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August 26th, 2007

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Political News

There was nothing last week, but thankfully we are back with more sex scandal news. State Rep Bob Allen officially pleaded not guilty to charges that he solicited an undercover officer in a park bathroom for sex. He has added some new twists to his story that he did it out of self defense. Now he says that he went into the bathroom because he was afraid of a lightning storm. And he says he knocked on the bathroom stall next to him  to see if the officer inside was OK. “Excuse me, you okay in there, need anything? Like to give me a blowjob for $20?”  Remember, Allen claimed he made the offer only because he was afraid of the officer, who was black.  If the officer agreed, Allen claimed he was going to lure him to the KSC Security Guard gate where he would be rescued. A gate that was several miles away. During a scary lightning storm. With a scary black man. Allen claims that he will be found innocent.

We did a Sexvestigation report last week on the sorry state of modern journalism. Here’s another example. In a New York Times article on Baracck Obama by reporter Jeff Zeleny, it states, referring to Obama: “He also said it was wrong for anti-war activists to protest at military funerals, declaring: “It needs to stop.” Hard to disagree with that, except that is not what Obama actually said. He never said anti-war activists. What Obama was actually referring to was the well-publicized anti-gay activists protesting at military funerals. Something a reporter who read his own newspaper ought to know. But we know he doesn’t do that , because the New York Times made the same mistake last year attributing the protests  to antiwar protestors rather than anti-gay protestors, and then the Times printed a correction. And in our Augusts 12th show’s  Whacko of the Week, we talk about the main guy behind the protests, Reverend Fred Phelps. Maybe Zeleny should listen to our show. But that would require actual time spent paying attention to the news and learning about issues rather than just writing about them- something that modern journalists seem to have little interest in. 

As you know, there is a real crises with our jails. Apparently, in some states, they are not nearly full enough. That is why they have laws allowing them to send young teenagers to jail for having sex. Like Idaho, perpetual beauty contest joke name, where any sex outside of marriage is against the law, punishable by fine and imprisonment. For a young man of any age, even one younger than the girl, having consensual sex with a female under age 18 is rape, and you get sent to prison for it. Adult prison. Or Georgia, where a local district attorney is publishing a book called Ignorance is no Defense: A Teenagers Guide to Georgia Law. Which basically says, have sex kids, and you go to prison. Texas is another state where young people doing what young people have always done can go to jail. And leaders in the abstinence movement are solidly behind these laws. The problem, though, according to Bryan Fischer, who is the Executive Director of the Idaho Values Alliance, is that these laws are not enforced often enough. He believes that “Perhaps classroom education and consistent and visible enforcement of existing Idaho law would have a wonderfully salutary effect on sexual mores and sexual conduct in the Gem State.” And in his bio accompanying his article stating this, it says his goal is to make Idaho the friendliest place in the world.  Yes, a delightfiul place where a teenager in love goes to jail for having sex with his girlfriend, where he can meet a nice friendly older man who’ll fuck him in the ass. Where do they find these people.

Presidential Candidate Rudolph Guiliani doesn’t seem to have very good sense when it comes to selecting friends who wind up working for him. There was the well publicized story of his push for his friend, whom he made police chief, Bernard Kerik to run the Department of Homeland Security. Kerick was originally his personal driver. The nomination blew up spectacularly when it was revealed that Kerick might have had mob connections. Now it turns out that his childhood friend, Alan Placa, who works at his consulting firm Guliana Partners, was a catholic priest and monsignor accused of molesting boys. He was stripped of his duties over the scandals. He was also the lawyer for the now-closed Whitinsville counseling house for troubled priests that has been described as the center of a pedophile sex ring. The monsignor was also closely associated with several Central Massachusetts priests who were at the center of a clergy sex abuse scandal in the 1990s. Placa was the same Priest who arranged the annulment of Guliani’s first marriage to his second cousin.  When he hires and appoints friends like these, if president, he should have a very interesting cabinet.

