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September 13th, 2009

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 Welcome to the show. We’ve got some great stuff for you this week. Our Sexvestigation looks behind the scenes of the Carrie Prejean lawsuit, and who is really pulling the strings and why. In our Sex in Politics segment, we have exclusive audio of what happened when lobbyist fornicator Michael Duvall got home, a closer look at whether South Carolina is really going off the rails lately or whether they have always been crazy, and how the State Department’s interpretation of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy has led to gay debauchery. Plus, we have our Sex Science Sunday, with some of the best AIDS news we’ve had in years, along with our roundup of some of the worst recent sex science. All this and more on the Jeff Booth Show.

Political News

You may have heard the story about ultra-conservative family values California Republican State Assemblyman Michael Duvall who was caught on a live microphone bragging about his extra-marital sexual conquests- recordings played on KCAL news. We have an exclusive here on the Jeff Booth show. When Duvall got home that night, his wife was leaving a message on an answering machine, and the whole thing was recorded. We have an exclusive copy, and are going to play it for you now:

“Hi honey- I’m home. Hey, you didn’t happen to watch channel 9 tonight? Well don’t. They are a bunch of liberal commies, and they are banned from this house. In fact, the entire liberal news media is now officially banned in this house. Bunch of commie America hating creeps. Oh yeah, I met this guy today- he does a perfect impression of me. Sounds just like me- but he has a very dirty mouth. Oh, oh- remember those late night Assembly meetings I have been having to attend. Well I just found out they were top secret- I should not have told you and everybody is going to have to deny they ever took place. It’s a national security thing. And I know I have been putting in too many hours at work- I’ve kinda been thinking about a career change. Hey, you look really great in that outfit… You saw the news didn’t you? Put down the phone- you could hurt someone by throwing…”

That’s all we’ve got. Jurors love when they get to hear a secretly made recording of the accused confessing. It makes their decision a lot easier. And they usually don’t buy it when the accused claims the recorded evidence is not real. But that is the claim that Mike Duvall is making over the  recordings made from a microphone in the assembly room that he did not realize was live. He also claimed that it was a private matter and he hopes the media will respect everyone’s privacy. Uh, right. In the recordings he brags to a fellow Republican about his sexual conquests with women not his wife- and at least one was a lobbyist with issues that appear before a committee he vice-chairs. Her name is Heidi De Jong Barsuglia, and she works for Sempra Energy. Duvall has consistently voted against alternative energy initiatives.

The recordings were released by KCAL news, which motivated legislative leaders to strip him of his committee posts and launch an ethics probe of his actions. - whereupon Mike Duvall resigned- despite claiming that he was really a good family values man who just liked to make up sleazy sexually explicit stories about himself. According to sources, sexual bragging is something he does all of the time. Here are some excerpts from the transcript:

“She wears little eye-patch underwear… the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And so, we had made love Wednesday–a lot!… she’s all, ‘I am going up and down the stairs, and you’re dripping out of me!’ So messy.”

“I was 54 on June 14, so for a month, she was 19 years younger than me. I said, ‘Now, you’re getting old. I am going to have to trade you in.’ And she goes, ‘[I'm] 36.’ She is 18 years younger than me. And so I keep teasing her, and she goes, ‘I know you French men. You divide your age by two and add seven, and if you’re older than that, you dump us.”

I like spanking her. She goes, “I know you like spanking me.” I said, “Yeah, that’s ’cause you’re such a bad girl.”

Heidi is pretty hot, and Duvall looks older than 54, so one might suspect she wasn’t banging him out of her enthrallment with his staunch family values. What do you properly call her? A prostityst, or a lobbytute? Shouldn’t we just assume that any politician having sex with a lobbyist is participating in a qui pro quo for votes? Shouldn’t they automatically go to jail for it? And isn’t it insulting to more stand-up politicians like hooker loving Senator David Vitter, who actually has to pay for it?

Duvall will be investigated for political corruption, and Heidi’s days as a lobbyist may be numbered- even in the unlikely event that Duvall really just made all this up. And as for his wife, I suspect he’ll ultimately wind up telling her “She meant nothing to me- it was just politics.” And it looks like Duvall is the one now getting spanked.

