The View From North Central Idaho

I'm skeptical there could be this much difference in just one year. I suspect a sample error of some sort unless someone can suggest a good plausible reason for the increase:

Women are having wilder sex than a year ago with 76 percent admitting to using porn and four in five indulging in role play between the sheets, it emerged Wednesday in a new survey.

The English Netmums website survey found that despite three quarters of women having less sex — due to the demands of longer working hours — they are much more adventurous, The Sun reported.

The findings that 76 percent of women use porn is a 10 percent rise on the two-thirds of females who admitted to watching porn with their partners in a survey last year.

The most popular format is online porn, which is watched by 61 percent of couples.

My data set is very limited but I'm sure there has been an increase in the last 15 years.

I think I need to do some more research

I'm a little bit at a loss for words on this. But I received the following email from someone tonight:

So, I'm looking at my upcoming birthday... My hope is to be done by as many men as I can handle. For me, this is probably between four and ten. And a lot of lube. I, of course, am clueless how to set this up.

I'm thinking it might be helpful to talk with another single female... Can you think of someone I could talk with?

Before you claim it's joke or prank by some teenage boy, let me assure you it is not. I know her (barely) but she did hint at something like this the last time I talked to her. I'm a little surprised but it does so happen I know someone that might be able to give her some advice. After her birthday party I'll send her another email and see how it went.

I have approved a new ad which should be showing up in the right column soon. It is the first "adult" ad I have received. It's probably not safe for work. And unfortunately it's too late for Christmas or I might have ordered something as a present for Barb--even if they are in the U.K.

Oh well, Valentines day and her birthday are coming up soon.

I find it very telling that sex registries are considered punishment for the people on those lists. And because of that some registries have been declared unconstitutional.

But advocates of registries for gun owners and guns don't see the problem.

But we shouldn't be surprised. Advocates of restrictions on guns don't respect the Bill of Rights or even the Constitution in general.

Again.

Via Uncle.

I received an email with a link to LibertyStickers.com. There are so many good ones it's hard to choose but here are some of my favorites.

Note to family--I don't put bumper stickers on my vehicles so don't buy me any of these as a Christmas gift.

In quasi alphabetic order except for the first one which is so Kevin will be more likely to notice it.

A 34-year-old research scientist at the Bristol Initiative for Child Health recently announced that she is the (formally) anonymous blogger known as Belle de Jour --Diary of a London Call Girl.

To me the most interesting part of the revelation is the following:

Dr Magnanti, who studied anthropology and maths in Florida, was completing a PhD at Sheffield University's department of forensic pathology when she became a call girl.

Realizing she had no objection to having sex for money, she contacted an agency and worked as a prostitute from 2003 to late 2004, which she said was 'so much more enjoyable' than her shifts in another job as a computer programmer.

This reminds me of another woman I met at a party about four years ago. Let's call her 'N'. She was middle aged but very physically fit. After only a sentence or two you knew she was smart and not just an empty head on a pretty body. Talking about what kind of work we did it came out that she had been an engineer for many years, traveled all over the world for her job and finally got tired of it and quit. After a few months she started thinking about what kind of job she wanted to have. She was pretty sure she wanted a career change but wasn't sure what she would like to do and have the time and interest to go to school to get the required training. She was sitting in the park with a female friend of hers who finally asked, "If you could do anything you wanted for a living what would it be?" N answered, "I would like to get paid to f**k." And her friend answered, "So darling, why don't you? How do you think I worked my way through medical school?"

And so it came to be that N started her new and very profitable career without any formal training. She told me she had been doing it (pun intended) for a few years and was making more money than she ever imagined. She mostly lived alone although she had a steady lover that she spend most of her non-work nights with. She had a home in Bellevue Washington (generally an expensive part of the Seattle area) and was in the process of putting on a 10,000 square foot addition to the house. Part of it was her new "playroom".

She said she was 40 years old but she let slip the age of her parents and I didn't think anything of it until I saw the alarm in her eyes as she quickly added, "They became parents when they were much older than most." I did the math and didn't say anything but I then noticed the wrinkles in the hands and a few other places. I suspect her true age was really in the early fifties.

Out of curiosity, knowing full well that Barb wouldn't approve a budget item like that, I asked what sort of rates she charged. IIRC it was $400 for 90 minutes, $800 for four hours, or $1400 for the entire night. Weekend trips to exotic and interesting places would have discounts. She guaranteed she could be taken to company Christmas parties and the like and never embarrass you. Among other things she frequently did international travel with her clients as they traveled on business without their wives. She was very picky about her clients and never had more than about five or six at a time.

She painted a quite favorable picture of her new career and when I expressed my envy she told me she had a male friend trying to get into the business but most of the women were significantly overweight and wanted some sort of elaborate fantasy date that consumed nearly all of what they were willing to pay. Hence although he technically was paid to have sex he didn't make any money on it.

Another woman I know, let's call her "T', did some similar work for a while but had a different result. She was about 30 years old, very pretty, behind on her rent, and food was starting to become an issue. So she started putting on "girl-girl" shows for an old retired mobster with a lot of money. He apparently only had the capacity to watch rather than participate "in the action". T got something like $600 for an hour which she had to split with the "playmate" who was a friend of hers. Occasionally some guy would participate in the show with some simulated sex and would get paid some token amount.

T was quickly able to pay her back rent and put some food on the cupboards and decided to expand her clientèle. This ended up not being such a good idea.

She told a few married or attached men friends who had made passes at her that she was available for a price with confidentiality guaranteed. Some of them took her up on the deal and something unexpected happened. Once these men friends had paid for her services they treated her much different than they had before. They treated her like crap. The did not value her smarts and friendship anymore. It was about as friendly a transaction as one would have with a candy machine. After a few months she packed up her stuff and left the state.

I told N the story of T and asked if she had anything like that happen and she said no. Her clients were all gentlemen all the time. Perhaps it was because they knew she wouldn't stand for it. It was a sellers market for her product and it wasn't a problem to "fire a customer" and find a new one.

Life just isn't fair. Not only would I never be able to find high paying customers I'd be willing to service but Barb would be certain to find some reason why it wasn't a good idea no matter how much I enjoyed my new job.

This is in the news today:

Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes.

Tampa police said 29-year-old Joshua Basso made sexual comments to the 911 dispatcher and asked if he could come to her house. Investigators say she hung up, but he called back four more times.

A couple months ago I met a 911 dispatcher and she told me a similar story. But apparently in her dispatch center if things are a little slow they have fun with it instead arresting the guy. One day all the other dispatchers had spent time listening to one caller and suppressing their laughter while she was busy with a real call. After he called back for the sixth (or some such repeat) time she was given the call. Having been distracted by a real emergency she missed the suppressed laughter and chatter of her co-workers and didn't pick up on the fact that she was being sent some entertainment when they directed the call to her. She heard the heavy breathing and grunts and for a couple minutes thought it was someone unable talk and needed some sort of assistance. She coached him as she had been trained and tried get some sort of meaning from the grunts. He apparently got sufficient assistance from just hearing her voice to get his needs satisfied. This greatly amused her co-workers who silently listened in.

You have to be really desperate to use 911 as your sexual outlet of choice.

I was reading this article:

Caroline Cartwright, 48, claims that she is unable to stop the loud shouting and screaming she makes during lovemaking with her husband Steve.

After neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise, the Cartwrights were hit with a noise abatement notice.

However, when Mrs Cartwright was convicted of breaching the notice, magistrates made her subject of an anti-social behaviour order as well.

She appealed against her conviction for breaching the noise abatement notice and the making of the Asbo, which bans the couple from "shouting, screaming or vocalisation at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance".

Jobless Mrs Cartwright used Article 8 of the Human Rights Act to argue she had a right to "respect for her private and family life". She also claimed that she could not help making the loud noise during sex with her husband.

The hearing at Newcastle Crown Court heard that the Cartwrights' nightly sex sessions at their home in Hall Road, Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear, were making their neighbours lives' hell. Their lovemaking was described as "murder" and "unnatural" and drowned out their neighbours' televisions. Neighbours said the Cartwrights' sex sessions would usually start around midnight and last for two or three hours, every night of the week, the court heard.

Specialist equipment installed in a neighbour's flat by Sunderland City Council recorded noise levels of between 30 to 40 decibels, with the highest being 47 decibels.

Giving evidence, Mrs Cartwright said she was unable to control the noise she made during sex. "I did not understand why people asked me to be quiet because to me it is normal. I didn't understand where they were coming from," she said. "I have tried to minimise the situation by having sex in the morning - not at night - so the noise was not waking anybody. I may be sympathetic to it but it is not something I am doing on purpose."

Photo from the Telegraph

And I could not help but think that perhaps they are going about addressing the problem in the wrong way. What if they amplified the sound and put up posters of this article in the neighborhood? She can't help making all the noise because she is advertising her receptivity so why not take it to the natural (pun intended) conclusion?

Well, it amuses me anyway.

Only on Slashdot would someone trying to use sex to stave off boredom, in a mixed gender pool, suggest everyone be given masterbatory aides.

Actually, I do RTFA
October 22, 2009
Comment to Science: Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip
[H/T to Phil.--Joe]

I recently had a birthday and although I haven't collected all my loot yet (the family party will be this weekend) I do have some of it.

From son James I received this awesome card and coin:

Front. Click to see the inside.

From wife Barbara I received (in part) this card and a scrapbook:

Front. Click to see the inside.

Here are a couple pages from the scrapbook:

First page.

Next to the last page.

Daughters Kim and Xenia called me up on my birthday and sang Happy Birthday to me over the phone and asked what I wanted for my birthday dinner this weekend. They asked what James gave me then they complained that James needs to give me his presents after them from now on because they can't match him. I'm not so sure on that. I think my kids could give me lumps of coal and I'd still be just as proud and pleased.

Update: Due to popular request via email: The coin (and others) can be purchased here. The scrapbook and wife are not for sale.

When I bought my first computer (an IBM XT) I splurged and bought a 1200 baud modem instead of the 300 baud almost everyone else was buying. It was amazingly fast. It would download the posts from the BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) faster than I could read. How could anyone have a need for anything faster than that?

It's a good thing we didn't have the anti-free speech bigot equivalents of the anti-gun Senators Feinstein and Schumer who stopped the sale of new magazines with more than a 10 round capacity. Otherwise we would be still stuck at 1200 baud instead of 15,500,000,000,000 baud:

To achieve these results, researchers from the Bell Labs facility in Villarceaux, France used 155 lasers, each operating at a different frequency and carrying 100 Gigabits of data per second. The team multiplied the number of lasers by their transmission rate of 100 Gigabits per second and then multiplied the 15.5-Terabit-per-second result by the 7,000-kilometer distance achieved. The combination of speed multiplied by distance expressed as bit per second.kilometers is a standard measure for high-speed optical transmission.

Of course I and others discovered the 1200 baud modems were way too slow when we started downloading porn--even if they were just 320 x 200 x 256 color .GIF files. Just think of the improvement in quality and speed at which we will be able get our porn once we have terabit data connections. That should come close to the needs for one of Quark's holosuites. We just need to get the holographic emitters working.

On my latest trip to Idaho and back I listened to a bunch of the Vicious Circle podcasts. I'm in the middle of Vicious Circle 18 (Sucky Science Fiction Movies) right now but I thought I would mention that I was particular struck by what Breda had to say in Vicious Circle 16 (Estrogen Overload!) as she was explaining the controversy in the lesbian community between shag carpets and hardwood floors. At least I think that what she was talking about. Someone else asked about landing strips in the same context so maybe I got confused along the way somehow.

Speaking of SF... just tonight son James and I just finished watching the Stargate: Atlantis series. We liked it. I'm kind of sad that it is over. It was so much better than the three seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine we waded through before it.

Via email from Anthony who said, "I am amazed, no SHOCKED you have not blogged on this yet."

Yeah, yeah. I'm getting slow in my old age. That and preparing for a pistol match on Sunday.

Here's how you prepare for a sporting event:

India's cricketers at the Champions Trophy in South Africa are being encouraged by their coach to have sex to boost their on-field performance, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The benefits of sex feature prominently in a secret document circulated among players by coach Gary Kirsten and mental conditioning expert Paddy Upton, the Hindustan Times said in a front-page report.

It came as India take on arch-rivals Pakistan in their first Champions Trophy match in Centurion on Saturday.

The large-selling broadsheet, which claimed to have a copy of the document, said the relevant chapter was headlined "Does sex increase performance?".

"Yes it does, so go ahead and indulge," the document said, before detailing the benefits of a good sex life and even suggesting "going solo" if no partners were available.

"From a physiological perspective, having sex increases testosterone levels, which cause an increase in strength, energy, aggression and competitiveness," the document said.

"Conversely, not having sex for a period of a few months causes a significant drop in testosterone levels in both males and females, with the corresponding passiveness and decrease in aggression."

The document quotes Tim Noakes, a professor and sports scientist at the University of Cape Town, Kirsten's home town, as saying that "sex was not a problem, but being up till 2:00 am, probably having a few drinks at a bar while trying to pick someone up, on the eve of a game, almost always was."

The document helpfully suggests a solution.

"If you want sex but do not have someone to share it with, one option is to go solo whilst imagining you have a partner, or a few partners, who are as beautiful as you wish to imagine," the document said.

"No pillow talk and no hugging required. Just roll over and go to sleep."

Dr. Joe's Cure for Everything is validated yet again.

I get this type of email so you don't have to:

I'm writing looking to connect with those that took any classes with me this past Sunday.

ThreeSomes and Group Sex Play - discussion
Butt Sex - informal discussion
G-Spot and Female Ejaculation - interactive, couples only

In this context one has wonder what the meaning of "connect" is.

Regardless, the answer is "No". I did not take any of those classes last Sunday. Barb and I were doing other things near Mount Hood (don't let your dirty mind go there) that weekend.

Via email from Kris:

Combining two of the things that make young men happiest in one place.

http://www.explosionsandboobs.com/

If women in bras and swimsuits are safe for work then so is this site. Refresh the page for another set.

No. I didn't have anything to do with the site or any of the content. If I had both types of pictures would have been more extreme.

I realize my sample size is small and my methodology is subject to considerable bias but I wouldn't have thought my conclusions would differ this much from this study:

From relieving boredom, to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have sex for many reasons but romance and passion come rather low on the list, a new book has revealed.

One woman even admitted to having sex just so her husband would put the rubbish out.

"Research has shown most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all," Why Women Have Sex authors Cindy Meston and David Buss said.

Having apparently discounted physical attraction, the 1000 women interviewed by the Texas University professors gave a huge range of reasons for sleeping with a man.

One said she did it for a spiritual experience, proclaiming: "It's the closest thing to God."

But mostly the explanations were far more mundane, with 84 per cent admitting to having sex just to ensure a quiet life or to bargain for household chores. One woman said: "I have sex to relieve the boredom because it's easier than fighting. Plus it gives me something to do."

The book is here. It's not currently available on Audible but Amazon says an MP3 version will be available October 26^th so I might be able to pick it up for my Zune next month and review their research.

In the mean time maybe I should do further research on my own. Barb just looked over my shoulder and says she has sex for revenge. I wonder if that means I shouldn't increase my sample size...

It's not exactly a research paper with lots of data but it is a plausible hypothesis:

One of the most intimate forms of loving, it’s far from unsexy. When it comes to excreting buckets of moisture from your skin, wetter can be better. While many would wrinkle their noses at the notion of an antiperspirant meltdown, the action it can inspire captures sexy in its most animalistic form.

...

So who would’ve thought sweaty sex could be sexy and good for you? There are a number of benefits to working up a sweat; provided you both have a clean bill of health and you stay hydrated.

Sweaty sex:

— Means more calories and fat are being burned during a vigorous sex session;
— Allows for more slithery sex as your bodies slide all over one another;
— Makes for a body suctioning effect that enhances feelings of “we’re one” during sex;
— Offers new sensations that appease our need for variety, like salty kisses;
— Puts a twist in your routine as it taps into your inner instinct of raw, uninhibited sex;
— Can have the two of you resembling the wet sleekness of “Sports Illustrated” swimsuit models, with slicked back hair or shiny skin;
— Releases more of our natural scents, particularly those around the groin, which can be an aphrodisiac, even if on a subconscious level.

I'll put it on Dr. Joe's list of things that need further first hand (so to speak) research.

I'd tell you which blogger this reminds me of because she very recently mentioned both sex and a sweaty experience on her blog--but then I would have to kill myself.

From The Scotsman:

HAVING sex without a condom is good for your mental health, according to controversial research conducted by a leading Scottish psychologist. Professor Stuart Brody concludes that unprotected heterosexual sex can significantly boost men and women's mental wellbeing.

Conversely, Mr Brody claims that heterosexual sex with a condom is associated with poorer mental health, problems with dealing with stress and even conditions such as depression.

...

Mr Brody said: "Evolution is not politically correct, so of the very broad range of potential sexual behaviour, there is actually only one that is consistently associated with better physical and mental health and that is the one sexual behaviour that would be favoured by evolution. That is not accidental."

I hope he took the basic precaution of trying to compensate for things such as marital status, economic situation, education, drug (including alcohol) use, etc. If he did then his finding are very interesting. If he did not then his "study" is complete crap.

Via an email from Kevin comes this (see also this and this):

The advice appears in leaflets circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers and is meant to update sex education by telling students about the benefits of enjoyable sex.

...

Entitled Pleasure, the leaflet has been drawn up by NHS Sheffield, but it also being circulated outside the city.

The leaflet carries the slogan "an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away". It also says: "Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes' physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?"

Ho, hum. That has been Dr. Joe's cure for everything for over 30 years. Just ask Barb.

Via an email from Barron (don't think that I had missed this I saw it before Barron sent the email but he does deserve some credit) we find that Joe's Cure for Everything also improves the genetics of your offspring:

Daily sex can improve the genetic quality of a man’s sperm and could raise his chances of fathering a child, research has suggested.

Couples who are trying for a baby are often advised to have sex every other day, so that the man’s sperm count has time to recover, but scientists in Australia have discovered that this may lower some men’s fertility.

While abstaining from sex for a few days raises the sperm count, quality can be damaged if a man ejaculates too infrequently. A study at Sydney IVF, a centre for infertility treatment, has found that daily sex for a seven-day period substantially improves the genetic quality of sperm, without lowering sperm counts enough to impair fertility.

Barb and I sometimes wonder how we got such (nearly) perfect children. In addition to the superior genes from their parents and the awesome job we did rearing them it appears that our active sex life prior to their conception may have contributed as well.

You are welcome James, Kimberly, and Xenia. It was our pleasure to have you.

I'm just wondering aloud here.  When will we decide that women are regular citizens, instead of treating female shooters as though they are a separate class of citizen?  I understand that there is a perception that women need their own, separate training classes and all that, so they feel comfortable.  Is that condescending to women or am I missing something?  At what point, or under what circumstances, will we be treating female shooters the same as we treat male shooters (within the sport I mean)?

Maybe it's a dumb question.  Maybe men can't help but see a woman as something special and maybe that attitude is bound to find its way into our chosen sport.  Maybe some women are so accustomed to being treated differently that they expect it without a lot of thought.

Maybe the question is simply premature.  Any female shooters want to comment on that?  Do you believe you need separate training or separate categories in a competition, and if so, why?  Should there be guns made for girls, and others for the boys and if so, why"  Marketing strategies are beyond the scope of the question.  Hell, maybe it's all about marketing, in which case, never mind.

I could understand if shooting involved some heavy lifting, but even then we've all seen some women who can out-lift some men.  So you want different weight classes, like in wrestling?

Here's another.  How long is it going to be before the various races of humans are treated the same in general, in the media, and in the courts?  I understand personal preferences, but that's quite different.  I'm talking socially, politically and legally.  When will I be able to tell a black guy he's being a fool without being accused of racism, or tell a Mexican woman she's wrong without her getting in my face on some racial or sex-related tangent?  When will we be able to disagree without changing the subject as a form of crutch?  I really am getting sick and damned tired of this, so I am herein putting my foot down.  Knock off the race and sex defenses.  Some people are using it as a tool and I'm not buying it.  Not at all, and I'm getting right back in your face if you try it with me so don't even start.

When, or under what exact specified circumstances, will the gun-restriction advocates declare their work done, pack up their tents, and get jobs?  Any time you hear one of them guffaw over the assertion that they won't quit until all guns are banned, your immediate response must be, "OK, then tell me precisely when or under what circumstances you will stop, declare victory, and find something else to do, 'cause what I see is that any time you get a win, you're right on to calling for another restriction.  This has been happening for over 70 years, so, you know, we have a pretty undeniable track record here.  Go ahead.  Lay out the circumstances.  I have all day."

Staying on the title subject;
A problem with saying, "this far and no farther" is you've already established that a) you're willing to give ground, and/or that b) you've accepted or granted your opponent's basic premise(s).  Some things are properly subject to compromise (such as where to go for lunch, assuming you want the company) and others are not (such as basic rights).  When it comes to basic rights, the response it not, "this far and no farther".  Properly, the response is zero tolerance, same as it would be for a robber or a rapist.  If someone violates your basic rights, they are criminal and it is not incumbent upon you to prove your magnanimity by compromising with them.  You fight to win, then you fight for compensation and restitution, then you fight for justice, assuming your opponent is still breathing.  Few if any in Congress, for example, seem to have a clue how that might happen with regard to their violations of our basic rights.

Via a Bitter Twitter (or should that be Bitter Tweet?) I found this:

The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don't like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar waste of taxpayer money.

...

But the $423,500 grant for the study is just a crumb in the NIH pie. The NIH spends $29 billion each year to help fund thousands of health studies at home and abroad.

But some questionable queries have come under close scrutiny, including a $400,000 study being conducted in bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk; a $2.6 million study dedicated to teaching prostitutes in China to drink less while having sex on the job; and a $178,000 study to better understand why drug-abusing prostitutes in Thailand are at greater risk for HIV infection.

I presume this is part of Obama's stimulus package. If you were to ask me I would say we should stop stimulating him.

I complain about the lack of freedom and the almost daily new encroachments on our freedoms but things could be worse. We could be living in China where things like this happen--apparently without even a hearing or any sort of due process:

This investment turned out to be as risky as it was risque. A sex theme park that featured explicit exhibits of genitalia and sexual culture is being demolished before it can even open, a government spokesman in southwestern China said Monday.

