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June 29th , 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for June 29th, 2008, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. This week we have our roundup of sex and politics in the news, with more gay fear, Republican hypocrisy, and the link between censors and criminality. In our look at the world of sex and entertainment, we cover Hugh Hefner, Verne Troyer, Heidi Fleiss, and the latest in porn and John Stagliano’s fight for his freedom. Our Sexvesitgation offers advice on how British citizen and museums can destroy their art, which may well be necessary when a new anti-pornography laws goes into effect next year. Finally, we have our Whacko of the Week, Dr, James Dobson, who has injected himself into the presidential campaign. We’ll be running a best of show next week so that we can spend the holiday with friends and family. Things do not look good for the United States right now, and we are facing some hard times, but the polls seem to be showing that the American public is slowly getting wise to what has been done to them and are looking for change and new leadership. I am somewhat hopeful, and will be in a more celebratory mood this Fourth of July than I have been in awhile. I hope that your celebrations are equally joyful. Just select the topic to the left that you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

News

My marriage is over. With gay marriage now legal in California, I just don’t see the point of going on any longer. What can my marriage possibly mean when people who love each other but have identical genitalia can get married? And what will I do now? I can’t see myself marrying a man, but with legal gay marriage, which has destroyed heterosexual marriage, what else can I do? No one has said that gay marriage will destroy gay marriage, so that is clearly the only type of marriage that is left undestroyed. And what about marrying a transsexual? Is that gay marriage or straight marriage, and would it count as a type of marriage that has been destroyed? It is so confusing. We are suffering here in California. But two heroes, two leaders of the Senate, are coming to our rescue.  Hooker loving David Vitter and bathroom stall tapping Larry Craig. They are

co-sponsoring the Marriage Protection Amendment. The Amendment to the United States Constitution, would redefine marriage as only the union of a man and a woman. And that is very important to these two, because it makes it clear that quickie hooker trysts and bathroom stall buddies are not technically unions and in no way resemble marriage, thus, marriage is protected. I would expect John McCain to join on, since he knows a think or two about infidelity and would certainly want it made clear that the many affairs he has had in no way resemble marriage. He hasn’t actually been back to the Senate in a long time, not having cast a single vote since April and missing some 367 votes this session, but after the election I suspect he’ll have the time to get back to the Senate and join his other illustrious colleagues in supporting this amendment.

Also coming to our rescue here in California- the Mormon Church. Sure, while not exactly going on a crusade to deal with their fallen brethren still living the multiple wife life, they do think that they can make a difference here in California. A message from church leaders was read during church services to encourage members to vote for the California Marriage Protection Act which will be on the ballot in December. Interestingly, the statement says “Children are entitled to be born within this bond of marriage”. but is it logically consistent that they want to prevent only gays from having sex outside of marriage? Why not a constitutional amendment to ban all non-marital sex? Aren’t they being a bit discriminatory? And banning non-marital heterosexual sex would go a lot further to ensuring that children are born within the bonds of marriage. Get some balls Mormons and call for what you really want.

Pastor Haggard, who was forced to resign from the New Life Church after scandalous revelations, has left the Spiritual restoration program he was supposed to stay in for five years. Apparently, he was shocked to learn that the program did not offer meth or gay hookers.

Looking for a good time? (and I don’t mean you Pastor Haggard) Rush Limbaugh has pointed out how blacks and gays can have all the butt sex they want. Referring to the gay and black populations, Limbaugh said “You want to know why the Republicans are willing to say, “Screw you,” to 30 percent or more of their voters and yet Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, “Have your way with me,” for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population? These kooks — and I’m not talking about just the blacks — I’m talking about a whole kook-fringe base” have influence because they have money. Yeah, its all those rich kooky blacks and gays. And I really tried to parse Limbaugh’s comments into English, but he seems to never answer the question about why the Republicans are willing to screw thirty percent of the population. I always thought it was a much,  much higher percentage than that.

