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October 5th, 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for October 5th, 2008, brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education, and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. We spend some time this week getting caught up with all of the political and entertainment news that has been piling up. Our Sexvestigation reveals the little known truth behind the U.S. Attorney firing scandal- the connection to pornography. Just click on the topic to the left you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

Ben and Jerry’s, the ice cream makers, got an interesting letter form an organization suggesting a new way to make ice cream. It came from PETA, the animal rights group, and claimed that cow’s milk is dangerous and using it is unfair to cows. Their suggested alternative- human breast milk. They failed to mention the added benefit of being able to find plenty of guys willing to work for free at the dairy. Ben and Jerry’s declined following up on the suggestion, but if they had, I can only imagine the flavors they might have introduced. Marvelous Melons, Tootity Fruiti, and Ta-Ta-riffic Toffee.

Paul Little has been sentenced to four years in prison. His crime? Exercising his free speech rights. He was sentenced to prison because he made adult movies. He is better known as Max Hardcore, and I am the first to admit that what he does is creepy and vile. I’d rather see John McCain naked and rimming Barbara Bush than watch a Max Hardcore movie. That is why I chose never to look at Max Hardcore movies. The feds, though, are much less interested in offering people choice.  It was a trial that was a travesty of justice, in which jurors were negotiating media deals that would not happen if they found Little innocent, a case that was a clear example of venue shopping, a case where Little was convicted of selling material that was actually sold by a third party. Sure, Little took things to extremes, and his stuff is repugnant, but four years in prison for making dirty movies? 

They finally captured a guy who really does belong in jail. Tony Alamo, the child lovin’ evangelist. You may have found one of his insane rant-filled booklets shoved under your windshield. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Alamo’s ministry a cult. Church teachings include a hatred of homosexuality, Roman Catholics, the government, and the belief that when she is old enough to bleed, she’s old enough to breed. Puberty is their definition of the age of consent. You might remember Alamo as the man who kept his wife’s dead body on display for six months claiming she would be resurrected. Oh, and his real name is Bernie Hoffman. I can see why both he and Little changed their names. If the slogan had been “remember the Hoffman”, who’d remember the slogan today. Unlike Paul Little, who used adult women acting like underage girls, it appears that Bernie was forcing underage girls to act like adult women in porn. Young girls between the ages of 12 and 14. And if convicted, Bernie should never see the light of day again. And I’ll be able to see out my windshield again without having to pluck one of his insane pamphlets off first.

Genital mutilation is horrendous, and what many people don’t realize is that it does not happen just once. It can be repeated, with women having their vaginas sewn up again and again, torn open to allow for sexual intercourse. And it can be forced on their children, children they are foced to have after being forced into marriage. But the Bush administration has refused to consider asylum for women under such a barbaric threat. This is stupid. Let all of their women come here. Leave the men to fuck each other and sew up each other’s assholes. Finally, as the sun sets on the Bush administration, the Justice Department has decided to agree with me. Mukasey overruled a decision to deny asylum to a 28 year old woman from Mali under threat of further genital mutilation and similar bodily harm to any daughter’s she might have. This brings the Justice Department in line with decisions by Federal Courts.

Prop 4 in California is ostensibly a parental notification law, but just like the age old tradition of lying to your parents, it lies to voters. Its dubbed Sarah’s law because it was supposedly inspired by a 15 year old who died from an abortion that went wrong, a life that could have been spared if only there had been a parental notification law. Actually, her name was not Sarah, it happened fifteen years ago in Texas, not California, and she was an emancipated minor living in a common-law marriage, so the California law would not even have applied to her. But wait, there’s more. He whole thrust of the law is to protect the lives of young girls, curiously ignoring the traditional anti-abortion save the baby arguments. But under the proposed law, the likelihood of a young girl seeking out a dangerous illegal abortion actually increases. And when was the last time that a law like this might have made any difference, emphasis on the might? A case in the 1980s. And an abortion could still go wrong even if the parent’s had given permission. Fortunately, abortions are very, very rarely life-threatening. Unless they are done illegally.  So what the law claims to do, protecting the health of young women, it will actually do just the opposite. And what about a girl in a potentially abusive parental  situation who finds herself pregnant. Don’t worry- this proposed law isn’t heartless. All she has to do is turn her parents in to Child Protective Services claiming that her parents are repeat child abusers. It is just another attempted roadblock to stop abortions. The backers of this bill don’t care any more about the young women it would impact than they do about they babies they’ll be forced to pop-out. At least, after they are born, anyway. One of the major financial backers of the bill said he is particularly worried about adult men who might impregnate underage girls and then push them to use abortion as a form of contraception. What about a guy who targets young girls with anti-abortion parents, knowing they’ll force her to give birth to his child? That seems just as likely. 

