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August 12th, 2007

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Political News

He was in a public restroom in a park after dark. Not the sort of place you’d expect to see a state congressman. Somehow Florida Congressman Bob Allen accidentally wandered into this bathroom. And inside he found black man. A Big scary black man. How was he to know that the guy was an undercover officer. As Allen said in his statement to police, he was afraid of becoming just another statistic. And by this, he did not mean as another Republican moralistic anti-sex hypocrite caught with his pants down. In this situation, he did the only thing he could think of. He offered to give the big scary black man a blow job and 20 bucks. This was designed to appease the big scary black man. For anyone who believes this explanation he gave police, I simply suggest that you try it yourself. Go to an area late at night, find a big scary black man, and offer to give him a blow job and $20. See how well that works for you. Or could it be that Allen is simply trying to hide his homosexual indiscretion behind his racism. Lets see how well that works for him. 

At this point, I bet the Republicans are wishing for a sex scandal along the lines of Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villiarigosa’s, who was having an affair with a hot Hispanic female newscaster. Instead, they get Representative Mark Foley’s congressional page pestering, Senator David Vitter’s hooker diaper dallying, and State Congressman Bob Allen’s  $20 bathroom blowjob. And it continues, the latest with a man in his early 20’s  waking up to discover much to his surprise that he is getting head from the national head of the Young Republicans. A group that had been at a Young Republicans event decided to do a sleepover since they had been drinking. For one Young Republican and one Young Republican leader, that turned out to be a bad idea. The young man filed a police report. This was not even the first time that someone has reported a nocturnal surprise blowjob from 33 year old Glenn Murphy Jr. A word of advice- unless you like to wake up with your cock in the mouth of slightly chubby male Republican, don’t do sleepovers with Glenn Murphy. Now we know what he meant when he said, and he actually said this, “I will essentially be the mouthpiece and effective leader for the tens of thousands of Young Republicans across the country.” Very ambitious. And, of course, he made a name for himself by encouraging Republican candidates to use gay marriage as a wedge issue. Apparently, its not the gay sex he objects to, it’s the consensual gay sex. As long as it’s a surprise, its okay.

When candidates speak to select groups, they sometimes use language that makes sense only to those groups, and the meaning may be missed by outsiders. Such is the case of Mitt Romney speaking to the religious right. He uses the phrase "I fought to define life as beginning at conception rather than at the time of implantation."  This has a very specific meaning to the anti-choice crowd. Of course he means that he wants to ban abortions. But it goes beyond that to some of the hidden red meat for these groups. They believe that the birth control pill and many other forms of contraception work by preventing implantation. That is not exactly true, but to them, that is the same thing as an abortion. By making abortions illegal, and redefining conception as the moment of fertilization, what he is really saying with his carefully chosen words is that he agrees with their often unspoken to outsiders desire to redefine the most common forms of contraception as forms of abortion, thus making them illegal. The anti-choice crowd’s agenda has always been about eliminating women’s options, not just for abortion, but for birth control as well. They blame contraception for many of society’s ills. Candidate Tom Tancredo stated that emergency contraception "cheapens human life, and simply uses a woman's body to dispose of the child instead of a doctor." Remember that emergency contraception works the exact same way as the birth control pill, the patch, the IUD, the ring, and other methods. None of these methods induce an abortion, but the distinction is lost on these folks. Bush’s agenda, shared with social conservatives, is eliminating access to contraception. As author Cristina Page points out, he’s already made a lot of progress by attempting to strip contraceptive coverage for federal employees, appointing anti-contraception leaders to critical posts including the contraception advisory panel of the FDA and to oversee nation's contraception programs for the poor, de-funding international family planning programs, investing unprecedented sums into sex-ed programs that prohibit mention of contraception except for failure rates. Their war is not against abortion, it is against a woman’s control over her body. And when a candidate says that they are pro-choice as long as the only two choices are that a woman is either celibate or a baby machine, that just means they forgot to use the more carefully chosen words that mean the same thing.

Science

At the Creation Museum in Kentucky, you can see children and dinosaurs playing together. That doesn’t mean that dinosaurs are good role models for children, however. The creation museum might just want to rethink their displays, and move those kids as far away from the dinosaurs as possible.  Scientists have recently determined that unlike birds, which they believe are descended from dinosaurs, dinosaurs did not wait to reach adulthood before having sex. Would you let your kid play with a horny adolescent dinosaur? I don’t think so. And, just because we really enjoy mocking this $27 million monument to the denial of human intelligence, the picture included here is of the actor Eric Linden, who they hired to play Adam in one of their videos. This is Adam at his day job, getting an apparent blow job in an ad for clothing web site SFX- which looks like sex and stands for Sir Fuxalot. This picture is our commentary on just how much we think this fake museum sucks.

An interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle quotes the author of “Sex as Nature Intended It,” Kristen O'Hara, who claims that she had pain from sex and resultant frigidity due to having abnormal sex. And what caused the abnormal sex? According to her, it was the unnatural shape of her husband’s penis because he had been circumcised. She also claims that circumcision reduces pleasure for the woman, which is why so many have to fake orgasm. I am assuming she is unfamiliar with a little thing called a clitoris, which has a lot to say about orgasms but is quite silent on the topic of extra pockets of skin on the tip of the penis. O’Hara has her theories about foreskin cushioning and its ability to help the vagina retain lubrication, but of course, she never consulted any physicians or sex therapists or in fact any other experts. She just did a survey, which is only as good as the protocols used. Experts such as Susie Brite have never heard of this pain from uncircumcised penises theory, and neither have I, but it is certainly a useful argument for those who want to see a ban on male circumcision. And yes, there is a very adamant politicized anti-circumcision crowd that is obsessed with the topic.  There are some advantages to circumcision that I find rather compelling. Based on my own discussions with women and from anecdotal evidence from books like Maggie Paley’s “The Book of the Penis”, it seems that a lot of women find it more pleasant to give head to a circumcised penis. It has long been claimed that circumcision is just more sanitary, but research shows it goes beyond that. According to research by French AIDS researcher Bertran Auvert, circumcised men were 63 percent less likely to contract AIDS through vaginal sex than uncircumcised men.

Why have sex? Researchers at the University of Texas just published a study listing 237 reasons men and women have sex in the August edition of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Twenty of the top 25 reasons were the same for men and women. According to researcher Cindy Meston, she believes that the study refutes a lot of sexual stereotypes, including the one about men wanting sex for pleasure while women provide sex out of love.  The had 444 participants ranging in age from 17 to 52 to come up with the reasons, and some 1500 college age students ranked them in order. The study skewed more towards singles and younger students.  Good news for men- the reason “I just wanted to give someone else a sexual disease” ranked last with women.  The number one reason for both men and women was “I was just attracted to the person”.  And reason number 238 for college age students that didn’t make the list- The Daily Show was a rerun.

One of the reasons that social conservatives have opposed the HPV vaccine is because it has been thought of as primarily a sexually transmitted disease. Laura Koutsky, a University of Washington epidemiologist, and colleagues have identified traces of the human papilloma virus under the fingernails of young men. That certainly indicates another possible means of transmission. Of course, they may argue that scratching someone else’s itch is what they have been arguing against all along.

A new study put out by Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, examined the association between cigarette smoking and erectile dysfunction. The study found that there was a significant statistical link between the number of cigarettes that men smoked and the likelihood of them experiencing erectile dysfunction. Maybe the abstinence crowd could take this concept and some old fashioned marketing  to promote smoking. Want to avoid having sex? Just get your guy to smoke, which will leave him limp, loose and manageable.

It is called the first study of mood, sex, and commitment. It does the typical focus only on college age 20 years olds because they are here type of research done at colleges. To me personally, doing a study on commitment and 20 year olds is your first problem. Commitment typically comes a little later.  Supposedly, the study demonstrates the extreme differences in the way men and women view potential mates. College attending 20 year olds are usually looking for sex partners, not mates, so I have a problem with the fundamental premise here. And why are we even talking about a survey with a sample size of just 60?  The methodology was to have participants watch uplifting and depressing film clips to see how changes in mood affected their attitude towards sex and commitment. The head of the Australian study, psychologist Professor Mark Stokes, stated that there were no surprises in the results (reinforcing traditional sexual stereotypes), "It's just that this is the first time this has been scientifically verified anywhere in the world." Really?  The amazing conclusion, apparently published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, was that watching a dramatic film with a happy ending is a successful tactic for "increasing romantic interest." Somehow out of this they also got that women underestimated a man's interest in a long-term relationship, while men in the study repeatedly assumed women were more interested in sex than they actually were. I admit that I am only an enthusiastic layman and not a trained scientist, but this gets my bullshit sensors all a tingle.

Sexvestigation.

There is a war against sexual science in this country. Its not really new. Christianity has been waging a war for a long time against sexuality and anything, including science, that helps us better understand it.. In some of my old books on sexuality from around the turn of the last century, the authors even admit that if they actually told the truth of what they knew about sexuality, the book could never be published because it would offend the religious.