Mike Erickson is an anti-abortion Republican running for Congress in Oregon. But he has different standards when he is the one knocking women up. When the woman he was dating became pregnant seven years ago, he dropped her off at the clinic after giving her $300 for her abortion. He made it clear to her that he had no interest in becoming a father. He denies the allegation and claims they were just dating, but she backs up her story with medical records and witnesses. He claims that she was having medical problems and he just gave her money without knowing what the problem was. Who would not even bother to ask what medical problem your girlfriend had when she is asking you for money and having you take her to the doctors where you don’t even bother to go in with her. He does claim that they were just dating, but then that means she was just some girl he was banging, which doesn’t really seem in line with the family values agenda. IF her story is true, he is a lying hypocrite, but if his story is true, which is very unlikely, he is a callous uncaring asshole. Actually, even if he is lying, he’s a callous uncaring asshole.

How do you find the sleaziest people in politics. Look first to the ones on the frontlines of censorship. That historically has been a pretty safe bet. The latest example from a long long list is J. Robert Flores, administrator of the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, an office that has a long history of politicization. And to stand out in today’s current sleazy Justice Department takes some doing. It does not seem like that job should involve a lot of travel, but it does- to various golf spots, where Flores spends most of his time golfing at taxpayer expense. $159 in greens fees was paid for by an organization that Flores subsequently awarded grants to, an organization his staff deemed not recommended for grants. In fact, the five most highly ranked applicants by his own staff didn't get a dime of the $100 million in grant money Flores had to dole out.  Instead, it went to groups such as the very low ranked Best Friends Foundation, which got $1.3 million to try and teach teenagers to be just friends. The group was founded by the wife of gambling addict and politically connected moralist Bill Bennet. Flores’ only qualification for his current position was Acting Deputy Chief of the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Before that he was Senior Counsel for the National Law Center for Children and Families, one of the leading pro-censorship groups in the nation. Groups that he turned down for funding included a program for troubled teens to help battle inner city violence, apparently because they also distributed condoms. He refused funding for the Rape Abuse and Incest Network, because Flores suspected they might be telling rape victims where they could get abortions. He cut money to the Girl Scouts because they had a relationship to Planned Parenthood. And while it looks as if he has taken bribes and abused his office, who can worry on a beautiful day when you are out on the links? And you didn’t even have to pay for it.

Entertainment

With his long history of heart problems, George Carlin’s death from a heart attack was not a surprise, but it did not lessen the sense of loss. He is perhaps best known for his Seven Dirty Words You Can’t say on Television. We can say them here on the Internet- They are Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits. It was a routine that he was arrested for performing in 1972 at Summerfest in Milwaukee. I performed at Summerfest one year, and its essentially one big beer bash with a huge percentage of the crowd drunk off their ass. They literally had a mountain of empty beer kegs. So while hundreds of drunk drivers streamed out onto the roads from Summerfest, the cops were more worried about Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say to the intoxicated. While Carlin was a strong advocate of free speech, it was this same routine, played on a Pacifica Radio station, that resulted in a court case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court and a ruling that entrenched the power of the FCC as an official censor, a power they still abuse to this day. Even so, many of his seven words have since been used on broadcast television, essentially the ones that don’t refer to sex, the words we still seem to be the most afraid of.

There is a new biography on Hugh Hefner titled Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream by Steven Watts. Am I so jaded that the supposedly shocking revelations seem pretty tame? It claims he once had a gay tryst. That was pretty common in the 60s and 70s amongst the more progressive- and it was hardly a tryst- he let a guy give him a blowjob just out of curiosity. And then there is the description of foursomes involving his first wife Millie. Well, hardly a foursome- they had sex with each other with another couple having sex with each other on the same bed. It is claimed that Hefner had sex with his sister-in-law, while making it clear that his wife could have sex with his brother, an offer she declined. And Hef did shoot a sex film of himself, but both he and the women wore masks. Hefner did cooperate with the author and claims that the stories in the book are true. But where is the really surprising stuff- Like a three-way with Kennedy and Marilyn where we learn that Kennedy was really a bottom?  Or that he cross-dressed and secretly appeared in some of the pictorials? That’s the kinda stuff that would get attention. Not the boring reality of a guy who had sex with countless women in a fantasy world of hedonistic pleasure.