Also in California is the proposition to once again ban gay marriage, a proposition requiring what amounts to statewide annulments. Although it looks like the proposition is going down to defeat, proponents of the bill are outspending the opponents by a good margin. It is set to become the most expensive social initiative in California history. And YouTube is also a forum for supporting the bill. A Catholic Film school, and I didn’t know there was such a thing, has had students creating Pro prop 8 videos for YouTube for class credit. One of the films shows a man haplessly trying to plug two electrical plugs together with the text “It Doesn’t Work- Keep Marriage Real.” Despite obvious ACDC references, and the fact that everyone has a socket on the other side of the house to plug into, they might have made a more effective point trying to plug two sockets together, and then showing that using fingers instead only leads to electrocution. But I guess these kids are more upset by man on man sex than they are the woman on woman sex that so titillates them.

On the opposite side of the debate is the owner of YouTube- Google. They officially oppose Prop 8. And that has prompted the right-wing Campaign for Children and Families to announce an official boycott of Google. According to CFF’sd Randy Thomassson, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have "replaced all notions of God's truth by worshiping money as god.” And if you are still not convinced of how serious they are about this boycott and how gay marriage is destroying marriage, just go to the CFF site and their current issues page, where they have a link to search California and Marriage on Google News.

Palin, who responds to questions from interviews with the answers to nowhere, did have a specific answer to one of the question Katie Couric asked. When asked about homosexuality, she said emphatically that it was a choice, a choice that she would not have made. That leaves open the possibility to change her mind. All she has to do is choose to be gay and she could be not only the first female vice-president, but the first gay one as well. She could simply choose for even more diversity on the ticket. I wonder if she believes that dinosaurs chose to be gay 6,000 years ago and that is what wiped them out.

Okay, Palin is unbelievably unqualified to be VP, as evidenced by her complete lack of depth on virtually any subject, ;f’,g and her consistent inability to get basic facts right. But it is her lack of ability, not her gender, that should be an issue. And sexism has no place in this campaign. That is why I am so offended by the Web site VotefortheMILF.com. In case you don’t know, MILF stands for Mom I’d like to fuck. Sure, she’s a know nothing smirking winking randomly folksy caricature of a politician, but this site name is downright sexist. I’d like to give the owner a piece of my mind. Well, we’re on the Internet. I’ll just look it up and see who the owner is. Okay, registered with GoDaddy… by… the John McCain campaign. Well not really. They deny involvement and the whole thing looks to be an Internet prank that a lot of people fell for. It’s just that it is so easy to believe that McCain would do this. If he could call his wife a cunt in front of reporters (Google it if you don’t know that story), then we could certainly believe he’d refer to Palin as a MILF.

One of the criticisms of John McCain during the debate was that he refused to look Obama in the eye. That is unfair. Maybe like with the introduction of Palin where he fiddled with his wedding ring and was looking down at Palin’s backside, maybe he was also just checking out Obama’s ass, got caught, and then was too embarrassed to look him in the face.

Attorney Roy Den Hollander doesn’t seem to like women much, and I don’t think he’ll be getting any anytime soon. He has crusaded against feminism and recently sued a university over its women's studies program. His latest lawsuit was against nightclubs in New York that offered Ladies Nights. He called it discrimination. He is apparently clueless that nightclubs don’t need to offer an incentive for people like him to come in. The judge threw out his lawsuit. He called her a feminist and said her decision was discriminatory. Yes, white wealthy male lawyers certainly face incredible debilitating discrimination. And with his stance on women, I’m suspecting he’d be a lot happier in a gay bar. He should come out as gay, and learn what discrimination is really about.