Judith Reisman was our Whacko of the Week for the June 24th show.  In an article published this week on the CalCatholic site, she calls for the Catholic Church to recoup some of the money it has lost from all of the sex abuse lawsuits by suing sex experts. Since she believes that all of Kinsey’s work is a fraud, and that most psychologists have been trained based on that fraud, that the psychologists who advised the Church and helped them screen seminary applicants can be sued for medical malpractice. For the same reason, she wants the church to sue the clinics where the priests and psychologists had been trained.  I guess in her mind it is better to blame them than the Bishops.

And in our final story on the Catholic Church, as bad as it has been for the Catholic Church with all the scandals in the U.S., it is really tough for Archbishop Ncube in Zimbabwe. He did a couple of things wrong. He criticized the government and called for its overthrow. And he made 8 DVDs of himself having unprotected sex with women of all ages, including the infirm and young underage girls. And some underage boys. Which wound up in the hands of the government. Which has been distributing them to journalists and others. Ironically, it is the only legally distributed pornography in the country.  His defenders are calling it a smear campaign, which it is. But he fucked young girls, and recorded it. And under state law, the Archbishop could be arrested just for recording pornographic videos even if underage girls were not involved. The husband of the woman he has been having a long affair with is suing him. But the most amazing part of the story, one that defies credibility, is that he is still Archbishop. Boston Archbishop Cardinal Law was called back to Rome, and he did not even have sex with any children. Who do you have to fuck to get kicked out of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe?

Science

You know those creepy guys women have to watch out for who try and hit on them by offering them a shoulder massage, which they do poorly and with the sole intent of getting into their pants? Soon they’ll have to watch out for them even more, because a new drug used for treating female sexual dysfunction and loss of sex drive is administered by rubbing it into the shoulders. The product is called LibiGel, and delivers a dose of testosterone. It is entering Phase 3 trials.

This is just a strange counterintuitive conclusion. We know that studies show that uncircumcised men are at greater risk of contracting HIV than circumcised men. Now, you might think that jumping up after sex and carefully washing your penis might help. A new study out of Uganda indicates that washing within the first ten minutes after having sex actually increases the risk of contracting HIV. They don’t yet understand why.  It may be the nature of the soap commonly used in Africa, which tends to be quite harsh. Or it could be an effect of the water. Either way, the common practice of jumping out of bed after sex in Africa to wash up might be better replaced with after sex cuddling.

A recent survey of menopausal women found that 46% were having sex less than once per month. If they can make it through menopause, though, a new study appearing in the current New England Journal of Medicine on sex in older Americans is quite encouraging. The frequency of sexual activity remains fairly stable in the 57-64 and 65-74 age groups, with about two-thirds of sexually active men and women reporting having sex at least two or three times a month. That figure drops to 54 percent after age 75, a decline caused more by medical problems than by age. It reminds me of the story reported in the news of a Florida senior home where the people working there were up in arms because the residents were having late night Viagra fueled sex parties. That’s where I want to retire.

Still a virgin? What are you, stupid? A new study out of the University of North Carolina shows that may just be the case. Young people with an IQ score below 70 are more likely to be virgins than their average-intelligence counterparts. In a not surprising finding, 83 percent of biochemistry and math majors at MIT were virgins, while there were no virgin art majors at all at Wellesly. I don’t think this has anything to do with intelligence, per se. I think these researchers are missing the very important relationship between virginity and the nerd factor. Virgins at MIT- who would have guessed? Didn’t they see the movie Revenge of the Nerds?  

On the MSN site, they report a new MSN-Zogby poll with the following: “Modern science has given Americans a wide range of birth control options – from the Pill and the patch to sterilization and spermicide – but the vast majority (83%) of American adults believe scientists should continue to research birth control options.” Well, duh. And did they happen to notice that for about half the population, the birth control options are pretty limited? Guys have basically two choices: The condom. The only birth control method that reduces sexual sensation for the user. Or going under the knife and not being able to have children in the future. So, yeah, maybe a lot of men would like a birth control method they can use that doesn’t require putting their penis in a tightly constraining bag or sticking a knife inside their testicles.

