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August 3rd, 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for August 3rd, 2008, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth.  Our roundup of sex and politics includes defeat for the FCC, very confused family values in San Diego, why gays don’t count, why they confuse John McCain, why Lesbians were sued for being lesbians, and why Rep. Pete Sessions is really confused about what a trip club is. We have an extra long sex and entertainment segment this week. Our Whacko of the Week, Elaine Donnelly, just finished testifying before Congress, and even many Republicans thought she was a whacko. Finally, we have a very disturbing Sexvestigation about the continuing facilitation of rape in the military and obstruction of justice by the Defense Department and the Justice Department, with some extremely shocking new revelations. Just click on the topic you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

Politics

It lasted 9/16ths of a second of screen time and it would potentially cost CBS $550,000. That’s expensive even for a special effects shot. Except that it wasn’t a special effect, it was a brief flash of nipple. The $550,000 is the price tag the FCC wanted to put on the unintentional, at least on CBS’ part, brief glimpse of Janet Jackson’s nipple during the Super Bowl in their fine against CBS as part of its energized assault on so-called obscenity in television. Sure, the sight of a nipple is horrifying, which is why we ban nursing in public and blindfold infants when they do nurse. Heaven knows what might happen if a child sees a nipple, and statistics prove that virtually every serial killer has seen a nipple at some point in his life. What more proof do you need? But the soft on crime courts, in this case the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, threw out the fine. They placed the horror of a nip slip in the same category as a fleeting expletive. Yes, it’s a slap in the face to the FCC, but a violent slap in the face, even when aired in primetime, is less disturbing to them than the thought of an exposed nipple.

Is it just me, or is there some irony in the fact that having actual family values gets you in trouble with the family values crowd. The Mayor of San Diego ran for election promising to veto any attempt to support gay marriage by the City Council. Then the City Council actually passed a motion supporting gay marriage. Mayor Jerry Sanders held a press conference and barely maintaining his composure, he said “My opinions of this have changed significantly. I just could not bring myself to tell an entire group of people in our community that they were less important, less deserving of the rights and responsibilities, simply because of their sexual orientation.” He also explained that he knew gays and lesbians- some where on his staff, and his daughter was also gay. It was a heart-wrenching and moving speech, but it moved many Repuiblican San Diegans to anger. Self-proclaimed family-values conservatives felt that a man standing up for his daughter was actually a betrayal to them. How dare he stand up for a member of his family instead of keeping his promise? Had he forgotten his family values commitment to tell other people who could be families and who couldn’t be? His anti-family position of supporting a member of his own family so energized conservatives in the area that it became a focal point for getting Proposition 8 on the ballot. Proposition 8 would enshrine in California’s constitution the notion that legal families have to be what pro-family conservatives say they are- and they better not involve those same sex sinners who are such a threat to the true families that pro-family conservatives represent- you know, the one’s that hate together and criticize actual families that stick together and support each other.

Gay and Lesbian couples don’t count. And I mean this literally. Even though gay marriage is currently legal in both Massachusetts and California, the Census Bureau refuses to include them in its next census. They claim that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act prohibits them from recognizing legal marriages if they happen to be gay ones in the 2010 census. They will edit responses from married same sex couples to “unmarried partners”. Accurate data is apparently less important than wishful thinking that if perhaps you close your eyes and wish really really hard, gay marriage will simply go away.

Am I the only one who has no idea what John McCain is saying when answering questions? George Stephanopolous asked him what his position was on gay adoption, since he recently told the New York Times that he opposed it even when there were no other families available for the kids, and then his staff backtracked on that position. It’s a legitimate question to ask what a candidate’s position actually is when he sends out mixed messages. Problem is, McCain never seems to clarify much of anything. His response was that gay adoption is not one of the reasons he is running for President. I’m pretty sure no one actually thought that. Chalk that up as non-answer number one. Then he says that what he supports is two parent families. Uh, John, that isn’t an answer either, since gay adoptions tend to go to two parent families. Non-answer number two. Then he stumbles around repeating himself and says that he is running for president of the United States because he wants to help with family values, and its important that we have two parent families that are parents that are the traditional family. Okay, now he is semi-clear that he is against gay adoption, but since the conservatives think that opposing gay adoption is very much about family values, he just contradicted the very first thing he said about it not being part of why he is running for president. And he finishes without ever stating explicitly that he opposes gay adoption by saying that he wants to see that family values and family traditions are preserved. Except of course, the tradition of monogamy and not cheating on your wife, or the tradition of staying together through richer or poorer and sickness and in health instead of dumping your sicker wife for richer wife number two. 