I’d rank him pretty low on the list of actors I’d expect  to have a sex tape out in circulation. He’s best known for his role as Mini-me. Verne Troyer was not exactly pleased when the tape of he and his girlfriend Ranae Shrider having sex wound up on a segment of TMZ, with rumors that the entire tape will soon be on sale. He has sued for $20 million claiming that the tape was stolen and asked for an injunction against its distribution. He should also ask for an injunction against the annoying negative pun-filled headlines, such as Verne Troyer Sex Tape Expected Shortly. And despite the fact that little people tapes are a  popular fetish, there is the expected  over-played expressed  horror of mainstream media writers at the thought of seeing someone that small have sex. And I’m guessing that the stuff these folks jerk off to really would frighten me.

Our first encounter with former madam Heidi Fleiss was when Kris went into her boutique on Hollywood Blvd. and bought me some lounging shorts. She found her to be very nice, and I still have the autographed shorts. When I ran into her later after she got out of prison, she seemed twitchy, rude, and my gut told me she was on something. I had planned to do an interview but I decided to pass. Turns out she did have quite an addiction problem- to meth, vicodin and valium. That comes out in the documentary shot for HBO called Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal. It chronicles her failed attempt to create a legal brothel for women, which always seemed unlikely to me for someone with a felony conviction. From all accounts she is just as narcissistic as you would expect from a hard core addict, even if she now claims to be sober. There was additional controversy with her failure to show up on the set of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. And even though she was payed $250,000 for her participation, she eventually stopped cooperating or even talking to film makers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. I really wanted to like her. But I can’t.    

There has been a lot of talk about sex toys made from pthalates that are potentially harmful to the environemtn of the vagina, but what about sex toys that are good fro the envirmnment in general. Blissboxtoys has introduced the Eco_dildo, made from renewable wood sources instead of plastic. So if she asks you if you’ve got wood, you can hand her this.

There are a lot of us who want to see the re-revitalization of Times Square. We don’t want to see a return to the crime or seediness, but do bring back the sex please. And that is what Malcom McLaren hopes to do. Malcolm was the manager of the Sex Pistols and helped launch the punk movement. Now he wants to bring artful porn back to Broadway, albeit briefly, for a showing on MTV’s giant 44 ½ screen. He has created a mashup of old stag films and music, although you have to call up a number to hear the music. No genitalia will be shown, but there will be discreet nudity. The videos run through Aug 14th.

Sin City brings us Whoregasm, A touching story of six prostitutes and the clients they touch. The title comes from the claim that all of the women have authentic orgasms on screen. It features Carolyn Reese, Chennin Blanc, Ginger Blaze, Holly Wellin, Jennifer Dark, and Mina Lee.

I’m going to recommend a porn DVD to you. I’ve never seen it. I don’t know all that much about the contents. It might not even be any good, although I suspect it will be. But you should buy a copy of the three disc DVD set anyway. Its from Evil Angel, and the proceeds go to help pay the legal defenses of John Stagliano, the most mainstream adult producer and director to be arrested on federal obscenity charges. Its called Defend Our Porn, and is available from DefendOurPorn.com. It includes scenes from every current Evil Angel director as well as former EA director Jules Jordan. There are 16 scenes and ten hours of content. There is also an original scene from Stagliano’s wife, Karen Stagliano.  John Stagliano stated, “Evil Angel was singled out for this prosecution because the government is making an assault on more mainstream pornography, and not just the extreme fringe. I am honored to be called upon to defend our industry in this fight and I appreciate this support.” Its going to be an expensive fight, and a loss would be a loss for free speech rights. It will be available just in time for the fourth of July, and if freedom really does mean something to you, I suggest you buy a copy.