Is your G-Spot too small? Now you can have a doctor insert a needle into it, inject it with a g-Shot, and make it larger. The procedure is called G-spot amplification. It has been mentioned on the show Nip Tuck. The shot only lasts 4 months, so you have to keep doing it. Basically, they are injecting collagen to engorge the g-spot, and your results may vary. While the g-shot site claims that 87% of the women reported increased sexual satisfaction, that is hard to measure and you wonder just whether the included consultation on finding your g-spot and how to stimulate it might have been a factor. AT this point, I’m still in the skeptical camp. This is a cosmetic treatment, not a medically recognized one At $1800, we do know that it is engorges the doctor’s wallets.

The more I think about this, the less I understand it. In my experience and research with the g-spot, most women do not have g-spot orgasms through intercourse, but through manual manipulation. I have had a hand in helping facilitate quite a few g-spot orgasms in a number of women, and I know a number of people more skilled than I in this, and it is all about using your hands. Basically, upward pressure on the g-spot is involved, something a penis does not normally do easily. Its possible, but not easy, and I still don’t think you can get the same amount of pressure as you can manually and it does require a certain amount of skill on the part of the man. So how is a simple injection and engorgement suddenly making men more skilled lovers? All the references I have read about its effectiveness have been about intercourse. Maybe I am missing the point, but I just don’t see how it works from a biology standpoint. And besides, while most women can have intense orgasms from g-spot stimulation, not all can, and some find it too intense. Unfortunately, the only skeptical comments I could find were from the idiots like Florida bioethicist Jeffry Spike, who calls the g-spot a folktale. Hey Jeffrey, let me introduce some of my friends skilled in g-spot stimulation to your girlfriend. Then she’ll call you an idiot too.

Sexvestigation

Is your job boring? Have you considered a job involving the adult industry? Would you like to get paid to sit around all day and surf the Internet looking at porn? Well, step right up, because we have just the job for you. And best of all, you’ll be working for the federal government. Yes, tax dollars pay you to look at porn.

This is the exciting job that retired Indianapolis police detective Tom Rogers landed. In Mr. Rogers neighborhood, looking at porn all day is just a good post retirement job. The Justice Department has said that one of its top priorities after terrorism was to prosecute porn sites on the Internet, because spending time looking at porn on the Internet is very very harmful. Which is why taxpayer dollars go to paying people to spend all day on the Internet looking at porn. Captain Kirk could have used this same type of logic to disable the identical robot twins.

Unfortunately, this special porn surfing program may not get funding in the future. Cash for porn viewing was funded through the magic of earmarks, specifically those from Virginia Republican Representative Frank R. Wolf. Things are changing now that the Republicans have lost power. Wolf is a long veteran of the porn wars. He testified in 1985 at the notoriously flawed Meese Commission on Pornography hearings, headed by another corrupt and incompetent Attorney General, Ed Meese. These heartings were carefully stacked to make sure that the conclusions would counter the Nixon ordered obscenity commission, which much to his embarrassment found little harm from pornography. Wolf is a religious ideologue- On a trip to meet with the president of Pakistan, the group of congressman he was with explained to Pervez Musharraf that they were all part of the same prayer group, and invited him join them in prayers to Jesus. This was an official Congressional delegation, on official business, proselytizing to leaders in the Muslim world. And, of course, he has the anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-stem cell, anti-sex attitude typical of his wing in the party, which is pretty much the only wing left of his party- a big tent now filled only with the most outrageous sideshow attractions..

I could not track down any additional information on the Justice Department contracted porn surfers, so I have no idea if they were even remotely qualified to do the job. I do know a lot about the qualifications of those running a related out-sourced project out of the Justice Department, or as it is now known, the RNC field office in charge of the law.

Tom Rogers and his fellow surfers don’t just randomly surf the net. They look at sites based on public complaints. There is an official government Web-site for obscenity complaints, linked from the Justice Department site, which then forwards the complaints on to people like Tom to look at.  While funded by the government, this site is not run by the government.

The site is called ObscenityCrimes.org, and it is run by Morality in Media. The very first page of the site touts its government sponsorship. Besides allowing you to register complaints about an obscene site, it also has lots of articles. One article tries to reinterpret the meaning of the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, siding with the dissent of Antonio Scalia. Another article criticizes the Supreme Court’s decision in striking down the Child Online Protection Act. In a press release, Morality in Media called the Supreme Court Morally blind. So the Justice Department is funding a web site criticizing the Supreme Court, run by a religious organization that regularly criticizes the Supreme Court, a court that technically trumps the Justice Department.