The park, christened "Love Land" by its owners, went under the wrecking ball over the weekend in the city of Chongqing, said the spokesman, who like many Chinese bureaucrats would give only his surname, Yang.

Yang refused to give the reason for the demolition or other details. However, photographs of the adult-only park had circulated widely on the Internet over the weekend, prompting widespread mockery and condemnation.

Exhibits had included giant-sized reproductions of male and female anatomy, dissertations on how the topic of sex is treated in various cultures and what the official China Daily newspaper called "sex technique workshops."

The park's main investor, Lu Xiaoqing, had earlier claimed that the attractions sought only to boost sexual awareness and improve people's sex-lives.

The demolition highlights conflicted views on sex in modern China, where a prudish attitude toward discussion of sexuality is paired with an almost clinical approach to its physical aspects.

It was just day before yesterday I said I might want to visit.

It looks like this is a step in the right direction:

Naked human sculptures, giant replica genitals, a photo exhibition about sex history and sex technique workshops.

China's first sex-themed park has not even opened yet, but the controversial project has already got some people hot under the collar.

Love Land will open in October in the entertainment zone near the Yangtze River in Chongqing.

Lu Xiaoqing, park manager, said Love Land would be useful for sex education and help adults "enjoy a harmonious sex life".

It will contain an exhibition about sex, including its history and practice in other countries, anti-AIDS measures and the proper use of condoms.

"We are building the park for the good of the public," Lu said.

But it sounds a little too tame for my interests. Where are the rides?

As James said when I showed him, "That's just sort of creepy."

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I've used that reason to close a bug before. But the meaning of the word "reproduce" was different in my context.

Last night as Barb and I were in bed preparing to watch a DVD on my laptop computer I scanned Google News. There was a headline which read Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle. I passed it over but Barb read it out loud. So I asked, "Did you want to read that?" Her immediate and matter of fact response was, "Do they have pictures?"

That's my wife.

The world is kinda messed up right now. Economic conditions are scary. We have a socialist government in D.C. that is apparently working toward the destruction of the capitalism and our freedom. It's hard to understand what is really going on. Barb and I have spent a lot of time on the issues and this weekend she got me a card, "Just because it is so appropriate."

The front.

The inside.

I gave a friend of Barb and mine a ride to/from Idaho this weekend. She was visiting her boyfriend who was working on job site in Pullman, Washington for a few weeks. Pullman being about 10 miles from my home and on the way made it no big deal. There was a minor complication in that there was "some festival" in Pullman and all the hotels were full and his company had to put them up in a Clarkston for Friday and Saturday night. That added an hour to my trip Friday night but it wasn't that big of a deal to me. Friends do that for friends. On the way back he was going to be in a Pullman motel and it would take zero extra time.

Over the weekend we learned the "festival" was actually "Mothers Weekend" at both Washington State University in Pullman and the University of Idaho in Moscow. So it filled up all the motels in both towns.

Barb working in the hospital reported that emergency room staff say "Mothers Weekend" is always the busiest of the year. They come in drunk, disorderly, and disgusting (a new meaning for triple D as applied to women). It was also reported that condom sales go up 300%*.

After I picked up our friend yesterday and began our trip back to Seattle I reported my findings on the "festival". Our friend burst into laughter that seemed just a little more enthusiastic that was appropriate. She then told me that her boyfriend and co-workers had also found out it was "Mothers Weekend" but they called it "MILF Weekend".

Update: More confirmation of Mom's Gone Wild in Moscow.

Update2: Via an IM from Kris:

If they combined Mothers weekend and boomershoot (on the same weekend)... "ok sweetie, you have fun with the rest of the mothers... I'm going shootin' with the boys "

This was after Kris informed me he probably wouldn't be able to attend Boomershoot this year. It sounds like I need to "sweeten the pot" a little bit for him next year if I want him to come. I'm all for him having a good time, but I'm not going to go that far just to get him to come.

*I questioned the source of the condom sales numbers and Barb asked around at the hospital. "Everyone" had heard it and believed it to be true but no one knew where it came from. I suspect it is an urban myth but it makes a good story.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Dorothy Parker
When asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence.
[Sebastian's post from yesterday reminded me of this. I laugh every time I hear that classic truism because I immediately think of Parker's twist on it. And it is rare that I am in the sort of company where I can explain why I am laughing.--Joe]

Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunday, when crewmen involved in a stand-off with a US surveillance ship in the South China Sea revealed the fleet's previously hidden firepower.

The exposure came as the American vessel USNS Impeccable was attempting to defend itself against what the Pentagon claimed was co-ordinated harassment and aggression from five Chinese ships. Being unarmed, the Impeccable turned its fire water hoses against two of the Chinese vessels that had come within 50 feet in a threatening posture.

Then, the Pentagon records in the admirably restrained language of international diplomacy, "the Chinese crew members disrobed to their underwear and continued closing to within 25 feet."

In the annals of great naval battles, the contretemps may not rank alongside Trafalgar or Jutland. But it must be a contender for this year's award for naked aggression.

Ed Pilkington
March 10, 2009
In New York, The Guardian
Stand-off shows Chinese navy's secret tactics
[I just hope the sailors on the Impeccable got lots of pictures of all that "previously hidden firepower". I'm sure there is a market for that somewhere outside of the Pentagon. Maybe some magazines would be interested.--Joe]

A fellow gun blogger who said it wasn't that good a match to his blog sent me this link.

Fortunetelling has always been an inseparable part of the history of mankind. People always wanted to look in their own future and unravel the mystery of the human character. Fortune-tellers use a variety of things for their activities: cards, dice, coins, wax, salt and many other tools.

Sternomancy is a divination practice which involves the reading of markings on the area of the human body from the breast to the belly. This way of fortunetelling can be used to unveil the character of a woman by reading the shape of her breasts. Sternomancy was used in fortunetelling in the 18th century in Spain. Nowadays, sexologists say that the bosom of a woman identifies her character even more than Zodiac signs do.

People usually compare the shape of women’s breasts with fruit, berries and even vegetables.

As I read the opening paragraphs I considered a career change. Fortune telling by examination of women's breast and nipples? If there's money to be made then sign me up! But as I read further I discovered there wasn't any advocacy of physical contact with the subject matter. If it's only looking then I don't see it as that big of a gain over the free porn available on the 'net. And besides I have a suspicion that Barb would frown on my new career choice. I once considered becoming a lawyer and she said she would divorce me if I sank that low. Although I'm pretty sure fortune telling via the examination of women's breast wouldn't be ranked as low as being a lawyer I'm pretty sure I'd have to suffer through some icy stares every once in a while.

I think contraception is disgusting -- people using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Scheidler
Director, Pro-Life Action League
August 11, 1985
Chicago Tribune,
[See also other "interesting" quotes that give credence to The Handmaid's Tale view of politics.--Joe]

It's quite wonderful. If you'd told me at 28 that this would be happening, I'd never have believed it.

It's great sex, but it's not with my husband. To be absolutely honest, he's the last man on the planet I'd want to have sex with.

Philippa
Age 48
Sex and the older woman
[Interesting. Barb and I knew a woman that told me essentially the same thing. The woman's husband was nice looking and as near as Barb and I could tell a great guy in every way. But the woman said she found sex with him repulsive and she proceeded to have affairs with numerous other men. Barb and I severed contact with them after the woman told me of bringing some married officer from the Pentagon to her home to have sex with in the living room while her husband and infant child were upstairs asleep. Not only was she on some sort of path to self-destruction but it was risking national security by making the officer vulnerable to blackmail.--Joe]

From the comments here:

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he calls his grandson to his bed.

"You lissin-a me. I wanna for you to taka my chrome plated 38 revolver so you will always remember me."

"But grandpa, I really don't like guns. Howzabout you leava me your Rolex watch instead."

"Shuddup an lissin. Somma day you gonna runna da business, you gonna have a beautifula wife, lotsa money, a biga home and maybe a couple a bambinos.

Somma day you gonna coma home and maybe find you wife inna bed with another man. Whadda you gonna do then......pointa to you watch and a say, Times Up?"

You may have noticed that I didn't post much on Saturday.

Saturday was the first time in many years that Barb and I have been able to spend Valentines day together. We had lunch with son James but most of the time we were alone together in my hardened underground bunker. We exchanged cards, gifts, and other things. I won't share all the details--as it is I'm likely to get another TMI claim by someone as it is but here are the cards she gave me. Click on the card to see the inside of the card. The inside may not be safe for work. I have so much trouble figuring that type of stuff out.

I'd post the pictures of the card I got Barb here as well but it's definitely over the NSF threshold.

See also daughter Xenia's Valentine's Day post.

In the face of an administration that undoubtedly only respects gun rights to the extent that its supporters have the political power to harm it, gun rights forces do need to keep their powder dry; perhaps even excessively stocked. Paranoids may not always have real and effective enemies, but in politics, as in life, paranoia can keep you safe.

Brian Doherty
January 30, 2009
The President Is Not a Gun Slinger: Why the 2nd Amendment is safe under President Obama—for now
[H/T to SayUncle. The way I look at it the only way you can have too many guns or an excess of ammo and explosives is if starts cutting into ability to shelter yourself or your supply of medicine, water, food, and sex.--Joe]

This is probably safe for work but it's on the edge.

Some might ask if I know this guy who is sort of a neighbor of mine:

A 65-year-old Spokane man has been ordered held in custody on federal charges of illegally possessing automatic weapons and illegally storing explosives in a Bellevue commercial storage shed while agents investigate how he came to possess a huge military-grade arsenal that included grenade launchers, machine guns and plastic explosives.

Ronald Struve, heavyset and bearded, appeared in Seattle before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler on Tuesday after being extradited from Spokane, where he was arrested Jan. 7 during a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

In four searches in Bellevue and Spokane, agents seized 37 machine guns, 12 silencers, two grenade launchers, more than 60 high-explosive grenades, several pounds of military-grade C-4 plastic explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

...

One box contained 54 M406 high-explosive grenade rounds — 40-millimeter shells that can be launched from a shoulder-fired weapon to distances of 300 yards or more, according to military specification.

Its explosion creates a "kill radius" of up to 16 feet from the point of impact and injuries dozens of yards beyond that.

Agents also found several other anti-personnel grenades, including a Korean War-era "Chicom" stick grenade.

In another box, agents found six blocks of C-4 plastic explosives.

Agents counted 32 apparent machine guns, including M-14s, M-16s, and several "Sten guns," a mass-produced submachine gun known for its high rate of fire — upward of 500 rounds per minute.

They also found nine silencers and the parts for several others, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition and various other military hardware.

"All of the military explosive items seized are considered contraband and cannot be possessed by anyone other than the military," Wallace wrote in a search warrant. "The majority of the items seized appeared to be stolen military explosive materials."

Spokane isn't that far away from my home in Moscow and I think I could literally throw a rock from the front door of my office in Redmond and have it land in Bellevue. But this guy has never appeared on my radar of "people of the gun" in the circles I run in.

He shouldn't have been storing the stuff in an ordinary storage unit or be in possession of stolen property. That's just wrong and he should "pay the price" for that. But other than that he's being charged with a victimless crime. Had he purchased those items on the open market (as they should be) and had he stored them in a proper manner all would have been fine.

So, for the most part, all this effort and money being spent on investigation and prosecution is because the government has repressive laws on the books. Sort of like laws against sex toys. Except sex toys aren't constitutionally protected like "arms" are. [Updated with the following sentence.] Except while protected in general by the constitution, sex toys aren't a specifically enumerated constitution right like "arms" are.

Porn is not meant to be educational. It's meant to be amusement.

Nina Hartley (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!)
Via Jenny Block who has been twittering about the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo live from Las Vega.

I have to wonder if we started dropping these devices from airplanes by the millions into certain mid-Eastern countries if we couldn't eradicate radical Islam within a generation:

One end of the canister-type devices sized to fit easily in one's lap is made of soft 'Haptic' synthetic material akin to that used for nipples of baby bottles.

The faux-flesh wall is slotted to allow the insertion of a body part of a man's choosing.

RealTouch devices connect to computers with USB cables and synchronise with adult movies streamed online so the inner workings replicate what a fellow might be feeling were he to be the man in the film.

'You watch the action on a screen and a signal is sent to the box to simulate what is happening,' Mr Drysdale said.

Rich men in some Islamic countries have many wives unbalancing the normal male/female ratio of approximately 50/50. Sex outside of marriage is forbidden. And women who defy (or are even suspected of defying) this are severally punished. Hence significant numbers of young men have no good sexual outlet. Their religion promises those that die in Jihad go to heaven with 72 virgins for eternity. This is a powerful motivator for many men of warrior age to seek battle. If we could significantly reduce or eliminate this motivation there would be less violent conflict with these radicals.

Robb claimed Someone is getting an early start on "Weirdest Search Term for 2009" (see also the followup posts Whale tits and Oh, like I wasn't expecting THIS to happen)

This afternoon I submitted my entry (a search phrase one of my visitors used to find my blog) to him via email:

Robb's response?

From: Robb Allen 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:25 PM
To: Joe Huffman
Subject: Re: Someone is getting an early start on "Weirdest Search Term for 2009"

 

You win...

Yeah. I'm competitive like that. Just ask Barb.

Update: Also note that the perv was using an iPhone instead of something Windows based. I always sort of wonder about those type of people.

Jenny Block is looking for questions to answer for her sex column.

I considered, and still might, submitting some questions. But the obtaining the answers would probably entail graduate level research studies.

In another gift to gun owners before leaving office the adminstration arrested Illinios Governor Rod (Pocket Rocket) Blagojevich today.

Now instead of restricting access to guns which he mixed up with a popular sex toy there is a chance he might well become a sex toy himself while visiting Club Fed. After working so hard for so many years to screw gun owners we can only hope he discovers what it's like to be on the receiving end for a few years.

I frequently get comments from envious guys who when finding out I'm married to a physical therapist say something about "the massages". I just smile and let them believe what they want to believe. More about those "massages" later.

I don't believe I've posted about this before but when I had lunch with her last Saturday at her office I saw a sign on the wall above her desk. It brought the whole issue into sharp focus.

The sign said:

The Ten "NEVERS"
in
Physical Therapy

1. Never say you can't, because you'll do it anyway.
2. Never say, "It's easy", because we'll just make it hard.
3. Never say, "I want to go home", because you'll just stay longer.
4. Never lose count because you'll start at one again.
5. Never complain because we never listen.
6. Never argue because you'll never win.
7. Never scream or cry because it only encourages us.
8. Never look like you're enjoying it because we'll put a stop to it.
9. Never hold your breath because if you pass out and die, we have to fill out the paperwork.
10. Never lie or cheat because we know the truth, and you'll live to regret it.

For most people that is just a hint. You don't really understand what it means until you have been married to one for a few years. Here is another hint; when asked what the P.T. stands for on their badges they frequently give one of two answers:

• Physical Terrorist
• Pain and Torture

Now we go into the specifics of being married to one.

If you think of "massage" when you think of a physical therapist then you obviously don't know what friction massage (also called Cross Friction Massage-CFM) is. The previous link says:

Where most massage methods use some form of skin lubrication, CFM uses none so that the finger (usually one, but sometimes two) doing the massage is not sliding across the skin, but rather is taking the skin with it, allowing for the force to be transmitted directly to the deep tissue being treated. The motion is small, maybe an inch or so, back and forth "across the grain" of the tissue, so you have to have some idea which direction the structure normally runs. The amount of pressure should be moderate, which will often cause some amount of discomfort, but this should never be too painful.

"Too painful" is a technical term which means the patient's adrenaline reaches a level such they can break out of the restraints. Furthermore what they do is push you right up to the edge of "too painful" and hold you at a plateau until the area starts to goes numb. They keep asking if it has gone numb yet and as it starts feeling a little bit better they press harder to keep the pain at the same level. They claim this is just to "treat the deeper tissue". The veracity of this claim depends upon what your definition of "treatment" is. All observable data indicates that "treatment" consists of destroying your pain receptors through over stimulation.

You might ask how I know all this. Good question. It turns out that in order to keep her Pain and Torture license up to date your local friendly Physical Terrorist has to take classes on a regular basis. Guess who she experiments on before she starts charging money for practicing her evil trade. It's me. In the early years of our marriage she would come home from a class and coyly ask something like, "Didn't you say your shoulder was a little sore last week?" I would answer truthful -- and regret it. Since then I learned the wisdom of Oscar Wilde when he said, "The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a necessity."

A contest with a thinking being is never over and a little white lie about all my body parts being in perfect working order was only a minor speed bump to someone who has made their career P/T. One time when she came home from class she had a little box with wires coming out of it she wanted to experiment with me as the subject. I have a couple degrees in electrical engineering and I know what can be done with a box with wires coming out of it. I also hate electricity going through my body. I mean just a little bit of it which most people think of as "I can barely feel it" makes me very irritated. If someone else were to describe the sensation as "a little tingle" it will infuriate me. I asked if the box had batteries or plugged into the wall outlet. She informed me that it had "little batteries". Apparently she didn't realize the only word I needed to hear was "battery" and "little" was superfluous unless she was talking "little" on a microscopic scale. I mean, I could make a device that would kill a horse with a watch battery if I wanted to and her trying to downplay the part about electricity being involved was only increasing my suspicion.

When her telling me how much it didn't hurt when it was used on her, and how it felt "kind of strange" only caused my teeth to grind she broke out the sad eyes and looked like she was about to cry. I softened a little bit and she said she would put it at the lowest level and slowly increase the intensity and as soon as I wanted to stop she would immediately stop. I said I wanted to stop now, but she brought back the sad eyes and I let her attach the electrodes to my leg.

She slowly turned the knob clockwise repeatedly asking, "Can you feel it yet?" "I don't want to hurt you, let me know if it hurts." I told her I didn't feel a thing and she continued to turn the knob. Her face grew more and more puzzled and I started to smirk. Her little box was broken and I was going to get away with not being shocked! She finally stopped and announced that the intensity was at the maximum setting and that I "should feel something." I assured her that I didn't and repressed my satisfaction as best I could. She looked her little box all over and said, "Oh! I see!" and before I could twitch a muscle she turned the switch she found from "Off" to "On" and muscle twitches were generated without any conscious effort on my part. I levitated off the bed and roared in anger. Before I came back down I had torn the wires off my leg and when I landed was facing her like a lion in a crouch and ready to pounce. She instantly brought back the sad eyes, froze absolutely still, and mouthed the words, "I'm sorry." This saved our marriage but not from her from being very vocally reminded that I do NOT like electricity going through my body.

Another time she came back from a class and told me she had learned how to test for "bone spurs". She explained that you pushed with your thumb in various places and watch for a "chandelier sign". I politely asked about bone spurs and she explained they usually go unnoticed until the person gets up years a ways. At my age, then in my mid twenties, I might have some but wouldn't notice them at all. Even with testing she probably wouldn't be able to find them. But she wanted to practice the tests anyway.

I should have paid more attention during the part about what a positive test result indicator was rather than the part about "probably wouldn't be able to find them". I took off my shoes and socks and she started pressing her thumb into the flesh around my heel. She pressed harder and harder and I could hear her grunting with the effort required to probe deep into the tissue of my feet which were nearly armored with strong muscles from playing tennis almost every day. It felt kind of nice. Basically I was getting my feet massaged which I considered a real treat. It was what I had expected when before we got married she said she wanted to become a physical therapist. I was relaxing and enjoying it and I could tell she was getting a little frustrated (see rule 8 above). I was sympathetic and asked, "What is it you are trying to get to happen again?" Between grunts she growled out, "A chandelier sign". I started to ask what that was when she said, "Maybe it's over here" and she pressed deep into my flesh. We didn't have a chandelier in our bedroom and hence I returned to floor level after bouncing off the ceiling. I do remember looking down at Barb still in position as if my foot was still cradled in her hands with her thumb mashing as hard as she could on that hidden button in my foot which should have been labeled, "DANGER! DO NOT PRESS UPON THE PAIN OF DEATH". She had a big smile on her face and after I stopped bouncing I demanded to know why she was so happy. Her glee was totally oblivious to my state of mind and she told me, "Because I found it! I couldn't find it in class but I found it with you! That was the chandelier sign. It was just like they said it would be." Her moments of happiness are somewhat rare with me around and since I had not warned her I did not like chandelier sign I didn't do anything but glare at her and resolved to listen more carefully and think things through in the future.

Surely, you might ask, there are some "benefits" (nudge, nudge) to being married to a physical therapist. My response to that is, "Do you know why physical therapists make such poor lovers? It's because they use ice to take the swelling down."

Lest you think my life is miserable or even uncomfortable I need to point out that I'm not only married to the physical therapist named Barbara, I'm also married to Barbara the woman. I'm not going to go into all the details but the card below is a hint. I get cards of a similar nature for my birthday, Valentine's Day, and our anniversary (click to see the inside):

Barb explained, "It really should say, 'You win', rather than 'You lose'". But it's close enough. I've been with her for 34 years now and most of the time I know how to read between the lines with her.

I never would have guessed. So someone didn't and commissioned a survey:

More than a third of Britons rank sexual activity at the top of their list of freetime activities, according to the YouGov survey conducted over the Internet.

That was more than the next three highest options combined - gossiping with friends (18 per cent), window shopping (9 per cent) and going to a museum (6 per cent). According to the poll, however, women preferred gossiping with friends, while men tended to rank sex as number one.

At least it was a private charity that did the research rather than using taxpayer money.

I'm very depressed today. I can't even blame it on Internet sex (it should be safe for work). It's the election. I voted yesterday and I think that started it.

Then at the cafeteria at work there is a woman that for some reason has been particularly friendly to me. She recognizes when I show up at a different time than usual and always wants to talk a bit (it’s time to introduce her to my wife…). Yesterday she asked if I was excited about “the big day tomorrow”. I told her I was rather depressed about it actually--it is the choice between the lesser of two evils. I then asked if she was excited about it. “I. Am. SO. Excited. About it." she said. I wanted to tell her how many people were murdered last century by attempts to make socialism work. Was she excited to be a part of the next attempt? Was she looking forward to adding her body and the bodies of millions of others to the pile?

It’s the Second Coming or something. Once the Messiah is on his throne all will be forgiven, all will be peace and love.

I see ethics, rules, and the law do not matter to them. I see Brown Shirts.

