Lost bras face auction fate
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
From AFP
Some 124 bras have turned up in Brannigans' 15 bars across England since the start of the year, making the undergarments the third most found item after cigarette lighters and mobile phones.
Posted by Regin at 7/30/2003 10:35:00 AM 0 comments
Judge Orders Adult Store Closed
From WXIA/11 AliveNo more than twenty percent of its business from adult items? This is like telling McDonald's that only 20 percent of its menu can be food.
MARIETTA, Ga. -- Police padlocked an adult entertainment store Monday after a Superior Court judge ordered it closed for allegedly selling novelties defined by Georgia law as obscene.
Judge Adele Grubbs issued a temporary restraining order closing Inserection: A Fantasy Store until Sept. 2, when a final hearing is scheduled.
City Attorney Doug Haynie said the city will seek to make the closure permanent.
Inserection's attorney, Alan Begner, said he would ask the Georgia Court of Appeals to stay the injunction. Begner said the city may be violating civil rights laws by shutting down the store.
According to Inserection's business license, the company agreed not to sell or display items designed for use in specified sexual activities. It also agreed not have more than 20 percent of its business from the sale of adult videos or other adult items.
Marietta's business license manager, Scott Everingham, said at least 49 percent of the floor space was devoted to "adult items."
A "temporary restraining order" closing the store for a month and a half? Sounds like a pretty neat trick for closing a store without actually bothering with trials, or charges, or any of those technicalities. After all, everybody knows what Inserection sells...
Which is a good thing, since neither this story nor the even-lighter one at WSB actually say what the problem was.
This is such transparent legal harassment that it's absurd that it's being covered with a straight face. It makes me want to run out and buy some adult DVDs in solidarity.
Posted by Regin at 7/30/2003 01:48:00 AM 0 comments
Sexy Saturday: Hey, watch this...
Saturday, July 26, 2003
- Sexy Saturday: Week 22
- Have you ever done something to impress someone and have your 'plan' backfire? What was it and how did the person you were trying to impress react?
- Hmm. Actually, something is in the process of backfiring right now. I wrote a series of small essays about sex, sort of like a personalized edition of "The Joy of Sex" except that it also includes some fiction. It turned out to be longer than I thought it would be. In a sexual context this is often a good thing to be able to say, but not always.
Anyway, I printed it out on the laser printer, had it bound, and gave it to herself.
A month ago.
She hasn't read it yet. I can't tell you how antsy this makes me.
I don't know how she's going to react. (I know how I hope she reacts.)
LATER, in response to comments: Why, *blush*, thank you.
Actually, you already are seeing some of it. Some of what I've put in this blog was originally written for that book, or letter, or whatever it is. I think of it as a letter, but it is over 70,000 words, which is (I've just realized) novel length. Hey, women keep telling us to share our feelings. Be careful what you ask for.
(In fairness, some of it is found, excerpted from elsewhere rather than original to me. Graphics/illustrations. Comic strips: Perhaps you've noticed how sexy, and occasionally downright dirty, Arlo 'n' Janis can be.)
I'm considering sharing bigger chunks of it. To paraphrase an airline commercial, Tripod is ready when I am. I'll let you know, unless I chicken out. (Jeez, if I'm not sure how she'll react to the existence of The Book itself, posting it on the web might well be the stupidest thing I ever do.)
Posted by Regin at 7/26/2003 03:25:00 AM 0 comments
Filthy Friday Five: Junior Edition
Friday, July 25, 2003
- The Filthy Friday Five for July 25: Junior Edition:
- 1. Do you think it is morally questionable if an 18 year-old woman who looks like a 12 year-old girl appears in a pornography that's aimed toward guys who are into 12 year-olds? Is it okay because she's 18 in real life, or still nasty?
- Well, I'm not into 12 year-olds. I don't think I would call it "okay", but I wouldn't stop it. I mean, what else are people into 12 year olds going to do? It beats letting them hang out at middle schools.
I mean, let me change the scenario a little. What if it isn't in a pornographic context? Chances are that if, in real life, an eighteen-year-old woman could pass for twelve, she's probably aware of it and sensitive about it, and is using her makeup and clothing choices to "look older". Say she meets a guy and finds out that children turn him on. (Say he's a decent guy who's never acted inappropriately.) Say she decides to give him a surprise he'll never forget. She scrubs off the makeup, leaves the padded bra at home, does up her hair in ponytails, and shows up for a date wearing a school uniform.