The separation of church and state is non-existent in this government funded site. Articles include Heroic Chastity: CONQUERING SEXUAL SINS, by the Rev. McLean Cummings, and Pornography's harms—from a Catholic therapist's perspective.

Morality in media is a far-right judeo-christian religious organization. Founding members include Fr. Morton A. Hill, Rabbi Julius Neumann, Rev. Robert Wiltenburg, and Rev. Constantine Volaitis. The Justice Department is directly funding a religious organization to help them further their specifically religious goals- to promote their particular religious interpretation of morality.

Morality in Media purpose it to promote a narrow extremist view of religious morality. Their objective is to wipe out pornography. The problem is, despite apparent Justice Department support of their efforts, pornography is legal. Only obscenity, found so by a court of law, is illegal. But it gets worse. Morality in Media’s concept of pornography is virtually anything to do with sex.

One of their campaigns was to have women’s magazines with the racy sex advice removed from grocery checkout stands. In a letter to 558 supermarket executives, they referred to checkout stands as a “gauntlet of smut”. According to Bob Peters, president of Morality in media, people who buy Playboy are morally challenged.

Peters, in an article in the L.A. Daily News, said, “"If the current trend continues, you'll see more and more of the lifestyles depicted in porn in real life - you're looking at anarchy, no holds barred Sodom and Gomorrah, representing the utter breakdown of morality. Porn is going to become a substitute for marriage and family life." That’s right, Bob, people will be clamoring for equal rights to marry their DVD players. And no one will ever pay for a pizza delivery again except with sex. And every time we have sex, cheesy music will start playing. The horror.

Morality in Media claims that our obscenity laws are not censorship, because they narrowly define censorship as prior restraint. Yes, so much better to be totally free of censorship, when the government can come into your home at night, haul you off to another state, and prosecute you for obscenity for something that you could not know was obscenity in the first place, while prosecuting you in some small town you never even heard off. You go to jail, you lose your life savings, your family suffers. That kinda makes prior restraint sound pretty attractive. Prior restraint is horrible, but at least you don’t go to jail, or lose everything you own to legal costs even when a jury finds you innocent.

So, the web site, the professional porn viewers, the wholesale violation of the separation of church and state, and all that federal money- what has it accomplished? The site has received a total of only 67,000 complaint submissions over several years. That’s a small percentage of the number of complaints the FCC gets about indecency on television each year, but then again., the FCC’s own estimate in 2003 was that 99 percent of those come from the right wing Parents Television Council. And of those 67,000 complaints, how many of those turned into investigations and then prosecutions? According to a recent article in the New York Times, the total is zero. None. At All.

So, ironically, the Justice Department is in actuality doing what most of us want them to do about pornography. Very little. I just wish they could do very little without having to spend tax payer dollars and violating the constitution doing it.

Whacko of the Week

Is it really fair to blame to blame a single individual on a single U.S. policy decision that, according to John Hopkins researchers, has resulted in 1.9 million infant deaths, 135,000 maternal deaths, 60 million unintended pregnancies, and 25 million abortions. Maybe not fair, but we’re going to. Of course, it was president George W. Bush who ultimately made the decision, but he can’t be a Whacko of the Week, because as our moron of the Millenium, he’s disqualified. So we have to back things up and look at the person who persuaded Bush to make this policy decision, which could charitably called completely insane.

The decision was denying Congressionally authorized funds to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities,  or UNFPA. This unilateral Bush decision makes absolutely no sense, unless you believe that the world has too few people and that birth control is unnecessary, and it is better to let a woman die than give her an abortion. Bingo. That is exactly what Steven W. Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute believes. And he is the man that Bush has listened to on this subject.

Mosher argues that overpopulation is a myth, and that the efforts of population controllers to reduce human numbers have led to massive human rights abuses and undermined the health of women and children. He believes that U.N. family planning programs are part of a New World Order conspiracy. He makes the unbelievable claim that the entire world’s population could fit comfortably in the state of Texas. I fail to see how anyone could be comfortable in Texas, let alone with everyone there.