California has nothing on South Carolina, though. They seem to have gone sex scandal crazy over there. Maybe just crazy in general. But maybe it is nothing new for this state. Yes, it was South Carolina representative Joe Wilson who so rudely heckled the president by calling him a liar, and assertion that in context, was itself a lie. Still, this is better than South Carolina representative Preston S. Brooks, who in 1856 entered the chamber and beat a representative of Massachusetts into a coma. Compared to that, Wilson was showing Obama southern hospitality. And is South Carolina’s governor Mark Sanford’s bizarre affair all that strange, considering that Strom Thurmond, also a governor of South Carolina and long time Senator and long time segregationist, raped a 16 year old black girl, impregnated her, and secretly paid to support his daughter the rest of his life to keep it quiet? And at least the object of Sanford’s affection wasn’t a horse, a practice extremely popular with South Carolinan Rodell Vereen, who met a horse so nice he had to fuck it twice.

I guess it is just that there are so many simultaneous sex scandals there that make this unusual, with two new ones popping up.

The first has to do with the Lt. Governor, who has called on Sanford to resign. A blogger, noted for accurately outing gay closeted politicians, has made the claim that the South Carolina Lieutenant governor André Bauer is gay. Four different men came forward with descriptions of their sexual trysts with Bauer, including two former staffers. Confirmed bachelor Bauer staunchly denies this, even willing to have his gay lover testify that he is not gay.  Other Republicans are accusing Mark Sanford of starting the rumor. Still, this is nothing new. Confirmed bachelor South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has long been rumored to be gay, despite his consistent votes against gay rights.

It doesn’t stop there. Kristin Maguire is Governor Sanford's appointee to the State Board of Education who has so much respect for public education that she home schools her own kids. They even made her chairwoman. She just resigned after it was revealed that she was the author, under the pen name of Bridget Keeney, of quite a number of explicitly erotic stories on erotic story sites on the Internet. The stories have since been pulled down from the original sites, and they even managed to somehow get them removed from the Internet Archive, although not before I was able to read a few of them. A strong supporter of abstinence only education, there is very little abstinence in her stories. Her first person stories include a woman giving multiple blowjobs to strangers on a train, threesomes, and female bisexuality. In her story Thanksgiving Weekend, she expresses her support of family values by having the entire family come together.  Kristin is an executive committeewoman of the S.C. Republican Party, a Christian evangelist who believes in Creationism and that it should be taught in schools. Of course, she pushed for public funds to be used by home schoolers and Christian schools. Now she is reportedly holed up in Canada with a female friend. Which sounds like it could be the inspiration for another one of her stories.

Your employees are all men, doing a dangerous job far away from home and their wives and girlfriends. How do you keep up their morale? How about homoerotic parties where promotions and continued employment depend upon their attendance? This was the solution employed by ArmorGroup, a division of Wackenhut that provided security at the embassy in Kabul. We can’t have gays in the military, but our military and State Department contractors can force heterosexuals to act gay. Makes perfect sense. While Wackenhut has denied the allegations, tellingly, they have changed their company name to Wackenoff. Employees complained to the State Department about the parties as early as 2007, which instead of action against ArmorGroup, resulted in their firing. The State Department employed their own version of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell when it came to contractor corruption. So far, over a dozen former guards have come forward. And like the sexual perversions and abuses committed against prisoners at Abu Graib, they have actual pictures. Lots of them. The parties included being forced to grab the genitals of other men, drinking alcohol from the butt cracks of other men, getting peed on, and naked pool parties, Reportedly, top supervisors helped organize these events.

There is more. According to an independent investigation by The Project on Government Oversight, ArmorGroup- in order to save money- hired guards who could not speak English and had no security experience; employed fewer guards than needed and worked them for 14 hours shifts for weeks on end, during inspections many guards were absent from their posts, routinely denied contractually required leave and vacation, and allowed managers to hire prostitutes. SO they are banging hookers while forcing their employees to have sex with each other. Nice.