Well, you'd be no fun if you lost interest.

Roberta X
October 26, 2008
Speaking Of Wood
Regarding a new camo pattern (it's call Morning Wood) she saw at the gun show yesterday.
[I really need to write the post that has been poking around in my head ever since I read Bonnie's Twitter post from over a month ago. It all has to do with the differences between the male and female brain. Read The Female Brain for the long version--you might get the answer sooner than if you wait for me to write the post.--Joe]

Ths happened in the state of South Idaho, not North Idaho where I am:

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — An eastern Idaho woman whose boyfriend impregnated her 9-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Isabel Chasarez, 27, must serve at least one year in prison before she is eligible for parole, 7th District Judge Brent Moss ordered Tuesday at the sentencing hearing.

Chasarez pleaded guilty in August to failing to provide proper prenatal care for her daughter.

Her 38-year-old boyfriend, Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, pleaded guilty to rape in September. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 28 and faces life in prison.

The girl became pregnant at age 9, sometime between Aug. 1 and Sept. 30 2007, authorities say, and gave birth in April.

It looks as if the authorities are handling the case appropriately but I'm still shocked that the egg donor was unable or unwilling to protect her offspring.

I've reported on this before here and here. The couple has been sentenced now. It could have been up to six years in jail but they were given just three months, a $350 fine, and are to be deported from the country. I agree with:

Analysts here say their punishment is meant to strike a balance — by showing that expats must respect local laws, while maintaining the Emirate's image of being welcoming to Westerners.

I don't agree with the law but I think the judge did the right thing.

As promised:

Newsgroups: alt.sex
Subject: Porn Star Interview.
Organization: Prototronics @ Sandpoint, Idaho
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 23:39:02 GMT
Keywords: Cherri Hill Porn Movies Star

About 3 weeks ago I posted saying a former porn star was going to be visiting
with a friend at my place.  Well... due to various problems they didn't
show up.   I still wanted to ask her some questions and finally last night
I was able to make contact with her via phone.  She lives several hundred
miles from here but we spent about 45 minutes on the phone.  She seemed
intelligent and articulate.  I was sort of expecting someone a bit 'simple'.
Perhaps a the sterotype of a 'dumb blonde'.  This was not the case as near
as I could tell.

Without further elaboration -- my interview with "Cherri Hill":

Questions I had:

Me: How did you get into the business? 

Cherri:  I grew up in Coeur d'Alene Idaho and got married at 18 (I'm 21
now).  We moved in with another couple that was older and had this big
house.  The other women and I worked at a massage parlor at Stateline
(nearby town).  The older guy asked if I was interested in X-rated movies
and I said sure.  He sent pictures to Jim South's World of Modeling then
we went down there and I started working.  My husband stayed behind and I
told him that I was just modeling and not doing any sex stuff.  He later
came down and I told him about it and he decided he didn't like it and he
moved in with his father that he hadn't seen since he was about 5.  We're
still married 'cause I haven't got around to getting a divorce.

Me: Was it hard work?  How long did you have to work each day?

Cherri:  It was work.  We would usually meet at a parking lot about 7:00 in
the morning and caravan to somebody's house.  It was illegal in Orange county
because we were getting paid for sex.  So people who were having trouble meet
a mortage payment or something would rent out their house for three or four
hundred dollars for the day.  We would start filming the scenes and work all
day until 11:00 or 12:00 that night.  We would get our money and go home.

The movie 'formula' is 6 scenes with 3 men and 3 wowen.  The scenes are made
with switching people around so you get some girl-girl scenes, threesomes
and straight boy-girl scenes.

Me: Did it pay well?  Are the men paid comparable to the women?

Cherri:  For a beginer $400->$500 scene, $250->$300 for man.  Each day would
involve about 3 scenes.  Towards the last I was getting 2 or 3 jobs a month.
The agents fee is a straight $50.00.

Me: You only worked 2 or 3 days each month?  That gave you lots free time!

Cherri:  Yeah!  A lot of people are going to school or something like that.

Me: Did you get to know your co-stars ahead of time? 

Cherri: No -- not really.  You might know who was going to be there and you
got to know a lot of the people involved.  But nothing like you were
introduced a week ahead of the filming or anything like that.

Me: What about disease prevention?

Cherri:  You had to have AIDS test results that had come back in the last
24 to 48 hours.  If you didn't have the papers you didn't do any filming.

Me: How would someone go about getting started in the business?

Cherri: Call down to Van Nuys California (area code is  818) ask information
for Jim South's World of Modeling.  They are very cautious about police and
stuff.  You have to send in pictures. 

[Note:  I called information this morning.  There was no Jim South's World of
Modeling.  There was a "World Modeling Agency" with the phone number 
818-986-4316.  I have not called it and probably won't.]

Me: Is there a demand for men or just women?

Cherri: They need men as well as women.  A lot of men get in front of the
camera and just can't do it.  That's the end of their career in that field.

----
Several other people sent in questions.  Some were sort of duplicated.  One
person didn't want their name mentioned so I stripped out all identifying
information from all the questions.  I read the following questions to her
and give credit to "Net".
----

Net: Yes.  I would like to ask if they ever fake stuff in order to meet some
kind of a deadline.  If she's tired and just doesn't feel like having sex,
can they just rest for a while, or are they supposed to be ready to have sex
no matter what?

Cherri: You are told when your scenes will be a day or so ahead of time. 
Then it's pretty just go in and shoot them.  A scene takes about an hour to
an hour and 15 minutes.  Later when I got better at it it sometimes got down
to as little ast 22 minutes.  Only one time was there any fake stuff that
I saw.  It was doing some still shots for some magazine and this guy couldn't
get it off and I had this bottle of lotion that I held it behind his cock and
squeezed it so that it looked like he was cumming.

Net: Also, I'd like to know if they get to specify what kind of sex they will and
won't do.

Cherri:  Yes when you go into the agents office.  They have you fill out
this form -- will you have sex with blacks, hispanics, etc.  What kind of
sex will you do -- DP (double penetration), anal, girl-girl, etc.

Net: Also, do they get to pick with whom they will have sex?  If so, is
this on a movie-by-movie basis or do they just say that they will not have
sex with someone of the same sex at all.

Cherri: You can always say no for whatever reason (privately you know he's
been shooting up or they aren't clean or whatever).  As far as sex with
another women -- the first time I was put on set and asked to do a girl-girl
scene I was so scared!  I figured someone I knew would see it and that
bothered me.  But I did it and it got easier.  One women brought these
'tools' for me to use on her and I did -- it was kinda fun and it made it
a little easier.  And then afterwards she told me that she REALLY liked what
I did to her.  That helped a lot too.

Net: And lastly, can she share some of her personal opinions about the porn
world in general? 

Cherri: I liked the people involved they were REAL people -- down to earth.
I promised myself I wouldn't change from the person I was back in
Couer d'Alene.  But then I got involved with drugs and this guy from
Argentina.  I was more carefree then at 18 than at 21 now.  I only worked
in the business for 8 months.

Net: Where might we see her or what movies or whatever has she been in?

Cherri: 25 movies were made.  Which eventually were then cut up into 34 ->
40.  Some of the better ones were: "Thrill on Cherri Hill" (which I helped
write), "Eye of the Tigris",  "Port Holes".  They will say on the box
"Features Cherri Hill". 

Net: My exposure to this material (magazines and movies) is limited, but I
have always felt somewhat of a dillema. Given the media's representation of
the porn industry, I get the impression that most of the women involved are
doing it because of desperate financial situations (including expensive drug
habits), or they are run-aways with no place else to go and are more or less
forced into it.  Is this a correct representation of the industry, or is the
media/politicians trying to control the industry.  By renting/purchasing this
type of material am I contributing to or promoting abuse? This bothers me.

Cherri: Absolutely not!  You are asked for ID and birth certificate.  The
last thing they want is another Traci Lords thing.  Many got rid of drug
habits before getting involved.  And if you wanted drugs there was no expense
involved.  When people found out that I made movies like that they would give
me all the drugs I could have ever used.  Everyone is absolutely straight
on the set.  This is no place to be messed up.  Many of the men and women
are 25 -> 35 (some men even in their late 40's) and have to work a bit
more to keep in shape -- they have to stay away from drugs.

Net: Bearing in mind that what's on the screen is a performance, when she
was doing these movies, did she find that she had to put herself into a
frame of mind that it was work, and not sex?

Cherri: It's work of course.  There were some people that I really liked.
There was one guy (Mark Wallace) that I had outside relationship with and
that made the work more enjoyable.

Net: Did her performances impede her ability to function normally in an
intimate relationship outside of work?

Cherri: Hmmm... No it made me more aware of what turns a guy on.

Net: Was the sex on the job too much (I mean did it turn her off from
seeking an emotional commitment in her life?

Cherri: No.

Net: Did men in relationships outside of work assume she was a slut?

Cherri: Some.  But they are rare.

Net: Were they abusive to her because of her job (i.e. did she have to lower
her standards for a man/mate because she had to find someone who would not
be jealous.

Cherri: One guy was sort of mentally abusive.  He's in prison now for doing
some other stuff.  He wasn't a very nice guy anyway.  Didn't have much
to do with what I had done.  He would have been bad for anybody.

Net: Was she able to reject sexual partners (hygene, questionable health,
etc..) or did the "producers" _require_ that she perform with any and
everyone that they told her to. Could she reject a scene because she didn't
like it?  The reason I ask these questions is because, while I find the
material arousing and it can really improve bedroom play, I don't like the
idea of making someone else miserable so I can enjoy erotica.

Cherri:  You could reject anything.  You are your own boss.  You can decide.

Net: The men in the movies are brought to orgasm (I assume they are when I
see them ejaculate).  Did she find that to be arousing? Did she enjoy the
sex?  I always wonder how much is over-acting (on the part of the women) and
how much is actually orgasm (perhaps that's what makes the movies
intriguing?).

Cherri: Different people are different.  I did a lot of acting.  I felt
there was too much "let's fuck" not enough "let's make love" in the movies.
A friend and I used to go in and do voice overs for movies because the women
on the set didn't make enough or the right kind of sounds.

Net: If she isn't either bi-sexual or gay, was she aroused in scenes where
she had to play with other women? Was she worried, turned off, or otherwise
disgusted if she knew that what she was doing was actually arousing/getting
a female co-star off (I guess that doesn't apply if she's bi or gay).

Cherri: Early in the business I was scared that someone would see me and I
was nervous but later I got over that when some of the women really liked it.

Net: I have seen one movie where the woman was literally dripping _very_
copiously, (despite all the posts in this newsgroup, I have never seen a
women _literally_ drip). I assumed they had put something inside her before
the scene.

Cherri:  Who was it?  I could probably tell you if was real or not.  There
was one woman who did do this naturally.

Net: Does effect outway precaution? Do the producers care if she is injured
in or gets an infection (I don't mean an STD, but more like a yeast
infection) from using some bizzare sexual prop (like a bannana or such)?

Cherri: There are laws against that.  Also these people are knowledgeable
they won't do that.  They don't even do things that straight couples do --
like use Vaseline.  Thats really bad for you these people know their stuff
and won't do risky stuff.  They watch out for others too.  These people just
don't do dangerous things.

Net: Are the sex scenes in the movies scripted out fully partially
or not at all. Do they have the freedom to improvise as the scene progresses.

Cherri: The scenes are nearly all the same and everyone pretty much knows
what to do.  Not much scripting because it's the same as last time.  So much
of this then change positions and do some of that, get the camera angles,
etc.

Net: In addition, I would like to know about the "type" of person who makes
films.  Are there wide variations in personalities?  What are some of her
comments on the "big-name" stars?

Cherri: Some are pretty stuck up.  Samatha Strong is one.  Tasha Ray would
come do her scene and leave with her $1500 and didn't associated with the
'low life'.  Others like Nina Hartley are neat people -- I liked watching
her.

Net:  If you do get to ask her this stuff ask her if the stars really read
their fan mail, or just throw it away. I've written a couple (being
tasteful, asking questions and not saying what I'd do to her or what not)
but have never got a reply.  Anyways I am VERY curious about the answers
to the questions you'll be asking, if you don't post to the net please
write me telling what her answers are.  Thanks much and good luck!

Cherri: I never got any.  Some people set up P.O. boxes and advertise in
the back of Hustler and other magazines.  "Send $5.00 or whatever".  Men get
letters and pictures back saying how horny they are and stuff.  These are
all fakes just photo copied stuff that was made up by some other guy. 
Trying to make some money.  The women got a modeling fee and are never
involved again.  If this is what he is talking about then he was kinda
ripped off.

I don't know if this will help or her chances of getting elected (vice) President but my guess is it will help:

US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has caught the eye of Hollywood - as the subject of a movie definitely not for kids.

A major Los Angeles porn studio is on the hunt for a Palin look-alike to play the mother-of-five politician in an adult film.

The successful actress would earn $2535 to $3800 for the role, according to online advertisements posted on the Los Angeles webpage of sales and social networking site Craig's List.

"Looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike for an adult film to be shot in next 10 days," the advertisement said.

It's time for me to dig up the interview I did of a porn actress I posted on Usenet several years ago. I'll try to post that this weekend sometime.

H/T to my Aussie friend.

Update: Via Sebastian here is the Craig's Listing.

I review my Sitemeter referrals fairly frequently but today I got too much information:

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I'll be busy with lots of other things today trying to get that image out of my mind.

The only motivation for the above web search I can think of is there that must be a shortage of sheep in Mesa.

The Pill makes women pick bad mates Ability to sniff out a compatible partner affected by taking contraceptives: 

While several factors can send a woman swooning, including big brains and brawn, body odor can be critical in the final decision, the researchers say. That's because beneath a woman's flowery fragrance or a guy's musk the body sends out aromatic molecules that indicate genetic compatibility.

...

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are involved in immune response and other functions, and the best mates are those that have different MHC smells than you. The new study reveals, however, that when women are on the pill they prefer guys with matching MHC odors.

MHC genes churn out substances that tell the body whether a cell is a native or an invader. When individuals with different MHC genes mate, their offspring's immune systems can recognize a broader range of foreign cells, making them more fit.

Past studies have suggested couples with dissimilar MHC genes are more satisfied and more likely to be faithful to a mate. And the opposite is also true with matchng-MHC couples showing less satisfaction and more wandering eyes.

"Not only could MHC-similarity in couples lead to fertility problems," said lead researcher Stewart Craig Roberts, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Newcastle in England, "but it could ultimately lead to the breakdown of relationships when women stop using the contraceptive pill, as odor perception plays a significant role in maintaining attraction to partners."

So a woman is on the pill and is dating. She selects a mate, they marry, and then she goes off the pill so they can have kids. She then finds out her husband stinks and she is not only more interested in making babies with someone other than her husband but they would be better babies too.

Interesting...

Prostitution involves sex and free enterprise. Which of these are you opposed to?

Joseph A. Hauptman
Found at the beginning of Chapter 10 of Freehold.
[I'm not sure if this is a real person or a fictional character but it's a great question.--Joe]

First he tells us:

How To Make Women Happy...

[530 words]

Then he tells us:

How to make men happy...

[3 words]

I think he should move to a different part of the world and get a new life.

Oh, that's right--He did.

Good luck Kris.

At dinner with Phil and his wife last night we talked about religion some and for a short while Baptists in specific. Hence this isn't entirely random:

A man was seated next to a stiff-looking Baptist minister on a flight to Wichita. After the plane was airborne, the flight attendant came around for drink orders.  The man asked for a whiskey and soda, which he got.

The attendant then asked the minister if he would also like a drink. The minister replied in disgust, "I'd rather be savagely raped by a brazen whore than let liquor touch these lips."

The man then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, "I didn't know there was a choice."

This is for their dog Elsie:

Q: What has four legs and an arm?
A: A happy Rottweiler.

Reader Rob sent me this link: FOXSexpert: Reach for the Pinnacle With Transcendent Sex.

I'm skeptical. Here is what this self proclaimed expert has to say on the topic:

Some people actually supersede the state of climax and reach a state of transcendent sex. Such lovemaking is said to involve a divine force, and is regarded as a path to a higher consciousness. It has been known to change one’s views on sex and spirituality. Yet this mystical, spiritual sexual experience is one of the best kept sex secrets around.

...

The closest I’ve ever come to such a spontaneous, divine experience involved my life-force energy shooting up from the base of my spine during an orgasm. It happened when I was with my ex-lover and I found myself blissfully lost in a purplish-turned-white light that went beyond my body.

...

People who have been swept into transcendent ecstasy, according to developmental psychologist Dr. Jenny Wade, have reported:

— Seeing visions;
— Feeling heat, light and energy waves throughout the body;
— Reliving past lives;
— Seeing the face of God;
— Paranormal powers;
— Being visited by gods;
— Feeling possessed by spirits;
— Working with natural forces;
— Nothingness, whiteness, pure bliss;
— One with everything – there is no “me” or time;
— A lack of sensory channels;
— Time travel;
— Enlightenment.

It sounds more like someone blew a few circuit breakers in the electrical system of their brain rather than they found violations of several physical laws.

Some countries take their prohibitions against sexual freedom very seriously. In some places you could get up to six years in jail for having sex with someone not your spouse in a public place:

A British businesswoman is facing up to six years in a Dubai jail after she was allegedly caught having sex on a beach.

Michelle Palmer, 30, was arrested on 5 July, along with another Briton believed to be a male tourist.

The Foreign Office confirmed that two British nationals had been arrested and the case was under investigation.

The Sun newspaper said Ms Palmer had been charged with having sex outside marriage, indecent behaviour in public and being drunk in public.

If you want to partake in Dr. Joe's cure for everything I suggest checking the local laws first. Getting your daily dose in prison might not be as healthy or as pleasant as the stuff you get on the outside.

I'm not surprised but it's nice to have the numbers to back it up:

There's new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say.

In a study that followed nearly 1,000 older Finnish men for five years, researchers found that those who were regularly having sex at the start of the study were at lower risk of developing erectile dysfunction (ED) by the study's end.

In fact, the more often the men had sex, the lower their ED risk.

The implication, say the researchers, is that men should be encouraged to stay sexually active into their golden years.

Dr. Juha Koskimaki and colleagues at the University of Tampere in Finland report the findings in the American Journal of Medicine. The study included 989 men who were between the ages of 55 and 75 at the outset.

Overall, those who said they had sex less than once per week were twice as likely to develop ED over the next five years as men who had sex at least once a week. Furthermore, compared with men who had sex three or more times per week, their ED risk was increased nearly four-fold.

This reminds me. At the reunion our classmate Les Schillings asked me how Barb managed to stay so young looking. I told him, "lots of sex" and you should have seen Barb blush as she explained "Joe's cure for everything." A half hour later or so John Anderson asked Barb how she managed to stay so young and she asked me to tell him. John responded with, "That doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe I need to be having sex with your wife." I said that could be true and got a fresh blush out of Barb. I should have asked if he thought I could rent her out.

This seems like as good a time as any to bring this to peoples attention:

I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Antonin Scalia
September 2004

I never been called this before:

Joe Huffman, the full-throated Second Amendment activist

For some reason that brings to mind "deep throat" and there is no version of that phrase that applies to me. Particularly in the context of the Pink Pistols as was the case in this post.

It must be something new. The rest of the post was nice. I think it was a compliment.

In case you ever wondered.

Scientists have more data and another hypothesis as to why female primates make noise during sex:

Female chimps often cry out during sex to attract nearby males, but they keep quiet when other females are around so they don't alert their competition, a new study finds.

The function of copulation calls made by female primates (a group that includes lemurs, monkeys, and apes, such as humans and chimpanzees, our closest relatives) has been debated for years.

Interesting... so if your female partner is noisy during sex it means she wants more males to join in the fun. I'll bet that is going to make for some interesting pillow talk.

A few months ago I made something I received via a Google alert on sex my QOTD because it applied to not only to sex but to many other things as well. Ms. Block had her own Google alert, noticed my post, and commented on my post. Cool!

I sent her an email thanking her for stopping by for a visit and I ended up on her email list for notifications of things such as her book (Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage) signing yesterday afternoon in Seattle. I decided to go because the kids were attending a play (a musical--I seldom like musicals) and the Father's Day activities weren't happening until the evening. Barb was unavailable being at work in Moscow Idaho so I went alone.

I found Ms. Block to be very energetic, funny, and quick witted. It was a real pleasure to hear her talk. I added a few comments which seemed to be well accepted. One was in regard to a book that discussed sex and the evolution of women. Here is more information on that book, Sex Time and Power. This was a great book. A lot of it was speculation which has the high probability of being wrong but it was very intriguing speculation.

Some links to Ms. Block's web presence:

http://www.open-marriage.blogspot.com/
http://www.jennyonthepage.com/

She also writes on the blog The Huffington Post such as this post.

I've added her blog to my blogroll but it appears she is only blogging to promote her books and other writings and not so much about the psychology and sociology of sex in our society which is more of my interest. But at least I will get links to that sort of material.

Some people are "math challenged". I tend to agree with Heinlein on the topic but regardless I am of the opinion that nearly all people can learn simple arithmetic if they are given the lesson in practical everyday terms. One such lesson came to my attention via email and I have duplicated it below:

To My Dear Wife,

You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you & I value you as a good wife. Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope that you will not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18 year old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel.

Please don't be upset - I shall be home before midnight.

When the man came home late that night, he found the following letter on the dining room table:

My Dear Husband,

I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about my being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. As you know, I am a Math teacher at our local college. I would like to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the Marriott Hotel with Michael, one of my students, who is also on the tennis team. He is young, virile, and like your secretary, is 18 years old. As a successful businessman who has an excellent knowledge of Math, you will understand although it may appear that we are in the same situation, there is one mathematical difference: 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18.

Therefore, I will not be home until sometime tomorrow!

I've thought about making this comparison for quite some time but never got around to it. Tech Paladin does the topic justice.

Via an email from Kevin I receive a this link about a couple of books. One book is about a couple that attempts to have sex for 100 consecutive days and another that attempts to go for 365 days straight. While interesting I'm disappointed they didn't succeed in their efforts and they basically gave up after they past their goal lines:

Today, the Browns report they have sex approximately six times a month, or double their frequency before their adventure. The Mullers decline to discuss their habits, except to say that they fall well within the national average. And, Brad said, the sex is better. “It made it much easier to be open to the idea, more spontaneous,” he said, “So you don’t go back to that always gaming for it and always trying to get out of it.”

