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August 10th , 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for August 10th, 2008, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education, and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. This week in politics, we look at the possibility of our first bigamist president, the Justice Department and lesbians, and the high moral requirements of voting in Alabama. Our roundup of entertainment includes the latest in adult movies, a new sex museum in the U.S., and digital technology and pubic hair. It is also Sex Science Sunday, with all of the latest in sex science news. And finally, our Sexvestigation explores the mystery of the missing sex toys. Just click on the topic to the left you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

Politics

Personally, I am excited about the historic Obama candidacy, but I and a lot of other Democrats are now really relieved that John Edwards is not the Democratic candidate. It just seems that presidential candidates and affairs create a certain amount of controversy. And Edward’s affair two years ago with documentary filmmaker Rielle Hunter would now be coming out in a critical moment in the campaign cycle. Guess who now has about a zilch chance of becoming Obama’s VP pick? John “I cheated on my wife and all I got was this rich heiress” McCain had no comment. Can’t imagine why. If you are planning to run for president, you really should keep it zipped, at least until elected. Then you can be as Kennedyesque as you want. All they can do is impeach you.

If John McCain does get elected president, he will be our first bigamist president. Technically, under Arizona law, any person who seeks a marriage license while still legally married is guilty of bigamy and the subsequent marriage is invalid, even if the first marriage legally ends soon after taking out the license. They even prosecuted someone for this as recently as last February. And guess what? McCain did exactly that. And he probably committed perjury by telling the County Clerk’s office that his marriage was over when in fact he was still married when he applied for his license. And the bigamist and admitted adulterer has been going on lately about how he is running because he wants to support family values. I just have to wonder about his family values, which include cheating on and then dumping a loyal older wife for a younger heiress. This last week in a speech before crowds at the Sturgis Bike Rally he said he tried to talk his current wife Cindy (well, maybe not legally his wife) into competing in their wet T-shirt and blow job contest. To be fair, perhaps he was unaware that these were part of the Ms. Buffalo Chip beauty pageant when he said that his wife could be the first first lady to also be voted Miss Buffalo Chip, a beauty pageant that typically results in toplessness and some full nudity. Perhaps he did not realize that it takes skin to win. Maybe. But then he looked hungrily at the young biker women in the crowd and said, “We’re going to drill here and were going to drill now”. SO, who knows.

And the Boobs on Bikes parade is not a Sturgis event involving McCain. It’s an annual parade in several major cities in New Zealand featuring topless porn stars on motorcycles. And while some protest, being topless in public is not illegal in New Zealand. The mayor of Auckland, one of the cities the parade takes place in, said last week  “In a perfect world we wouldn’t have Boobs on Bikes in Queen St, but we don’t live in a perfect world. “  And I agree. In a perfect world, the parade would also go down streets in major U.S. cities. Unfortunately, now that would just get them thrown in jail.

There are people who want to change the law in the U.S. though. On August 23rd, GoTopless.org will be holding a day of rallies in Washington, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. Interestingly, New York already has topfree rights. The argument is that if men can go without a shirt, then women need to be afforded the same right. I have to agree, and we are way behind other countries on this. Kris and I will be at the Venice Beach rally, along with members of our Adventurous Couples group. We’ll have Nadine Gary, their national event organizer, on this show next week.