Despite the allegations, the State Department renewed the contract of ArmourGroup just last month. Clinton has ordered an investigation, but the State Department has an unbelievably poor record of investigating itself and their contractors. Years later the well-documented rape claims by contractor employees have gone nowhere. So it seems like no matter what a contractor does- forced homosexual conduct, rape of its female employees, corruption, theft, murder- its all good. You still get your contract renewed. Oh yeah- Wackenhut isn’t even an American owned company. Its Dutch. Seems to me the one contract that should not be renewed is the State Department employment contract for the clowns at the State Department who consistently keep rehiring some of the most corrupt and sickeningly perverted companies in existence.

Sex Science Sunday

The big science news is that a team at the Scripps Research Institute published in the journal Science that they have isolated two seemingly broadly neutralizing antibodies that can block the action of many strains of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS. This is possibly the most encouraging news on the AIDS research front we have had yet. They isolated two antibodies, PG9 and PG16. The antibodies were able to block the activity of about three-quarters of the 162 separate strains of HIV they tested it against. The key is that the antibodies target a portion of HIV that researchers had not considered previously considered. It targets a relatively stable portion of the virus that does not participate in the extensive mutations that have made HIV able to elude antiviral drugs and  experimental vaccines. Exciting news taking us much closer to being able to deal with this horrendous disease.

This news is so exciting, that we could not find any other real scientific research to equal it. SO, since we also like to report on what better qualifies as junk science, the rest of this Sex Science Sunday will focus on sex research that gets our dubious rating.

Here’s this from Sleep specialist Dr Neil Stanley. He says “Couples should consider sleeping apart for the good of their health and relationship.” Of course, he does not sleep with his own wife. And he is not a relationship expert. Yes, snoring or cover stealing might disrupt sleep. But so do a lot of other things, like noises or waking up because you have to pee. Dr. Stanley says “"We all know what it's like to have a cuddle and then say 'I'm going to sleep now' and go to the opposite side of the bed. So why not just toddle off down the landing?" I suspect all he’s getting is a cuddle. There is a psychological benefit to the closeness and intimacy of sleeping together. Sleeping together can be even more intimate than sex. It’s a huge amount of your day that you spend together. Rolling over and putting your arm around your partner can be wonderfully comforting and even help you get back to sleep. Another study by Dr Robert Meadows, a sociologist at the University of Surrey, concluded that: "People actually feel that they sleep better when they are with a partner but the evidence suggests otherwise." His study compared how well couples slept when they shared a bed versus sleeping separately. He found that when couples share a bed and one of them moves in his or her sleep, there is a 50% chance that their slumbering partner will be disturbed as a result. And this based on a stunning 40 whole couples. If some habits such as snoring or rolling around in your sleep seriously disrupt your partner’s rest, the conclusion is not that people shouldn’t sleep together, but that we need to look at those specific cases and what can be done to decrease the sleep disruption. A huge factor that causes a lot of people to lose sleep is sex, which they often do instead of getting the full 8 hours they need. Perhaps we should also counsel couples not to have sex.

From the pillars of sex science research, AOL, comes a British study finding that 80% of women would rather have more money than more sex. It is hard to overstate how utterly meaningless this is. What percentage of those people would rate themselves as sexually satisfied. If you are lucky enough to be getting your sexual needs met, a few extra dollars would not hurt. Plus, this is in the midst of a global economic calamity where a lot of people are hurting financially. And the amount of money- just 25 pounds, makes little sense- as it could be a lot of money for someone struggling and insignificant to others. A more reasonable measurement would be a specific percentage increase in income. Plus, you would expect a statistically different response from single non-sexually active people, single sexually active people, and married people. There are way too many variables here for there to be anything useful to be gleaned from this survey.

Even so, people preferring any specific thing to sex is a very popular form of survey- almost always resulting in the conclusion that people don’t value sex. For example, a Cooking Light magazine survey of over 100 women, and determined that having enough sex was rated as seventh on a list of values, below sleep, minimized stress, relaxation, healthy eating, drinking water and exercise. Never mind that good sex is exercise, reduces stress, makes you relaxed, helps you sleep better, and can even make you thirsty.

