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July 12th , 2009

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This week in sex and politics in the news, we look at child pornographers- the ones who are actually children and have no idea they are committing a crime- and the prosecutors who want to put them in jail, plus just how crazy representative Sally Kern can go, plus commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots by police- who literally recreate the conditions that caused them on the very day of the anniversary. It is Sex Science Sunday, with the astonishing creation of sperm cells- no men needed, gay animals, more abstinence failure, another right wing book filled with pseudoscience on how sex is destroying our youth, and how scientists are fighting back against fundamentalists who misinterpret and lie about their research. In sex in entertainment, the disturbing sexually suggestive commercials featuring children, who is getting naked now, and the real truth behind the recent HIV scare in the adult industry.

News

The Supreme Court ruled that the strip search of a 13-year old girl in a failed attempt to find ibuprofen allegedly concealed on her was unconstitutional. The sole dissent came from Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote in his dissenting opinion, “I don’t see what the big deal is. I have seen plenty of similar instances, such as in Panty Searchers 3 and Strip Search Teens. No one in those DVDs seemed bothered by it.”

Had the technology for sexting been available when I was a teenager, I would absolutely have taken advantage of it. And there would have been naked pictures of my girlfriends on my phone. And had that happened today, I could have been arrested for child pornography, and my girlfriend could have been arrested for the production of child pornography. And had the standards been up to District Attorney George Skumanick, I and my girlfriend could have been put in jail and had to register as sex offenders for the rest of our days. Skumanick brought child pornography charges against six teenagers in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in January 2009 after three girls sent sexually explicit photographs to three male classmates. Well, sexually explicit is in the eye of the beholder. One of the pictures was of a girl in her bra flashing the peace sign. To the pig-faced Skumanick (really, check out a picture of this guy), that was sexually explicit. Others were simple nudity. So if child pornography laws are designed to protect children, how are they protected by putting them in jail?  Naked pictures taken voluntarily by teenage girls are a long ways from forcing children to have sex in front of the camera. And sure, there should be some penalty for sending a naked picture of someone against their wishes- although a felony is a little over the top. But child pornography? Could it get crazier? Yes. In 2008, an assistant-principal in Virginia, a state known for its insane sex laws, was asked to investigate a sexting incident. He found the phone and confiscated it. The principal told him to preserve the evidence. The assistant-principal was subsequently charged with possession of child pornography- for preserving the evidence. The courts ruled it wasn’t even child porn- just a girl posing in her underwear with her arms covering her breasts. It cost him $150,000 to defend himself, though. Sure, actual child pornographers are reprehensible, but the laws were written to protect kids from being sexually exploited. Law enforcement seems to forget that. Teenagers took naked pictures of each other when there were Polaroid cameras. They do it with phone cameras. If shared with their peers, despite the shock of some adults, this is pretty normal behaviour. They are not running a child porn ring, they are not sex offenders, they are just normal teenagers. Some states, such as Vermont, are working on reasonable laws that reflect some semblance of reality. It would legalize the consensual exchange of graphic images between two people 13 to 18 years old. According to studies, some 20 percent of teens admit to sexting. You can’t stop it, and you don’t do anyone any good by destroying kid’s lives because teenage sexuality makes you panicky and irrational.

Sure, the economy has been in pretty rough shape. But it wasn’t caused by the eight years of spectacular mismanagement by the Bush administration. In Oklahoma, they have the real answer. According to a proclamation written by Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, called the Oklahoma Citizen's Proclamation for Morality" the real blames should fall on Obama, who somehow caused the collapse before even becoming president, and on our immorality. It says WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and   WHEREAS, this nation has become a world leader in promoting abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and many other forms of debauchery; and- well, it goes on from their to repeat fake quotes from Founding Fathers to show we are a Christian nation, and other misinformation displaying a stunning lack of historical knowledge. I don’t see how we are a leader in promoting same sex marriage since other countries have actually legalized it across the entire country. And a leader in sex trafficking? Not even close. And promoting abortion- most counties don’t even have clinics where you can get them. And pornography- we are still putting people in jail for making it. You want to see some leading envelope pushing mind twisting porn- check out some of that German stuff. I’d love to know what the other forms of debauchery she is referring to are because maybe she could find one we really do excel at. I doubt it though.

Sally Kern has a distinguished legislative career. She called homosexuality more dangerous than terrorism- apparently confusing the concepts of blowing up buildings with blowing each other. Last year she authored a bill to give students in earth science classes passing grades for knowing only “Young Earth Creationism” – which means you only have to study 6,000 years worth rather than the more tedious 4.5 billion years. SO let me get this straight. She is blaming the economic problems of our nation on guys like Ensign and Sanford and Craig?

