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May 18th , 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for May 18th, 2008, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education, and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. This upcoming week is a big one for the Booth household. On Tuesday, my wife Kris gets her MBA after 2 ½ years of a lot of hard work. And with her putting in 90 hour weeks lately, I’ll be quite glad to have my wife back. And I know she’ll relate to our Whacko of the Week feature, since it involves Phyllis Shlafly’s getting an honorary degree at Washington University, and why she is the last person on the planet they should have honored. And I really enjoyed talking with Roxy Deville on the set of This Ain’t the Munsters, the latest in the porn parodies of 60’s television series. We talk about squirting, dealing with being painted entirely green, and just exactly how you get it all off. We have our roundup of entertainment news, and in our political news, the big story is gay marriage in California. Plus we talk about  a strange rape case in Georgia, and an even stranger obscenity case in Ohio that brought down a prominent politician for doing something that most of us, myself included, do not consider illegal. Just click to the left for the topic you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

Political News

We were blessed with really big news this week. California has joined Massachusetts as the only two states with legalized gay marriage. On Thursday, California’s Supreme Court ruled that separate is not equal when it comes to marriage and domestic partnership.  My brother lives in Massachussetts, and he has a name that could be either male or female, so he and his wife get a lot of mail addressed to Mrs. And Mrs. It’s a huge deal, and while opponents are working hard to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot, I think the winds have changed. For most people in California, gay marriage is not such a big deal. And while I am no fan of Governor Arnold, I am very pleased that he announced that he will not support an attempt to change the constitution and he will abide by the court’s decision. Men and men and women and women should be able to marry each other in as soon as 30 days. It’s a big deal for my wife as well, who is bisexual, and if I died, would be just as likely to want to marry a woman as a man. And her enthusiasm over being able to legally marry a woman seemed little tempered when I pointed out that in that scenario I’d be dead.

The lights went out in Georgia, again. Or maybe more accurately, for Georgia judge Phillip Brown, the lights are on but nobody is home.  Melanie Ross broke up with a fellow college student she was dating. A month later, he allegedly drugged and raped her. After the campus police refused to investigate, she sued him. Georgia has a rape shield law, but the judge ignored it, demanding that she discuss under oath every person she ever had sex with in detail, including their names, the date, and their contact information. The judge determined that she was not raped, in part, because she was clearly no virgin and only virgins can bring cases of sexual battery in civil court. . Sure, she had a rape kit done, but the judge dismissed that because the anal lacerations and bruising can be caused by shaving (although she claims that she does not shave her anus, and in contradiction to what a medical professional testified to), and her bruises could have been caused by a bump into furniture. You know, like getting a black eye from bumping into a door. And since she was drugged and had no direct memory of the event other than being with him, blacking out, and waking up bruised, assaulted, and anally raped, that the crime was unprovable. Besides, since they’d had sex before, her claims of rape were frivolous. And it was irrelevant that there was a witness who saw him give her a drink and then drag her into his fraternity house where she later wok up. Then the judge threw out the case before trial and ordered her to pay $150,000 for court costs to her alleged attacker And of course, the judge’s insane rulings had nothing to do with the fact that the accused is the son of Ga. Republican State Rep. Burke Day, whose rich and powerful family founded the Day’s Inn. Or that the alleged assailant’s grandfather founded Mercer University, where the attack was alleged to have taken place, and his grandmother still sits on the Board of Trustees. The State Court of Appeals refused to hear her case. Now it is up to the Georgia Supreme Court.

