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July 20th , 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for July 20th, 2007, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. We spent part of this week at the AVN Novelty Expo, where they roll out all of the new sex toys. While there are a lot of big companies there, we spent time talking with some of the smaller entrepreneurs where a lot of innovation seems to come from. This week we present three interviews from the show with small sex toy developers. We also have our roundup of the latest news in sex and politics: Bush again goes after birth control, Elizabeth Dole loses her mind, Time keeps getting it wrong, and Bill O’Reilly tries to outdo McCain in the anti-women department. Just click on the topic you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

Politics

In the latest Bush attack on birth control, the president has proposed a new administration rule that would require recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control. Yes, the new rules would force health care providers to hire people who would refuse to do their job. I’m guessing we won’t see a similar rule for the military where they would be forced to hire soldiers who objected to killing people and who protest the insanity of Bush’s elective war, but that mak.

Our local Frisky Kitty strip club had long been under assault, and they finally got it closed. It is now a bikini bar called Beers and Babes. So now instead of sober but aroused citizens driving away from a strip club, we have obviously easily aroused drunks driving away from a bikini bar. That’s so much better.

What is wrong with Time magazine? Are they even bothering to do honest reporting anymore? It sure doesn’t seem like it. First they ballyhoo the what turned out to be totally fraudulent story of a pregnancy pact amongst 17 Massachussets high school girls who supposedly made an agreement to get pregnant. Turns out there is no evidence whatsover that such a thing happened, and the girls deny it. What actually happened is that several already pregnant girls at the high school banded together to help each other- actually a much more interesting story. Time followed up their piece on the pregnant teens of Gloucester with an article that praised CPCs and equated teen girls having babies with responsibility. The article closed with this jaw dropping conclusion: “Whether a girl--or a woman--decides to end a pregnancy or see it through is as complex an emotional and moral and medical calculation as she ever faces. But I wonder if some soft message has taken hold when the data suggest that more women facing hard choices are deciding to carry the child to term. This has been the mission of the crisis-pregnancy-center movement, the more than 4,000 centers and hotlines and support groups around the country that aim to talk women out of having abortions and offer whatever support they can.” The final sentence infers that a teenager’s willingness to carry a child to term is “a willingness to take responsibility for the consequences.”  So the consequences of sex have to be nine months of a potentially dangerous pregnancy? Making the difficult decision of having an abortion is not taking responsibility? And we reported in our May 4th Sexvestigation just how vile and dishonest and cruel the CPCs are, and how they will use any deception to keep the girls pregnant until they pass the point of no return, and then they don’t really care about helping them anymore. The article was a junk piece of anti-abortion propaganda.

Senator Elizabeth Dole has to be out of her fucking mind. She has introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Senator Jesse Helms.  Jesse Helms was a strident foe of HIV/AIDS prevention, research and treatment. He hated gays with a passion, almost as much as he hated African Americans. Jesse Helms was a racist hate filled blight on the United States. The only appropriate way to do this would be to call it the Jesse Helms We’re Glad He’s Dead HIV/AIDS Relief bill, or the Jesse Helms isn’t he surprised that the gays are in heaven and he’s in hell HIV/AIDS relief bill. 

We reported last week about the disconnect between Senator John McCain and his campaign representative Carly FIorentino, with her claiming that it was unfair when health insurance covered Viagra but not birth control without realizing that McCain does not support insurance for birth control. Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly jumped into the fray this week supporting McCain by saying, “OK, listen up. Viagra is used to help a medical condition. That’s why it’s covered. Birth control is not a medical condition. It is a choice. Why should I or anybody else have to pay for other people’s choices? Do I have to buy you dinner before you use the birth control?” Since pregnancy is a medical condition, under Bill’s thinking, any preventative measures to prevent medical conditions would technically be a choice and shouldn’t be covered. And not using birth control and getting pregnant all the time not only costs the insurer a whole lot more money, it also has serious health consequences for the woman, driving up insurance costs for all of us.  And I don’t even understand the part him buying her dinner before she uses birth control. I don’t even know if he bought his former producer Andrea Mackris dinner before he sexually harassed her, although the millions in an undisclosed settlement he wound up paying probably bought her an awful lot of really nice dinners.