And if you live anywhere near Hollywood, you can buy a copy at the Bondage Ball, held on the fourth of July at the Music Box Theatre, the same place where they film MAD TV. This is one of the largest bondage and fetish events in the country, and it is being sponsored by Evil Angel and hosted by John Stagliano. You can get more information at bondageball.com. The entire rooftop will be dedicated to the films of Evil Angel, including their multi-award winning Fashionistas that was also turned into a highly-acclaimed Las Vegas dance review. There will be live performances, lots of names, and what better way to celebrate America, freedom, and the fourth of July?

Whacko of the Week

Dr. James Dobson has injected himself into the presidential campaign by attacking Obama’s religious faith. He accused Obama of deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit ... his own confused theology," of having a "fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution" and of appealing to the "lowest common denominator of morality."

The criticisms were based on a 2006 Obama speech, Call to renewal, that was actually pro-religion in the public square. It should have been exactly what Dobson wanted to hear. But because Obama did not specifically mention the exact and bizarre interpretations of the Bible that Dobson uses, and because it did not reject all religions except Dobson’s peculiar form of Christianity, Dobson went on the attack. What really ruffled his feathers was this part of the speech: “And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is okay and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount -- a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let's read our Bibles now. Folks haven't been reading their Bibles."

Dobson attacks Obama for mentioning Leviticus in a way he thinks is out of context, and yet he also refers to Leviticus when he wants to attack homosexuals. I think, technically, that is being a douche.

You’d think Dobson could never hear his name said often enough based on the ego-centric way he writes, but maybe he is ticked off at the notion of people reading their Bibles and actually thinking for themselves. Dobson would much rather do the thinking for them. And here is some of his thinking.

Dobson is a great boon to the BDSM community. He strongly advocates beating and whipping your children, apparently so they get an early taste of it and can better appreciate it as adults. He has said nothing about also forcing young children to wear black leather, latex, and waist cinchers, though. His book Dare to Discipline could be the title of a BDSM instructional book. To Dodson, all children are little subbies that need to be disciplined and learn to be obedient. And duh, gee, no surprise, Dobson was also beaten as a child. His book the Strong Willed Child is basically about breaking their will and training them essentially as you would a dog. He’s not big on the rights of children. He very strongly opposed the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.

And beatings are not limited to children. In a 1984 broadcast of his radio program, Dobson told his listening audience that he had seen situations where the wife wanted to be beaten up. His theory was that the wife achieved a certain moral advantage from being hit. If she pushed her husband into blacking her eye, the world–and God–would view her as a martyr. Dobson’s comments were essentially the same thing he said in a 1983 book against divorce, Love Must Be Tough. It was revised as recently as 1996, without a word changed about domestic violence

He is as pro-censorship as they come. He was on the notorious Attorney General's Commission on Pornography under Ed Meese established by President Reagan, which set up rigged hearings across the country to insure that they would not get the same results that Nixon’s commission did when finding that pornography did not harm and should not be criminalized. No actual social science research was allowed.

He has all of the anti-homosexual fervor of a man in denial who quivers with desire. He repast the typical misinformation and distortions- Homosexuality is learned (he doesn’t say where you get the gay training, but I suspect that Burt and Ernie on Sesame Street are part of the problem). I just have to believe that the only clowns who believe that homosexual preferences can be learned are those who believe that it is something they could easily learn to like. He repeats the lies about heterosexual marriage disappearing in countries that have legalized gay marriage, as if that even makes the slightest bit of sense. He intentionally misrepresent legitimate sociological research to claim that gays don’t make good couples, a claim the authors of that research dispute. And his claim that over ten thousand studies show that children do best when raised by a mother and father commited to each other as a reason to not allow gay adoption and gay marriage is a bit of a lie- not a one of the studies he is referring to even looked at same-sex couples raising children. He opposes all efforts to ban sexual orientation discrimination because "every woman and little girl will have to fear that a predator, bisexual, cross-dresser or even a homosexual or heterosexual male might walk in and relieve himself in their presence." He created something called Pre-homosexuality, a condition caused, he says, by a weak father. Gee, could he have possibly seen his domineering preacher father as somehow weak?