This story is very disturbing. And it makes little sense. Cuyahoga County Ohio, Recorder Patrick O'Malley, a Democrat, was pursued by the Justice Department on a wide range of charges but the one that held the most weight were the obscenity counts, for downloading obscene materials through AOL on his own time. The charge read: “"O'Malley did knowingly use an interactive computer service for the carriage in interstate and foreign commerce of numerous obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy pictures, writings and other matters of indecent character." He pleaded guilty to the one count of obscenity and resigned, but here is the kicker- we are not talking about child pornography. This was material featuring adults. And we’re not talking about producing it, or to selling it, but  downloading it for personal use. And he could get six months in prison for it. If that is a crime, millions of Americans are guilty. I’ve read several local newspaper articles on this case and it makes not sense. I have never heard of prosecuting someone for something like this. But then again, this is the Bush Justice Department, and this guy is a Democrat, and as head of the Ohio Democratic Party, a high profile one. And we know that the Justice Department prosecutes Democrats in political cases at a much, much higher rate than they do Republicans. We’ve covered a lot of strange and disturbing cases involving sex, the Justice Department, and Democratic politicians, but this is the strangest one yet. And like the case with Don Siegelman, the former democratic Arkansas governor who was essentially railroaded into prison, I am sure there is a lot more going on here than is obvious now. Ohio is an important swing state, and Republicans are already using this as a political issue.

Entertainment

May is a very touching month. And by that, I mean that May is national masturbation month. It’s a big deal in San Francisco. The Center for Sex and Culture is celebrating with their 7th annual masturbate-a-thon on May 25th. So, get a hand in and participate.

They might as well call themselves Slutbucks. That’s according to a San Diego Christian group, who are upset about the latest update of the Starbucks logo. A spokesman for the group said of the logo on their cup: “It has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitutfamilial e” I don’t want to get into an argument about which is more expensive, Starbuck’s coffee or a prostitute, ounce for ounce I think a prostitute is probably cheaper, and both are things that technically you only rent, but in actuality the logo is based on an old 16 Century Norse woodcut of a two-tailed siren. These gals were trouble in Norse mythology, and they were seductive, just like the siren call of ridiculously priced coffee, but they definitely were not prostitutes.

In an interview to promote his new film Spread, Ashton Kircher claims that it is the closest thing to porn he has ever done. And that he likes it, and could even consider taking it up as a profession. He claims to have been inspired by the success of Jenna Jameson and all of the money she has made in the adult industry. To his benefit, he is prettier than Jenna Jameson.  

And in whose getting naked now?, we start out with Claudia Schiffer on the cover of the German edition of Vogue magazine, where she appears topless in mask. The shot is part of a photographic collection named Sex, by Mario Testino.

But we actually have a much more interesting story, even though it involves someone you never heard of. Her name is Magdalena Rouco Hernández, and she graces the cover of Spain's interviu magazine wearing only a pair of red suspenders and stockings. Inside she wears even less. What is interesting is not who she is, but who her uncle is- Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, head of Spain’s Catholic church and close friend of the Pope. She posed to expose his hypocrisy. He talks about the importance of family, but when her father died, he never even bothered to call her mother and claimed that he missed the funeral because he was with the Pope, a claim that later turned out to be a lie. He never even called the family when her mother, his sister, died. She claimed that she wanted to lay bare the truth about his familial hypocrisy.

And of course, PETA always manages to get celebrities to shed their clothes to discourage the wearing of fur. The latest are twin  singer sisters Monica and Gabriella Irmia

Is that really Jimi Hendrix in the latest celebrity porn tape from Vivid? It sure looks like him. Hendrix diedin 1970, and his legend lives on, and apparently, so did a tape of him having sex with two brunettes in a dimly lit bedroom. He may have been a great musician, but he didn’t know dick about properly lighting porn. The tape includes just 11 minutes of sex footage- the rest of the 45 minute DVD is a Hendrix retrospective focusing on his other talents.

Tristan Taormino was the first person to present a class at Erotic University, and her career has skyrocketed. Not to infer that there is any relationship between the two. Her latest from Vivid is Chemistry 4: The Orgy Edition. It stars Penny Flame, Sinnamon Love, Adrianna Nicole, Tyler Knight, Johnny Sins and Evan Stone, with special appearances by Tantra instructors and authors Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson. 