For a  long time, America was rather backward scientifically. Sputnik changed things. Suddenly, America realized that science was important. If we were going to compete globally, we needed to educate our children in the sciences. This led directly to America’s lead in science and technology

Of course, things are different now. America is losing its edge in technology. Science is getting short shrift in schools once again, and many topics are simply ignored. They don’t want to offend fundamentalist Christians, who object to many aspects of geology, biology, physics, and other sciences they see as contradicting their literal interpretation of the Bible. There is an overall war against science in this country, fueled not just by fundamentalists, but also by corporations that do not want limits on their activities that might be damaging the environment, endangering health, or causing global warming. Sceince has been deemphasized in the classroom and in congress. How and why this is happening is well documented in Chris Mooney’s excellent  book, the Republican War on Science.

In no other area have they seen more success than in their war on sexual science. It is the official policy of our current government.

Throughout our government, the power of various agencies has been redirected into the hands of those with a political agenda and little respect for science. Many of them are classical scientific cranks, pseudoscientists with as much credibility as a young earth creationist.

The FDA was scientifically compromised. Over the counter emergency birth control was delayed for years, due in part to recommendations completely ignoring science by crackpot Dr David Hager. Hager opposes birth control for unmarried women, and clings to the scientifically false notion that emergency contraception causes abortions.  Bush named appointees to the FDA advisory committee on reproductive health who opposed not only abortion, but contraception as well.

The surgeon general, Richard Camera, was muzzled on sexual topics, including the failure of abstinence education and Plan B.

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control websites were told to remove information about the effectiveness of condoms from their websites, replacing it with pro-abstinence propaganda. A separate CDC listing of sex-education "Programs that Work," meant to give local officials information on scientifically proven methods of reducing risky teen sexual behavior was also removed.

Tom Coburn, who is now a senator and one of our easiest picks for whacko of the week for his extremist anti-condom views and attempts to have condoms relabeled as being ineffective, before being elected was made co-chair the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

Bush Appointed Ellen Sauerbrey to be the Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She has said that sex education is unhealthy to the family, and is strongly opposed to abortion and birth control.

The Department of Health and Human Services has been compromised. Bush appointed Eric Keroack as assistant secretary of population affairs, in charge of DHHS family planning programs.  He has said that birth control is demeaning to women. He is also a proponent of the pseudoscientific belief that premarital sex suppresses the production of oxycontin, thus making it impossible to have a successful long term marriage. They also launched a web site called 4parents with advice for parents on how to keep their kids from having unwanted pregnancies or becoming sexually active. A review by four health experts found the site riddled with factual errors, including calling condoms only moderately effective and providing misinformation about STDs. The site was corrected for awhile after a storm of complaints, but hass been recently updated with new misinformation. While claiming that the site was created by government scientists, it was in fact created by an anti-choice anti-gay right wing advocacy group.

International AIDS programs have been forbidden to talk about condoms or distribute condoms, even though rape and the spread of HIV is on the rise in many countries.   International family planning programs have been forbidden to even mention the subject of abortion, even when the woman’s life is at risk.

A delegation to the U.N’s Special Session on Children led by presidential candidate Tommy Thompson joined with Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Iraq and the Vatican to eliminate comprehensive sex education for adolescents, restrict STD-prevention and contraceptive information to heterosexual married couples, and redefine "reproductive health services" to exclude legal abortion.

Unbelievably, a US delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable development joined again with the Vatican and Islamic countries to oppose including language that would characterize female genital mutilation, forced child marriage and honor killings as human rights violations.

In an attempt to alter language in the earlier landmark agreement of 179 countries in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development, State Department representative Elaine Jones expressed the official U.S. position that natural family-planning methods be emphasized in the updated conference document, offering her own experience with the Billings method of birth control. An Iranian delegate, who was also an ob-gyn, pointed out that these methods have a very high failure rate, and that it says so in all the U.S. textbooks.

Congress has had Judith Reisman, another of our whackos of the week, appear as an expert witness on pornography and other issues. Her life’s work has primarily been devoted to trying to destroy the credibility and research of Alfred Kinsey, an agenda for which no lie is too outrageous. She also supports many pseudoscientific sex theories.

Sex education in our schools has been all but dismantled, replaced by federally funded abstinence education that, when it rarely deals with anything scientific, typically gets the facts wrong. This has been well-documented by Henry Waxman’s congressional investigation and many studies.

The ban against federally funded stem cell research is based on a complete misunderstanding of the basic science. People’s lives are sacrificed who might have been saved by the research, to save embryos that would be discarded anyway.

There are also dozens of stories of sexual research that appear in the media regularly. We have seen many instances of sloppy science reported as a new breakthrough, often with an ultimately negative slant about sexuality. These include so-called research that shows that there is no such thing as bisexuality, or claims made for the pseudoscience of reparative therapy.

