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October 11th, 2009

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Welcome to the show. Yesterday Kris and I celebrated our wedding anniversary, after having been together our entire adult lives. When we got married I was in show business and thought by now I should have at least been on wife number three. Who knew I’d get it right the first time?  Who knew we’d still be happy together? Who knew we’d share girls together? I love the married life.

This week in Sex and Politics we look at a former comedian’s attempt to keep women from being raped, our insane when it comes to sex Muslim Watch, how homophobia is used to attack Nobel Prize Winner Barack Obama, and another big blow against the very notion of sexual freedom in the United States.

In Sex and Entertainment, we look at the late night doings after Dave left Late Night, the latest in who is getting naked now- including the oldest woman ever to appear in Playboy. Hint, she is one of America’s most famous moms, and someone you would never ever expect to make it to the cover of Playboy in what is a first for the magazine. And we look at one of the worst but logically consistent decisions the Miss America Pageant has ever made.

It is also Sex Science Sunday, our roundup of all of the latest in sex science research. We’ll cover which countries have the best male lovers, scare tactics and the birth control pill, what the discovery of the oldest human ancestor tells us about sex, a new sex education site that does just the opposite, and our roundup of the most obvious scientific sex research results.

All this and more on the Jeff Booth Show.

Politics

I’ve been a big Al Franken fan for years. A smart comedian, and an extremely knowledgeable policy wonk. And I was thrilled when he made it to the Senate. He has not disappointed. His latest was an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill that prohibits "the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims." What is this about? The fact that Halliburton allowed sexual assault upon their female employees, even rape, and their only recourse was a rigged system of arbitration. Specifically, it was about Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang raped by fellow company employees, then locked up to keep her from going to authorities right away. And it is almost certain that there was company involvement in destroying her rape kit. But technically, we could never know, because she could not sue them in court. Her contract required mandatory arbitration, which limits public disclosure of the results.Thanks to a Fifth Circuit Court decision last month, Jamie Leigh Jones will be able to have her day in court. They found that her arbitration clause did not apply to her case. They found that rape was not officially a part of the workplace. This must have come as a huge shock to Halliburton. It took four years to get this decision, and there has still been no finished official investigation of the rape, no punishment for anyone- for a rape that was pretty well documented at the time and there is little doubt by anyone that it took place. While she was being held, she was able to get a hold of a cell phone, call her Dad, who called his Congressman, who literally had the State Department rescue her.  I hope she wins big. And I hope other Halliburton victims will then come forward to sue as well. The U.S. government sure doesn’t seem that interested in having their day in court with one of the most corrupt companies in U.S. history- despite mountains of evidence of corruption, defrauding the government, and shoddy work. The leader of the failed Republican opposition to Franken’s amendment was Jeff Sessions, the notoriously racist and anti-woman Senator who also led the charge against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

In our Muslim World Watch, a Saudi man was given five years in prison and 1,000 lashes. Keep in mind that 40 lashes is enough to kill you. Now, they don’t do this all at once. The goal is to keep you alive so that the entire punishment can be administered. That doesn’t mean that nearly killing you is prohibited. His crime? He talked about his sexual experiences on a talk show. And as to the next logical question “well what would they do if you actually had sex on camera, kill you?”, the answer is yes, of course. And in Egypt, not being a virgin when you get married is a very bad thing. A potentially life threatening very bad thing. Which is why a Chinese company began importing the Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, designed to make the husband believe his wife is a virgin. It leaks a blood like fluid when broken. The Egyptian Parliament took up the issue to ban the kits, punishing both users and importers. One Islamic scholar called for the exile of anyone who uses it. Please. Exile them here to the United States. You have some beautiful women, and we’d love to have them here. Every single one of you mysogonistic basterds should be left with only each other to fuck. You brutal slave mastering women hating violent pricks need to disappear off of the face of the planet, and the only way that will happen is if you exile all of your women. And frankly, as much as you despise and hate women, you’d probably be happier.