You got a problem with that? No? Well, then?
That is, if the only thing wrong is that somebody took a picture of it, then it isn't wrong. - 2. Do you think shaving/waxing pussy completely bare has pedophiliac undertones?
- No. And I'm astounded whenever anyone suggests that it does.
- 3. Would you be sexually active with a hot 16 year-old if you were single, the 16 year-old was willing, experienced and suffienciently mature, and there was a guarantee you wouldn't get found out?
- Lotsa if's there. Well, let me do some math... I have been sexually active with a hot 17 year old. How much difference does a year make? (To be fair, I was 18 at the time.)
Now? Not just no, but hell, no. - 4. Do you think advising abstinence for teens is stupid or wise? (Note I said "advising," not like super-preachy Jesus soapboxery.)
- I think it's wise. In some cases it isn't realistic. If the first or only thing you ever tell your child about sex is "don't", you lose a lot of credibility.
- 5. Would you buy your 14 or 15 year-old kid condoms if he/she asked?
- Yipe. I have a 15 year old daughter, so this isn't the academic question it may appear.
You know, I think I would. The fact that she asked would show that she understands the potential consequences and is taking responsibility. I'd try not to scream until I was alone.
Posted by Regin at 7/25/2003 02:59:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: hair, pedophilia, shaving
From Yahoo/Reuters | Porn Star Moonlights in Brothel
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's most famous ex-porn star Gina Wild has revealed she is doing a bit on the side in a Frankfurt brothel because she is addicted to sex.
"It's a secret I've carried around with me for a long time -- I go to the brothel several times a week. It's not for the money, it's to free my soul," Wild, 32, told Bild newspaper in an interview published Monday.
Wild, who is married, retired from the porn industry two years ago and wants to move into serious acting and modeling.
"I need the satisfaction the way some other people need food," she admitted. "I'm addicted to sex."
She owned up to the moonlighting after a fan recognized her working in a Frankfurt establishment.
"A fan recognized her"?
I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to visit a brothel (unlikely enough in itself) and be approached by a woman I recognized. I suppose it would depend on where I recognized her from. Mom? My 10th grade English teacher? Sister Bertrille?
An adult film star? Jackpot!
Now, wait a minute. I'm sure the brothels must be full of lookalikes: the Internet is. Even if she said, "Yeah, I'm really her", would you believe her? Would you look around for a hidden camera, or just assume there is one, go along with it and see how far they'll go?
Posted by Regin at 7/21/2003 03:44:00 PM 0 comments
Every now and then you see an observation that is obvious in retrospect--but it wasn't obvious before you saw it put so simply. This is one, from Girls In The Bag:
From "No" means "eat me out first"
As children, men get to, and are encouraged to touch their genitals. They have to in order to pee I guess. A mans genitals are easy to see. A girl is NOT taught to touch herself with her hands.. And she cant really see herself with out a mirror and some serious gymnastics training. We just don’t see or touch ourselves on a regular basis. Our genitals are often a mystery.
Posted by Regin at 7/21/2003 09:54:00 AM 0 comments
Sexy Saturday: Blowjob tips and tricks
Sunday, July 20, 2003
- Sexy Saturday: Week 21
- Please give me your favourite blowjob tips and tricks, or describe the best blowjob you've ever had (or fantasized about having).
- Giving or getting?
The best oral sex arises when the giver uses the mouth as a mouth, creating sensations no other body part can. For that reason, I like the terminology from "The Joy of Sex": genital kiss. If you're thinking of it in those terms, you're halfway there. It's a game wherein the recipient's job is to lie still and the giver's job is to make that impossible. Fortunately, it's a game that everybody wins. - Advice to guys:
- Don't dive directly in. It doesn't feel good if you haven't warmed her up.
Be gentle. It's the difference between quiche and scrambled eggs.
Once she's warmed up, I like to take her lips in my fingers, gently pull them apart and hold them, and kiss the button. The tension adds to the sensation. (Forgive the euphemisms: I'm trying to avoid certain kinds of web searches, from people who'll be disappointed in what they find when they get here.)
At sexuality.org, I found this suggestion: Imagine you're gently licking cake frosting off your fingers (except, of course, that it isn't cake frosting, and that's not your finger). A series of small suck-and-releases. Don't speed up or suck harder until or unless she tells you to: She'll let you know.