And this is not even a barely comprehensive overview. Keeping track of all of these individuals and all of the crackpot scientific statements made by them is a big job. I’m no scientist, but Erotic University has created the Sex Science Skeptic website as a place where scientists can track, and comment about the many spurious attempts to inject false or sloppy science into our understanding of sexuality.

It is just started, but please give sexscienceskeptic.com a visit. We hope it will become a very interesting repository of information and commentary.

Whacko of the Week

This week’s Whacko of the Week is one of our scarier whackos. You’ve probably heard of him, but there is a lot about his background I bet you don’t know.

Baptist Minister Fred Phelps got his start in California as a student activist, rallying against student necking on campus. His campaign even merited an article in a 1951 edition of Time. His hatred began even then.

He’s a disbarred lawyer (both state and federal) who now is the preacher for Westboro Baptist Church. But don’t let that fool you- its really just a house, his home, the one he’s lived in for 40 years. His so-called congregants are mostly members of his large family. Thriteen children, dozens of grandchildren.

He believes that the punishment for homosexuality should be death, and his main mission in life now is celebrating death, usually violent death, that can in any way be blamed on homosexuality.

He’s in the news now because he plans protests at the funerals of those who died in the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. That’s a long way from his home base of Topeka Kansas, but he happily travels the country wherever he can bring his message of hate. His reasoning, if you can use the term reason to apply to anything he does, is that that God made the bridge fall because he hates America, and especially Minnesota, because of its tolerance of homosexuality. In the church’s press release, he calls Minnesota the land of the sodomite damned. He says that those who perished in the bridge collapse are going straight to hell, and he plans to bring picketers to their funerals to make sure that their families know they are going to hell. Sadly, Minnesota is not one of the 17 states that have banned ptotests at funerals, inspired largely by Phelps. And he plans to sing these words to the tune of God Bless the USA-

From the bridge of Minnesota, where they’re fishing out the dead

Across the plains of Texas, where the water’s reached the head

Detroit down to Houston- New York where they say

Even though god showed his wrath to us, his word they won’t obey

Im ashamed to be an America, where the fags can freely roam

They spread their filth around this land, every pervert calls it home

So I’ll gladly stand up- with a picket sign- and proclaim gods word today

Cuz their ain’t no doubt about this land- God hates the USA

Fred Phelps certainly hates the USA. He was there for Katrina, not to help the anguished and homeless, but to state, “Thank God for Katrina. New Orleans, symbol of America, seen for what it is: a putrid, toxic, stinking cesspool of fag fecal matter.” He picketed the funeral of Mathew Shepard, who was brutally murdered because he was gay. He inspired a law that now bans picketing military funerals.

According to his son Mark, he brutally beat his children. Son Nate also confirmed this a year later, along with allegations of spousal abuse, drug addiction, tax fraud and business fraud. Mark believes his father is addicted to hate, and now that his children are grown and he can no longer vent his hatred on them for fear of them leaving his control, he focuses it on homosexuals.

Three of his 13 children have come forward to confirm his cruelty as a father, his sadism, his unpredictability. He shot a dog in front of them that had wandered into his yard. They were terrorized as children, and now Fred Phelps has made it his mission to terrorize everyone else. 9 of his children are still under his control, along with many grandchildren.

He is not a stupid man. He uses his knowledge of the law to ruthlessly go after critics. He insisted that many of his children become lawyers 11 of them did. They can use the law to go after anyone who they perceive as an enemy, and the citizens of Topeka know better than to mess with him. Accordng to the local paper, the Capital-Journal. Even the police were afraid to mess with him.  He was more trouble that he was worth. The paper reported that the abuses against the children amounted to torture, but in the 1970’s they did not have the stricter protections we have today. The police tried to prosecute him, but the terrified children refused to cooperate, and he sued everyone, including the school that reported the abuse. They decided it was easier to back off.

Something happened to Phelps at the age of 16. His sister refuses to talk about it until after he is dead. It was then that he became the hate filled rage-aholic he is today. And at 17, he was ordained.

His own son Mark calls him a sad sick man who enjoys hurting people. His insanity includes a hatred of the swiss, and along with the god hates gays website, he also has a god hates Sweden site. He calls military funerals pagan orgies.  

Many lesbian mothers have had their children taken from them simply because they were gay. And yet, one of the craziest most hate filled vile men in America continues run a scam tax-free church and have many children under his control to whom he can teach his hate-filled theology against gays, and a hatred of anyone who disagrees with him.

Mr. Phelps, your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to get some serious mental health help. This message, like most aspects of reality that impinge upon your consciousness, will self-destruct in 15 seconds.