Who thought it was a good idea to commemorate the Stonewall Riots by recreating the very police offenses that started them? The police in Fort Worth, Texas, for one. They went into a newly opened gay bar and kicked some ass. Literally busted a head as the guy had a brain injury from his treatment by police. The Police Chief said that it was all justified because the gays made sexual advances on his officers and apparently they lashed out in violence from gay panic syndrome. Not that there is a single witness to these supposed advances, and all witnesses report that no such thing happened. They have a strange law that lets them go into a bar and arrest drunk people. Even a bar attached to a hotel where a person is staying. Yes, I know, but we are talking about Texas. That was the excuse they used to raid the bar, even though it seemed to the onlookers that they were arresting people who were not intoxicated, but were gay. You know, potential DWG’s. Driving while gay. Driving under the influence of gayness. The openly gay city council member is insisting on an investigation.

Better yet, why not raid a political fundraiser at the home of an openly gay candidate on the bizarre pretext of a noise complaint? When it was still early and the real noisemaker was a person outside the event shouting anti-gay slurs. And while you are there, why not pepper spray a few dozen middle aged women there to support a gay candidate?  I am ashamed to say that that happened right here in California. In San Diego. It has boosted the visibility of candidate Francine Busby, and already helped her raise a lot more money. This police action will also be investigated.

The Vatican is investigating the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization for nuns. Cardinal Levada sent a letter to the Leadership Conference about the investigation claiming that the organization had failed to "promote" the church's teachings on three issues: the male-only priesthood, homosexuality and the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church as the means to salvation. If they use the same investigative techniques they used when investigating pedophile priest, I’d say the nuns have nothing to worry about.

John Stemberger, head of the Florida Family Policy Council and the Yes2Marriage Campaign, wants to end no fault divorce and tack on a $100 fee to the marriage license. Where would the money go? To conservative religious organizations that would counsel people not to live together before marriage and to stay married no matter how miserable they are. If Flordia ever legalizes gay marriage, I’m not quite sure how they would counsel gay people who wanted to get married. Just don’t do it?

Especially now that we know what really causes gayness. No, its not environment, or weak fathers, or early molestation. Its gay demons. And the Connecticut church Manifested Glory Ministries has the answer. Gay exorcisms. NO, they don’t spit out pea soup or twist their heads around- no one looks good doing that. The church posted the video on YouTube then quickly yanked it just because the response they got came largely from people who thought they were completely insane. They shouted at the 16 year old for the gay devil to come out of his stomache. Don’t they know that came devils come out of your ass? The Rev. Patricia McKinney stood strong against the criticism. She said “It's been a hard time for me, but I'm looking good and I'm standing strong because when you have a mandate like mine you're not going to say what you want without the adversary coming after you. If you are a true prophet you're not going to be popular with the people." Just in case you did not realize it was all about her. And she did what many people of faith have done when confronted with criticism from doubting non-believers. She lied her Jesus loving ass off. She told the press the boy was 18 when he was really 16. And she claimed they werent doing an exorcism, although she did admit they were casting out spirits. Demon spirits. Really really gay demon spirits. Sadly, gay exorcisms are not all that rare.

We can learn things from our political leaders. And lately, the main thing we can learn is how not to have an affair, and how not to deal with it when you get caught.

So, what have we learned? First, you never use an email account with your real name, especially when you are a Senator and include the word Senator in the from line. And when you get caught, and it becomes national news, and your story gets dropped off the radar because two major celebrities die on the same day, you don’t go to the AP and give another interview where you say things stupid enough to get you back in the news. I’m talking about you Senator Sanford of South Carolina.

And Senator Sanford taught us how you don’t make up with your wife after getting caught- especially when she is an heiress and has all the money and has a family full of experts on using a Skil saw because her great grandfather invented it. You don’t publicly state that the other woman is your soul mate but you’ll try to fall back in love with your wife. Is he retarded? No woman on the planet wants to hear that. :Hi honey, even though that other woman means more to me than you ever will because we are destined for each other, I’ll try and fall back in love with you. And you know its not an age thing since she’s about the same age as you, although, frankly, she didn’t pop out four kids- which reminds me, Maria told me about this kegel exercise thing that can really tighten you up.”

Then there is Senator Ensign of Arizona. You don’t hand write a letter to your mistress telling her that you simply used her for your own pleasure. You are insulting her and letting the world know what a lousy lover you are. And once her husband knows, and you have broken it off, you don’t keep pursuing her. Especially when it seems like so many of your fellow Senators know about it and are telling you to knock it off. They call it adultery because it involves adults, so you don’t ever go running to mommy and daddy to fix it just because they have all the money. How did that conversation go?  Mom, Dad, I need a little money to pay off the woman whose orifices I was using strictly for my own pleasure to salvage my political career.

Sex Science Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Sex Science Sunday, where we look at the latest in sex science research.