Alternately, very gently tongue the alphabet. I've never made it to Z. - Advice to girls:
- Don't worry. Everything feels good.
Swallow. If you're not going to swallow, don't even bother.
Deep throating is nice, but not required. It is extremely un-sexy to hear a woman gagging, attempting the (for her) impossible out of a sense of obligation.
The most sensitive spot is under and behind the head, on and near the ridge (where the foreskin is attached, if he still has his). Treat it the way you'd want him to treat your button and you can keep him happily delirious for hours.
That said, our parts are not as touch-sensitive as yours. Don't be afraid to grab it firmly. And don't let go before we finish. It'll wash off, really.
Posted by Regin at 7/20/2003 01:19:00 PM 0 comments
Fake lie-detector reveals women's sex lies
Friday, July 18, 2003
New Scientist
Women are more likely than men to lie about their sex lives, reveals a new study. Women's coyness about their sexual behaviour was unveiled by a US study involving a fake lie detector test.
In surveys since the 1960s, men typically report having more sexual partners and than do women - a statistically impossible feat. For example, British men boast an average of 13 partners over a lifetime compared with an average of nine partners for women.
Scientists previously explained this anomaly by suggesting men were exaggerating their tally, while women were understating their total. But now Terri Fisher at Ohio State University and Michele Alexander at the University of Maine suggest that men are in fact more truthful in such surveys.
Women change their answers depending on whether or not they believe they will be caught out not telling the truth, the researchers found. The number of sexual partners a woman reported nearly doubled when women thought they were hooked up to a lie detector machine.
Posted by Regin at 7/18/2003 12:44:00 PM 0 comments
Filthy Friday Five: Golden Showers and more
I found another set of questions to answer! I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to go get any of the older questions I've missed. Some of them look... interesting.
- The Filthy Friday Five for July 18:
- 1. What's your honest opinion on golden showers? Please share your hypothesis on why you think a person would enjoy this.
- My honest opinion? Ew.
- 2. If you had a choice between never having an orgasm again or never having intercourse again, which would you choose?
- I would choose never to have intercourse again. Wouldn't anybody?
- 3. Upskirt cams (voyeuristic photos of women caught unaware): hot or totally reprehensible? How about toilet cams?
- Call me cynical, or perhaps just naive: I've never seen such a photograph where I was convinced that the woman was unwilling or unaware. I won't deny I might be turned on, but it would be wrong.
- 4. Do those "Filthy Grandmas" pornos disturb you deeply, or do you think it's kind of cool that diverse ages are represented in the adult entertainment industry?
- Ah, you young people think you invented sex. It's cool.
- 5. What's the weirdest fetish a friend or acquaintance has ever admitted to you?
- Nobody has ever "admitted" anything to me that I thought was weird. This may say more about me than it does about them. Either I have a high weirdness threshhold or I'm not the kind of person people admit really weird things to.
Posted by Regin at 7/18/2003 11:25:00 AM 0 comments
Sexy Saturday: Either-ors
Saturday, July 12, 2003
- Sexy Saturday: Week XX -- Sexy Saturday either ors:
- 1. Oral or Vaginal?
- Is this question meant for a man to answer?
Never mind. Look, I'll take an orgasm however I can get one. But I do love love love giving head. - 2. Hour long sweat session or quickie?
- Sweat session. Quickies are only satisfying if they are exceptions.
- 3. Missionary or Doggie?
- Missionary. Doggie is nice as an occasional change of pace (Say, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?), but somehow it never seems to feel as good as it ought to. Perhaps we’re getting the position subtly wrong, or we’re just not built for it. It feels good, but plenty of other things feel better.
Posted by Regin at 7/12/2003 01:30:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: meme, position, quickie
Afternoon delight ends in resignation
Friday, July 11, 2003
Cleveland Plain DealerI wonder if you could have phrased that better...
Columbus - On the afternoon of June 3, Barbara Lewis, an account examiner in the state's Medicaid office, blundered into a fellow employee's cubicle to ask a question and got the shock of her life.
Seated at the desk, naked from the waist down, was a female colleague. Standing next to the woman was a male co-worker who was zipping up his pants.