Sexvestigation

The official report on the Justice Department attorney firing scandals is out, and has long been rumored, there is a porn connection. You don’t hear about this in the mainstream media, but its in the report. While the media reports that several U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons and a special prosecutor has been appointed, you might also have read that some of the other U.S. attorneys were fired for legitimate reasons. They don’t explain what those legitimate reasons are, but as a listener to this show, you might be very interested in what those reasons were.

Those so-called legitimate firings were because the U.S. attorneys were not aggressively pursuing a priority that the Justice Department set for them. You might think that priority had to do with terrorism, or corporate crime, or the endless political scandals and public corruption. Now, thanks to the report, we have know. The priority they did not aggressively go after was porn, even if they didn’t have a case. As everyone knows who follows porn prosecutions, it is not just about getting a conviction, which is difficult to do, but also about inflicting the most financial damage to the person you are prosecuting. Bankrupting him by forcing him to defend himself with a lengthy court case can be almost as much fun as actually convicting him, and you still get the headlines.

What could be more political than the grandstanding of anti-porn prosecutions? Porn prosecutions are used to rally the political base, not protect the people. Protect them from what? Too much masturbation?

U.S. attorney Paul Charlton of Arizona was fired just two weeks after he dropped a case against Five Star Video. He dropped the case because it was clear that he could not prevail in court. The reason- The government itself was selling the very same videos that he was charging Five Star Video of selling as obscene. You see, a local Castle Megastore had gone into bankruptcy, and was in receivership.

The administrator of that receivership was none other than the U.S. Department of Justice. And Castle Megastore, then being run by the Department of Justice, was selling the same videos as were being charged as obscene in the Five Star case. Unless he was willing to go after the Justice Department for selling obscenity, there was no way in hell he could win. But his dropping the case angered the Justice Department.

Here is part of what Monica Goodling wrote in her listing of reasons for firing Charlton: “resistant to AG priorities (obscenity task force)”.  It was the only one of her excuses for firing him that was verifiable. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty stateed that one of the reasons Bogden was fired was because he was “good on guns, but not good on obscenity cases." Remember- this was a case he absolutely could not win. The report concludes that this is most likely the real reason he was fired.

Daniel Bogden of Nevada was also contacted by a Justice Department representative about obscenity prosecutions. They wanted him to go after a couple that made a video of them having sex and sold it on the Internet. The couple had little in the way of assets, the video did not bush any of the traditional boundaries, and there were no other added crimes. Bigden explained that he was severely undermanned and just could not spare the resources to pursue such a week case, His superiors thought otherwise, and he was fired.

One man was behind both instances, and argued for the dismissal of both attorneys. His name is Brent Ward. He is an anti-porn extremist who was put in charge of the Justice Department’s Obscenity Task Force. He is an absolutist when it comes to adult entertainment. While he was on the board of Utah’s Citizens for Positive Community Values, he tried to force all stripper to wear bikinis. And not just strippers. He also wanted the same law to apply to nude models in art classes. He became a U.S. Attorney in Utah under the infamous Meese Justice Department, where he urged testing the endurance of pornographers through relentless prosecutions. Meese put him in charge of the federal anti-pornography campaign, notorious for its dishonest and ruthless prosecutions and unconstitutional tactics that were ruled illegal by the courts.

Ultimately, Ward has been remarkably ineffective in getting prosecutions during his long career. But as long as he is testing the endurance of his opponents, the pornographers, with virtually unlimited federal funds to prosecute them, he is happy.

So it all comes down to this. The attorneys were fired because they would not play political ball. The Justice Department wanted them to pursue cases against Democrats, interfere with elections, slow down Republican prosecutions, and target those who made adult entertainment regardless of whether it was a priority in their district or was a case they could win- just so they could use their anti-pornography record to court conservative voters. It had everything to do with politics, and nothing to do with justice. And that will be the legacy of the Justice Department under George W. Bush..  