Scientists in the lab have been able to create sperm from stem cells. Headed by Professor Karim Nayernia at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI), the project developed a new technique that allows the creation of human sperm in the laboratory. With the invention of vibrators and strap-ons, this officially ends the age of man, since technically, he is no longer required. Except, theoretically, these sperm can only produce males. Well, at least we won’t become extinct quite so soon.

Planned Parenthood commissioned a study on the drugs used to induce abortion. It has long been known that there was a risk of infection. The study showed that using the drugs vaginally increased the risks, and that their usage should be combined with antibiotics. The study showed that this procedure cuts down dramatically on the risk of infection and even the much lesser risk of death. SO while protestors are out in front of Planned Parenthood clamoring for the rights of the never born, Planned Parenthood is working on protecting the life and health of already born women. The results were published in the current New England Journal of Medicine.

The Beach Boys taught us about good vibrations. Now we have the science to back it up. In a study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, they found that "Vibrator use was significantly related to several aspects of sexual function (i.e., desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, pain, overall function) with recent vibrator users scoring higher on most sexual function domains, indicating more positive sexual function." In the survey of over 2,000 women, 52% reported vibrator use. Vibrator users also took better care of themselves gynecologically speaking and had gynecological exams. The study concluded that "Vibrator use among women is common, associated with health-promoting behaviors and positive sexual function, and rarely associated with side effects. Clinicians may find these data useful in responding to patients' sexual issues and recommending vibrator use to improve sexual function. Further research on the relationships between vibrator use and sexual health is warranted."

The Council on Science and Public Health adopted a report at the AMA Annual Meeting on abstinence education. Based on several studies, they found that abstinence only education showed "no delay of initiating sexual activity, no reduction in the number of sexual partners and no increase in abstinence." In fact, the teen pregnancy rate has gone up. Their conclusion: Sex education that provides information about abstinence, condom use and other contraceptive methods is the most effective way to reduce the growing number of teenagers who contract a sexually transmitted infection or become pregnant. And we couldn’t have figured this out 20 years ago when this whole abstinence only nonsense started?

I remember reading in a fundamentalist tract that gay sex was so disgusting that even animals wouldn’t do it. New research shows that there are hardly any species that don’t. Its true- animals are so gay. According to Nathan Bailey, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside: "It's clear that same-sex sexual behavior extends far beyond the well-known examples that dominate both the scientific and popular literature: for example, bonobos, dolphins, penguins and fruit flies." Okay, we could have all guessed fruit flies. The article by Bailey and Marlene Zuk, a biology professor at UCR, was published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

According to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, men seem to generally agree as to what makes a woman attractive. Women, on the other hand, are far less predictable. They vary much more on what they consider attractive. Which I guess is good news for men.

There is other good news for men, at least those with damaged sperm who want to have children. AT least according to research announced at a recent meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam. Turns out one of the most effective things they can do does not involve drugs or any form of medical intervention. They just need to have more sex. Men should have sex every day for a week. After seven days, the doctors found that in 81 percent of the men, there was a 12 percent decrease in the amount of damaged sperm.

Just because it is published in a book and they use the word science doesn’t mean that it is so. There are many such books where the word junk should have preceeded the word science. For example, the book by Joe McIlhaney and Freda McKissic Bush called Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children. It pulls out every pseudoscientific canard about sex being like a powerful and dangerous drug. It claims because of brain chemistry that multiple sex partners may make it impossible for men to bond with women. It sites shocking statistics such as 20 percent of 12- to 18-year-olds using the Pill will become pregnant within six months, 20 percent of teens under 18 using condoms will become pregnant within a year, and  50 percent of female teenagers who live with a boyfriend and use contraception will become pregnant within a year. Wow- somehow contraception magically only works if you are married and older. Books like these and their distortions of science are perfectly acceptable in the fundamentalist anti-sex mindset. They are not thrilled with the threats they perceive science has presented to their faith, so they use science like a rapist uses a woman after slipping her a roofie.

And scientists are not happy about it. And some are striking back. And there is even a web site for scientists whose research is being abused and distorted by anti-gay advocates. It is called respectmyresearch.org. This site contacts researchers whose work is cited in anti-gay literature and gives them the opportunity to respond. Anti-gay folks have claimed that scientific research shows how homosexuality takes 20 years off of your life, that there is a link between child sexual abuse and adult homosexuality, that teaching gay teenagers self-acceptance leads to suicide, and that gay parenthood is bad, amongst many other claims, and they cite the work of legitimate researchers and scientists. To make their case, though, they completely distort the meaning of that research, and often flat out lie. This site lets you hear from the people who actually did the research and how they feel about the way the fundamentalists are misusing it. Of course, they also write letters to groups like Focus on the Family, The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, explaining how their research is being misinterpreted and telling them to stop. Strangely enough, they pretty much never get a retraction or even an apology. And the same research continues get used and abused by these individuals and organizations.  