They’re all a bunch of lesbians. Except they don’t have sex with other women, and some of them are men. They are the residents of the Isle of Lesbos, the fabled island that was the birth place of the poet Sappho, who wrote passionate poetry about woman to woman love. She died around 570 BC, but her impact was so great that we get the term lesbian from her birthplace. And one of the people who live on that island today was soioffended by this and the gay tourism there that he sued the Greek gay and lesbian association to try and force them to remove the term lesbian from their name and forbid them from using the term. Instead, he wants lesbians to call themselves Tribades, which means those who rub themselves. He apparently has not been watching a lot of lesbian porn lately, as a whole lot more than that goes on.  He argued in an Athens courtroom that use of the word to describe women who loved women insults their identity, and it violates their human rights, and disgraces them around the world, and amounts to psychological and moral rape. The court saw otherwise and ordered him to pay court costs. The 69 year old Dimitris Lambrou, who spearheaded the case, vows to appeal, and hopes that instead of thinking of girls loving girls when they hear about Lesbians, they will soon instead think of old stupid men who can’t get over themselves. I think the real problem is that he is just now to old to take advantage of the pick-up line, “No really, I am a lesbian”.

It all comes down to how you define a strip club. In a lot of so-called strip clubs these days, there is not a lot of stripping. They just come out and dance topless or naked. Sure, I appreciate the art of pole work, but I also really appreciate the art of stripping. I’m not the only one, which is why there has been a resurgence in the popularity of burlesque. While they might not strip down all the way, typically stopping at pasties, they do strip. So Forty Deuce, the popular burlesque club in Las Vegas, is more of a strip club than a lot of the strip clubs. And the entertainment is all about sex, even if it is much less explicit than what you’ll see at the Gentlemen’s Clubs. Which is why conservative Republican Rep. Pete Sessions’ claim that his fundraiser at Forty Deuce was not at a strip club may be both correct and incorrect. But still- it’s a club for strictly adult entertainment, a favorite spot for events when the AVN adult industry convention comes to town, making it a very odd choice for a fundraiser for the man who claimed that it was not a wardrobe malfunction but that Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were forcing their liberal values upon the rest of the country. I am unaware that showing off some tit is a traditional liberal value, although it is certainly something I value.

Entertainment

We’ve been behind in the entertainment news lately, so this week we have an extra long segment in an attempt to get caught up.

Hedy Lamarr starred in Ecstasy in 1933, a film that shocked audiences at the time with its extended nude swim and run through the woods, and a sex scene where her face is shown while she has an orgasm. We cover the film in more detail in the Erotic University class on Pre-code films which is included with the Virtual campus. She was extremely bright. She co-created the concept of frequency-hopping that is the basis for a lot of communication technology we use today, including cordless telephones and WiFi network connections. But she was not so smart in her taste in men. The wealthy Vienesse munitions dealer she married was controlling and tried to buy up and destroy every copy of Ecstasy, an attempt that fortunately failed. She literally had to escape from him by donning a maid disguise. None of her other five husbands were all that great, including one who refused to have sex with her. In a new book, we learn her taste in men was far worse than we ever knew, She had a brief sexual fling with Adolph Hitler.  SO much for the anti-gay claims that Hitler was really gay and Nazism was really a gay controlled movement, and yes, many in the anti-gay crowd make that claim.  This affair was before he went completely nuts and became the poster boy for genocide, but still. And to her credit, part of her motivation for creating frequency-hopping was for use in torpedoes to prevent their being jammed when used  against Hitler’s forces in World War II. I suspect she had a really good idea of what kind of man he had become. She worked tirelessly in the war effort, and she sold $7 million dollars worth of war bonds in a single night by rewarding anyone who bought $25,000 worth with a kiss. And $25,000 for a kiss was real money back then.

She was considered brazen, but thousands went to see her. That is until the bishop of Caerleon complained, saying that she belonged in a house of prostitution. That was in 1947, and after the bishop’s complaints, she was banned from the public. Now she is back. Titled simply D.D. for the models initials, Sir Gerald Kelly’s painting is finally back on display after more than 60 years. She still looks out brazenly at the crowds at the Newports Museum and Art Gallery, in south Wales, cigarette in hand, and completely comfortable with her nudity despite causing considerable discomfort to many in the late 1940s. 

Who thought Mormon men could be so sexy? Certainly not the Mormon church, which just ex-communicated the man who created a calendar featuring hunky Mormon missionaries. And they were, gasp, shirtless. They took their shirts off. They didn’t even strip down to the Mormon undies.