Wimps.

A friend of mine claims it's a rare day when he didn't have sex once in the morning and once at night with his various girl friends, as they came and went, and now with his wife.

Barb and I are somewhat restricted by our distance from each other but still, on a monthly basis, we easily surpass the Browns and probably the Mullers.

Dr. Joe wonders if they are getting sufficient treatments to even maintain their present health. I would recommend at least doubling the dosage.

I don't have a T.V. in my Seattle area bunker so the only shows I watch are DVD sci-fi stuff with James (we just started the third season of Farscape).

With Barb I watch DVDs/on-line stuff like:

• Bones She is extremely smart, likes guns, and is hyper-rational--where was Temperance when I was a freshman in college and looking for a mate?
• Columbo He's like a puppy dog wagging his tail and digging holes in the yard--but what the murders don't know is that he's placing land mines (from the episode "How to Dial a Murder").
• Medium Just accept the premise and enjoy the show.

Barb and I might have to add Swingtown to our list of things to watch while in bed (together).

The following review came to me from someone who picked it up from a email list they subscribe to. This was in response to a comment where someone said they had never been to a party that they didn't know what was going on before they arrived.

I thought it did a pretty fair job of portraying reality without being hostile to swingers. The biggest thing I noticed was that, as with nearly all Hollywood, the time scale was sped up dramatically. From the time a newbie couple was told by people they had just met they were swingers until they decided to participate there would be a lot more time and talking involved rather than just a few glances and walking off to the back bedroom with the experienced couple.

I do know of a case where a couple had monthly parties and the next door neighbors asked why they were never invited. The hosting couple told them to just show up next time--without telling them the nature of the party. The neighbors did show up, figured things out after a half hour or so and left--never to ask about attending again. So, I know it does happen.

The bottom line is I think the writers know a lot about swinging. I think they either have been involved or did a lot of research with people who are or have been involved. I think in order to make the show interesting they will, of necessity, have to introduce stress of some sort into the characters and situations. In the pilot they introduced characters who will enable them to do that. The reality of swinging is not the utopia we would like it to be (neither is monogamy or anything else). The writers of the show will have to exaggerate reality some and create conflicts to make things interesting. I believe it's possible they can do this without making swingers out to be immoral perverts and I think they have made a good first step toward that goal. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

Man catches girlfriend's sex romp on mobile call:

The court was told that the girl named Toni Milton sat on her cell phone by mistake while having sex with her old flame, and thereby unknowingly dialled the number of Neil O’Brien.

She came to know about the blunder only when she heard the muffled sounds of O’Brien.

Not knowing who was on the other side, she said “Hello”, and heard O’Brien shouting in rage.

"I take it we’re finished, then?" British tabloid The Sun quoted O’Brien as shouting.

Angered by what his girlfriend had done, O’Brien drove 15 miles to her home, beat her up in her bedroom and smashed up her possessions.

Just wait until your cell phone GPS can be queried remotely and without your permission.

While at the NRA Convention there were numerous times when someone say, "I once made about post about that." Most of the time others would say, "Yeah! I remember that." Occasionally someone would say, "I must have missed that. Could you bring me up to speed?"

This is for those times when people missed one of my posts.

For Kevin, Sebastian, and Bitter on Sunday night when we were talking about powdered sugar and coffee creamer in regards to A Security Theater. Check out the video link.

Photo below by Rob Allen (see this post of his for more pictures from Friday evening) which was taken within a few minutes of the discussion:

Left front and going clockwise: Jeff, Kevin, Joe, Say Uncle.

We were talking about endangered species and I mentioned the post I made about Habitat destruction leads to extinction. That got a laugh. But then we nearly fell out of our booth laughing as Kevin described it as deforestation.

Update: Late last Friday, the night we are not to blog about, someone who shall remain nameless mentioned a problem with insomnia. This same someone at a different time acknowledged reading about Dr. Joe's cure for everything. But they apparently didn't make the connection that their insomnia was a prime candidate for a treatment with Dr. Joe's cure. I was tempted to make the connection for them but thought it would be inappropriate "to go there" in the given circumstances.

Via Scott K. we have this research confirming Dr. Joe's cure for everything:

Researchers from the Cancer Council of Victoria found that men who masturbated more than five times each week were one-third less likely to develop the cancer.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.

Al Capone
[I'm reminded of this by the apparent suicide of the "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey. How sad that a provider of a desired service is convicted of a victimless crime and ends up dead. The real criminals are those that created and enforced such a law.--Joe]

This study raises more questions than it give answers. I'm not disputing the results. In fact I have reason to believe it is accurate. But what could possibly be the clues that reveals such details about sexual intent?

Looking for love or lust? Your face gives it away Facial features tell if someone wants commitment or casual sex, study says

It’s no use being coy. If you’re looking for a fling, it might just be written all over your face.

A new study by U.K. researchers found that you can tell just by looking at someone’s face whether they’re interested in casual sex or long-term commitment. And, not surprisingly, women tend to be more attracted to the guys who look like true boyfriend material, while men are drawn to faces that seem to say “one-night stand,” found the study, published Tuesday in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

In a similar vein two different lesbian friends of mine claimed they have excellent "Gaydar". Some simple tests indicate that in fact they were able to determine sexual orientation with very little contact with the people in question. This including their laughing at me when asked if I was gay. Apparently I am so blatantly heterosexual that I couldn't fool anyone even if I wanted to.

Other experiences of mine, which would take too much time to explain, resulted in similar results.

It's not prostitution. It's nuptial gifts.

We are just animals with a more developed brain. The low level wiring isn't all that much different.

Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources:

Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males.

New research shows that even affluent college students who don't need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger, research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

The exchange of resources for sex---referred to by scientists as nuptial gifts---has occurred throughout history in many species, including humans, Kruger said. The male of the species offers protection and resources to the female and offspring in exchange for reproductive rights. For example, an arranged marriage can be considered a contract to trade resources.

However, the recent findings suggest that such behaviors are hard wired, and persist no matter how much wealth, resources or security that people obtain.

"It's remarkable to find these patterns in the students in the study," Kruger said. "We have seen many examples where people do this out of necessity, but we still see these tendencies in people who are already well provided for."

I think Barb said she wanted some chores done around the house. Would that be considered an exchange of services?

I've been thinking about this for a long time and Sunday while waiting for the ferry to cross over to the island to visit Mr. Completely and Keewee I made my decision. The event that confirmed everything was the dog sniffing for explosives around the vehicles waiting for the ferry:

There were two things that really struck me about this. 1) The dog didn't take any particular interest in my car even though I had been making explosives and driving that car just a week earlier. No special precautions on cleanliness and the dog didn't hit on us. I also had several hundred rounds of ammunition in the trunk. Therefore the dog and all the WSP officers standing around are just more Security Theater. 2) Why isn't this considered an illegal search? We were on public roads doing nothing suspicious and we get searched.

After a few minutes of thought I realized the game I had been playing was over. For years I have pushing for restoring our freedom and yet we have suffered more and more infringements. There is always some "justification" for the infringement. Before 9-11 it was because of crime and recreational drug use. Now it's the threat of terrorism. Nearly all of the infringements are mere theater in regards to addressing the problems they claim to be concerned about yet they adversely affect the ordinary citizen.

With this realization I concluded I have been playing the game wrong. Therefore I have decided to change sides. From this moment forward I am on the side of Islam. Yes, I know, for the most part they are a bunch of losers. But I have my reasons:

• I think I can make a major contribution to turning their loser ways around.
  • I have thousands of pounds of explosives materials available for immediate use.
  • I have long range rifle experience and equipment.
  • I have computer security expertise.
  • I have extensive engineering experience.
• The U.S. Constitution is dead. It was killed by neglect years ago and there is no hope for its resurrection. This great hope for freedom has died and pretending otherwise is a fraud.
• If we can't have freedom then the next best thing is peace through uniformity of belief. Islam is the best hope for that.
• I'm getting older and so is Barb. Those 72 virgins for eternity are looking better and better.

I know I am handicapping myself by making this public announcement but I feel morally obligated to tell my friends and family the truth. I don't play the part of secret traitor well--I have to look at my face in the mirror each morning. As Winston Churchill once said in regards to formal declarations of war, "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

My apologies to Uncle and others who (correctly at the time) said, "I’m glad he’s one of the good guys." Things change and perhaps you should too.

When Barb left this morning she didn't know. It was just returning to work in Idaho as she does every other week after spending the last several days with me. But that was the end of a 34 year run we had. Our first date was in March of 1974. This was a picture I took of her on that date, a walk along Dworshak Lake:

It was nice but she was only a virgin once. She just can't compete with 72 virgins for eternity.

You might ask, "What are you going to do?" and that's a fair question. I figure I have at best a few months before I am caught and probably killed but I am certain I can make a significant impact in that time frame. Think for a moment about how long a city could last if all the bridges, roads, water, and electricity were cut off with the repair crews taking sniper fire from 1000 yards away. Draw a circle with a radius of 1000 yards around each of the severed connections and imagine trying to protect the crews from someone, someplace in that area. And as law enforcement is searching for me there they won't really know if I am there are not. I could be several hundred miles away getting ready to sever another city from food, water, and power. You don't need nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons to create mass destruction. By creating the appropriate circumstances you can cause the delicate fabric of society to collapse and let nature do the rest.

Ry and I have observed it's rare that a single person can kill more than 200 people before being stopped. It is my ambition to set a record in the 10s of thousands and perhaps higher. I want my name to be in the history books as a demonstration of just what one determined person can do.

Allahu Akbar!

The problem, it seems to me, is this. People are pack animals and they want -- need -- approval from the herd. So, forcing this one-size-fits-not-nearly-everyone way of life down everyone's throat is detrimental to everyone. Living a life that doesn't fit is miserable and that misery plays out in unhappy ways in people's lives.

Jenny Block
March 27, 2008
Open Relationships: What the World Already Has
[The pack animal observation applies to so many things that bug me about people. It is a huge component of the attacks on freedom. From gay rights and gun control to religious intolerance you will find this urge to conform and to enforce conformity playing a big part.--Joe]

Dr. Joe's cure for everything for over 30 years is getting more attention. The details are here, but the overview is:

1. Sex Relieves Stress
2. Sex Boosts Immunity
3. Sex Burns Calories
4. Sex Improves Cardiovascular Health
5. Sex Boosts Self-Esteem
6. Sex Improves Intimacy
7. Sex Reduces Pain
8. Sex Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
9. Sex Strengthens Pelvic Floor Muscles
10. Sex Helps You Sleep Better

I remember this sad woman that lived in the same condominium complex as Barb and I who each weekend seemed to have a different guy leaving her place in the early morning. She never seemed happy and we always figured it was self esteem problem and the pond scum she brought home didn't make the situation any better. Now some researchers have some data on women, depression, and sex. I wonder if the researchers investigated the self-esteem issue and if the "self medication" aspects of using sex for treating their depression benefited them in the long term. And of course they should also explore which, if any, was cause and which was effect. Or was it just correlation?

I sort of remember that picture being taken now--and thinking, "No one will really notice, will they?" (notice the smirk on my face). Of course I have had my hand down her shirt so often for the last 30+ years that by now Barb is almost oblivious to it.

Mr. Completely politely ignores it and tells us about the other joys of attending the Gun Blogger Rendezvous and urges you to sign up for the next one.

Dr. Joe is further validated:

LONDON: A steamy sex session in the morning can keep you in good health, say British researchers.

According to a research from Queen’s University in Belfast, a good morning session at least three times a week, decreases the risk of heart attack or stroke by half and a regular session improves circulation, thereby reducing blood pressure.

According to a study in New Scientist, a steamy session twice a week enhances IgA, an antibody that provides protection against microbes that multiply in body secretions, reports the ‘Sun’. Morning sex also helps in alleviating arthritis and migraine. It burns around 300 calories an hour that simultaneously diminishes the risk of developing diabetes.

Moreover, an American study involving 300 sexually active women whose partners did not use condoms revealed that they were less prone to depression.

Sex increases the production of testosterone that provides stronger bones and muscles thus helping to stave off osteoporosis.

A good morning session can make the hair shine and skin glow by raising the output of oestrogen and other hormones which are associated with it.

According to Yale School of Medicine researchers, having morning sex can aid in averting endometriosis, a condition where the tissue that normally lines the uterus, grows in other parts of the pelvis.

I keep wondering if disgraced New York Governer and anti-gun bigot Spitzer was aware of the book Mayflower Madam when he booked a room at this particular hotel:

As recently as this past Valentine's Day, Feb. 13, Spitzer, who officials say is identified in a federal complaint as "Client 9," arranged for a prostitute "Kristen" to meet him in Washington, D.C.

The woman met Client 9 at the Mayflower Hotel, room 871, "for her tryst," according to the complaint.

The book was a true story and a very good one. If he hasn't read it already maybe he'll have time while he is in prison.

If I were a peer reviewing this piece of work I would ask the "researcher", "Please repeat after me, 'correlation is not causation'. Again, 'correlation is not causation'. Good, keep doing that until you can remember it when you are writing your papers."

It looks to me like this guy has staked his career on something and is looking for evidence to support his hypothesis. And of course if that is all you are looking for and you ignore contradictory evidence you can probably convince yourself your hypothesis is valid.

Here is a sample of his conclusions:

Straus analyzed the results of four studies and found that spanking and other corporal punishment by parents is associated with an increased probability of three sexual problems as a teen or adult:
• Verbally and physically coercing a dating partner to have sex.
• Risky sex such as premarital sex without a condom.
• Masochistic sex such as being aroused by being spanked when having sex.

“These results, together with the results of more than 100 other studies, suggest that spanking is one of the roots of relationship violence and mental health problems. Because there is 93 percent agreement between studies that investigated harmful side effects of spanking, and because over 90 percent of U.S. parents spank toddlers, the potential benefits for prevention of sexual and relationship violence is large,” Straus says.

I haven't read all his papers so it's possible he has considered an alternate hypothesis but I could find no evidence of that in the web pages I viewed this morning. The alternate hypothesis that is just "screaming at me" is that children with behavioral problems are more likely to behavioral problems as adults. And if they have more behavioral problems as children then they are more likely to get spanked.

It sounds like something is miswired in the brain. I've talked to women that were true sex addicts and women who took drugs to reduce their sexual desire to managable levels, but this is significantly different:

PSAS, identified and named just six years ago, remains a mysterious condition that thousands of women wish they didn't have. They are constantly on the edge of orgasm regardless of time, place or circumstance. And while this situation might sound desirable, funny or just plain weird it is actually akin to being a prisoner: a nightmarish reality where a woman's body acts independently of her own desires.

ABC News spoke with four women who all experience unwanted sexual sensations. Heather Dearmon, Nancy Austin, and two women who requested anonymity (referred to as Lauren and Emily) all suffer from unintended sexual arousal.

"It's unwanted sexual sensations in your vagina," Dearmon said.

"And sex doesn't help it," Lauren said. "Orgasm doesn't relieve it, sometimes it makes it stronger. This is to me, irritating, torture."

It's a sad situation. Apparently there is an exception to Dr. Joe's cure for everything.

[H/T to Phil for pointing it out to me.]

From Florida:

The pastor of a southwest Florida church opened many eyes and ears Sunday when he said he wants married couples in the congregation to -- have sex for 30 days in a row.

Dr. Joe says, "Well, it's a start I guess."

While I applaud this ruling I can't help but be cynical:

Houston's adult bookstore backers Wednesday hailed a federal court's decision to overturn a 35-year-old state law that banned promotion or sale of sex toys. But the decision won't go into effect until the court issues its mandate in early March — long after the industry's lucrative pre-Valentine's Day season.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates the privacy protections of the 14th Amendment.

"Just as in Lawrence, the state here wants to use its law to enforce a public moral code by restricting private intimate conduct," the judges wrote in the 2-1 ruling. "This case is not about public sex. It is not about controlling commerce in sex. It is about controlling what people do in the privacy of their own homes because the state is morally opposed to a certain type of of consensual private intimate conduct."

The judges alluded to Lawrence v. Texas, a Houston case that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the state's sodomy law in 2003.

So tell me why this same reasoning doesn't result in the overturning of laws restricting recreational drugs, prostitution, gambling, and firearms? I can only conclude the judges rule however they want to rule then find a reason to justify themselves afterward.

Some people should be rented out by the minute by their cellmates to the bidder of the most cigarettes. My number one nominees at this time are these criminals. This should continue for the rest of their lives--no sleep allowed.

A woman in New York state sold a young girl to her landlord for sex to cover her overdue rent, federal authorities said.

Linda O'Connor, 46, also sold the girl to strangers twice at a hotel in 2006 and 2007, authorities said. The girl was 12 and 13 at the time of the alleged rapes.

O'Connor, who lives in the upstate New York town of Norwich, was arrested Sunday on federal charges of selling a child and other pornography counts. Assistant U.S. Attorney Miroslav Lovric said she could face up to life in prison.

O'Connor's former landlord, Dean Sacco, 49, of New Jersey, was also charged with having sex with the girl, crossing state lines to have sex with a minor and various pornography charges.

The girl told authorities that O'Connor and Sacco photographed the assaults. Now 14 and in foster care, she told police she faced homelessness and that Sacco threatened to kill her if she did not comply.

The girl told investigators Sacco had sex with her at least five times and that O'Connor took her to a hotel in December 2006 to have sex with a 40-year-old man for $150 while O'Connor watched. O'Connor later took her back to the hotel again to have sex with a second man, the girl said. After the second encounter, O'Connor took the girl Christmas shopping.

I have had a copy of Joy of Sex and More Joy of Sex since shortly after they came out. Now there is a much updated new version, The New Joy of Sex, due to come out in September. If you can't get expert personal training then reading a book is the next best thing. This will probably be one of the better books on the market.

If only I could have convinced Barb when we were in the baby making business we needed some help:

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.

Researchers from Newcastle University, in northern England, presented their findings at a medical conference at the weekend, a university spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

The IVF, or test-tube, embryos were created using DNA from one man and two women.

Both women have could carried babies that were from all three of us. However great an idea I think this is I am sure Barb will manage to find some fault with it. She is kinda funny that way.

It's nothing new to state that many men are attracted to women wearing high heels. But this is something new:

STILETTOS can be good for a woman's sex life, says a study which claims wearing them ``directly works the pleasure muscles linked to orgasm''.

Experts found the high heels toned women’s legs and strengthened pelvic muscles.

In tests, Dr Maria Cerruto, of the University of Verona, Italy, discovered that wearing a pair of ‘‘moderately high heeled shoes’’ had beneficial effects for a woman’s sex life.

‘‘Heels work the pelvic muscles and reduce the need to exercise them.

‘‘Wearing heels during daily activity may reduce the need for the pelvic floor exercises necessary to keep that part of a woman’s anatomy toned and elastic,’’ Cerruto said.

Dr. Joe also has verified methods of directly exercising the pleasure muscles linked to orgasm. Women, make an appointment to obtain the full details and avoid the well-known risks associated with high heels.

Interesting. They are making it into a chain. I wonder if they will be opening a "store" in Nevada. Not that Dr. Joe would have anything more than academic interest or maybe buying some stock.

I received the following story from an email list I subscribe to. It's just a funny story but I do sometimes wonder if this sort of thing might have contributed to our current political mess. Politicians, and the people that elected them, ignore and deliberately bend the first principles of our Constitution and even the philosophical underpinning (yes, Ayn Rand's book Philosophy: Who Needs It has made big impact on me) of how we determine true from falsity and right from wrong. Little by little the nature of our government morphs into something completely unrecognizable and unrestrained by the founding document.

A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying from copies, not the original manuscripts. So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours go by and nobody sees him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar, and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying.

He asks the old monk what's wrong, and in a choked voice comes the reply..."The word is 'celebrate.'"

Even in the simple story above it would be tough to change. All those centuries of tradition and the hundreds of collaborating volumes by "great teachers" who based their scholarly works on simple clerical errors. Who would be willing to say their greatest leaders through the ages were mistaken and totally wrong?

So, what was the fatal error or errors of our founding documents that allowed the replication errors to be introduced and never corrected? It's not as if we were actually making copies of the copies. The original documents are available and other than perhaps the question of a comma or two no one questions the integrity of copies.

I believe there is a single flaw that allowed this to happen. This fatal flaw permeates our state constitutions as well as our U.S. Constitution. That flaw is that there is no punishment for those that violate the Constitution. If a politician votes for a law, another signs the law, the judges, the police, and the prosecutors enforce the law. If it is later declared to be unconstitutional the very worst that happens to all of the people involved is they say, "Whoops." Hence there is nothing to lose for them when they engage in illegal activities. How can you expect any other outcome than what we have today? Imagine how your children, your employees, employer, your local merchants, your banker, your neighbors, etc. would behave if they could cheat, steal, lie, and injury people and the worst that would happen to them is they had to say, "Whoops, I'm sorry." That is what has happened to our governments.

I keep wondering how to restore our Constitutions (yes, I remember Jack Anderson's quote--I deal with him in that post). There needs to be some punishment for those who violated the constitution. But the same judges, prosecutors, and police who violated the constitution would be reluctant to convict themselves. One thing that might work is a separate branch of government whose sole task is to prosecute violators of the constitution. But at this point I don't think our government needs to get any bigger. I have a better plan. This plan will not only eliminate the problem of unconstitutional laws being passed and enforced it will also reduce the size of government.

Joe's Enforcement of Enumerated Powers (JEEP) would be implemented as follows:

• Whosoever shall identify a government employee who is acting under the color of law but outside constitutional boundaries shall post said transgression on a special Internet website.
• The identified government employee will have seven days to constitutionally justify their actions on the same website, correct their error, or remove themselves from government employment for life.
• If, after the seven days have elapsed, anyone who does not believe the constitutional justification or correction of the error was adequate may remove said government employee from the gene pool. This shall also apply to anyone that attempts to prevent him from said gene pool cleaning.
• After successfully cleaning the gene pool the pool cleaner(s) must identify themselves and may post information on the same website to support their actions.
• After successfully removing the pond scum from the gene pool said pool cleaner(s) will stand trial via a popular election in the jurisdiction of the government employee. Hence in the case of a city mayor being removed from the gene pool the pool cleaner(s) will be judged by the voters of the city. A U.S. Senator would require a state election. A President would require a national election.
• The criteria for finding the pool cleaner(s) not guilty of murder will be that if 10% or more of the voters, having read the web postings and tested to make sure they actually did read the postings, believe the pool cleaners had probable cause to engage in said pool cleaning the pool cleaners will be declared to have engaged in praiseworthy homicide. Note that is "Probable Cause", not "Preponderance of Evidence" or "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt".
• If the pool cleaner(s) are found NOT guilty of murder they will receive all of the material assets of the pond scum which they removed from the gene pool.
• If the pool cleaner(s) are found guilty of murder they will be punished as any other murderer.