Spreading rumors about someone in the workplace being a lesbian would normally be considered sexual harassment. In the Justice Department, it was grounds for being fired. Oh, not the ones spreading the rumors, the ones being accused. This was Alberto Gonzalaez’s Justice Department, where they put unqualified and inexperienced children like Monica Goodling in charge. She not only hated Democrats and made sure that no one who had even brushed up too closely against a Democrat or a Democratic cause ever got hired at the Justice Department in non-partisan positions despite that being against the law, she also had a real thing against lesbians. Even a rumor of you being a lesbian could end your career. It all came out in the report from the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of the Inspector General. It even appears that one of the U.S. Attorneys fired in the infamous attorney purge, Margaret Chiara, was fired because of rumors that she might be gay. Turns out she wasn’t, but Goodling also personally intervened to destroy the career of the career prosecutor she was rumored to be involved with, Leslie Hagan. I guess in Monica’s world, a competent woman has to be a dyke.  Goodling and others did Internet searches to make sure that Google never put your name and the word gay on the same page, unless the word bashing was also there. And one woman was hired specifically because she opposed civil unions, not because of her qualifications. In fact, highly qualified people were frequently passed over for, in some cases, extremely unqualified people, candidates as incompetent and unqualified as Goodling herself. This administration replaced the Peter Principle, where people rise to their own level of incompetence, with the Bush principle, where people get promoted because of their level of incompetence. Goodling and others typically asked prospective hires about abortion and gay issues. If you weren’t strongly opposed to both, you were automatically disqualified. Then they did Internet searches to make sure you never contributed to gay or liberal causes or candidates. One candidate even lost out because when asked to name someone they admired, they responded with Condoleezza Rice. The bottom rung law school graduate Goodling noted that Rice was too liberal because she was pro-choice. And according to the report, there was no actual adult supervision at Justice with Gonzalez in charge, just directives on hiring coming directly from the White House. It has been reported that Goodling under John Ashcroft was the person who ordered the drapes that covered the Spirit of Justice statue because she was topless, but it should be curtains for her- she and many others in the Justice Department should really be in jail.

I’m not sure if you are moral enough to vote in Alabama. I know I’m not. You see, Alabama has these old laws that give a whole bunch of reasons for disallowing people from registering to vote, and the Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman and other election officials have been sort of randomly using these laws to keep people of the voter roles. For example, amongst those not allowed to vote are idiots and insane person. That might be a double whammy that would keep the current Secretary of State from voting. Sure, there are the usual crimes that would discount you from voting, such as robbery, treason, murder. But another reason to disallow voting for life is moral turpitude. Along with bigamy, living in adultery, sodomy, miscegenation, and crimes against nature- which is essentially any type of sex not in the missionary position. And you could lose your right to vote for life if you were convicted of production or possession of obscene matter. And all of this would be laughable of officials weren’t actually enforcing this law. Except I doubt it would ever be enforced against Alabama’s notoriously anti-gay Attorney General Troy King, who was caught last month in bed by his wife while he was dallying with a young male aide. The same Troy King who has been fighting diligently to uphold Alabama’s notorious anti-sex toy laws. Doesn’t sound constitutional? The American Civil Liberties Union would agree with you, which is why they suing the Secretary of State and election officials.

We went to the big sex toy show recently, and there is news on the sex toy front. Not about them specifically, but about buying them. A federal appeals court turned down Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's attempt to reinstate a ban on the sale and marketing of sex toys. The Appeals Court struck down the ban in February. The Attorney General’s office is considering an appeal. And currently, the biggest dildo in Texas is Greg Abbott.

Sexvestigation

It’s the mystery of the missing sex toys. Lots of them. 564 items of merchandise with a total value of over $50,000. So where are they? That question is only a small part of what has led to a federal lawsuit. To solve the mystery, we need to backtrack a little.

The place. New Bern, South Carolina. Greg Sakas decides to open a store called Pure Bliss. Since he also wants to sell some adult products, he visits the city attorney, who assures him that he would not be violating any city or state statutes. He even gets that assurance in writing.

Then, three years later, in January 2007, he is raided by police. Despite the city attorney’s determination that he was not running an adult establishment, and despite the fact that officers did not have probable cause, they hauled away tons of inventory, without even checking what most of it was. They took sealed boxes. They took non-adult DVDs. The seizure violated several North Carolina statutes. The items weren’t even specified or described in the search warrant. Police also seized all of Sakas' business and financial records.

He again receives assurance from the city attorney that he is not violating any laws, and the city attorney also makes an agreement with the chief of police, and Sakas is told he can reopen while working to resolve his problems with the police. He does not have to worry about problems with the police until the initial issues are resolved in court.

The next September, he is raided again. And not just for selling sex toys. Now they added an additional charge of selling a controlled substance. In this case, a product used to clean the heads of video players. Police claimed it was really used to sniff to get intoxicated. Except, they had no evidence to prove that. They again took all his records. They even took his keys and left the store unlocked all night. And even though they put out an arrest warrant, no one seemed to know what to do when he tried to turn himself in. Its as if Sheriff Taylor left town and the entire police department was run by Barney Fife’s dumber relatives.