Another sex science research notable, consumer products giant Unilever, conducted a survey that found that women prefer clothes to sex. Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel. Two percent said they would become celibate for three years in exchange for all those new clothes. 61 percent said it would be worse to lose their favorite article of clothing than give up sex for a month. Really? A woman who gives up sex for 15 months is pretty much ending the relationship with whomever they are with at the time. It is one thing if they are single and not getting much sex, which perhaps a wardrobe of new sexier clothing might help. But for a married woman, this is ludicrous. It is not a serious answer. It’s a joke.  And more sex is the wrong question. It is meaningless if the sex they are getting is unfulfilling. The real question should be about more satisfying sex. And we know from many much more legitimate studies that a majority of women rate their sexual satisfaction as lower than they want. So surveys like this ask the wrong questions, aren’t really taken that seriously by the people who respond to them, and provide us with nothing in the way of useful information.

Men are not left out of this form of junk science. A survey found that 1 in 3 British men would prefer to play video games rather than have sex with their partner, with 72% claiming they'd shun their sex partner for the night to play a new release. What was left out is this was a survey conducted on a video games site for PS3 players- and sex for most of these men, I suspect, is a largely theoretical proposition.

And finally, we’ll end it with this: ABC News made a big deal about a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. They determined that women with higher testosterone levels "take more risks and are more likely to choose a finance career." Testosterone levels made no difference in men's career choices in the study. The sample size was 500 graduate students. The reality is that while testosterone may be a statistically significant covariate, it only accounted for 5-6% of the difference. Other factors accounted for 94% of the difference. This is hardly decisive or all that predictive, but it got a lot of media play- only emphasizing the lack of and poor quality of science journalists in the media.

Sexvestigation

Carrie Prejean is suing the Miss California Pageant, but like Paula Jones before her, she is simply a pawn in a political battle. In this Sexvestigation, we take a closer look at her attorney, Charles LiMandri, and what the actual agenda of the suit is.

Charles LiMandri has long been involved in the anti-gay movement, and his nickname is God’s Ambulance Chaser. He is not just an attorney, but a major anti-gay Christian activist. As Carrie Prejean’s attorney, he is the real power behind this lawsuit- along with his direct affiliations with the ultra right-wing Thomas Moore Law Center and as chief council for the National Organization for Marriage.

The first thing to know is that LiMandri, like Carrie Prejaen herself, appears to be a habitual liar, even when he can be easily caught. Take for example his editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune, quoting Connecticut Governor Janet Lee on Connecticut’s  legalizing gay marriage: “There is no question that the court’s decision does not express the will of the people”. One small problem. The governor of Connecticut is M. Jodi Rell. No state in the U.S. has a governor named Janet Lee. Maybe he was thinking of the actress. The governor is as fictitious as the quote. Oh, and good fact checking Union-Tribune.

Consider this quote from LiMandri’s editorial “Just over a week ago, Californians were treated to a dramatic photo of perplexed youngsters delivered to San Francisco's City Hall on a school field trip to see their first-grade teacher married to her lesbian partner. The faces of the children, with their trip slips hanging around their necks, created an image for the ages – and proof for parents that gay political advocates haven't just set their sights on marriage, but on our schools as well.” Except the kids, not yet indoctrinated into the hate-filled world of LaMandri, seemed excited and smiling in the photo he refers to, rather than perplexed. They were simply happy for a teacher they obviously cared about.

He repeatedly claimed that he was harassed by pro-gay forces just because he made a donation to California’s anti-gay marriage Prop 8, without mentioning that he is a key player in the anti-gay movement, spreading vicious anti-gay rhetoric on a regular basis. Of course, this was just another excuse for him to file another lawsuit.

His position paper, The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage on Religious Freedom, is a tribute to factual distortion. He fails to mention tiny details such as the fact that the people who were supposedly discriminated against failed to obey a lawful police order, or a man got fired for writing an anti-gay column not because of the column but because he was using company equipment and mentioned his company name in his anti-gay materials. LiManadri also repeatedly cites discredited facts and figures, including those from Paul Cameron.

Paul Cameron is a notorious anti-gay researcher whose research methodology involves dreaming up the scariest things he can think of about gays and publishing that as so-called research. He has been fully discredited and is essentially ignored in the scientific community as a crank. Only the far right pays attention to him. They might not if they read all of his works, such as his guide to gradualism, where parents encourage their teenagers to practice mutual masturbation on members of the opposite sex at home as a way to be sure they don’t turn to the dark side of homosexuality. It does not even matter if they are in love with this opposite sex partner. He writes “While no parent wants his child starting the sexual process "too young," better too young than homosexual.” He also suggests parents provide snacks for these events.