Expect a rapid and dramatic reduction in the size of government and strict adherence to the enumerated powers.

See, that wasn't so tough was it?

Promote JEEP, it's the for the good of our children.

Xenia is our daughter who made the vagina cake, wore "Vagina Day" shirts to school, and did the Celebration of Ovulation anthology. Here is her cake:

Thanks to Tam we now have a couch I can only imagine Xenia wanting. A sample picture:

Via Dr. Laura Berman from Newsweek:

Sex is good for adults. Indulging on a regular basis—at least once a week—is even better. Research links sex (with all safer-sex precautions taken) to an astonishing array of physiological benefits, from longevity to pain relief. Many studies don't address whether the health bonus comes from the act itself or from the corresponding emotional intimacy, but the bottom line is that getting physical has some great side effects—especially for women. Here are six ways that sex boosts your health:

1. It Fights Colds and Flu. Sexual intercourse once or twice a week raises the body's level of the immune-boosting antibody immunoglobin A by a third, according to research at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania.

2. It's a Beauty Treatment. In a study at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, a panel of judges viewed participants through a one-way mirror and guessed their ages. Those who looked seven to 12 years younger than their age (labeled "superyoung") were also enjoying lots of sex—four times a week, on average. OK, maybe they were having so much fun because they looked young. But it's likely the sex was helping, researchers say. One reason is that it raises a woman's estrogen level, which helps make hair shiny and skin supple.

3. It Burns Calories. A little over four calories a minute, or the equivalent of four Hershey's kisses in a half hour of love. Think of it as part of your weekly exercise regime, and burn, baby, burn.

4. Yes, Honey, I Have a Headache. For a woman a migraine might actually be a reason for making love rather than avoiding intercourse: the increase in endorphins and corticosteroids during arousal and orgasm is analgesic.

5. It Promotes Regular Menstrual Cycles. A series of studies by behavioral endocrinologist Winnifred Cutler and colleagues at Columbia and Stanford universities found that women who have intercourse at least weekly (except during their period) cycle more regularly than abstainers or the sporadically active. (Related research found that lesbian lovemaking also smoothes out menstrual cycles.) Cutler argues that intimacy is essential, not orgasms: "Regular exposure to a loving partner has extraordinary effects on health and well-being."

6. It Can Prevent Accidents. Women use the muscles of the pelvic floor to stem the flow of urine. As they age, they need to keep these strong to avoid peeing accidentally. The same muscles are exercised during intercourse, and as with all muscle-building programs, the benefits require consistency.

Take note women, Dr. Joe makes house calls. Contact my wife Barb to make an appointment.

Via Phil and Craig C.

 I enjoy playing miniature golf, but when playing indoor golf "miniature" is going to be frowned upon. Here are the rules for Indoor Golf:

The Rules of Indoor Golf:

1. Each player shall furnish his own equipment for play, normally one club and two balls.
2. Play on course must be approved by the owner of the hole.
3. Unlike outdoor golf, the object is to get the club in the hole and keep the balls out.
4. For most effective play, the club should have a firm shaft. Course owners are permitted to check shaft stiffness before play begins.
5. Course owners reserve the right to restrict club length to avoid damage to the hole.
6. Object of the game is to take as many strokes as necessary until the owner is satisfied play is complete. Failure to do so may result in being denied permission to play again.
7. It is considered bad form to begin playing the hole immediately upon arrival. Experienced players will normally take time to admire the entire course, paying special attention to well formed mounds and bunkers.
8. Players are cautioned not to mention other courses they have played or are currently playing to the owner of the course being played. Upset owners have been known to damage a players equipment for this reason.
9. Players are encouraged to have proper rain gear, just in case.
10. Players should not assume that the course is in shape to play at all times. Players may be embarrassed if they find the course temporarily under repair. Players are advised to be extremely tactful in this situation. More advanced players will find alternate means of play when this is the case.
11. Players should assume their match has been properly scheduled particularly when playing a new course for the 1st time. Previous players have been known to become irate if they discover someone else is playing what they considered a private course.
12. The owner of the course is responsible for the pruning of any bushes, which may reduce the visibility of the hole.
13. Players are strongly advised to get the owners permission before attempting to play the back nine.
14. Slow play is encouraged, however, players should be prepared to proceed at a quicker pace at the owners request.
15. It is considered an outstanding performance, time permitting, to play the same hole several times in one match.

What I wonder is who it is that thinks they are the innocent party here:

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.

Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

"I was dumbfounded. I thought I was dreaming," the husband told the newspaper on Wednesday.

The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.

There are some very interesting questions brought up by David Levy's book, Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships (see also Programmed for love). Suppose robots get so human like they are practically indistinguishable from humans in their interactions? What if they are anatomically correct enough to have sex with without you being able to easily detect they are not human?

That's thought provoking enough but the really interesting questions are what this means to the concept of marriage fidelity as the technology is taken to the limit:

• If you have sex with such a robot is it "cheating"?
• Does it depend on whether you knew it was a robot or not?
• If it is considered cheating whether you knew it was a robot or not, then is it "cheating" when a person has sex with an "adult toy" of today?
• If it is considered cheating to have sex with the human like robot, but it's not considered cheating to have sex with an adult toy of today's technology then at what point in the sophistication of the technology does it become cheating?
• If it is not considered cheating if it was a robot then what is the basis for making that distinction? Is it just because one comes with a warranty and has parts that are dishwasher safe?
• What if certain parts of the robot are actually from human donors? How many parts need to be human before it's not considered a robot? Or how many artificial replacement parts must a human have before they are considered a robot?
• If it is not considered cheating if it was a robot, you think it is a robot at the time, what happens if you find out later it was not a robot?
• If it is not considered cheating if it was a robot, you think it is a human at the time, what happens if you find out later it was a robot?

Of course all these questions will have to be answered on a case by case basis by the humans and robots involved but my interest is in the basis of how people will make these decisions. I find it all wonderfully entertaining.

Just a few of the stories that came out this year.

Reader Rob reported this to me:

Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals.

Without these yells, male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) almost never ejaculated, scientists found.

Female monkeys often utter loud, distinctive calls before, during or after sex. Their exact function, if any, has remained heavily debated.

Counting pelvic thrusts

To investigate the purpose behind these calls, scientists at the German Primate Center in Göttingen focused on Barbary macaques for two years in a nature reserve in Gibraltar.

The researchers found that females yelled during 86 percent of all sexual encounters. When females shouted, males ejaculated 59 percent of the time.

However, when females did not holler, males ejaculated less than 2 percent of the time.

To see if yelling resulted from how vigorous the sex was, the scientists counted the number of pelvic thrusts males gave and timed when they happened.

They found when shouting occurred, thrusting increased. In other words, hollering led to more vigorous sex.

Counting monkey pelvic thrusts is admittedly "quite weird, but it's science," researcher Dana Pfefferle, a behavioral scientist and primatologist at the German Primate Center, told LiveScience. "You get used to it."

Quite promiscuous

Male and female Barbary macaques are promiscuous, often having sex with many partners. This means sperm levels can get quite drained.

The females shout when they are most fertile, so males can make the most use of their sperm.

Pfefferle noted her research suggests these calls might also make females more attractive to other males. She added these shouts might play different roles in other species.

Pfefferle and her colleagues detailed their findings online Dec. 18 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

It sounds as if they haven't done the corresponding research in humans yet. I'd like to volunteer to do that research. Now if only I had a population I could observe without disturbing the experiment.

I doubt that many teenagers will be able to convince their parents of this but it could make for some very interesting dinner time talk:

Early sex may not lead where we think it does.

Teens who start having sex at an early age may be less likely to engage in delinquent behavior in early adulthood than teens who wait until they are older to have sex, a new U.S. study finds.

The conclusion contradicts the widely held belief that early sexual activity is associated with later drug use, criminality, antisocial behavior and emotional problems.

We got a very surprising finding, particularly that early sex seems to forecast less antisocial behavior a few years later, rather than more," said lead researcher Kathryn Paige Harden, a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.

"There is a cultural assumption in the United States that if teens have sex early, it is somehow bad for their psychological health. But we actually found that teens who had sex earlier seem to have better relationships later. Now we want to find out why," she said.

"Our hypothesis as a result of this finding is that teens who become involved in intimate romantic relationships early are having sex early and more often but that those intimate relationships might later protect them from becoming involved in delinquent acts."

So many variations of such a discussion between parent and teenager are going through my mind that I couldn't possibly unscramble them.

Have "the times changed" in the last few decades? Or has this sort of thing being going on for a long, long time? If it has changed, why did it? Was it the independence of women having greater earning power? Or was it social acceptance of female sexuality? Something to do with the availability of birth control and/or good health beyond menopause? How would one design a study to answer those questions?

Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists:

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64.

They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."

Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.

Allie and Bethan -- who both declined to give their full names -- said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya's palm-fringed beaches.

[...]

"It's not love, obviously. I didn't come here looking for a husband," Bethan said over a pounding beat from the speakers.

"It's a social arrangement. I buy him a nice shirt and we go out for dinner. For as long as he stays with me he doesn't pay for anything, and I get what I want -- a good time. How is that different from a man buying a young girl dinner?"

Yeah, I know, the "hard figures are difficult to come by" phrase made me laugh too.

Probably not safe for work. Funny video of couple learning about an "alternate lifestyle".

We just had to do it.  There was no choice, really.  This had been building for a long time and finally, we made the trip (I say pilgrimage) north to the new Cabela's store in Post Falls, Idaho.  Calling the new store a mere "store" would be like, well, like calling Cabela's a mere store.  It's much more than that.  It's bigger and nicer than some whole shopping malls.  There is a space as large as our warehouse dedicated to displaying stuffed big game animals, including a moose standing in water (with live fish).  There is another fish tank as large as our two offices here combined, and the list goes on.

The parking lot is bigger than any of the several county fairgrounds lots I've seen, and they actually are building a freeway to the place (OK, it's really just a four lane road with a center lane).

While most gun dealers keep all the guns behind the counter, cabled together, this place had racks of the less expensive ones out in the isles where we could handle them.  They all have trigger locks, but are otherwise treated no different than hammers or screwdriver sets (except for the form 4473 requirement, et al).  Yes, this is Idaho, where we're not all afraid of our shadows, so this sort of thing works nicely.  The ammo section alone is much like a small market in its own right-- Row upon row of boxed ammo, out where you can open a box and actually see what you're buying.  They have several types of loading presses represented, assembled, where you can test the feel of them, and a whole isle of loading data books.

They were busy, but they had just the right amount of salespeople (available when you needed them, but they didn't get in your face, though I have to tell you guys-- you COULD have sold me the Blue Ridge flintlock I was fondling if you'd pushed it just a tad-- I was teetering).  There were signs posted in the covered entrance: Something like, "If you brought guns in for trade, check them in with a salesman.  No loaded guns, but loaded concealed carry is OK."  These are my people.

What struck me over and over was that here is a business catering to what some might call "guy stuff" (guns, hunting, fishing, camo clothing and outdoor gear of every description) and they are not relegated to a shamed, forsaken corner of society.  They are big and beautiful, they have their brand name on much of the merchandise, and they are doing very well.  That sort of puts the lie to the whole "politically correct" set of policies adopted by lesser retailers, which really only amount to surrender of principle.

Cabela's hasn’t surrendered.  The camo clothing section alone (remember the anti camo clothing movement of the Clinton years?) was larger than most whole stores.  There was the regular gun section, including hunting rifles, shotguns, eeeeevil black rifles, and the nicest selection of black powder firearms I've yet seen in one place.  Then there was the "Firearms Museum"-- a store within a store where you can purchase fine handmade shotguns, double rifles, rare and antique firearms.  I witnessed some haggling over a nice double, going for well into the five figures range.  There is an indoor audio-animatronics shooting gallery and a big-screen video shooting gallery.  I wasn’t terribly impressed, but they were there, damn it, and that is good.  The in-store restaurant served us ostrich and bison club sandwiches.  Mine was good, not spectacular, but good, and it was ostrich!

There was for sure a disproportionately high percentage of beautiful women in the place.  I don't mean the help, though that could be said of some of them too, I mean the customers.  You fellas who are being "chickified" by the NAGS out there (National Association of Gals); are you taking heed?  You know who you are; you're the pale, low-talking, fervently average, obstinately moderate men who smell like women and avoid controversy-- the ones who clam up and won't talk to me directly for fear or revealing yourselves as angry, irrational leftists.  Most “Real Men” (even some of the gay ones I know) are attracted to “guy stuff” and so are most “Real Women”.  That makes perfect sense, don’t you know.

Business people and politicians; take note also.  Quality sells, and the experience sells.  Where people stick to their principles (assuming they ever had any to which they might stick) they often succeed wonderfully, flying in the faces of the nay-sayers.  Cabela’s isn’t going to be winning friends among PETA, or among the pants shitting anti gun movement, but those people never really mattered anyway.

And yes, we bought some stuff there, and I think I know where I’m getting my first, early-American style, flintlock rifle.

Now if only Cabela’s would put in a “Tires and Lingerie” section…

We were probably a little more honest with our kids about Santa than most parents. We had to explicitly tell them to "keep the secret" from some of their cousins. Thus we avoided little unplanned revelations like this (thanks to Rob for forwarding it to me).

But our girls did somehow manage to find the contents of the top shelf in the work room with both volumes of The Kinsey Report and other books that had more photos that words. Which reminds me. I think there is still room on that shelf for this book.

Breasts are getting larger in the U.K. Stores are introducing J-cup bras for the first time.

Not that I need a bra or anything.

And I prefer women to not wear bras, or even clothes for that matter. But I thought someone might find it interesting. Some guys are into the big breast thing. Even if I were I don't think it is worth going to a repressive state like the U.K. for those sort of thrills.

Via Phil we discover there is a species that has recently been pushed to the edge of extinction in the U.S. and Europe. It has come as a bit of a surprise to officials on both continents. They are comparing it to the Giant Panda and the house sparrow:

"When the bamboo forests that the Giant Panda lives in were cut down, the bear became threatened with extinction."

...

"We learned this lesson with the house sparrow. Twenty years ago we thought, 'why bother to get one?' since they're so common," he said.

"Next thing you know, the sparrow was on the threatened species list and they're almost impossible to find in the Netherlands."

Yet despite clear evidence it's because of the reduction in their habitat I haven't seen anything in the news or heard of any proposed legislation to protect this endangered species. I can't imagine it would be difficult for the species to recover and save it for future generations. It would require some enforcement to make sure their habitat was restored but I'm sure millions of people would accept the job of habitat inspector even at minimum wage. I'll bet some people would even pay to have a job like that.

I don't know for certain but I have to wonder if the reason for avoidance of the issue is because it's primarily women that are destroying the necessary old growth vital to the survival of the species. If so, I don't want to hear how women are more caring and how the planet would be better if women were in charge. Of course women, as is typical, will probably blame it on men anyway:

Did the ‘Brazilian’ kill the pubic louse? [section P134]

The drop in pubic lice in women was around 2000 and coincided with the introduction of new trends in pubic hair removal.

Uncle asks, "But, you know, who can’t watch chicks in bikinis firing belt fed machine guns?"

Well, if you must ask... most women probably find that very offensive.

I find it (yeah, I know, I'm weird) a little annoying. Guns and nearly naked women just don't go together for me. These women don't really know what they are doing with the guns. They get so few rounds on target and so many in the dirt that I find it irritating.

I could go for some of the groupies (there are some hints of this phenomena at times) at Boomershoot to show their appreciation after the show but not as a part of it. For some reason the simultaneous combination of sex and guns just leaves me a little bit cold.

That doesn't mean I don't realize there is a fairly large segment of the male (and some female) population that finds the combination very stimulating. I just don't get it on the emotional level and I fear it hurts our cause with the majority of women.

Depending on what your definition of a robot is sex with robots is old hat. But what this guy has in mind is a taking it little bit further:

According to Netherlands University student David Levy, robots may become so human-like in the near future that people could fall in love with them, marry them, and have sex with them.

He recently completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships. He stated that “At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, but once you have a story like “I had sex with a robot and it was great!” appear in a magazine like Cosmo, I’d expect many people to jump on the bandwagon.”

Existing toys include these (not safe for work):

• http://sybian.com/ (considered by many to be the ultimate toy for women)
• http://vrinnovations.com/ (computer driven toy for men)
• http://www.adameve.com/adult-sex-toys-ch-6.aspx (variety of older technology)

. . . don't I sometimes get called a Nazi?  Yes, name-calling, in which conservatives such as myself are loathe to indulge, is a favorite tactic of the liberals.  I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me.  I don't let it bother me for one simple reason.  No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.

P. J. O'Rourke
Give War a Chance
[He has a good point. And on a more practical note you can probably end the name calling if you use this line.--Joe]

More evidence Dr. Joe's cure for everything (more sex) works.

This weekend I'll be doing Boomershoot 2008 prep and other chores but some people will be here (San Francisco--of course):

The latest adult industry "'pr0nnovations" will be on display in San Francisco this weekend at Arse Elektronika, a three-day expo featuring sex machines, brainy talks and weird performances (including the Electric Orifice Orchestra, in which "extravagantly dressed performers use live biofeedback from muscular interior walls of their bodies to create a multimedia interactive show").

Yesterday we went to the east side of the park and again saw stunning beauty. Here is but one picture of mountains and a glacier:

I also took pictures of some animals. While still in the car we were able to get amazingly close. One of them, with a little coaxing got into the car with me and I took it back to the condo where it spent the night in bed with me. I know it will never be domesticated but even if it is wild it's fun to have in the bedroom. It's the last picture below. I call her Barbara.

Men have a source of potentially life-saving stem cells between their legs:

A team of American researchers has found a way to easily identify stem cells in the testicles of adult mice that can be coaxed to turn into brain cells, muscle cells, heart cells, blood cells and even blood vessels.

One day, they say, male patients may be able to turn to their own testicles as a source of stem cells to repair an ailing heart or kidney or to fix the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.

The procedure would involve removing a small piece of testicle - about the same amount used for a biopsy.

The first question that comes to my mind is, "Can you repair the damage you did to my testicle?" They don't answer that question in the article. I presume the answer is yes, but I'd want to make sure before I authorized a major overhaul of my other body parts. I'd hate to have the rest of my body in full working order and then find they had scrapped out my testicles in the process.

Why didn't they see it coming before realizing our sex lives are our own business?

But this suggestion from the government's sisterhood also demonstrates the migration of individuals' control over their lives to the state and beyond. As more power and decisions are passed to Europe - without our consent - so politicians have to find something to busy themselves with, and what better challenge than 60 million people who fornicate, drink to excess, smoke, eat too much salty and fatty food and harbour all sorts of antisocial and criminal intent?

This is a presumption of a historic scale and arrogance which is best seen in the systems set up under Tony Blair to scrutinise every movement, communication and transaction we make. But at least we now understand the extent of the takeover. According to a YouGov poll released with Liberty's report 'Overlooked: Surveillance and Personal Privacy in Britain' last week, 60 per cent of us believe we live in a surveillance state and only one in five trusts the government to keep our personal details confidential. Unless controlled, a government of long standing is by nature leaky, incompetent and greedy for ever more power.

Although it is often true it is "better late than never" I just wonder that if in this case it is too late to avoid a disaster.

But at least they are seeing and saying the right things:

It is argued that we have the Data Protection Act and the information commissioner, but despite the latter's agitation, nothing has stopped the 500,000 interceptions of private communication each year, the total surveillance of motorways, the building of the ID card data base, the creepy children's database and expansion of the police DNA database.

The Canadian system hasn't worked perfectly, especially since 9/11, but Canadians shudder at what is happening in the UK, at the abandon with which we allow government more and more control over our lives and our futures.

A revolution of thought needs to take place. The personal information of innocent people, their digital footprints, their movements, as well as the things consenting adults get up to must not be allowed to become the property of the state or the subject of regulation by a lot of po-faced, reformed dope-smokers who can think of little but the improvement of their fellow human beings.

There may be a surprise or two here for some people, Fifteen new things to know about sex, but mostly it's old stuff or stuff you would figure out if you spent a minute thinking about it. But this, exercise unleashes a bounce bras can't handle--Breasts fly up and down a distance of up to 8 inches, was new to me:

Scurr recruited 70 women, including students and faculty from the University of Portsmouth, with bra sizes ranging from A-cup to extra-large (DD, E, FF, G, H, HH, J and JJ were included).

Each woman walked, jogged and ran while wearing different bra types. During the exercise, Scurr took biomechanical measurements, including the amount of breast movement in three directions: up-and-down, side-to-side and in-and-out.

During walking exercise, the women's breasts moved relatively the same amount in all directions. But when participants sped up to a jog or run, their breasts moved proportionally more in some directions than others: More than 50 percent of the total movement was in the up-down direction, 22 percent side-to-side and 27 percent in-and-out.

The overall pattern of the movement resembled a figure-8.

I guess I haven't been watching enough breasts under a variety of situations. I'll have to put that on my list of things to do.

Among my daily browsing fare are articles on sex research. I love the tension between the passionate subject and the dispassionate terminology and phraseology. Example:

In addition, male preference for salivary exchange could function to introduce substances such as hormones or proteins into women's mouths that may influence their mating psychology, and even make them more sexually receptive.

I hope it wasn't taxpayer money dispensed as research grants to "discover" that a French kiss might make a woman "hot"--even if does provide me with considerable reading enjoyment.

A politician has to wear a mask that hides who he is really is--to be different people to different interest groups--in order to get elected. For a lot of homosexuals, unless they choose to be open about it, they also have to wear a mask that hides who they really are. Perhaps all these gay politicians are the consequence of people who get used to wearing a mask about their sexuality--and find it very easy to then leapfrog into politics, a career that does not require, but certainly encourages equivocation, shading the truth, and flat-out lies.