And in Sex in the Movie, Borderline has been a cult classic in Europe, and it has finally been released here with English subtitles. Isabelle Blais plays a woman from her early twenties, living a life of sex, booze and rock and roll to the age of 30 when she has an affair with a married man. She is troubled, and at the borderline of her own sanity, but the movie focuses too much on sex being her problem when there are much deeper issues.  When you want to have lots of sex and nudity, just roll out the canard of sex addiction, despite its not being a medically recognized term. And this movie does have lots of sex, and even more nudity.

Three couples are talked into spending the night in an old house on Halloween night to helps solve the mystery of a murder there twenty years ago in Death on Demand. What they do not discover is the mystery behind how such incredibly derivative and hackneyed plots actually get made into movies. Perhaps by adding characters such as a lesbian and a porn star to ensure there is plenty o’ nudity and sex to accompany the gore. Anne McDaniels as Tammy is blissfully unaware after a sex romp and nudity that somehow a Halloween night stay in a murder house will turn into a rather unpleasant evening.

And in Witches Night, it is yet again Halloween weekend, in this version of Deliverance heterosexual Halloween style, as four guys go on a canoe trip and discover four hot ladies on the shore. Hot as hell. And guess what? These ladies are not cute Samantha type bewitched witches. They have dark designs on the guys. And like any good witch in a low-budget horror film, Elizabeth Oas takes her top off.

You probably never knew there was a Starship Troopers 2, let alone a Starship Troopers 3. The straight to video ST3  retreads the same basic premise very loosely based on a Robert Heinlein novel about a war in space with giant bugs. This brings back the original Johnny Rico character played by Casper Van Dien, along with former hot Vulcan Jolene Blaloc as a Captain and Amanda Donohoe as an admiral.  The film is officially called Marauder, named after the powered armored exoskeletons that actually were part of the original book. For the movie, though, the co-ed pilots have to strip down for a complete bio-scan before getting into them. And no, captains and admirals do not get naked.

Daryl Hannah may be in the movie Vice, but she doesn’t get naked. Leave that to Sandra-Jessica Couturier and others in this story of missing heroin and cardboard cutout cop Walker played by Michael Madsen, who is trying to figure out who is killing all the vice cops. Daryl Hannah plays vice cop Sugar, and also executive produced, which is the only reason I can think of that you’d get Daryl Hannah in a movie playing a vice cop named Sugar. And the MPAA warns of graphic nudity, which is there code word for there are brief flashes of tit, but Oh My God!, there’s a naked man and I think I could almost see his thingamajigger.

Young People Fucking, the movie whose name you dare not print in the newspapers. And yes, there is a lot of young people fucking, such as Sonja Bennett and Josh Cooke, who play exes who get back together just for sex. It looks at five different couples and five different stages of sex: prelude, foreplay, sex, interlude, orgasm and afterglow. The interesting side note to this Canadian film is that it was used as an example by Canadian Conservative Parliamentarians as an example of why Bill C-10 should be implemented, a bill that would allow the conservative government to retroactively strip tax credits from films it felt were morally objectionable- such as light –hearted non-pornographic comedies that just happen to be about something that almost every adult does and is an important part of their lives.

Man, Woman and the Wall is a Japanese sex satire with emphasis on the sex. Its about a man who fantasies about a woman he hears through his paper thin walls. Aoi Sola plays the passionate and very sexy neighbor, who can never fully measure up to the man’s fantasies when he actually meets and attempts to romance her.

I enjoyed the first Harold and Kumar movie, but Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo really amps up the sex and nudity factor. Ava Santana and Chantal Silvain kissing, a whore house, a bottomless party, and even full-frontal male nudity, I’ve put this on my Netflix list. And Neil Patrick Harris is back as himself- well sort of. This takeoff on his own personality has him chasing women, something the openly out and proudly gay Harris doesn’t actually do in real life.

Babysitters is basically Risky Business without the teenaged pimp. In this case, after making out with the father of one of the kids she babysits, Katherine Waterston discovers when he gives her a little extra money that this might be an even better way to build up that college fund. She brings in other girls and they seduce the neighborhood dads for extra money. It sounds like a porn film plot, in fact, the recent The Babysitters from Digital Playground wasn’t all that different all though a lot more explicit. The main difference is no porn film would have the main character be a Junior in high school.  