Whacko of the Week

A lot of the younger crowd probably doesn’t even know who Phyllis Schlafly is. The 80 year old activist is best known for working tirelessly to help defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970’s She’s back in the news again, not only for her getting involved in trying to defeat a new equal rights amendment, but because, for reasons that baffle me, Washington University decided to offer her an honorary degree. 

This has sparked considerably outcry from students and faculty for a number of reasons- all of them make her an easy pick for Whacko of the Week. She was given the award Friday, and hundreds of students, parents, faculty, and staff protestors turned their backs when she was awarded the degree, while wearing white armbands opposing her.

Her response to the protestors? She called them a bunch of losers. In an interview with the University newspaper, she said “all I've got to say about students today is that I think they have too much extra time. I don't know what college students do with all your extra time, but I guess one of them is go out and protest, while somebody else is paying their fee.” Amazingly, her statements did not manage to turn the students around to her side.

What a perfect example for young college students. A woman whose message includes this advice for young women graduates, “The flight from the home is a flight from yourself, from responsibility, from the nature of woman, in pursuit of false hopes and fading illusions." That’s right, young ladies, your education and hope for a successful career is a false hope and an illusion. I don’t know who is crazier, Schlafly or the imbeciles who decided giving her an honorary degree was a good idea.

Sure, Schlafly is a graduate of Washington University, and schools like to honor their own, but this isn’t just scrapping the bottom of the barrel, its scraping the bottom of the septic tank. Have they run out of graduates who have not had horrific hate-filled careers trying to deny people their rights? A university honoring a woman who is noted for her anti-intellectualism and who opposes pretty much the entire concept of modern education including educating women for the workforce isn’t just baffling, it borders on the insane.

What next- having MSNBC host Chris Mathews, noted for endless sexist and anti-women statements, give the commencement address? Oh wait, they fucking did that too. What in the hell is wrong with these people. An entire graduation ceremony was turned into a big fuck you to all the women graduates.

It would be hard to find a more inappropriate choice than Shlafly for an educational institution to honor. In response to the Harvard controversy when President Sumner made comments about women’s lesser intellects, Schlafly wrote that women are too emotional to handle intellectual or scientific debate. She opposes Title IX, which has been incredibly important to women’s athletics in universities and high schools. She attacks the teaching of evolution in schools. And, of course, she opposes sex education. Here are some choice quotes:

“Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions."

Gee, abortions and Tupperware- I wonder if Planned Parenthood has thought of that.

"The facts of life can be told in 15 minutes."

Ad it is amazing how much misinformation you can cram into just 15 minutes."Just tell them to keep your hands out of what’s inside your swimsuits – that takes care of most girls and boys."

Actually, if they keep their hands out of your swim suit, but not their penis, you still can get pregnant. After six kids she out to know that, but maybe she wasn’t paying attention at the time.

"It’s very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damaged baby (even 10 years later when she may be happily married)."

And if that fear of sex extends into her marriage- they can just close their eyes and get it over withquickly. You only need to do it six times.

Schlafly is a bizarre contradiction within a contradiction. She has made a tireless full-time career out of pposing women’s equal rights and telling women they should not have careers and stay at home. She tells women they can’t have it all, while apparently during her long career while raising six children, having it all.

She has been a tireless homophobe and gay basher, despite having her gay son John publicly outed. She is close to him, disturbingly close- he was still living with her into his 40s, and she refuses to comment about him, although she’ll talk endlessly about preventing gays from acquiring any rights, her opposition to gay marriage, opposition to gays in the military, opposition to gays everywhere except, apparently, in her own home.

Her litany of unique opinions on matters sexual is extensive. She doesn’t believe there is  such a thing as marital rape because once you get married, women give permanent consent. They don’t have the right to say no. And she doesn’t believe there is such a thing as sexual harassment in the workplace, at least not for the virtuous woman. 

We haven’t even plumbed the depths of her craziness- she goes way off the deep end on a whole range of extreme and bizarre right wing conspiracy theories. But her main focus has always been about women, gender, and sex- which makes her appropriate for our current honoring of her, and wholly inappropriate for Washington University’s honoring of her.