Entertainment

I don’t really get the connection between sex and fast food. If I want to have sex with someone, giving them fast food is probably not going to help me achieve my goal. But it seems to work as a way to advertise fast food.  Carl’s Jr./Hardees has announced a contest, "Hot Chicks Eating Burgers," where women can submit videos of themselves  eating a burger as seductively as possible. Problem is, this just works so much better with tacos and hotdogs. Hardees has a campaign advertising their new biscuit holes, whatever that is, by talking about "creamy balls" and "happy holes." Another ad has people blind taste testing Hardee biscuit holes vs. donut holes, referred to as the a holes and the b holes. They say things like “The a hole seemed kinda small, I just don’t like the a holes, the a holes are nasty, and the a holes taste funny. Besides Burger King’s U.S. kids meal square booty campaign, they have an overseas ad for their 7 incher where they show a woman getting a seven incher shoved into her face. And of course,  Quiznos has their gay oven that wants to be sodomized by a torpedo sandwich. 

New Zealand's national airline encourages you to fly really friendly skies. In their ads, all of their employees are naked. Sort of. Their uniforms are painted on. The tagline is that they have nothing to hide. Clearly. Now their new "Bare Essentials of Safety is shown on domestic flights to explain the safety features. It features three cabin staff and a pilot wearing nothing but painted on uniforms. This goes along with their viral video that shows many of their employees wearing only painted on uniforms. It is not particularly sexist, though, as it shows just one woman and three really good looking guys.

Apple has tried really hard to keep the iPhone porn free. I mean, other than what you can Google with safe search turned off.  When it turned out that the Hottest Women app showed their hotness somewhat more revealed, it was removed from the app store.  And when a 14 year old posted a naked picture of herself for the Hot or Not app, that pretty much ended its life in the App Store as well.

And in who is getting naked now, its pop sensation Lady Gaga. She appears naked in the current issue of V magazine, proudly displaying her breasts. Well, at least one, from the side. She is known for her outrageous costumes, but I think this one where she is just wearing her fanciful space orbit hat is my favorite.

Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli is naked again. She appears in an art video on the Internet showing her rolling around seductively on a couch, only occasionally partially covered by a sheet. It is very sexy and you get some nice views of her very shapely bottom. It was created to promote an art exhibition in Israel. Sounds like my kind of art.

And its not just who is getting naked, but where. The latest trend for celebs is going nude on Twitter. Katy Perry appears after recovering from the flu nude in the bathtub covered only by a tray with pizza, writing "Why is it that after not eating for three days all I can think of is food...food is smiling at me...luring me with sexual seduction." I was kind of smiling at her too. Lenny Kravitz shows off his naked butt in the shower. Lindsey Lohan put out a naked picture of her with just her hair covering her breasts. She did it because she said she was bored.

And the latest celebrity sex tape features Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl fame. It’s the typical poor quality boyfriend filmed scene, although we do discover that she is quite talented with her feet.

I like Kate Winslet. She did the most naked Oscar winning role of all time in The Reader. In the August Harper’s Bazaar, she says "If people are noticing my boobs in a movie and saying they do what real boobs do, then that's great.” She really stands up for real boobs.

If you read about it in the press, it sounded like there was a huge outbreak of AIDS in the adult industry. The truth was, the story was distorted and the reality was far different from what was reported. Here is the actual story. Performers in adult get tested before they can appear in sex scenes. If they turn up positive, they are not going to be doing any scenes.  If they have been working in the industry and they are tested at AIM Healthcare, the primary tester in L.A., they become patient zero and AIM tracks down everyone they have worked with and gets them tested. This is unlike the real world where there is no documentation of everyone you have had sex with.  To my knowledge, none of these follow up people tested positive for HIV, and it appears that the performer contracted it from outside the industry.  It is tragic when someone contracts HIV, and yes, people will turn up positive from time to time. Still, this is the only case in the last five years. Considering the number of performers, that is a pretty good track record, especially when she probably contracted the disease outside of the industry and the testing caught it before she could work with other performers. This incident was blown out of proportion by the L.A. County health department which wants control over porn films.  They reported that there had been 22 such incidences. The way the news reported it was as 22 additional incidences, even though the health department was claiming that this was since 2004. Still, that is an alarming amount. Turns out those numbers were not accurate, and they were apparently including people not in the adult industry who got tested at AIM Healthcare and turned up positive. The numbers also included aspiring performers. Cal/OSHA and L.A. County Health would both like control over the adult industry, with mandatory condom usage. If given this control, you could expect mandatory usage for married couples, and the insistence on condoms and dental dams for oral sex. The industry has worked very hard to be self-policing and you are at much less risk having sex with a porn star than with the population at large. Testing has worked remarkably well, and government interference would be detrimental. It would be like requiring stunt men to always wear helmets and shoulder pads. Yes, it’s a good idea, but it would make movies completely unrealistic.