The first question is why the police would so consistently and aggressively violate the law to deprive someone of their constitutional rights. Why did they continue to harass him after his arrest by putting marked patrol cars outside his store to discourage customers.

The answer to that mystery is easily resolved. Police Chief Frank Polombo is a right wing conservative family values guy with political aspirations. And he was working with and currying favor with the local Christian Coalition which had been picketing the store. This family values chief, whose son is a convicted drug dealer, thought that by going after the store, it would increase his political profile. 

Polombo fought hard to keep the D.A from settling the case, and they dragged it out until this month. When the case finally got to court, the judge threw it out. And the judge also told Sakas that the police would continue to go after him. Sakas then tried to get back his property, which the police promised to return. Then the police told him they didn’t have it. It all just disappeared.

Then they changed their statement and claimed that all of the items were destroyed. But there was no destruction order or any evidence that anything was destroyed. That is a lot of evidence to destroy- you’d think there would be some record. The police didn’t even have an inventory. And under what legal principle is evidence of significant value destroyed when the case is thrown out of court for having no merit?

The cops never even consulted with the city attorney before the raid, and the officer who got the search warrants testified that he did not even understand the law when he obtained them. Yes, they actually did an undercover operation and raided a store without ever even understanding what the law was.  This sort of nonsense is typical with obscenity prosecutions, dealing with vague and confusing laws that are open to interpretation and abuse. And they wind up costing cities and the victims of these prosecutions a fortune.

Now Sakas is suing Chief Polombo, the officers, and the city in Federal Court for conspiring, under color of law, to deprive him of his right to conduct lawful business in the state, as well as to violate his First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. He is also asking for an injunction to stop future police raids, and to stop the harassment of having marked patrol cars in front of his store to discourage customers.

I don’t think its much of a mystery where all the sex toys went. And while the police may have thought that they were getting a really good deal on sex toys, I think they’ll find that ultimately they will turn out to be quite expensive. And this time, I think Sakas will enjoy his time in court a lot more.

Entertainment

What better place for a sex museum than Las Vegas. And now they have one. The Erotic Heritage Museum has just opened, and features over 24,000 square feet of exhibit space with a special emphasis on the unfolding of the evolution of adult entertainment and sexuality in the 20th century. They have an exhibit of mechanical bondage items, sculptures, erotic art, erotic comic books, and lots of movies. The building was donated by Harry Mohney, who founded the Deja Vu chain. The museum is dedicated to "the belief that sexual pleasure and fun are natural aspects of the human experience, that such pleasure must be made available to all, and that our individual sexuality belongs to each of us." That seems like some pretty good things to have a museum dedicated to.

Digital film technology continues to be used in ways I am sure the early pioneers of film could never have imagined. Take for example the film Hippie Hippie Shake, a film in which  Sienna Miller portrays a hippy. And not surprisingly, she appears in the nude. Only one problem. Most women these days shave, and Sienna Miller is no exception. Anyone who has watched late 60’s porn knows that shaving was not so common back in the wild and free 60’s when this movie is set. So the special effects folks have added digital pubic hair. The movie is about England’s longest obscenity trial, which resulted in the jailing of Oz magazine publishers. Sure, I’ve seen an actress muff her performance, but this is the first time I’ve heard of where a special effects team muffed an actresses’ performance.

Gia Darling Will Kick Your Ass. That’s not a threat, that’s the title of her new forced-feminization fetish video. Her feminization wasn’t forced and was much more thorough than happens to any of the guys in this film. She kept her winkie, but she got a lovely set of breasts. This Third World Media video features Darling along with Mistress Berlin, Mistress Nicolette, Mistress Gemini, and Mistress Jeannine and if I messed any of those up please don’t hurt me. They humiliate men with cock and ball torture, tie them up, dress them in skirts and make-up. And in this vid a lot more happens to their asses than just being kicked.