None of this would matter if Craig had either been discreet, or intelligent. But he managed to fail on both counts with this stunt in Minneapolis, and made all of this relevant.

Clayton Cramer
August 29, 2007
I Just Noticed That Larry Craig's Three Kids Are All Adopted
[I disagree with a lot of Cramer opinions about gays, but I think he has it right this time.--Joe]

I HATE being shocked. I really, really, hate it. Mild shocks that some people find "interesting" or "entertaining" cause me to question their sanity. Even therapeutic use of electricity puts me in a really grumpy mood. Don't bother to remind me about having two degrees in electrical engineering. I am in control of electricity. It goes where I want it to and it does what I want it to do. It doesn't flow through any part of my body unless a doctor or therapist prescribes it.

With that background imagine the response I had when reading this report (found via DrX):

It was obvious that the couple was engaged in sexual relations when they died. The deaths apparently were related to the use of an elaborate apparatus utilizing electrical current for stimulation. A heavy metal rod measuring 22 cm in length and 2.5 cm in diameter was inserted 18 cm into the male's rectum. A small wire was attached by a rubber band leading to a Variac voltage regulator. There was a metal rod 20 cm long with a rounded tip 1 cm wide tapering to 0.75 cm in the shaft. A metal ring was attached to the exposed end and the male partner's index finger was touching it. The rod was inserted 18 cm into the female's rectum with a similar wire attached and leading to the voltage regulator. The regulator was set at 90 volts, but the dial could be turned up to 130 volts. In the room nearby were other stimulation devices, including a La Vida vibrator on a bed table and a Niagara type vibrator found under the bed. On the bed table was also noted a 1-lb. jar of lubricating cream. The couple was last seen alive more than 24 hours before. Third-degree burns were found in the rectum and vagina with perforation of the posterior vagina and anterior rectum in the female victim. In the male victim, third-degree burns were noted on the tip of the left index finger, the rectum, and the penis. The voltage regulator was plugged into a wall socket when the police arrived.

I already explained this but apparently some people didn't get the memo--Sex survey numbers don't add up, mathematicians say:

But there is just one problem, mathematicians say. It is logically impossible for the mean number of partners for men to be different from the mean for women in any given population with equal numbers of heterosexual men and women, although the mean, or mathematical average, can differ from the median, the middle point of a range. Surveys typically report the median.

Still, mathematicians should set the record straight, said David Gale, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California.

"Surveys and studies to the contrary notwithstanding, the conclusion that men have substantially more sex partners than women is not and cannot be true, for purely logical reasons," Gale said.

...

Sevgi Aral, who is associate director for science in the division of sexually transmitted disease prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there are several possible explanations, and all are probably operating.

One is that men are going outside the population to find partners, to prostitutes, for example, who are not part of the survey, or are having sex when they travel to other countries.

Another, of course, is that men exaggerate the number of partners they have and women underestimate.

Aral said she could not determine what the true number of sex partners is for men and women. "I would say that men have more partners on average," she said, "but the difference is not as big as it seems in the numbers we are looking at."

Gale is still troubled. He said invoking women who are outside the survey population cannot begin to explain a difference of 75 percent in the number of partners, as occurred in the study saying men had seven partners and women four. Something like a prostitute effect, he said, "would be negligible." The most likely explanation, by far, is that the numbers cannot be trusted.

Ronald Graham, a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, San Diego, agreed with Gale. After all, on average, men would have to have three more partners than women, raising the question of where all those extra partners might be.

It's easy to explain, there is no mystery, other studies have shown the "prostitute effect" is not negligible. Read my previous post for an example that makes it all clear. These guys are professors in California. You shouldn't expect anything but crap for brains from people like that.

Interesting. My most recent post about the TSA is getting more and more attention. Most recent is this mention in a forum:

If you really need to believe that you're safe when you get on a plane, don't read the above. If you want to realize what a bullshit fantasy "safety" through a "security" agency is, then take the red pill and click the link.

I like how he expressed that. Very nice. I remember one time not too long after 9/11 Ry was having Thanksgiving dinner with us and our extended family at my parent's place. Somehow Ry (software tester extraordinaire--finding flaws is what software testers do) and I started talking about all the vulnerabilities in our country that someone could use to cause us great damage. We were rattling things off so fast that someone had to raise their voice to get in a command to "STOP". People didn't want to know. They wanted ignorance. This is baffling to me, but whatever.

Anyway, on to what makes particular posts interesting...

Uncle and Existing Thing (via Uncle) linked to my TSA post. I was thinking Uncle would link to it when I made it. He links to almost anything of mine that is a little out of the ordinary (honest, I have only made him one offer for a free position at Boomershoot--which he hasn't acted upon. I don't think that constitutes bribery). Thinking about what makes a post interesting I made the connection to the recent career advice from Scott Adams (via Kim). I have expertise in more than one field and combining that expertise with a somewhat rare political viewpoint (pro-freedom) increases my "value". In this case it was my expertise in explosives and (computer) security.

I keep wondering if there is a way to combine all my hobbies in an interesting way. But at least for me guns, explosives, and sex just don't mix.

It's mildly interesting and somewhat amusing but I hope it wasn't funded by some government grant. As much as I'm interested in sex I don't see much point in this study. I also find it annoying that some of the reasons are duplicates; Example, #7 "I'm addicted to sex", and #9 "I am a sex addict". Probably the most interesting part of the survey was this paragraph:

Another perspective comes from the literature on sperm competition (Baker & Bellis, 1995; Shackelford, Pound, Goetz, & LaMunyon, 2005). From this perspective, a man whose partner might have been sexually unfaithful might seek sex, which functions to displace the sperm of the rival male. Or a woman might deplete the sperm of her partner, leaving few available for insemination of rival women. None of these hypothesized functions, of course, need operate through conscious psychological mechanisms.

The “nothing to hide” argument speaks to some problems, but not to others. It represents a singular and narrow way of conceiving of privacy, and it wins by excluding consideration of the other problems often raised in government surveillance and data mining programs. When engaged with directly, the “nothing to hide” argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the “nothing to hide” argument, in the end, has nothing to say.

Daniel J. Solove
“I’VE GOT NOTHING TO HIDE” AND OTHER MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF PRIVACY
George Washington University Law School
[A rather "dry" intellectual essay. Some of the better points are that government survelance changes the power balance between the individual and the politically powerful and data can be used for purposes beyond what it was orginally intended for. For example (my example, not the authors) 4473's are intended to enable finding the user of a gun associated with a crime but can also be used to confisicate firearms from everyone. But if you want a snappy answer for someone who claims they don't have anything to hide tell them to drop all their clothes, you want a picture. Then you want to know all their sex partners and from this point forward you want a live video feed of all their sexual encounters.--Joe]

There are people that want to ban sex toys in India:

Saying that the sale of sex toys in India would have "severe consequences in society", a Madhya Pradesh minister has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the issue.

Even as a condom with a vibrating ring continues to stir controversy in the state, Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya urged in a letter to Manmohan Singh that the import and sale of products like sex toys be banned.

"The Madhya Pradesh government stresses yoga shiksha (yoga education) instead of the centre's yon shiksha (sex education). There is an urgent need to rise above party lines in this matter," Vijayvargiya said.

About six months ago, HLL started to sell Crezendo - a three-condom pack with a vibrating ring - at a price of Rs.125. The Madhya Pradesh government is contemplating a ban on its sale in the state if Crezendo is proved to be a sex toy.

...

"The sale of such toys will lead to severe consequences in society. And they should be banned. But the union government is turning a Nelson's eye despite such sale taking place openly in the national capital," according to Vijayvargiya.

And it was from India we have one of the oldest books written on sex--the Kama Sutra.

I haven't seen the article yet but it's supposedly out:

Idaho Magazine--Outdoor Sports: It’s a Blast, by Barbara A. Scott.

In the spirit of full disclosure--the potential exists for some bias in the article. I've been sleeping with the author for over 30 years now. It was a long term investment and I'm hoping it paid off.

Thanks to David for bringing this to our attention. I named this plan Porn for Peace several months ago after Ry and I outlined the basics of it nearly three years ago.

That are lots of other implications for the data supplied in this posting. Think on this for a while:

Up to 70% of files exchanged between Saudi teenagers' mobile phones contain pornography, according to a study in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.

The study quoted in Arab News focussed on the phones of teenagers detained by religious police for harassing girls.

...

The men of Islam are obsessed with sex beyond even the wildest imaginings of the Western male's mind. And the obsession is far from healthy and even further from reality.

We frequently joke about men's preoccupation with sex and female body parts in the West, but our fascination with "T&A" is nothing when you consider that the Muslim world is literally consumed by female sexuality and with their fear of it. It is ironic that both Muslim men and women are under the mistaken impression that Western society is oversexualized compared to them, when in fact, it is practically impossible to be more obsessed with sexual matters than they are in Muslim communities.

Since my post on my colonoscopy last week was so popular (over 100 referrals in the last 16 hours) I thought I might bump the readership numbers still more by reposting something from UseNet from nearly 17 years ago. The details of my vasectomy:

From joe@proto.COM Wed Aug 15 11:59:07 1990
Path: proto!joe
From: joe@proto.COM (Joe Huffman)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Vasectomy
Summary: I am pleased with the results.
Message-ID: <1392@proto.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 18:59:07 GMT
References: <SCOTTP.90Aug14093250@bwdlh461.bnr.ca>
Distribution: misc
Organization: Prototronics; Sandpoint, Idaho
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In article <SCOTTP.90Aug14093250@bwdlh461.bnr.ca>, scottp@bwdlh461.bnr.ca
(Scott Pace) writes:
> I would like to hear from anyone out there who has experienced a
> vasectomy (or knows someone who has).

What do you want to know?  As a means of birth control it has been successful.
I got mine about 2 years ago and I haven't got anybody pregnant yet.

The operation was relatively painless.  The doctor and I talked about
computer programming most of the time during the surgery.  I had some
slight internal bleeding in the scrotum area that left a bruise appearing
discoloration for about a week and a half.  This is normal.  The doctor
told me to take some pain pills before the novacaine wore off, go home put
a ice pack under my shorts and go to bed for the afternoon.
I got bored in bed and keep waiting for the pain to kick in after the
novacaine wore off but it NEVER did ache or hurt.  I finally got up and
went to work on my computer in the other room.  No orgasms allowed for
one week after the surgery (one of the toughest parts of the whole thing). 
No heavy physical activity allowed either.  It was a bit tender for a week
or two but no big deal as long as the kids didn't jump on me.  A month after
the surgery it was nearly impossible to see the incision marks.  In 2 months
it was impossible.  I had to use other methods of birth control until I got a
0 sperm count.  That normally takes about 3 months.  My first count (at 3
months post surgery) was 2 dead ones.  A month later it came back 0.  So 4
months past before other methods were deemed unnecessary.

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>>>DETAILED<<< DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE FOLLOWS
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The doctor had a pre-surgery consultation and advised me of all the risks.
The ones I remember were:
1) About 1 out of 200 fail and have to be redone.
2) Some number (I forget how many) develop a nodule at the point of
blockage.  This may get as large as 3/4 of an inch in diameter.  Usually it
is painless but sometimes it must be removed with surgery.  I think I have a
very small occurance of that on my right side.
3) It should be considered permanent.  Reversal rate is about 80% but it is
much more involved, more costly, and of course less successful.

This was our GP and I asked how many he had performed, he told me about
300.  I asked about complications that he had observed.  He told me that he
had one patient that had to be redone, he had done nothing different in that
case that he was aware of.  One patient was riding his motercycle about
three days later and ending up pushing it some distance when the engine
failed and he was bedridden for a couple days afterwards.  With one
procedure the guy was more nervous than most but made it through one side
without freaking out.  The doctor put in the stich on that side and said,
"Now we'll do the OTHER side."  At which point the patient did 'freak' for
a while. 

He instructed me to shave the front of my scrotum the morning of the
surgery.  The surgery was to be at about 10:00 AM.  I went in a bit early
and they started early due to a previous patient canceling.   The nurse
(Viki, beautiful woman, but that's irrelevent, or is it?) had me take off my
pants and lay down.  She draped my stomach -> thigh area with sterile
sheets with an opening for my scrotum and penis.  She complemented me on
the shaving I had done and said she wouldn't have to do any more.  She then
scrubbed the front of my scrotum for (a timed) five minutes.  We had a nice
chat about how it had worked out for her and her husband (she was very
pleased and indicated he hadn't had any problems with it).  She draped
that area and got the doctor.  He put on latex gloves and manipulated the
vas deferens to the front of the scrotum (it is normally near the rear).
He then used a clamp to hold it place near the surface while he got the
syringe in his hand.  He warned that this would hurt for a little bit.  He
poked the needle upwards skewering the vas deference lengthwise, this HURT
until he started injecting the material.  He then pulled the needle out of
the vas deferens, but not the scrotum, and repeated in the downward
direction.  He then made an incision about 3/8 inch long vertically above
the vas deferens between the jaws of the clamp where he had made the
injection.  He cauterized a few blood vessels that were bleeding and
pulled the vas deferens out of the scrotum so that about a 1 inch section
was exposed.  I could feel some tugging on my testicles but it was not
painful.  He 'stripped' the sheath that contains blood vessels from
around the vas deferens being careful keep damage to a minimum.  When about
3/4 inches of the vas deferens was exposed he tied it off in two places
about 1/2 inch apart.  He then used a scaphel to cut a section about 1/4
inch long from between the two places that were tied off.  This section
was set aside to be set to a lab for "identification".  I asked if he had
ever had a lab report indicate he had made a mistake and he said, "No"
(then why do it?  I didn't ask, but I suspect it is insurance against
lawsuits).  He then cauterized the two ends of the vas deferens.  This was
to seal the ends (in addition to being tied off).  He then put the severed
vas back in the scrotum and put in a single stitch.

Repeat for the other side.

Through all the surgery Viki would come in and ask how things were going
and chatted with us a bit.  The doctor had a mother cat that had kittens and
Viki had picked up one of the kittens a couple weeks earlier...

They gave me some pain pills (which I only used one doseage of), some gauze,
and instructions on how to care for the incision site.  No big deal, I was
to keep it dry for 24 hours, and change the dressing if it became blood
soaked.  I had some minor external bleeding for about 1 1/2 days and had to
keep the gauze pads in place to avoid bleeding on my underwear.

From the time I walked in until I walked out it took about an hour and 45
minutes.  Actual surgery was about 50 minutes or so.

I think it was about 4 days later I went in and had the stitches removed.

Anything I left out?

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netcom!proto!joe
joe@proto.com

Xenia is polling people about their sex education. If you have a Live Journal account you can participate. Even if you don't you can still view most of the results.

Maybe it's just because I'm up way too late and tired but I thought this was funny:

If a healthy sexuality is something you desire, then you have a responsibility to know as much about yourself as possible and a responsibility to freely communicate that information with yourself and your partner. As responsible adults, we encourage you to pull your weight and masturbate.

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers

This includes such things as:

Geeks don't shock easily

Geeks have seen all the porn you can imagine and then some, priming them to be open to your sexual peccadilloes. They are not only less likely to be shocked by your exotic requests -- they might not even realize that other people think your turn-ons are exotic.

Conversely, your geek lover might be relieved that your wildest fantasy involves only two other people, five utensils and a trapeze.

Geeks know kinky people

Geeks haven't just seen a variety of positions, kinks and fetishes in blue movies. They know (or are) people who enjoy those things, so they don't dismiss entire categories of sexual interests as the sole province of a bunch of weirdos in San Francisco.

It's hard to sustain prejudice and bias against an abstract group when you develop relationships with individuals and discover they're just like you. It doesn't matter if they dress up like ponies, or refuse to conform to a societal idea of gender norms, or eat pancakes for dinner. Geek lovers know better than to try to impose their sexual preferences or standards on others -- including your friends -- and are more likely to love and let love.

Sorry-- almost 600 words here, but I think you'll like it.

My wife recently told me she might run for mayor of our small town.

Not being one to miss out on a good argument, I started strafing her with questions until I decided to try one I've been saving for a while:

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Is there anything, anything at all, in human life or endeavor that you consider to be absolutely none of government's business whatsoever?
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She had to pause and think for a bit, because (and this is the point) few people ever consider the question.  She disappointed me slightly by blurting out what I would have predicted (I bet 90% of you have already come up with the same answer): "Sex."  Then she caught herself, "Uh, between consenting adults, uh, of consenting age, uh, twenty-one."

Age of consent, 21?  That was a real surprise to me, coming from her.  No matter.  I then asked her, "You don’t favor government funding for AIDS research"?

"Uh..."

“Should government be given any role in STD statistics gathering, prevention, cures, or any such related matters?"

"Uh..."

Clearly, most people, when backed into a corner thus, will eventually admit that they do indeed believe government has some business in our sex lives, and that's even before you get to the product of sex-- children, and with that-- raising children, child custody, child support, compulsory education, sex education and family law.  (When our first baby was born, we were visited by a government case worker who interviewed us and inspected our house, clipboard in hand, to make sure we were fit to keep and raise our own child)

Again I asked: "Is there anything at all that should be entirely beyond the jurisdiction of government?"

"Yes-- private matters.  Some things are private"

"Such as..?  We go to our neighbor down the street and buy a dozen eggs each week (they keep a few chickens).  Is that a private matter?"

"Yes"

"I agree, but that $52 has to be declared to the IRS.  Now let’s say word gets around and eventually everyone in our town goes to that neighbor and buys a dozen eggs each week.  That's around 500 dozen eggs per week, or $26,000 per year in gross revenue.  Is that government's business?"

"Yes, we have to collect taxes...but we could barter for the eggs.  We can do yard work for the neighbor in return for the eggs.” (this is one of the infinite variations of; ‘other people should be taxed, sure, but we can find a way to sneak around it for ourselves without getting caught.’  This particular, instant knee-jerk reaction tells us a lot about politics all by itself).

“Sorry.  That’s a taxable transaction according to the IRS, and if barter were to be made officially non taxable, you’d see a major shift in the economy as people found ways to barter and avoid taxation.  Would you support that?”

“No.  We have to collect taxes.”

On it went.  The bottom line is; my wife's initial reaction was that, certainly, there are many things that are properly none of government's business.  However, she would eventually say that each aspect of our lives, once I questioned her further, is actually government’s business in some way.

I ask you to consider the question, in this age wherein we have fallen to discussing (seriously, even) a ban on light bulbs, in this the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave:  Can you name anything at all within the realm of human activity that in your opinion should be absolutely none of any government’s business whatsoever?

It could have been a lot worse. I expected they would spend at least some time in jail. But they didn't. I think it's a fair sentence. Being that stupid is generally it's own punishment.

I originally posted about these guys here.

No, this is not about following up on Captain Kirk's example of sex with green alien women--although I can see that having an exotic appeal.

Tree Hugger magazine (yes, the magazine actually exists) is advocating green sex. Check these articles out:

• How to Green Your Sex Life
• How To Buy A Green Sex Toy
• Sustainable Sex Toys: Just in Time for Valentine’s Day!
• How to Buy Green Lube

I can see how the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle" needs some modification in dealing with condoms. And I don't have any problem with the advice to shower with a friend but they are also advocating turning off the lights. What!!!??? How are we going to see anything on the video tape afterward?

Ms. Dewey has been reported on before but I decided to test out how she handled the topic of guns. I did repeated searches for "gun" and I was rather pleased in how she handled it. Plenty of snark without being anti-rights.

Similar satisfactory results came with searches for:

• keep and bear arms
• 2nd Amendment
• gun control
• Violence Policy Center
• Million Mom March
• Brady Campaign the Prevent Gun Violence
• explosives

Of course I expect lonely geeks will spend lots of time asking her sexual questions. I'm happy to report I spent less than an hour doing that.

Gay marriage may take some time to make it to all 50 states but just like the concealed carry of firearm reforms that swept the nation in the past decade we are now seeing gay marriage start a relentless march. New Jersey has now decided that the gay cooties (thanks to Say Uncle for turning me on to that phrase) aren't all that big of a concern. See also my other posts on this topic:

• I've been wondering when someone would make this point
• The consequences of gay marriage
• This is going to make their heads spin
• Gay marriage in Washington State
• Gay marriage lawsuit in Iowa
• Gay marriage in California
• California Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
• Gay marriage is spreading
• Looking back at my predictions
• Gay marriages in MA
• Bush calls for Constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage
• Gay marriage and the disintegration of the Democrat party
• Gay marriage in MA is inevitable

I'm reminded of a quote pointed out to me by Kevin Baker:

Basically, I figure guns are like gays: They seem a lot more sinister and threatening until you get to know a few; and once you have one in the house, you can get downright defensive about them.

Teresa Neilson Hayden

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

Larry Flynt
[In some ways I'm envious.--Joe]

Last week, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld Alabama's 1998 sex law. The court said states have a "legitimate rational basis" for making rules to preserve public morality.

That law bans nude dancing, limits where strip clubs and X-rated theaters can go, and bans the sale of any device whose main purpose is to stimulate human genitals.

Hmmm. Does that make Viagra a sex toy?

Lee Roop
February 18, 2007
I call a cease-fire in the war on sex toys
Huntsville Times
[I'm reminded of a conversation I had with Barb and Xenia yesterday. Xenia told us of one of the Moscow Idaho high school teachers commented to her about her older brother James and discussions in government class. Paraphrasing, "Sometimes he was ultra conservative. Sometimes he would take a completely liberal position. You just never knew." As I told Barb and Xenia, "Some people are very confused by freedom." And I could have added that most people don't want freedom. I wonder how well the folks in Alabama would get along with Xenia when she posts about celebrating Vagina Day. It's probably a good thing I didn't take her to Space Camp in Huntsville during the middle of February.--Joe]

I always regarded it as sort of personal quirk without need of a "fixing" but I found it very "deflating", shall we say, to have one of the kids knock on the door while my wife and I are engaged in certain intimate activities let along for them to actually be in the room. That personal quirk aside, I never understood why some people would regard it as child abuse or endangering of a child's welfare for them to see such activity. After all, animals engage in that sort of activity in front of their young without apparent harm. And what about very primitive human societies without doors that can be locked? Do those children, or animals, that see those sort of activities suffer some sort of harm? I think we can safely predict the results of those studies before someone spends X million dollars of government grant money on the topic.