Entertainment

Our nice try award goes to Brooklyn Tax Lawyer William Halby. He claimed deductions for more than $300,000 in prostitutes, porn, sex toys and erotic massages on his taxes. He claimed it was all therapeutic – a medical necessity to overcome his depression and erectile dysfunction. It could all certainly make you feel better. He now owes New York a big chunk of change, after a state tax court ruled against him. For a change, this time he didn’t get a happy ending.

How do you get a giant with erectile problems to get it up. Lots of volunteers. That’s what they did for the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset. Viewed from the air, it’s a giant with a club sporting a rather giant erection. Made with chalk, he’s become faded over the years, and his penis was getting a little difficult to make out. The volunteers are adding some 17 tons of chalk to restore the giant and give him renewed vigor. One of the volunteers commented that many people come here fro sex, and there is a legend that people who have difficulty conceiving could solve their problem by coming here, literally coming here. And he noted the many used condoms they have found around the place. I think we’ve solved the problem of why these couples have difficulty conceiving.

Its long been known that one of the best sex toys is made by Hitachi. Its called the Magic Wand, and is a very powerful massager for those who like lot of intensity. I don’t know of anyone who actually uses it on their back.  And now another major company is jumping into the sex toy business, and they are less obscure about it. The company is electronics giant Philips. Yes, that Philips. After years of making products you turn on, they are making a product that will turn you on. Its called the Warm Intimate Massager. Intimate being a not so subtle codeword for you use it on your private parts. It has been in development for two years, and will be launched first in Britain. Its not just another sex toy knock-off. It has a unique design, three stimulation spots, and five vibration patterns. Its watertight, lubricant compatible, ergonomic, and made from a soft sensual material. And it warms to body temperature, an important addition since cold sex toys are not that pleasurable unless you are looking for a little kink. I guess Britain makes sense for this product’s introduction. And who would have thought that real sex toy innovation would come from Philips? Their slogan is Sense and Simplicity, and with this they are certainly appealing to the senses.

Does Obama have to thank the community of swingers for his meteroric rise? Bob Hannaford thinks so. And not because swingers are more likely to support him- a huge percentage of swingers are Republicans. In fact, it was a Republican swinger that helped get Obama elected to the Senate in the first place. And it all began at an event run by Bob and his wife Tess back in 1997. He wrote about that recently on the Kasidie.com site. Jack Ryan was considered a shoe-in to be elected to the Illinois senate. Then an enterprising newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, looked into his divorce records. He used to be married to Jeri Ryan, the seven of nine gal from Star Trek Voyager. One of the things she claimed in the divorce proceedings was that he tried to force her into swinging. Those of us who are actually involved with swinging know that is a terrible idea, and usually leads to very negative consequences. When the story came out, Ryan was also out, replaced by Alan Keyes, who lost to Obama by a huge margin.

And in our Celebrity Gay Out segment, Clay AIken appears on the cover of People magazine and inside he finally confesses that, yes, he is gay man. But from looking at the cover, it is clear he is still not telling the whole truth. It appears that he is, in fact, a gay woman. And Lindsey Lohan also admits her long relationship with Samantha Ronson. And the lesbian community collectively wished for more lesbian role models like Ellen Degeneres.