He runs and founded Focus on the Family, one of the nuttier conservative groups out there, which could have an entire segment devoted to it alone. Still – it is primarily an extension of Dobson and his extreme beliefs.

Dobson is of the old guard- focused almost exclusively on wedge issues like abortion and homosexuality. He tried to get Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) fired last year because he was an environmentalist and was concerned about global warming. Dobson could not care less about such worldly matters. He may be strongly pro-life, but quality of life is strictly irrelevant, which is why issues such as global warming, poverty, AIDS, and human trafficking are of little interest to him. Sometimes it seems that quality of life is actually a negative to him.

Sexvestigation

If you think we are crazy when it comes to porn, and that Europe is much more enlightened, make sure to remember that Britain is the exception. They recently passed an extreme porn ban that could put a lot of citizens in jail. The act goes into effect January 2009. It criminalizes possession of certain forms of extreme pornography. What forms? That is not really clear. Even police officials are unclear. It may well ban the possession of art works created by established artists. Even drawings and illustrations could get you three years in prison. And it is not about what the image depicts, but what it appears to depict that is key. Something that appears to be bestiality but is not could still get you sent to prison. BDSM images that appear to be potentially harmful but are not could still get you sent to prison. And anything to do with children is forbidden- even if the sexuality of the image is in the mind of the police and not the artist.

So, who should be going to prison? I’m thinking the first to go should be the art curators of British museums. Let’s take a look at some of the things that will almost certainly run afoul of this new law.

Bestiality is a big no-no. And remember, it’s not just about photos, but also about drawings and art.  First on the indicted list should be the British Museum. They are practically bestiality central. Take for example the many depictions they have of Leda and the Swan. This is based on the mythological tale about a young woman named Leda who encounters Jupiter in the form of a swan. He has his way with her and she winds up having his children. So essentially, it is both bestiality and rape. That’s pretty extreme. They have an etching of this based on a work by Michelangelo that is available for purchase in the museum store. It should be a simple matter to subpoena their records so that officials can arrest not just the curator but everyone who purchased this print.

The British Museum also sells a Little Book of Erotica representing other soon to be illegal works that they own. It has a picture of the Warren Cup, a silver cup from Rome around the 1st century AD. The cup depicts an older man and a youth making love, and a youth and a young boy in an obviously erotic pose that displays the boy’s genitals.  I can’t imagine how much time the museum curators should get for this one, or how much time the British owners of this little book should get.  It might be a very long time, since they could charge any owner of this book with multiple counts. It also has a marble relief of Leda and the Swan from 1st century Rome, and a photo of a Sandstone marker that depicts a bull raping a woman from India around 1165 AD. Then we have the Terracotta statuette by Joseph Nollekens from the eighteenth century based on an early Roman statue. It depicts Pan sodomizing a goat. That is four counts of very definitive extreme pornography in just one little 60 page booklet. I’m guessing that ads up to about 12 years in prison for anyone owning this little book.

But that is only the tip of the iceberg. British authorities have been telling people that they will need to go through their materials and destroy anything that might soon be against the law. I am assuming that this also means museum curators, who much now go through their art and decide which pieces to destroy. Drawings can be burned, and blowtorches work really well for that, but its going to take a sledge hammer to take care of a lot of the statues. They still have plenty of time to destroy everything that might violate the law before it goes into effect.

Still, they might need to bring in some expert help. In Afghanistan, the Taliban decided that they needed to destroy all of the country’s pre-Islamic art. They did this very efficiently, destroying two-thirds of the country’s statues, including  the world’s tallest Buddhist statue. It was 55 meters high and carved into a cliff face, and it took tanks and rocket launchers to destroy it. These are the experts on how to destroy art, and the British Museums might do well to hire them as consultants.