Yesterday, the Department of Job & Family Services released a report by its chief inspector revealing that the participants in last month's tryst, Donald Young and Phyllis Bowersock, had resigned.
"My only regret is that these two clowns had a chance to resign before I had a chance to fire them," said Tom Hayes, director of the Department of Job & Family Services. While 99 percent of his agency's 3,500 employees do good work, he said, the other 1 percent "can make bad decisions faster than a kid with a bottle of tequila and a handgun."
Young, 46, who the report says "had the reputation as a 'ladies man,' " was a $39,020-a-year account examiner who had worked for the agency for 20 years. Bowersock, 45, was a clerk and made $33,612 a year. She worked for the department for 26 years.And they'll be replaced by temps, no doubt.
Posted by Regin at 7/11/2003 12:53:00 AM 0 comments
'Hair' tests P-town propriety
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Boston Globe | Act 1 nude scene pits art's demands against the bylawsSome things, it seems, never change.
PROVINCETOWN -- So they're naked, the leaders of the Provincetown Theatre Company thought, when they decided to stage a production of ''Hair'' this summer. That didn't mean that the cast's famous nude scene, a full-frontal flash at the end of Act 1, should cause much stir in what is possibly the state's most theatrical small town.
But as soon as the ads for ''Hair'' started appearing, the rumblings began in Town Hall: Another nude performance was on its way, and it might be breaking the law.
Bare flesh is a sensitive topic in Provincetown, which has a strict adult entertainment law, a vigilant licensing board, and an ongoing debate about where free expression meets local standards. Two years ago, worries flared over a proposed nude beach and a nude musical revue. A few years earlier, hands were wrung over a show by performance artist Karen Finley, who stripped partway down as she parodied Martha Stewart.
For the past month, it was all about ''Hair,'' the 1968 musical about hippies, pot, free love, and the Vietnam draft. And after weeks of consulting lawyers and planning protests, theater leaders are expecting to cross their last legal hurdle Tuesday night, so the actors who drop their clothes -- as they sing the word ''freedom'' -- won't have to wear body stockings underneath.
That's been Plan B, said Guy Wolf, the theater company's artistic director. But at this point, he said, a flesh-colored leotard would be a statement in itself. ''Everyone knows there's a nude scene,'' Wolf said. ''Then when it doesn't happen -- guess you're not so free.''
Posted by Regin at 7/09/2003 12:24:00 AM 0 comments
It's educational
Sunday, July 06, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald | Teacher quits rather than take down nude web photosHm. Nothing illegal going on here, but no names. Not even the school is identified.
A Swiss teacher, who posted nude photographs of herself on the internet, has chosen to resign rather than remove the photos, education authorities said.
Although posing nude on the net is not a crime in Switzerland, the country's laws ban teachers from activities deemed to undermine their profession.
The woman, who taught at a school in Worben, near Bern, posed in her free time as a nude model and wanted to use the web photos to find artists to employ her, the Swiss press said.
Instead the photos were discovered by pupils at her school, whose parents lodged a complaint.
The education authorities said the pictures were "good nude photos" but some of them could be considered shocking.
Given the choice of removing the photos or resigning on the spot, the woman gave up teaching.
(If that link fails, see also ABC (Australian), The Age or News24. I don't know why only the Australian news services should be all over this Swiss story...)
UPDATE: Welcome to everyone searching in vain for the woman's website. Sorry, no pictures here, but if you find the URL, let me know...
Posted by Regin at 7/06/2003 10:52:00 AM 0 comments
Sexy Saturday: 'Saving' sex/virginity until the wedding night
- Sexy Saturday: Week 19
- Do you believe in 'saving' sex/virginity until the wedding night, or is that a completely outdated notion?
- For myself, no, I don’t believe in "saving" oneself until marriage. However, I believe it is a personal decision, and a commitment I do not think less of someone for wishing to make.
I will observe, though, that the opposite of "saving it" is not necessarily "giving it away." - Did you or someone you know actually do this?
- I did not. I do not know of anyone whom I know for a fact did so. But then I’m not real nosy about my friends’ sex lives. I am occasionally curious, but not nosy.
In practice, though (as previously confessed back in week 16), I married the girl with whom I exchanged virginity; we just didn’t wait until after we were married to do that. So does that count or not?
I believe that she considered us engaged to be married the moment she consented to have sex. This is an opinion I didn’t immediately share.