However such a study might help out this couple who I believe should be convicted of committing an act of stupidity not neglect:

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Woonsocket mother and her boyfriend are headed to trial on charges they had intercourse in front of the woman's 9-year-old daughter as a way to teach the girl about sex.

Rebecca Arnold, of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, have pleaded not guilty to felony child-neglect charges. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for next month.

When questioned by an investigator from the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had sex "all the time" in front of the child and that "we don't believe in hiding anything."

He said the girl would often be on the bed watching as the couple had sex. Though they did not ask her to leave, they also did not force her to remain on the bed, Prata said.

I have to admit I have a rather small sample compared to theirs but from my research this study is way off the mark:

On average, most women say they would have no problem abandoning sex for over a year if it meant they could get their hands on a new wardrobe. Two percent of the 1,000 women in 10 cities surveyed were ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds.

When asked whether giving up sex for a month would be worse than losing a loved piece of clothing, 61 percent said they’d rather give up getting down and dirty. 48 percent, taking part in the survey by consumer products giant Unilever said their favorite article of clothing was more reliable than their man in giving them confidence and making them feel sexy.

"Some people say clothes make the man, but the right clothes can even replace him," fashion designer, stylist and TV personality Carson Kressley from the reality TV show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" said in a statement accompanying the poll.

Same-sex marriage supporters introduce measure requiring heterosexual couples to have children. If you are going to insist that the purpose of marriage is the rearing of children then to be consistent you should be opposed to marriage between heterosexual couples that are unable or have no plans to have children.

Some people had that one coming.

And these are women who deliberately seek out this mutilation:

WEALTHY Australian women are jetting to Los Angeles for the hot new trend in plastic surgery — genital "rejuvenation".

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The doctor said surgery on the female genitals, which can include reshaping the outer genitals (labiaplasty), became the hottest trend in plastic surgery in 2006 in response to the popularity of Brazilian-style waxing.

"The extra skin women could hide before is now totally visible," he said.

Interesting stuff. And not just because of the sexual aspects:

WASHINGTON: When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn't just get mad. He got a lawyer.

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If the case goes to trial, its outcome will be important both to bloggers and to people who chronicle their lives on sites such as MySpace.

Dr. Joe's cure for everything, more sex, works for a lot of things but I have my doubts about this:

WHO?
All Men and Women, you and everyone you know.

WHERE?
Everywhere in the world, but especially in countries with weapons of mass destruction.

WHEN?
Solstice Day -- Friday, December 22nd, at the time of your choosing, in the place of your choosing and with as much privacy as you chose.

WHY?
To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through the input of the largest possible surge of human energy, a Synchronized Global Orgasm.

I'm fine with most of it but I think someone needs to take some physics classes because their understanding of energy and fields is more than a little wacked.

I'll particpate and encourage Barb to help out because it can't do any harm and it was on my list of things to do anyway but these people are nuts.

Now they are taxing sex. It's an extension of the "pleasure tax":

The sex levy is part of the "pleasure tax," which originally placed a duty on casinos and arcades and was later extended to include brothels, massage parlors and table-dancing clubs.

Okay. So it's only on the business sex. But they also pay other taxes:

The city's finance department was not able to say how many prostitutes worked in the city as individual tax numbers could be registered to entire brothels. Prostitution is legal in Germany, where sex workers also have to pay income and value-added taxes.

Value-added tax? I"m going to have to think about that one for a while...

I've been saying it for over 30 years and now celebrities are endorsing it:

Hollywood beauty Cameron Diaz thinks that sex is the remedy for all the world's ills.

The actress, who is dating pop singer Justin Timberlake finds lovemaking so therapeutic she believes it could be used as a cure for practically everything.

"Sex is the most amazing stress reliever. I actually think it's the best thing for everything! I think it should be 100 per cent part of everyone's life on a day-to-day basis. We'd all be a lot happier!" she was quoted by Hollywood Ragaas as saying.

I've heard New Zealand was a great place to visit and live. I was told it was because how beautiful it is. Now I find out they were holding back on me:

NEW Zealand's prowess may lag that of Australia in most sporting pursuits but condom-maker Durex says it chose Kiwis to test its products because they are sexual champs.

Durex said New Zealanders were chosen to test-pilot their wares because they were among the most sexually active and adventurous in the world.

"Kiwis have proven they're a sexually energetic bunch, and therefore it makes sense that a select few will have the chance to try our latest condom innovation, all in the name of research,'' Durex NZ manager Victoria Potter said.

This may also explain why Mr. Completely married Kiwi.

I don't need to modify much. Just a little. I already eat lots of cashews and granola. I just need to up the foods high in Omega-3 fatty acids. Here are the detail:

Like many aspects of health, our sex drive is affected by what we put into our bodies. Certain foods affect the body in different ways. Depending on what you consume, wining and dining a date can induce more sleep than romance.

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To really get your blood going, consider circulation-enhancing dishes. Food that's high in Omega-3 fatty acids such as mackerel, salmon and wild salmon are best. "Omega-3 makes your nervous system function better," says Dr. Barbara Bartlik, assistant professor of psychiatry and sex therapist with the Human Sexuality Program at Weill Cornell Medical Center. "Sex is really about circuitry."

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Improved circulation results in greater erectile response. To accomplish that, go for food rich in L-Arginine, such as granola, oatmeal, peanuts, cashews, walnuts, dairy, green vegetables, root vegetables, garlic, ginseng, soybeans, chickpeas and seeds. Studies show that L-Arginine is helpful for improving sexual function in men.

How very odd for a couple of reasons. 1) I didn't realize petrol (it's from a UK paper) and Drano would cause an exothermic reaction. And 2) What in the world was going on in this woman's mind? Did she think the men would be so stupid as to try to use the condoms?

An ex-strip club worker has been sentenced after she admitted sending condoms filled with explosives in the mail.

49-year-old Kimberly Lynn Dasilva pleaded guilty to the charges of sending threatening letters and flammable material through the post.

The 'flammable materials' included condoms filled with a mixture of petrol and the Drâno drain cleaner – a combination that can cause an explosion.

Her targets included strip clubs where she had previously worked, as well as a television station and a radio station. She claimed that she was fed up with being mistreated by men.

The incident occurred in Boston and there were several domestic papers that carried the article but it was only in the UK that they mentioned the materials used. The other articles I found were:

• Courant
• ABC
• Forbes
• The Mercury News
• ChinaDaily

Now if they came in large enough sizes and detonated from rifle fire I might order a few from Ms. Dasilva.

Samantha has a list of excuses for missing work. Pretty good stuff. Adding my favorites to the list:

• Sixty Minutes wants to interview me about my working conditions.
• The voices in my head told me today was a good day to stay home and clean my guns.
• I was up all night reloading ammunition.
• I was on America's Most Wanted last night and I need to stay low for a while.
• My house is surrounded by a SWAT team.
• The ATF wants to see my explosives magazine (I always use vacation days, not sick days).
• A hundred people with guns from all over the world are showing up expecting me to give them explosives to shoot at and I don't want to disappoint them.
• My wife is out of town so my girlfriend and her twin sister are spending the day in bed with me.

In case you didn't know, I've never used the first five--I just thought they went well together and were sort of on topic with my interests.

I've never used the last one either. My social director (Barb) hasn't been able to make the arrangements even though, for the last 30 years, she keeps saying, "Sure. I'll work on that this weekend."

I wouldn't normally mention this sort of thing on my blog. I'm not into bathroom humor, like some people I know. And this video is nearly ten minutes long which is way too long for most blog readers. But the police marksman and the total breakdown of civil society make it good enough to warrant my mention. Via Samantha.

This "male pill" works by preventing ejaculation without inhibiting orgasm. For some people that would eliminate a lot of the fun but for others it would be most welcome.

Also "useful" is that it can be taken as a "one of" a short time before its effects are needed and normal function returns a few hours later:

A male contraceptive pill, which can be taken as a one-off dose just before a date without any side effects, is being developed by British scientists.

The tablet would prevent a man from being able to impregnate a woman by creating a “dry orgasm”. But the user’s fertility would return to normal within a few hours of taking the drug.

The pill, which was derived from drugs used to treat schizophrenia, prevents ejaculation but does not affect the intensity of the orgasm.

Very interesting.

I got an email from Babeland this evening. They have some toys they are pushing as gift ideas:

Spoil someone rotten with the look, feel, and total body indulgence of our top-of-the-line sex toys. These opulent items combine the latest technologies, premium craftmanship, and deluxe materials to create toys that are as decadent as they are delightful.

They have some interesting stuff available including programable ("as easy as sorting your music on iTunes"), 24K gold, stainless steel, and chrome toys. I will include just the paragraph titles to avoid pushing this blog too much past the PG-13 rating.

• For the Connoisseur
• For the Technophile
• For the Fashionista
• For the Adventurer
• For the Minimalist
• For the Sensualist
• For the Bootie Queen
• For the Realist (her)
• For the Insatiable
• For the Sophisticate
• For the Aesthete

I couldn't find any gPod's there however.

As I suggested the other day Phil now has some tunage for your gPod. He doesn't keep these files up for very long because of the disk space requirements and potential for using up a lot more bandwidth. If you read his post late you can still enjoy his selection by buying a copy of the CD here -- tracks six and nine.

Apple doesn't like it but a small Japanese company has a innovative new product that is designed to be attached to your iPod--for women only:

Ichiro Kameda, the president of a tiny, two-man company in Osaka, is currently embroiled in a bitter battle with computer maker Apple.

"Putting it simply, the fight is all over what I call our beat generator. There's a small device with three different, sound-activated motors. It's a revolutionary invention. You can plug it in to iPods or mobile phones. It can also be programmed to operate only for certain voices," Kameda says, referring to his company's product.

Kameda's commercial pride and joy is actually a women's sex aid worn inside her most intimate orifices and buzzing her with good vibrations when set off by sound.

Though the Japanese Patent Agency gave him the right to use the devise (sic) in August last year, and the trademark he chose for the product was approved two months later, he still hasn't been able to sell. The problem? He called the product the gPod, presumably after the G-Spot and jii, the Japanese word for masturbation. Kameda has since found out his choice of product name was like, well, taking a bite out of a rotten apple.

I wonder if Phil has some appropriate tunage...

After 30 years of being married I think I can safely say that Neal Bootz is pretty close to right. Except maybe about the food part.

I uploaded a several videos to Soapbox on MSN. They, not to mention Barb, won't allow me to upload videos of my sex hobby activities. So I did the next best thing:

Video: Kim's Project Fireball Test
After breaking up with her boyfriend this is Kim's first smile in a week. Fireballs will do that to you.

Video: Titanium Powder Works
One of our first successful fireball tests.

Video: Boomershoot Project Fireball Test

Video: Rocks Versus Explosives
My brothers had two big rocks in a field they couldn't get out with either the backhoe or the dozer. Ten pounds of explosives took care of the first one. Twenty for the second.

Video: Fairly Well
This is the first ever successful detonation of the explosive mixture to be used in Boomershoot. After two years of failures I was "enthusiastic" about the results.

Video: Exploding Guitar
It was a cheap guitar. Lyle can explain further. It was his guitar and he fired the bullet that detonated it.

Video: Pumpkin Popping
Aluminium powder gave it a bright flash. Flour gave it the white cloud of dust. It was hoped the aluminium would ignite the flour but it didn't work out.

I should ask our Chinese friend if this is some sort of cultural thing. Maybe something was lost in the translation because this makes no sense to me:

China has a totally different attitude towards sex from many countries. We should not only promote a bold, open attitude, as in Western countries, but also preserve healthy, traditional views on sex," said Duan.

This appears to be a direct contradiction unless he is saying both (and I would presume all) behaviors are acceptable. But don't doesn't quite fit with the rest of the context:

BEIJING, Nov. 6 -- Once regarded as "bold and open," Li Yinhe's views on sex, particularly topics such as "wife-swapping," got a frosty reception from experts at the fourth Guangzhou Sex Culture Expo.

Addressing last year's festival, Li, widely acclaimed as China's foremost female sociologist on sex issues, said wife swapping was a normal kind of entertainment and all couples should have the right to do it if they wanted to.

However, this year scholars and experts at a forum held in conjunction with the ongoing expo rejected her easy-going views.

"Wife swapping should not be promoted to the public as it will lead to the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases," said Zhang Feng, director of the Guangdong Provincial Population and Family Planning Committee.

Zhang added that neither the sex forum nor the expo should provide a platform for advertising bold and "unacceptable" views to the public.

Many thanks to Say Uncle for the pointer.

Overview for the laymen is here.

More porn means less rape.  Porn is implied. The actual variable is Internet access.

Violent movies reduce violent crime.

Previous studies measured aggression in the laboratory but not what happens in the real world. These researchers seem to have found ways to get the data from the real world. Bravo for them. I'm skeptical but only because it's what I want to believe. It reduces the justification for interference with the free market. Let's see if other researchers can duplicate and/or confirm their work. I'll be doing my part--especially with the porn.

More research on one of my favorite hobbies:

LONDON — People aren't losing their virginity at younger ages, married people have the most sex, and promiscuity has no firm link to sexually transmitted diseases, according to the first comprehensive study of sexual behaviour.

The British study was published Wednesday as part of a series on sexual and reproductive health by the British medical journal The Lancet.

Experts say the findings, which go against many stereotypes of sexual health and behaviour, will be useful not only in dispelling popular myths about sex, but in shaping policies that will help improve sexual health across the world.

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We did have some of our preconceptions dashed,” she said, explaining they had expected to find the most promiscuous behaviour in regions like Africa with the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases. That was not the case, as multiple partners were more commonly reported in industrialized countries where the incidence of such diseases was relatively low.

“There's a misperception that there's a great deal of promiscuity in Africa, which is one of the potential reasons for HIV/AIDS spreading so rapidly,” said Dr. Paul van Look, director of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization, who was not connected to the study. “But that view is not supported by the evidence.”

Prof. Wellings says the results imply promiscuity may be less important than factors such as poverty and education — especially in the encouragement of condom use — in the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

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The study also found that contrary to popular belief, sexual activity is not starting earlier. Nearly everywhere, men and women have their first sexual experiences in their late teens — from 15 to 19 years old — with generally younger ages for women than for men, especially in developing countries. That is no younger than 10 years ago.

Still, there are considerable variations across countries. In the United Kingdom, for example, men and women tend to lose their virginity at ages 16½ and 17½ respectively. In comparison, men and women in Indonesia waited until they were 24½ and 18½ respectively.

I remember when "The Pill", as it is called, came out in the 60's. It changed a lot of things. I doubt the male version will have as big of effect but it's still interesting:

Men concerned about contraception may soon be able to use the male equivalent of the Pill, without the potential side-effects of a drug based on altering the balance of sex hormones.

Scientists have developed a chemical contraceptive that temporarily blocks the development of sperm but does not interfere with testosterone levels.

Trials on laboratory animals have shown that the contraceptive effect is reversible and that there are no apparent long-term side-effects. Human trials of the new male contraceptive could begin within the next few years.

The biggest change I predict will be the child support issues that arise when the man thinks his female sex partner is using some sort of birth control when in fact she was careless or even deliberately not using something. The man now has a means to protect himself from unwanted pregnancies of that sort while still preserving his options for a child at a later date.

http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/2006/10/dove_evolution.html

Highly recommended for men.

I can't seem to find which blog pointed me to this video. Sorry. When I figure it out I'll give them credit.

For at least the last 30 years Dr. Joe has been push his cure for everything--More sex. And now a survey from the U.K. reveals 70% of people 65 years old and older regret not following his advice:

The generational study questioned 1500 Britons over 65 and the same number aged between 20-29 and asked them their top 10 wishes if they could turn back the clock.

70 per cent of the pensioners said they wished they'd had more sex, with 57 percent regretting they had not travelled more.

Don't be ready to retire and let me have the chance to say, "I told you so!"

And although I don't talk about it much here Barb will back me up saying that our second most favorite activity together is to travel. We're going to keep those regrets off the top of our lists.

And speaking of regrets, here's a quote for you:

The follies which a man regret most in his life are those that he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

Another book is about to come out telling you what Dr. Joe has been telling you. And that is Dr. Joe's cure for everything (more sex) helps you live a long life. It also helps you stay lean.

'Sex Diet' Claims Lust Can Make You Lean

According to an upcoming book — and celebrities like Angelina Jolie and George Clooney's former model-girlfriend Lisa Snowdon — the key to controlling weight is simple: Have more sex!

"A steamy sex life could be the best diet you've ever tried," said author Kerry McCloskey, whose book, "The Ultimate Sex Diet: The Secret Formula for a Slimmer, Healthier, More Passionate Life," will be in bookstores early next year.

...

But a strenuous sex life doesn't only help you lose weight. Other health benefits include a longer life span, reduced depression, an improved immune system and a stronger heart.

Spending quality time in the sack can also make you look better — a 1999 study by Dr. David Weeks at Scotland's Royal Edinburgh Hospital found that an active sex life can make you look up to seven years younger.

...

"Life is short, so enjoy the ride," McCloskey says in her book, "especially the free one that your partner gives you!"

They say $32K was too much for playing around on second base. But they don't say what they think a fair price would be.

I think they should just let the open market decide.

Both links are via Raymond.

I think the law is silly, but I am inclined to agree that the State of Texas probably is within it's enumerated powers to pass and enforce such a silly law:

The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a Texas law making it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is unconstitutional.

An adult bookstore employee in El Paso, Texas, sued the state after his arrest for showing two undercover officers a device shaped like a penis and telling the female officer the device would arouse and gratify her.

The employee, Ignacio Sergio Acosta, says a Texas law outlawing the manufacture, marketing or dissemination of an “obscene device” including those shaped like sex organs is unconstitutional because it prevents individuals from using such devices, violating their right to sexual privacy.

I would be inclined to ridicule every man involved in this from the legislators that voted for it, the police enforcing the law, to the prosecutors presenting the case. It would go something like this, "So, are you afraid your wife won't be interested in you anymore once she gets one of these? Perhaps you should get some lessons on how to be a better lover rather than trying to prevent her from getting a little satisfaction."

At first glance at the newspaper version I was only surprised by one statistic; "one in five men had homosexual experiences". That seems a little bit high but it would depend on the exact question asked. Other bits of information include:

"Materials in our archive range from holiday makers enjoying themselves on the beach at Blackpool to the experiences of the Second World War when many people, fearing they may not survive the war, were more sexually active," she said.

Despite the taboos of the time, the 1949 sex survey, originally meant for national newspapers but never published due to its content, found one in five men had homosexual experiences and a quarter admitted to having sex with prostitutes. One in five women confessed to extra-marital affairs.

Alan Crosby, a historian at Liverpool University, said the archives also show how attitudes to sex crimes have changed.

"Sexual offences in the past were recognized as serious crimes, just as they are today," he said, but the punishment system was very different.

Documents detail how a man convicted of a sex crime in northern English town in 1630 was punished by being paraded through the streets and humiliated in front of fellow citizens.

I've had numerous women tell me I have a nice butt and once had a strange woman give it a squeeze but today was the first time I had a man tell me that. It was more that just a little bit odd. Especially since I obviously had a loaded gun (I was about to shoot a stage in a steel match) and he didn't.

Don, thanks (I think), for the compliment but we are not going on any camping trips together.

From Britain:

A LARGE number of Britons would be prepared to give up sex if it meant they would live to be 100, according to a survey published today.

The Mori research found that 40 per cent would pass on the passion for longevity, although far more women (48 per cent) were willing to make the sacrifice than men (31 per cent).

Not that anyone is saying one could successfully make such a trade. They were just asking to see how important life is to people.

One friend of mine wrote an essay complaining about all the people that want to live a long time. His view is that these people are getting in the way of evolution and therefore life extending activities were immoral.

Still another friend told me, "I'll know I'm dead when my dick stops working."

Dr. Joe is most in agreement with this last viewpoint.

First willy swap is lopped off:

AN accident victim who became the first person to have a PENIS transplant has had it removed because of psychological problems.

The 44-year-old man was given the 4in manhood taken from a brain-dead patient half his age.

Surgeons in Guangzhou, China, said it had a rich blood supply and he was able to pass water through it ten days after the complex 15-hour op.

But despite the success doctors had to remove the organ after just 14 days due to “a severe psychological problem with the recipient and his wife”.

Transplant expert Prof Andrew George, of Imperial College London, said: “It’s not clear if the patient would have been able to have sex with it.”

Just so you know (from The Sun):

SEX toys could make you seriously ill, a study claims.

Research by Greenpeace Netherlands has found that 7 out of 8 sex toys contained high levels of chemicals linked to hormone and reproductive disturbances - which means they could stop women having children.

Apparently ‘phthalates’, which are used to soften plastics, accounted for between a quarter and a half of the offending items, including dildos and vibrators.

The substances do not easily biodegrade and can be dangerous - even in small amounts.

Lab rodents who were exposed to high levels of phthalates reportedly suffered damage to the liver, kidneys, lungs and developing testes.

This probably doesn't quite meet the definition of a sick joke but it's close enough for me to get a laugh.

Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside.

He looked up and said weakly: "I have something I must confess."

"There's no need to, " his wife replied.

"No," he insisted, "I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!"

"I know," she replied, "now just rest and let the poison work."

Today I got several interesting searches. These are just the top of the list:

• how long to wait before having sex after a c-section
• sex habit of nude wild african male

There were some others too but I've abused the target of those searches enough already.

Here's the details of the ones above:

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Part of due process is being able to confront your accuser(s). Apparently that isn't part of the law in some cases in the UK and this guy spent five years in jail before they figured out the accuser was a liar:

A father who served five years in jail for sexually assaulting a woman had his conviction quashed yesterday after new evidence suggested his victim was a liar who inflicted her own injuries.

Warren Blackwell, 36, embraced his wife, Tanya, outside the Court of Appeal in London, saying he would always love her for standing by him. But the ordeal made him "a very angry man indeed".

"It took the police and the justice system nine months to convict me of a crime that not only did I not commit, but a crime that never even took place," he said in a statement read by his solicitor.

And not only that she still can't be named:

"It has taken almost seven years to clear my name." The court was told that the woman, who cannot be named, had made strikingly similar claims of other sex attacks, had an ability to lie and a possible propensity to self harm.

