java pop-up will show you the actual, uncensored ad. I'd like it a lot better if anybody looked like they were having fun.)
Posted by Regin at 2/27/2003 11:29:00 AM 0 comments
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Not as bad as it sounds
Friday, February 21, 2003
Yahoo! News - Schoolkids to Be Asked to Consider Oral Sex
Family groups argue that oral sex is likely to lead to penetrative sex.
"One thing leads to another," said Robert Whelan, director of the Family Education Trust. "It is hard enough for adults to hold back and is even more difficult for teenagers with their raging hormones."
The phrase "raging hormones" always seems to turn up when we're discussing teenagers. It's a shame the first person to use it didn't trademark it.
In the space of a generation, oral sex has gone from being an unspeakable variant of sodomy (check your state's sex laws, it's probably included in the legal definition of sodomy: It is here) to being an activity that can be recommended to school children as a means of contraception. I tell you, I'm proud to be alive during such times.
Posted by Regin at 2/21/2003 12:36:00 PM 0 comments
Don't ask, don't tell
NellieQ at Qtopia discusses buying Polaroid film and individually-wrapped cucumbers in the same trip to the supermarket.
Posted by Regin at 2/21/2003 12:21:00 AM 0 comments
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Well what were they supposed to do?
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Yahoo! News - Naked Kidnap Fantasy Has Police Scrambling
Canadian police in a frantic search for an abducted woman dispatched a SWAT team to her home late on Tuesday before officers on a routine patrol across town found her naked and bound in the back of a car.
But police in Edmonton, Alberta, soon realized they had a problem -- she did not want to be rescued.
It emerged that the 17-year-old female and a man at the scene were engaged in a role-playing game, but not before the man was arrested and the woman sent to hospital for examination. She was less than co-operative, police said.
...The saga began just before midnight on Tuesday when a man called 911. He reported he had been talking on the phone to the woman when she said someone had broken into her house. Then the line went dead.
..."As far as our detectives can tell, there was nothing malicious about it," he said. "We really had nothing else to do except release everybody, probably with a stern warning to be more careful."
Police said they did not believe the man who called 911 had been aware of the nature of the events.
It's not like they could file for a permit. "Hello, Department of Parks and Recreation?"
No, I don't blame the police, nor the poor guy who called 'em. How could they have known? Just be careful out there: Nobody wants to be a Test Case. If your particular kink becomes enough of an aggravation, they'll criminalize it -- and God knows we have enough of that already.
Posted by Regin at 2/20/2003 09:39:00 AM 0 comments
You don't need a headache to say no
From Atlantic Monthly; "The Wifely Duty" by Caitlin Flanagan:
Pity the poor married man hoping to get a bit of comfort from the wife at day's end. He must somehow seduce a woman who is economically independent of him, bone tired, philosophically disinclined to have sex unless she is jolly well in the mood, numbingly familiar with his every sexual maneuver, and still doing a slow burn over his failure to wipe down the countertops and fold the dish towel after cooking the kids' dinner. He can hardly be blamed for opting instead to check his e-mail, catch a few minutes of SportsCenter, and call it a night.
And here's a reply from Totalitarianism Today's Alina Stefanescu (go read it all: scroll down to "Love and marriage")
Clearly, sex and the desire to seduce one another is one of the most important apsects of keeping a marriage together, as it brings a couple closer and answers unspoken fears about marital fidelity, etc. Marriage without hot sex is like prison, add the mortage payments.
Well, I don't think I'd go so far as to compare it with prison...
Posted by Regin at 2/20/2003 01:55:00 AM 0 comments
Reasons I read...
Romenesco's Obscure Store:
Glenn Reynolds' InstaPundit:
Well, I guess we know where my mind is. Subsequent posts will be generally more original than this.
Posted by Regin at 2/20/2003 01:36:00 AM 0 comments
I'll just leave the towels here, shall I?
Yahoo! News - Couple Wants Refund for Interrupted Vacation Sex
A German couple is demanding compensation from a tour operator because a maid repeatedly interrupted them while they were having sex in their hotel room during a vacation in Cuba.
...They are seeking about $4,000 in damages...
Yes, they had a "Do Not Disturb" sign up. And "repeatedly", it appears, means "twice".
This raises a couple of questions:
Posted by Regin at 2/20/2003 01:36:00 AM 0 comments
Everything starts somewhere.
Where am I going? I don't know. When will I get there? I ain't certain. What will I find? I ain't equipped to say.
But who gives a damn, I'm on my way.
Posted by Regin at 2/20/2003 01:30:00 AM 0 comments
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