A new rock musical based on the life of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace will premiere this month is Los Angeles. Lovelace: A Rock Opera was written by Charlotte Caffey, original member of the Go-Gos’, and premieres at the Hayworth Theatre on October 18th. Unfortunately, Linda Lovelace wouldn’t be my first choice to celebrate in music. She was a deeply troubled woman, and when she was broke and needed money, she wrote a tell all book claiming that she was forced to have sex in Deep Throat at gunpoint and blamed the porn industry. There is no doubt that her husband was physically abusive, and he may or may not have forced her into porn, but no one who worked with her was aware of her so-called being forced.. But rather than blaming her husband and her poor choices, including a pattern of marrying abusive men, she decided to make some money off of the anti-porn industry and write an anti-porn book. It didn’t turn out as well as she had hoped. In the book The Other Hollywood, she is quoted claiming that she felt used by the anti-porn industry. She says “"Between Andrea Dworkin and Kitty MacKinnon, they've written so many books, and they mention my name and all that, but financially they've never helped me out. They made a few bucks off me, just like everybody else." So it wasn’t about a genuine impassioned critique of the porn industry- she just wanted to make a buck. You want to make a great musical about the life of a classic porn star, there would be no better person than our interviewee from last week, Lovelace’s contemporary and far more talented Georgina Spelvin, star of the infinitely superior film the Devil in Miss Jones. Unlike Lovelace, she had an interesting and successful life, both before and after her extensive porn career, and she came from a musical theatre background and could sing and dance before going into porn, even appearing on Broadway. She would be the absolute perfect choice for a musical. But it’ll never happen. The problem is that she doesn’t see a problem with her years in porn, she doesn’t blame porn for ruining her life, and she wrote a recent biography, the Devil Made Me Do It, which portrays a fairly positive view of the adult industry and the people in it. Instead, we are stuck with the uninteresting and relatively talentless Lovelace, whose only claim to fame is a total of some five hours on screen for her entire career and the ability to swallow.

There has also been a movie on Lovelace long in the works, but it keeps getting derailed. The latest bump in the road is Anna Faris, who was to star in Inferno. She has now bowed out, claiming that the script was too dramatic. Having hit it big in comedies, most recently in the House Bunny, she says she now wants to stick with the lighter side of the industry. An earlier attempt to make a Lovelace movie, this one starring Courtney Love, also fell apart.  You know who would make a great movie? Did I mention Georgina Spelvin?

Oh, that whacky MPAA. Now they have their panties in a budge over the poster for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Canadians get to see the poster, but the MPAA has banned it in the U.S.. Even though Zack and Miri are completely clothed. Sure, those heads that you can just see the top of at the bottom of the poster could be giving the two head, but only if the guy has the tongue of an anteater. Smith won an appeal to overturn the film’s NC-17 rating. It opens October 31st.

In the world of mainstream movies,

And in the world of porn, we love Mika Tan, and she gave us one of the best interviews we’ve ever had. So we are deeply sorry to hear that she has been in a terrible car accident and seriously injured after another car ran a red light- and then into her. She suffered a "detached retina, a concussion and a hematoma on the brain. She is having cognitive difficulties and difficulty speaking, and has a bit of recovery in front of her. She is bright, funny, and sexy, and we wish her as speedy a recovery as is possible under these difficult circumstances. Mika, our thoughts are with you.

You knew it was coming, and Hustler is out the gate first with a Palin porn parody. Lisa Ann will star in Nailin' Paylin.In it, the Russians will come knocking at her backdoor, in a flashback her creationist college professor introduced her to his own version of the big bang, and there is a threeway with Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. I suspect if they are nailing her, it has to be a grudge fuck. The vid is fast tracked to come out before the election.

It isn’t just Paylin- there is a whole Cougar and MILF phenomena now in porn celebrating the sexuality of women out of their teens and into full womanhood. Since teens are just a tad young and underdeveloped for my taste, I an quite happy about this development. The Cougar Club from Third Degree stars MILF Lexi LaVey.

Then there is Desperate Mothers and Wives 9 from Evasive Angles starring Nina Hartley. It is their first Blu-Ray title, also starring Mikela Kennedy, Darryl Hanah, Carrie Moon and June Summers in their typical interracial mix.

The big movie out now is Not Bewitched XXX from Adam and Eve. It features a cast of 22, Jenna Haze, Teagan, Eva Angelina, Sasha Grey, Sunny Lane, Aurora Snow, Nina Hartley as Endora  and Ron Jeremy as Dr. Bombay. The storyline is about a misguided spell by Auth Clara that turns little Tabitha into an 18 year old sex kitten. Good thing that spell wasn’t off by a year.

Also out from Hustler is Real College Girls #16, covering the adventures of young women just trying to make enough money to put themselves through school. It stars Lexi Belle, Alexa Jordan, Tristan Kingsley, Fayth Deluca and Randi Wright. Each scene opens with an interview and a striptease by the girls. They talk about their college experience and their desire to work in porn. I am assuming that is no the reason they are going to college, as  am unaware of any accredited degree programs for it.

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