...

Mr Justice Tugendhat said that when Parliament passed the law granting lifetime anon-ymity to complainants in sex cases it did not contemplate someone acting as she had.

"There may, in future, be another case in which she makes allegations against another man."

We have a Constitution which was designed to prevent these sort of abuses by government. It's too bad our government doesn't abide by it. But at least it gives us a clear goal in our pursuit of regaining our freedom.

This wouldn't work with me and I can't imagine it working any better with Columbian gang members:

BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept 12 (Reuters) - They are calling it the "crossed legs" strike.

Fretting over crime and violence, girlfriends and wives of gang members in the Colombian city of Pereira have called a ban on sex to persuade their menfolk to give up the gun.

First:  Thank you, Joe, for allowing me to post on your blog.  The trouble is I have this terrible habit of writing whole essays (but I did get freedom, gun rights and sex into a single issue):

Years ago I had a conversation with a man who considered himself a libertarian-- one who had been reading Ayn Rand's definitive work, "Capitalism". He persisted in trying to convince me that "state's rights" might properly involve the right to "allow" slavery if the people of that state so choose. It took some doing before I could get him to admit that just maybe, there can be no right to enslave, because such a "right" involved the blatant violation of rights.

I ran across two examples of this kind of silliness today.  One was in a discussion of self protection rights. A state "shall issue" concealed carry law, it was asserted, would take away "local discretion", or to put it another way, it would deny local governments the "right" to ban the carrying of concealed guns. In another discussion I heard of the practice of removing a girl's clitoris being described as though it were a right, or as a “traditional cultural practice” that certain peoples had a right to exercise.

In both cases, there is desire to define the protection of Liberty (the right to bear arms, or the right to keep your body parts) as “taking away local discretion” as though local “discretion” (to impose force upon individuals) is the same thing as Liberty. Lets apply that position to some other hallmarks of a free society: Nation-wide Emancipation denies "local discretion" regarding the keeping of slaves. The First Amendment takes away "local discretion" regarding the confiscation of computers and printing machines or the forced shut-down of local radio stations, and it takes away "local discretion" to ban Jews from owning land.

I guess we’re not “free” after all if we don’t have "local discretion" to ban or confiscate anything we want, or to cut various body parts off of anyone we want, so long as it gives us the sort of "Culture" we desire for "Our Community" and what about "democracy" after all? (Is anyone else reminded of Jim Jones at this point?)

Such an attitude is rooted in a fairly complete lack of principles and a total ignorance of the U.S. Constitution and history. Government's job, in the uniquely American sense, is to protect us from force and fraud, to ensure our right to life and property, and to ensure our right to peaceable, voluntary association and exchange with others.

That's it. Whether government has "local discretion" or "regional discretion", or "global discretion" to control us, rob us, allow our neighbors to cut pieces off us, or enslave us, the outcome is going to be very much the same—violation, stagnation, decay, and suffering.

Government, properly, has only responsibilities. We as individuals retain all the discretion, and we as individuals, or as collectives, do not have any "right" to initiate force or fraud upon anyone, no matter how wonderful and “Cultured” it might make us feel. Is that so terribly difficult to understand?

Alright guys. This has to rank near the top of the list of the most despicable crimes. Keep your eyes open as you go about your business and report anything suspicious.

Neighbours who believe they live next to property being used for sex slaves are being urged to help the fight against human trafficking.

A drive will also appeal for men who frequent brothels to contact the police anonymously and without fear of prosecution with concerns about women who appear to be working there against their will.

Senior officers want people to look out for women who cannot speak English, seem reticent or afraid and are not allowed out without being accompanied by a man.

The next time Barb takes me to a brothel you can be sure I'll be on the lookout.

They shouldn't be violating our 4th amendment rights to begin with so this issues should never have come up. But now it has and I have been sort of following this story. I probably wouldn't have commented on it but then he said:

Amin may not want his mother to know he has a penis pump, but he said he doesn't consider it an unusual device to own.

"It's normal," he said. "Half of America they use it."

Half of America would mean virtually all males. I don't think so. My guess it would be in the fraction of one percent range, but then Dr. Joe hasn't done accurate surveys on that particular topic.

I don't think he should be prosecuted over this since the public embarrassment would seem to be sufficient punishment. I mean, if you were so embarrassed by it that you didn't want your mother to know you had it and told security it was a bomb rather than a penis pump can you imagined the discomfort he is experiencing when the entire world can read about it and is making jokes at his expense?

Poor guy. Let that be a lesson to you. If are going to bring sex toys on the plane bring something that won't be mistaken for a weapon. The only sex toy I take on my airline flights is my spouse which no one has yet considered a weapon (no, I'm not going to go for the joke, my own "homeland security" would come down on me way too hard). But if you don't have one you might consider an anatomically correct inflatable sheep or something.

Interesting:

The study by Hamburg Sex Researcher Professor Dr Werner Habermehl looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair colour.

He said: "The sex lives of women with red hair were clearly more active than those with other hair colour, with more partners and having sex more often than the average. The research shows that the fiery redhead certainly lives up to her reputation."

He added that women who dyed their hair red from another colour were signalling they were looking for a partner, and added: "Even women in a fixed relationship are letting their partners know they are unhappy if they dye their hair red. They are saying that they are looking for something better."

It's good for causal conversation I suppose. But I'm very suspicious of the accuracy. It's almost for certain self reported:

An international survey of 40,000 men has revealed 60 per cent of Australian men have never strayed, ranking just behind the Germans and Poles at 62 per cent.

...

South Korean men are having sex more times a week than anyone else in the world, while hot-blooded Brazilian men are at it with a wider range of women.

On average, South Koreans said they were having sex at least four times a week, while Filipinos were world-beaters at masturbation, doing it almost six times a week.

Brazilians topped two categories, with 19 per cent saying they had had a threesome, which might help account for them having clocked up the most lovers, the internationally published fitness magazine said.

British men spend or claim to spend an average of 17.44 minutes on foreplay per sex session, longer than Australians (17.2 mins), Germans (16.92 mins) and Mexicans (16.91 mins).

But British men last only 18.64 minutes from foreplay to climax, far behind the Mexicans (23.17 minutes) and the Dutch (22.42 minutes).

Women might want to keep an eye out for an Italian lover 60 per cent of Italian men said they made their partner climax every time.

Now if they wanted to do a real study they need to have unbiased scientific observers. Dr. Joe is available for the right price.

It's not just the lack of guns and the high rate of violent crime over there. As I have commented before their sex lives have something to be desired too. Here is another story on that topic.

Via Samantha, a collection of computer related quotes. My favorite is this one:

1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d

Time to go back to bed. Barb is waiting for me.

Barb and I bumped into a friend today and we innocently asked "What have you been up to?". Our innocence was taken away when he said he and his girlfriend just got back from Las Vegas where they attended the Lifestyle conference. There were 3000 people there. That's a very big sex party.

He reported they both had a really good time.

Friday night I met Barb in the Tri-Cities and the next day we visited her aunt and uncle before driving back to the Seattle area to visit our Jewish friends (Randy and his new wife Kim). On the three plus hour drive alone I figured it would be appropriate to listen to some of Randy's music. So I listened to the album Slop. I found myself very pleased with the combination of technology and sex in the song Virtual Babe (WMA, 1.34 MB).

Scientists have created artificial sperm from stem cells. Similar techniques can probably be used to create artificial eggs. Hence:

..it may even prove possible to produce sperm from female stem cells, and eggs from male ones, allowing homosexual couples to have children that bear the genes of both parents.

This would also enable a single man or woman to provide both the sperm and eggs needed to create an embryo, so that a person could essentially mate with himself or herself.

This means the arguments based on "marriage is about raising children" currently used against homosexual marriage may soon fall by the wayside. I always found those arguments weak anyway. Do supporters of that argument think that a woman past child bearing age should not be allowed to marry either? Or what of a man that is sterile? My view is that if two (or more) people want to get married to each other and spend their lives together then what's the problem? Where's the victim?

I just realized that Dr. Joe's Cure for Everything is one of the viable options to winning WWIII (or IV depending...). As I have said before we must destroy their culture. One of the ways we can do that is by "corrupting" their youth and leading them away from a strict Islamic lifestyle. Hence giving their young hormonally overdosed youths a steady diet of porn could lead them to "the dark side" of western culture.

It could work! I even have a slogan for this campaign: "Porn for Peace."

I also have cameras and spare bandwidth. I'm hereby volunteering to help in this new campaign. I just need volunteer models. Send me an email with a sample photo if you want to participate. Hillary need not apply--we want to win this war, not put a bullet through our own brain.

Ry sent me a link to a video. Pretty funny stuff. Probably safe for most work environments. It's a beer ad but you wouldn't have guessed it from the first 1/2 of the video. It could be considered an exaggeration of the sexual attitude differences between men and women.

I've never been to a museum of sex (it was a bordello museum, not a sex museum). I think would probably enjoy such a visit but not if they have exhibits of Hillary. Even if you drop the title of "The First Woman President of the United States of America" this image just drains it all out of me:

The ruling has come out. No gay marriage in Washington State for the time being.

I'm all in favor of gay marriage but it needs to be approved by the majority of legislature and/or the people. The people working this issue have more foundation to lay before they can erect the institution.

Gun rights advocates can learn from this. Going to the courts to resolve your issue can backfire. If you don't win you can make things worse.

In India you can get free Yoga instruction if you want. As much as Dr. Joe advocates more sex as a cure for everything I think perhaps paying for your Yoga instruction would be the better alternative if you are considering changing your vocation just for the free instruction:

Now, sex workers throughout the country would be taught Yoga under the aegis of Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Samiti, an organization devoted to the welfare of prostitutes. Another organization - The Friends Society - has also decided to help them.

The first camp has commenced in the Shivdaspur area of Varanasi by Swamy Yogeshwaranand, a disciple of Yoga Guru Swami Ramdeo.

According to President of Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha, Yoga will help the sex workers in keeping themselves mentally and physically fit. Prolonged sex act makes them physically very tiring if a sex worker has to attend to many customers in a day.

Often sex causes vaginal pain and mental stress. Yoga would help them enjoy the act which otherwise is an act of drudgery for a sex worker.

...

According to President of the Friends Society Ashish Agarwal, yoga classes would be held in more than 1100 red light areas across India and such classes would benefit 23.85 lakh sex workers who often satiate the hunger of as many as 80 lakh customers.

Perhaps it's because I can't relate to the environment. No one in my grade school (I never went to nursery school or kindergarten) had "two dads" or "two mums". In my little school, where I was in the largest class ever with six students, there weren't even any single parents. I didn't even get a hint of what homosexuality was about until L.J. tried to explain in to me in about the fifth grade. But in any case this seems just a little off base:

Nursery teachers should promote tolerance of same-sex partnerships and outlaw the use of offensive homophobic language in the classroom or playground, a teaching union said today.

...

The NUT said: "It is particularly important to begin to make three to five-year-olds aware of the range of families that exist in the UK today". That would includes families with single parents or those with "two mums" or "two dads", the union said.

...

The guidance, which has so far been voluntary, is due to become compulsory for early years staff from next year, following the outcome of the consultation.

Is this really an issue in the lives of three to five-year-olds? It would be difficult for me to defend this against the obvious accusations and baggage of "promoting the homosexual agenda" or some such thing.

The English may have some sexual hangups but this former Socialist Scottish party leader doesn't appear to have many:

A former Scottish Socialist party member today told a jury how she had a three-in-a-bed sex session with its former leader, Tommy Sheridan MSP, and his brother-in-law.

Katrine Trolle, 31, said she first had sex with the Glasgow MSP months after his wedding in June 2000.

The Danish occupational therapist also described a visit to Cupids, a swingers' sex club in Manchester, and said Mr Sheridan had offered her a "wonder drug" at a house party later that night.

...

Ms Trolle, from Dundee, told the court that Mr Sheridan flirted with her and made remarks about how liberal Danes and Scandinavians were compared to the British.

The witness said her second sexual encounter with Mr Sheridan took place at his brother-in-law's home in Glasgow.

Asked by Michael Jones QC, representing the Sunday newspaper, who was in the house, Ms Trolle replied: "Andy (McFarlane), Tommy and myself."

Mr Jones said: "What happened?" The witness replied: "We had sex."

Mr Jones sought clarification as to what Ms Trolle meant when she used the term "we".

She replied: "All three of us."

Mr Jones asked: "Together?" Ms Trolle said: "Yes."

Earlier she described her first sexual encounter with the MSP, which she said happened at his house.

Ms Trolle said: "He offered me a glass of wine. We talked a wee bit about politics and then went upstairs to the bedroom."

Asked what happened in the bedroom, Ms Trolle said: "We had sex."

The witness also told the court it was Mr Sheridan's idea to visit the swingers club in Manchester in 2001.

She confirmed the party which left Glasgow to travel south included Mr Sheridan, his brother-in-law, journalist Anvar Khan and a man named Gary.

...

The witness said: "We went into one of the small side rooms and had sex."

Mr Jones said: "Who went into this room and had sex?"

Ms Trolle replied: "Tommy, Anvar Khan, myself and Andrew. I can't remember if Gary was there or not."

Barb knows some occupational therapists at her work. I wonder...

As in my previous post/QOTD I pointed out that English women leave the country to get some good sex. Here's more from the U.K closely related to the same topic:

WOMEN are getting a rough deal in bed — with some rating dull sex as a “household chore”.

And over a third complained of a lack of thrills from their fellas in a survey.

The poll proves women are NOT getting enough satisfaction in spite of greater sexual liberation.

A quarter of women in the 25 to 34-year-old age bracket find it difficult to get aroused.

And 45 per cent of women rarely or never make the first move for sex.

One in ten women said they have sex when they do not want it and regularly fake orgasm. And one in 20 think sex is a chore.

Meanwhile a quarter of men are snubbed for sex HALF the time by their regular partner.

Heavy sigh. So much work for Dr. Joe and I just don't have the time to do it all.

I'm not naïve. I've been around the block. I come for sex - of course the sun, but mostly the sex.

I'm not coming to live and set up house with a guy. I just want some fun and good sex.

A 42-year-old English woman
She travels at least three times a year to Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic for sun and sex.
[Those English and sex... I'm telling you they are bit on the strange side. It must be because the men in the U.K. have been neutered, in part, by the removal of their firearms. I think Dr. Joe has a lot of work to do there. Or else NRA Instructor Joe. One of the two.--Joe]

Okay. Maybe there is some evidence of global warming. But it's not as conclusive as the caption makes it out to be. And there's no evidence given that it's caused by man.

[The link is work safe.]

It turns out new research has shown Dr. Joe's cure for everything, more sex, is worth about $50K/year in terms of happiness:

English economists reckon having more sex can be as beneficial to lifelong happiness as an extra $50,000 in the pocket.

The study, done by no-sex-please-we're-British economists and titled Money, Sex and Happiness: an Empirical Study, said that increasing the frequency of sex from once a month to once a week caused the same amount of happiness as getting a $50,000-a-year pay rise.

Researched by Dartmouth College economics professor David Blanchflower, along with Warwick University's Andrew Oswald, the study took 1990s American data of about 16,000 people and generalised the results for males and females of all ages.

"The most interesting thing this study shows is that money buys happiness, but not as much as you would think," Blanchflower said in his summary.

For a limited time only (until Barb finds out) Dr. Joe is offering qualified customers a 20% discount on treatments. Send a recent picture and if you qualify I'll work you into my schedule.

I was doing my laundry this morning and chatted briefly with a young woman, 19 years old. She was on her way to do a topless car wash at a private club.

That must be an interesting club; very interesting indeed. 

She was at the club last night and had a good time but was a little overwhelmed for a bit. Because, as she said, "there were three couples on top of me at one time". She had to tell them just one couple at a time. Does she have a boyfriend? She did but he got really jealous and told her he was never going to take her to the club again. So now she just goes to the club with her mom and her moms boyfriend.

It's amazing what people will tell you if you ask the right questions.

Last night while helping James put together some of his new furniture for his apartment he asked me, "Are there any sane women out there?" I had to laugh. That's a great question. I laughed even harder when I saw this post by Heather this morning (check out the pictures at the bottom of the post).

I told James I sometimes wonder about that myself. I remember after Barb went through nearly 24 hours of labor, a C-section, having her abdomen opened up with her uterus flopped out on her stomach in a cold room while it was being flushed with saline solution, put back together, numb from the nipples down (the spinal), and was shaking from the cold so bad (and she HATES being cold) that she could barely hold James, her first born.  I was pretty wiped out from just watching it all happen and Barb could tell it was hard on me.  Through her chattering teeth she reassured me, "It will be easier next time."

NEXT TIME?

It could be the hormones or something but women are not sane. If they were it would mean the end of our species. James, you can either isolate yourself or you can try to enjoy the ride. It can be wild at times and it can be great at times but never expect sanity.

There once was a young man named Gene
who invented a screwing machine.
Concave and convex,
it served either sex,
and it played with itself in between.

Ho-hum.  This guy is worried about a "code of ethics" for robots:

THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated.

Although the nightmare vision of a Terminator world controlled by machines may seem fanciful, scientists believe the boundaries for human-robot interaction must be set now — before super-intelligent robots develop beyond our control.

“There are two levels of priority,” said Gianmarco Verruggio, a roboticist at the Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation in Genoa, northern Italy, and chief architect of the guide, to be published next month. “We have to manage the ethics of the scientists making the robots and the artificial ethics inside the robots.”

...

“Security, safety and sex are the big concerns,” said Henrik Christensen, a member of the Euron ethics group. How far should robots be allowed to influence people’s lives? How can accidents be avoided? Can deliberate harm be prevented? And what happens if robots turn out to be sexy?

...

Other dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years,” he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys?

People have been having sex with machines for decades.  I've commented on this before:

• Neal Boortz on the history of the vibrator
• Pushing the technological envelope with teledildonics
• A better mouse trap

Ethics for robots?  That's a nice thought but futile.  If a market exists it will be met.  If whether it's to wage war, perform assassinations, or brothels filled with mechanical sex machines there will be some to supply the programming to accomplish the task if there is enough money on the table for the task.  Asimov's three laws will be simply commented out in the code.

This picture was sent to me by Red.

These are not the usual sort of Darwin stories of people too stupid to live.  This is entirely different.  They people are too mentally whacked to have sex.

First this nut case from England:

Hunt, who made his fortune with his eponymous television fishing series, last month tearfully confessed to cheating on his wife in a tabloid newspaper interview and later on his radio station. Hunt said he paid up to $1000 a week for sex...

...

"But there were no regular payments. There was a sum paid, when I handed over the notes and tape - a taped conversation, little love notes, Christmas wishes, notes to help me buy a car - I was asked to hand them over, which I did," Ms Hood said.

"I was offered a sum (to end the relationship) but it wasn't $50,000."

She said she had been questioned by police and the prostitutes collective after the story broke and that the revelations had shattered her life.

However, she was happy to reveal intimate details of their mostly public encounters in which she remained clothed but he would strip naked.

"He would arrange to meet me - usually in a laneway - always somewhere public ... I believe he got off on the fact that we might get caught," she said. "I was to look him straight in the eyes and to breathe on him.

"I would tell him he was wonderful, then he would work himself into a state of excitement, shouting: 'Oh my God, you are going to kill me; you're going to give me a heart attack'. "He was affectionate, very touchy-feely leading up to this. Then he'd either, in the car or out of it, depending on how cold it was, fling off all his clothes. The more public, the greater the danger and the more exciting Rex apparently found it," Ms Hood said.

So he paid large sums of money for sex but never got around to actually having sex--he just took his clothes off.

Next we have the entire nation of Japan that is dying off because having a relationship is "tiresome":

MORE sex. That's what one expert says is needed to solve Japan's baby shortage.

"Japanese people simply aren't having sex," Dr Kunio Kitamura, director of the Japan Family Planning Association, was quoted as saying by the Japan Times, an English language daily.

An association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed 31 per cent had not had sex for more than a month "for no particular reason" – a condition known as "sexless".

"As much as subsidies and welfare programs are important, sexlessness is also a critical issue in this problem."

Japan's fertility rate – the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime – fell to an all-time low of 1.25 last year. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population from declining.

...

44 per cent of the people who said they were not having much sex felt that having a relationship with the opposite sex was "very tiresome" or "tiresome".

Their is a technical term used to describe the end point these sort of behaviors lead to--extinction.

Lyle (and I think Meredith) wanted a penis cake. Enjoy.

{Thank you Xenia for the link.}

To hell with the 72 virgins.  I don't want to be a martyr if that's the case.  Give me three good whores.

Marty Smith
June 17, 2006

Overtime has both it's advantages and disadvantages.  The increased pay is nice but the extra hours are seldom fun even if you enjoy your work.  In this case I'm sure it literally sucks:

BERLIN: Sex workers in Berlin have gone into extra time at the World Cup and are doing double shifts to cash in, a German newspaper said on Wednesday.

“Berlin’s hookers are groaning - all brothels are creaking at the seams,” mass daily Bild reported. “In some establishments the girls already have to put in double shifts owing to the World Cup,” the paper added, saying clients were virtually queuing up to get in to the host nation’s ‘Freudenhauser’ (literally, joy houses). One taxi driver was quoted as saying he had taken a fare from four would-be customers of some of the capital’s estimated 8,000 prostitutes.

“But they were turned away. The places are too full.” German police said last week there were no signs of forced prostitution being on the rise. Be that as it may, with around a million fans having come over for the month-long football showpiece and with prostitution legal in Germany, supply is clearly meeting demand. Bild quoted Josephine Conte of Berlin’s upmarket Bel Ami establishment, one of 400 “joy houses” in the city, as saying demand had gone through the roof and that her employees were having to put in “special shifts.”

She explained: “We have VIP reservations right through to the end of the tournament. Sometimes we don’t know where to put all the men!” According to ‘Joy’, a 21-year-old woman doing the morning shift with seven colleagues, “the guys come for a massage as they want to relax before the game.” But “the guests must be patient with waiting times of up to two hours,” according to Conte. It’s hard work, says another ‘Joy,’ a blonde aged 23 who says she sometimes puts in a 16-hour day, though some of that is on call after a regular shift.

“We are earning as much in one day as we normally would in a week. “But after the World Cup I’ll need a holiday.”