Under Mosher’s leadership, one of PRI’s main objectives has been to undermine UNFPA, something they have succeeded in spectacularly. It was PRI’s so-called 2002 investigation of UNFPA that convinced Bush to cut off funding. Bush continues to cut-off funding, despite the fact that a subsequent investigation, a real one this time, by the U.S. State Department repudiated PRI’s claims. In fact, the claims that UNFPA were helping the Chinese forced sterilization programs turned out to be just the opposite, as they were actually successfully encouraging China to move to voluntary policies and a choice of family planning methods.

PRI’s research is contrary to research done by more legitimate organizations. PRI’s so-called experts hold no academic or research credentials. Mosher lacks a doctorate in China studies, population studies, or any field of research, yet he is repeatedly cited as an anthropologist and sociologist, something you normally have to have a degree for. In fact, he was kicked out of Stanford University’s anthropology program for illegal and seriously unethical conduct.

PRI was founded by Benedictine Priest Paul Marx, a racist and anti-family planning extremist. Under Mosher, PRI continue to be anti-abortion, anti-sterilization, anti-birth control, anti-family planning, anti-sex education and anti-common sense.  PRI claims  that the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s population control is frequently used to "subdue" Catholic populations, and that the abortion industry targets Catholic women. Here are some gems from their weekly bulletins, the first on sex education: “Disputes over the content of sex indoctrination curricula are moot. The only way to prevent illegitimate pregnancy and STDs is through chastity and monogamy…Only virtuous behavior, not modern technology, can prevent these ills.” And this one on contraception:  “As our founder, Fr. Paul Marx, is fond of saying, ‘Contraception always leads to abortion…In every single country where contraceptives became widely available, abortions increased…The contraceptive mentality, the dedication to no or few children combined with free and easy sexual relations, leads to abortion.” And this one on Plan B, the over the counter emergency contraceptive: “The fact that (the FDA) is even considering (OTC approval for ‘Plan B’ emergency contraception) is another example of the power of the feminist dogma, a power that trumps threats to young women’s health from this potentially dangerous and certainly unproven method of birth control and abortion.””

Mosher gives talks concerning impoverished third world countries such as “Promoting and protecting the large family” and “Welcoming babies and larger families.”  He is the author of the PRI Weekly Briefing titled "How Not to Win the War on Terror: Keep Exporting Abortion and Sex Education."  He claims  that the American Left is "in part responsible for the rise of Islamic terrorism against the West" through its "relentless promotion of abortion, sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, divorce and other ‘rights' at home and abroad."  And just try and wrap your head around this Mosher quote: ““The massive distribution of condoms in Africa has not only not stopped the spread of AIDS, it has put millions of more at risk of infection in the name of prevention.” Or ths one: “The sad truth is, USAID's family planning programs in Africa have caused AIDS. The integration of AIDS relief and family planning is a recipe for further disaster.”

He holds extreme anti-China views, and calls those who do not share his views Panda Huggers. His main claim to fame is his expertise on China and skill in the local languages, but his main focus is criticizing their family planning agenda. He is  a converted Catholic and hero in some Catholic circles for his dogged support of the unsupportable church positions on birth control that have led to uncountable misery throughout the world

Mosher argues that under Robert McNamara, the World Bank and other international financial lending agencies served as "loan sharks" for those groups and individuals who were pressuring developing countries to adopt fertility reduction programs for self-interest reasons.

You’d think that no one would listen to this nutball. Except, one very important person does. The President of the United States. Which explains why the Bush administration has built alliances with anti-family planning conservative Islamic states, and the U.S. restrictions on USAID funding, and the millions that Bush has blocked from International family planning groups.  It is little wonder then that when Bush put Wolfowitz in charge of the World Bank, it abruptly started moving away from including birth control and population planning in its considerations, despite the fact that the receiving countries were asking for help in these areas. Mosher is a strong supporter of the man Wolfowitz put in charge of this effort to restrict family planning in the World Bank.

Yeah, I think we can safely put the blame on Stephen Mosher.