It scared the hell out of me when the phrase “when we get married” first crept into her conversation. It might have been later that night; if not, it wasn’t long after. Sex and marriage had never been inseparably connected for me, and I was surprised that she was thinking along those lines.
Mind you, it was only the idea of marriage per se that terrified me. The prospect of marrying this particular girl, when I was able to consider it separately, struck me as a pretty darned good idea. (It still does.)
I confess I felt a wisp of disappointment when I realized that I probably wouldn’t find out what sex was like with other girls, if they were all going to expect that. This lack of experience is my single biggest regret in life.
On the other hand, I thanked God I hadn’t had sex with my first girlfriend. What a disaster that would have been.
Anyway, I figured it would do no harm to go along with her assumption. She understood that, due to our commitments to college, it would be years before we could actually get married. If it turned out to be a bad idea, we’d find that out before we did anything irrevocable. (Well, I guess sex is irrevocable, but you know what I mean.)
Well, three years went by, and the idea only got better. - What were your reasons for abstaining from sex?
- Not applicable. See above.
- In hindsight, do you think it was the right decision?
- Yes.
Sex is a special case of scratching an itch. It has become attached to intimacy, and I believe this is as it should be. There are people I wouldn’t shake hands with, there are people I wouldn’t share a room with, and there are people I wouldn’t accept a backrub from. My standards for fucking are significantly higher yet.
However, the notion that it may only be done with one person in one’s life is absurd. That’s far too much to lay on a, er, lay.
Posted by Regin at 7/06/2003 12:49:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: meme, sex, UPDATE, virginity
Congressman exposes nudist camp over nothing
Thursday, July 03, 2003
My gosh, that Florida nudist camp with the summer youth program certainly attracted a lot of attention: Orlando Sentinel ("Lawmaker aims to button up children away at nudist camp"); National Review ("Naked Came the Teenagers"); TIME; Lakeland Ledger; WLS; WFTV ("Congressman Exposes Children's Nudist Camp"...)
And all over nothing.
St. Petersburg Times | Nude Nude kids' camp found harmlessIf that sounds like a victory to you, I recommend you not read the rest of the article. Everyone seems to agree that something ought to be done. If it isn't illegal, it ought to be. Everybody wants to create new legislation and new safeguards, everybody wants to see additional agencies overseeing these camps' activities, even though when pressed, nobody can find anything wrong.
Gov. Jeb Bush, following a congressman's complaints, ordered a state investigation into nude summer camps for children, but the probe uncovered no evidence of illegal activity, according to the governor's general counsel.
And how much money has this witch hunt cost so far?
Nothing to see here! Move along!
Posted by Regin at 7/03/2003 04:16:00 PM 0 comments
Everyone's worst nightmare
Yahoo! / Reuters | Everyone's Worst NightmareSo that's his story? "I don't know how I got here, I just woke up and here I was."
A German man woke up to find himself stark naked in the middle of a street after sleepwalking from home, police said Thursday. The 37-year-old man called police in the southern town of Buchen at around 6 a.m. after discovering he had left his house keys at home.
"The man waited naked for police at the phone booth, who gave him a raincoat to wear," said a police spokesman.
Hm. First they lose a naked person, then they find one. I hope this story isn't related to the one previous.
UPDATE: If that link fails, try this one.
Posted by Regin at 7/03/2003 09:42:00 AM 0 comments
No law was broken with intercourse on the motorway
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Yahoo! / Reuters | Sex While Speeding Down the Highway? No Problem!Lawmakers in Germany never think about sex? What a country. I'm sure, if they think about it long enough, they'll come up with a way to blame this on the permissive Americans.
A Cologne court fined a man who admitted he was having sex with a blonde hitchhiker sitting astride him when he drove his car into a road sign. But only because he fled the scene of the accident with his naked accomplice.
"The man was convicted of hit-and-run and sentenced to a fine of 600 euros," court spokesman Juergen Mannebeck said on Tuesday. "It's hard to believe but in fact no law was broken with the intercourse on the motorway. It's a situation lawmakers never thought about."
The 23-year-old man, who was tracked down through the car's registration, was also ordered to pay 400 euros to repair the sign. He did not know the name of the woman who left her clothes behind in the car.You'd think she would have been easy to spot.
Posted by Regin at 7/02/2003 12:37:00 PM 0 comments
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