You can count Chinese stoner films on the fingers of one hand missing several fingers, but that is the best way to describe Help Me Eros, a Taiwanese export about a wealthy stock broker who gives everything up to spend more time smoking weed. In Taiwan they have what are known as Betel nut beauties, a tradition going back to the 1960s where scantily dressed women, sometimes on stripper poles, sell the mildly euphoric  betel nuts from neon lit street-side kiosks.  The main character, played by Lee Kang-Sheng,  falls in with one of these beauties, played by Ivy Yi, and he engages her in a graphic bout of sexuality, as well as in a threesome romp with two other betel nut beauties. Lots of sex, plus you get to learn about other cultures.

On the Porn side, we have volume 7 of Slutty and Sluttier. And you thought mainstream films had a problem with too many sequels. I suspect that without porn series we would have run out of porn titles all together by now. It stars Lucy Belle, Valentina Blue, Milka Manson, Jasmine Black, and Artemis Gold along with a look back at earlier scenes with  Mia Rose, Aurora Snow, and Sandra Romain. But the vid fails to make it clear how we really differentiate between slutty and sluttier, and thus misses out on an educational opportunity.

Did I mention that summer is a slow time for adult releases? Vivid comes out with the final segment of Where the Boys Aren’t, number 19: Arabian Nights. Directed by legendary drag queen Chi-Chi LaRue, it stars Tera Patrick, Briana Banks, Monique Alexander, Lexie Marie, Tawny Roberts, Mercedez, Lyndsey Love, Lacey Love, Lanny Barby, Savanna Samson and Stefani Morgan. The harem themed all girl pic includes a 10 girl orgy, and its definitely not a drag.

Whacko of the Week

Elaine Donnelly

Senator Larry Craig strongly opposes gays serving in the military, I’m assuming because if they are serving over there they won’t be in bathroom stalls over here. But the irony is that Elaine Donnelly has used him as an example of why gays should not be allowed to serve in the military.

Elaine Donnelly is a right winger’s right winger, a homphobe’s homophobe, and as a so-called expert on military readiness, she testified at the recent hearing on the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy for the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee. She is president of the Center for Military Readiness, a small minimally funded advocacy organization that apparently does no research and seems to be pretty much just Elaine Donnelly.

And what are her credentials as an expert on military readiness? She’s never been in the military in any capacity. She has no specific education on the issue. It is clear from her writings that she uses made up facts, and that she has no understanding of statistical methodologies.  She got started as a right wing advocate against women in the military, and most specifically against women in combat. Now she has added gays to her advocacy against list. She may not like women much, but she really really hates gays.

On the issue of women in the military, she has created her own vocabulary.  She claimed that a group of "civilian feminists" who work for the Pentagon have been able to push their agenda to "desexualize" and "ungender" the military through the use of "fem fear." It is because of these feminists that some in the military are forced to go on food stamps. Don’t try and follow the logic or her language- it’ll just hurt your head.

Why she was considered even remotely qualified as an expert is a mystery, but it turns out her appearance actually helped her opposition by making those who opposed gays serving in the military look like complete loons, essentially, because Donnelly came across as a complete loon.

Even before the hearing she has made outrageous remarks. In a speech criticizing gays in the military, she said “what's going to happen at a dress formal when all the officers are there in their uniforms with their wives or girlfriends on their arms and the same sex couple shows up dressed in "San Francisco finery?” Oh my god, I see what she means. What if they showed up to a military event completely nude except for butt plugs and fairy wings? Can you imagine?

It is her homophobia and not her concern about military readiness that fuels her craziness. When the military refused to allow openly gay representative Tammy Baldwin to bring her domestic partner on a military flight and Nancy Peolosi intervened, Donnelly called it a slippery slope. "This sets a disturbing precedent because it tends to suggest that marriage doesn't matter, [and that] marriage of people of same-sex or any such association should be treated as the equivalent of marriage." And that has to do with military readiness how?

She claimed that General Shalikashvili's cogent editorial in the New York Times supporting gays in the military was written because he had a debilitating stroke. She says it is "really sad" to see someone like the general being used by the homosexual propaganda machine as "the latest tool of a public relations campaign.

About the Abu Ghraib photos of a U.S. servicewoman holding a naked Iraqi prisoner by a leash, she said this is “exactly what feminists have dreamed of for years.” She claimed only another woman would have taken that picture. Is she just bitter about not being born a man?

At the hearing, she said flat out crazy things. She warned of gay men and women spreading HIV in the ranks, despite the fact that Lesbians have the lowest incidence of HIV of any demographic, and that no soldier with HIV would be deployed outside the United States.

She made the unsubstantiated charge that inappropriate passive/aggressive actions are common in the homosexual community, and that there would be forcible sodomy. Which would be a serious prosecutable crime, unless of course it were perpetrated on a woman by a man, as our Sexvestigation this week so shockingly points out. And almost as shockingly, she seems to share the military’s distinterest in the problem of heterosexual rape. She vigorously campaigned against the creation of any designated office or educational effort within the military devoted to prosecuting or preventing sexual abuse, harassment or assault, arguing that it would set up a "culture of male bashing".