Touch Me delivers 5 tease-heavy, hardcore scenes created with the average Joe in mind. "I wanted to get across the experience of having these girls in your house and being able to tell them what to do-not like a porn shooter, but from a regular guy's perspective," said director Skow. Although I should point out that there is no way in hell a regular guy is going to have Brianna Banks, Alexis Texas, and Daisy Marie in his house telling them what to do. Its from Vivid Entertainment and available in Blu-Ray.

New Sensations Addicted 4 has got quite a cast of popular names: Ashlynn Brooke, Jenna Haze, Sasha Grey, Teagan, Nikki Kane. It is also well shot with beautiful women in beautiful settings. What I don’t get is why they all have to have Raccoon eyes- you know, the heavy dark eye liner and eye shadow. I guess its supposed to be glamorous.

We are introducing a new feature, what we call the Porn Press Release Poetry Reading. I get tons of press releases from the adult industry. Some of them are downright poetic. So we’ll start out by reading an actual press release from Intense Industries:

Deep ass fucking dicktation divas

slutbound secretaries sucking schlongs and spitting snatch saliva

cock crazy cunts climbing on tenderly tasted testicles

gaping asses reamed

vibrating vaginas vanquished

tonsils tickled by mantubes

all this and taking letter for the boss!

If that moved you as much as it did me, you’ll want to check out Sexy Secretaries Four starring Candy Cat, Stephany Amore, and Jennifer Love. And a special appearance by Fanny Fukkem. I don’t even have to make this stuff up.

Science

Want to decrease your chances of pregnancy? Fuck a fat man. New research conducted at the University of Aberdeen shows that obese males have lower volumes of seminal fluid, and a higher proportion of abnormal sperm.  Obesity is even more effective for men who don’t want to accidentally get a woman pregnant, because not only is their sperm defective, they are also less likely to attract women who will actually sleep with them.

They’ve been looking at Viagra for a long time for its possible effects on women, and up till now have found nothing. Now it appears according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. that it might offer help to women suffering from sexual dysfunction caused by anti-depressants. That’s a big deal, as more than twice as many women are on anti-depressants as men, and many of them stop taking them because of the sexual side-effects. If you are trying to overcome depression, losing your sex drive is just, well, depressing.

With 1.2 billion people, you’d think that sex was clearly something the Chinese excel at, but a new study notes they excel in another area- they are the most likely to fail to achieve orgasm. This is according to the latest Durex Sexual Wellbeing survey, which surveyed 26,000 people in 26 countries. And while the Japanese seem to have little problem having orgasms, but they rated as the least satisfied with the intensity of the orgasm. I’m unclear as to why this would be, or why Asian countries in general rated so poorly, or why Brazil and Mexico rated as the best orgasmers.

AskMen.com has released their latest Great Male Survey. I am a little confused about their questions however. For example, they ask how many sex partners you’ve had. Over 50% reported having 4 or fewer partners, although it was unclear if they meant at the same time. 27 percent reported having 10 or more partners. But the very next question was “Have you ever lied about the number of sex partners you've had?” And 14% selected “Yes, because its no one’s business but my own.” They also needed an option yes but never for a sex survey. They ask for how long people make love on average. The options were 5 minutes or less (13%), 15 minutes or less (17%), 1-30 minutes (39%), 30-60 minutes (24%), and 60 minutes or more (7%). And although they ask about frequency, what we really need to know is the relationship between frequency and time. Are they having sex for less than five minutes less than once a month, or once a day? That’s a huge difference, but we’d never know from the data released.  Question 22 is kind of dumb- Would you be offended if your partner faked an orgasm. The only option if you were not offended was “No, all that matters is that I get off”. But what if you were disappointed rather than offended that you were not able to give her a real orgasm, not in her but in yourself? Or what about, No, because sometimes she just gets tired and doesn’t want to make her partner feel bad? On the question of threesomes, 61% wanted to, 15% did with two women, and 5% did with a woman and a man, but an interesting detail is missing. Those of us who have experienced a lot of threesomes knows it is a very difference experience based on the level of bisexuality involved. That would have been a telling bit of data. I did think that it was interesting that 43% liked no pubic hair on their partner and 41% preferred it neatly trimmed. No question on whether any of them men do manscaping, tough. And it was disturbing that 73% of men surveyed thought that homosexuality was a lifestyle choice, although only 33% condemned it as immoral. Overal, some interesting results, but I’d probably leave out Great from the Great Male Survey. This stuff is often better left to the professionals.