Cameron was kicked out of both the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association. The ASA declared that, "Dr. Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism."

The Southern Poverty Law Center has this to say about Cameron: “Under the guise of chairman of the Family Research Institute, his statistical chop shop in Colorado Springs, Colo., Cameron has published dozens upon dozens of research studies that offer homophobes a supposedly scientific justification for their prejudices by invariably concluding that gays and lesbians are dangerous and diseased perverts. ‘Homosexuality is an infectious appetite with personal and social consequences,’ is how Cameron describes the phenomenon he studies. ‘It is like the dog that gets a taste for blood after killing its first victim and desires to get more victims thereafter with a ravenous hunger.’"

LiMandri repeats the typical false Cameron conclusions, such as his supposed research showing that gay people are more likely to molest children, or that life expectancy at age 20 for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men

LiMandri is an untra-conservative Christian whose primary goal is to use the law to force his religious beliefs on everyone, as is made clear in this editorial he wrote for the Catholic Exchange: “Can we stop this societal suicide - possibly, but not if we can't stop same-sex "marriage" in California in November 2008, and not without supernatural help. Without the foundation of Religion and Morality that George Washington and the other founding fathers provided for us, there is simply no real hope for the future of this country. Finally, since it is only in our maleness and femaleness that we are made in the image and likeness of God, the destruction of the concept of gender is perhaps Satan's greatest accomplishment. Moreover, since the sacramental marriage of a husband and wife is used to image the relationship of Christ and His Church, even the idea of same-sex "marriage" is a sacrilege. Therefore, separate and apart from the seemingly accurate prognastications of Professor Unwin, I just don't see how a God of Justice can tolerate such a diabolical mockery of His divinely ordained institution of marriage for very long. Indeed, the same man to whom our Lord entrusted the Keys to the Kingdom warned us that: "...in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts... " (2 Peter 3:3). In conclusion, I informed my friend that although we have had the privilege of living in the greatest nation in the history of the world, based on the foregoing, we may very well be seeing it in its waning years. May the God of our fathers have mercy on us and our beloved country.”

Charles LiMandri was the attorney working with the Thomas Moore Law center for what he called the “four brave Christian Firefighters” who served in the gay area of San Diego and were required to ride inside their fire engine in the Hillcrest gay pride parade. These four men, who dash into burning homes and buildings, could not handle having to ride inside a fire engine with the windows rolled up because there were gay people outside. According to LiMandri, that horrendous experience left the firefighters with headaches, anxiety, irritable bowel syndrome, and other stress-related disorders. I don’t know that brave is the word I’d use for them.

He won the suit in ultra-conservative San Diego, after two expensive trials (the first had the jury deadlocked) and despite being unable to prove a specific instance of sexual harassment, despite intentionally and obviously distorted evidence, despite the many years the fire department has participated without a single complaint, and despite contradictory testimony from the firefighters, and despite the fact that when firefighters complained afterwards they got an immediate apology and the policy was immediately changed to let them opt out. It was not a suit to change policy, but to get money (in this case a paltry $35,000- not the $3 million hoped for) and publicity. Oh, and I am guessing it was partially because the current Fire Chief is an open lesbian. The lawsuit is being appealed by the city.

During the suit, he did what he does, using the legal system to try and score anti-gay political points. He put the parade and the gay community on trial, and he put the gay fire chief on trial. The truth is, these poor firefighters might be sexually harassed by gays anywhere in this predominantly gay community, so the best thing for them might be just to keep them in the firestation with their Playboy magazines where they will feel safe and not tempted to try the other team.

In the case of Carrie Prejean, LiMandri said. “We will make the case that her title was taken from her solely because of her support of traditional marriage.” And that is correct. Because her support for this controversial political agenda violated her contract. She represents Miss California for a year under an exclusive contract. She does not have the right during that year to represent anyone else or any political cause. The very reason this clause is in her contract is to keep Miss California apolitical and not a figure of controversy.

LiMandri knows this. He knows he will lose. He does not care. His sole goal is to once again put gays on trial and spread his message of hate. And the dim Carrie Prejean makes the perfect puppet for his political goals.