She made a wide range of claims. No one would serve on a submarine with gays, a theme she seemed fixated on without ever once making a going down joke. Lesbians would be taking photos of straight women’s breast in the shower. She went on about exotic forms of sexual expression. She claimed that polls showing that 79% of Americans support allowing gays to serve openly were just ignorant.

She did not go over well. Rep. Patrick Murphy, the only Iraq war veteran in Congress, told her “You’re saying you don’t trust our military professionals to serve openly with people who might be different. I think that’s an insult.”

Her bizarre reply to him "What would you say to Cynthia Yost, the woman on a training exercise assaulted by a group of lesbians?". He rationally stated that that would be a criminal act under the military code, but  I was puzzled by this incident as I thought it was dramatic enough that I would have heard about it. So I Googled it. Turns out, this is an unverified allegation, tinged with racist overtones since it was alledgedly a gang of black lesbians. And it goes back to 1975. If the best you can do is find an incident from over 30 years ago, maybe we should have an all Lesbian military, as the documented heterosexual incidents of rape are magnitudes higher.

Ultimately, Donnelly did more to promote the idea that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is cruel and  irrational, just like Donnelly herself. So while we can mock her idiocy, she may have actually done a service for our gay and lesbian service members, moving us closer to a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Sexvestigation

This Sexvestigation  is not even slightly humorous. It should unsettle you down to your very soul.

As Jane Harman once again noted this week in a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, “women serving in the military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than be killed by enemy fire in Iraq.” And the Defense Department does not want to talk about it. They really don’t want to talk about it.

So much so that they don’t even pretend to have any legal excuse as to why they refused to allow the subpoenaed Dr. Kaye Whitley, the director of the Defense Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, to testify before Congress. Since the Justice Department is also thoroughly corrupt and now run by a slightly less incompetent but also thoroughly corrupt Mukasey, the Defense Department knows that the Justice Department has no interest in allowing any investigations to move forward, or upholding any contempt citations that the Congress might issue.

 This is the same Justice Department that has dragged its heels on investigating the many instances of rape and assault on American women by their fellow employees working for contractors in Iraq, as happened in the Jamie Leigh Jones-Halliburton rape case. She was drugged and gang raped by fellow Halliburton KBR employees on July 28th, 2005. And when Congress last December subpoenaed the Justice Department to appear to discuss this case, they simply did not show up. Notice a pattern?

And on the issue of rape, the Defense Department is completely out of control. They have gone so far as to classify a brutal rape as a suicide, despite the fact that PFC Lavena Johnson had been struck brutally in the face, that her clothes had debris on them indicating that she was dragged, she had bruises, teeth marks and scratches on her body, she had been burned, and there was massive bruising and lacerations and acid burns in her genital area, presumably to destroy DNA evidence. It was her physician father who has brought this all to light. Oh, and her body was found in a tent belonging to military contractor KBR. Notice how their name keeps appearing in connection with rape?

None of this information would have been revealed if her father had not worked with his local Congressman to get access to her records and photos of her after she was found. He first requested the CD of pictures of her postmortem, so the Defense Department sent him black and white photocopies of the pictures, and they appeared to have been airbrushed. That is when he got his representative involved, and after considerable congressional pressure and using the Freedom of Information Act he finally got the color photos to do an analysis that revealed what the military had been trying so hard to cover up.

And when he finally examined her body, it was clear that she had been assaulted and he knew from his professional training that there was no she could have shot herself in the head with an M-16 rifle as the military claimed- it would have done far more damage at that close of a range. He determined that she was actually shot by a handgun. And it would have been difficult to do herself, as she was left handed and the wound was on the right side of her head. And I suspect that this case might have been one of the things that Congress wanted to ask Dr. Kaye Whitley about. Along with many other similar and disturbing cases.

Even the Republicans on the committee were amazed at the Defense Department’s simply choosing to ignore a subpoena with no legal justification.  But unfortunately this independent branch of government doesn’t have its own independent Justice Department.

It is amazing how when you create fertile soil for evil to take root, it grows so vigorously, even in a country where we pride ourselves on not allowing those sorts of things to happen here. But they have. And the only thing saving us is that we have presidential term limits. And with the next president, (hint- not McCain), all of these bastards need to be yanked out by the roots and thrown into the compost pit, at least until they pass on to an even hotter pit awaiting them after they die.