I have noticed that when I’ve gone out with stubble I got more looks from women. And not the he looks like a homeless guy looks. And many male stars popular with women have sported the stubble look. Researchers at Northumbria University looked into this and discovered that while men with full facial hair rate the poorest with women,  but stubble clearly rates better with women than the clean shaven look. According to a psychologist there, “Facial hair, or beardedness, is a powerful socio-sexual signal and an obvious biological marker of sexual maturity.”  And that has to do with why women prefer stubble to beards of clean-shaveness how? Women in the study said the stubbly look makes men seem tough, mature, aggressive and dominant. Or in my case, it means I was once again late getting out of the house.

According to a Queensland study, women find it easier to orgasm through masturbation than with a partner. Don’t you just love research conclusions that anyone would already know if they actually got out of the lab and into bed with women?

I was reading an article about some interesting work by Dr. Jing Deng, the first person to capture 4D ultrasound imaging of an erect penis. It talked about the difficulties researchers have in finding recruits for studies involving couples actually having sex, which is why there is so very little of this type of research done. But the problem is also the same problem you’d have putting ordinary guys on a porn set and expecting them to perform. With all of the distractions and pressure, nothing happens. There are two groups of people that could handle the pressure though- swingers and porn stars. They are both used to having sex with lots of distractions and other people about. We really need to get these two groups together with the research community. Many of the people in these two groups are very open minded and would love to contribute to our understanding of sex.

In research conducted by Dr Rebekah Levine Coley and her colleagues at Boston College, they concluded that adolescents who took part in family activities more often had sex less frequently, less unprotected sex, and fewer sex partners. The exception, of course, was certain parts of the deep South, where the two went hand in hand. The research might be skewed by the fact that those who have the time to spend with their family do so because they aren’t getting any dates. As a teenager, given a choice between getting laid or family time, I know what I would have chosen. Still, the study was fairly comprehensive, doing detailed statistical analysis of 4950 US teens over several years. And it did focus on risky behavior, which is more significant than looking at whether they had sex or not. That is almost an irrelevant bit of data to look at since we know that at least two out of three US teens have sex before they turn 19, and I suspect those numbers are skewed low because of the problems with defining what sex is to teenagers. Is oral sex sex? Not to a lot of teens. I might disagree with how they define risky or inappropriate sexual behavior for teens, but I think the base premise is sound: A supportive environment with involved parents creates an environment in which teens make better and more responsible decisions. And the study showed that the opposite was also true: "Negative and psychologically controlling parenting behaviors may inhibit adolescents' development of self-efficacy and identity, interfere with mature and responsible decision making skills, and affect the development of healthy relationships, in turn leading to an elevated likelihood of engaging in risky behavior.” 

And finally, there is a new study out from one of the leading scientific research organization, the Parents Television Council. And the conclusion of the study which they titled “Happily Never After” is that television likes sex, but not marriage. As someone who really likes both, I might be a little skeptical about their conclusions, since they really like exclusively traditional marriage but not sex. The study concludes that prime-time television "seems to be actively seeking to undermine marriage by consistently painting it in a negative light." Yes, there is some vast conspiracy to undermine marriage at the networks- I’m guessing because television executives are all gay and we all know that is the gay agenda.  The effect of all this on children, along with what they call bizarre sexual behaviour, is dire. They specifically name "Grey's Anatomy," "Boston Legal" and "Desperate Housewives" as among those most harmful to family values.  Interestingly, all very popular shows that don’t really seem like shows kids should be watching, but I, unlike the PTC, would leave that decision to the parents. And their notion that the government should step in so even parents could not watch these shows is not even remotely realistic. According to the director of TV Watch, the PTC study uses their usual “faulty analysis, biased methodology and suspect omissions to influence the debate and raise money.” Here is an interesting tidbit on their general methodology- they count a scene of a medical procedure as a scene of violence. They are a conservative religious organization that wants to force their rigid values on the rest of us- and they hope that make-believe science will convince the government and the people to go along with them. I don’t think so.