When you hate the gays and you hate Obama, the natural tactic is to use gay smears to attack his nominees. They went strongly after Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, whom they claimed tacitly supported statutory rape of young boys when he was a teacher. This accusation came from a book Jennings wrote, where he talked about being a closeted homosexual and a new teacher. A male student came to him and said that he was having sex with a much older man. In the book, Jennings writes that they had no training on how to deal with this, and he just urged the student to practice safe sex. He wrote that he felt he had not handled this well, and that it inspired him to start organizing and helping to train teachers on how to council gay students. So, according to conservatives, you should be fired because you admitted you did not handle a task well at the beginning of your career and then dedicated a chunk of your life to training teachers in how to better handle the same situation. Plus, the statutory rape charge is a lie. The boy was 16, and that was the age of consent in that state. He could legally have sex with an older man if he so chose, which he did. They did not quite get the traction with that story that they hoped, so now they have moved on to attacking Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominee and Georgetown University law professor Chai Feldblum. In WorldNet Daily, they wrote that the database Obama uses to locate people like Feldblum has got to be Perverts.gov. If there were a perverts.gov, I think at the top of the list would be Republican leaders such as “mom and dad pay off your adultery” Nevada Senator John Ensign- , “hooker lovin’ “Louisianna Senator David Vitter”, “boy lovin’ Florida Representative Mark Foley” , “open mike sex braggart “ California State House Assembyman Mike Duvall, “intern extortionist lovin” Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley, “goin’ down South lovin” South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Mitt Romney aide and child lovin’ Matthew Joseph Elliott, “restroom toe-tapping” Idaho Senator Larry Craig, undercover restroom officer lovin’ Florida state representative Bob Allen, anti-gay and male escort lovin’ Washington State House Represenatative Richard Curtis, underage foster daughter lovin’ South Dakota State House Representative Ted Klaudt – and it goes on- these are just some of the recent top guys, but I digress. Back to the horrors of Feldblum. They accuse him of being an “outspoken homosexual activist.” I suspect an activist who is not outspoken is not going to be very effective. Oh, and she is a practicing Lesbian. Now, I don’t know how long you have to practice before you get to be a full lesbian… And horrors, she believes in gay marriage. The Traditional Values Coalition, who believe that vicious and over the top smears are a traditional value, wrote that she is a sort of general counsel to the Forces of Darkness. Yes, that’s right, she is a lawyer and she works for Satan. As an advocate for not discriminating against gays, she is apparently the wrong choice to head up a commission that involves enforcement of existing federal laws involving job discrimination and providing oversight of federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies. If she is not willing to discriminate on marriage issues, hell, she might not be able to properly discriminate at the EEOC. And clearly, as were many Bush appointees, they are a little confused about what the EEOC is supposed to do.

There is no such thing as a sexual freedom right in this country. The Supreme Court has never recognized such a thing. You would think that it would come naturally out of a right to privacy, but sadly, it has not. States are still able to restrict the sexual rights of their citizens. The latest case in point is the moronic decision from the Alabama Supreme Court, which has upheld the law that makes it illegal to sell sex toys in that state. No item designed for the sexual stimulation of the genitals may be sold. If you do, you face some rather serious penalties. They are not kidding about this. In an article in the Huffington Post, author Geoffrey R. Stone writes: “In a thoughtful opinion, the Alabama court concluded that because the United States Supreme Court has not yet expressly recognized a constitutional right to sexual freedom, analogous to the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, or the freedom to use contraceptives, the law must be upheld as long as it has a rational justification. And, applying that test, the court held that the statute could rationally be justified as an effort to enforce the "public morality." This is his idea of thoughtful? If a specific conservative religious viewpoint is used to uphold public morality for something that is technically used in private, I don’t think there was actual rational thought going into it. They were simply trying to justify a strictly religious based objection to non-procreative sexual pleasure. That is insane. There is no logical reason to ban sex toy sales except on religious grounds. Sure, toy sellers there get around the ban by marketing their products as strictly medical devices, but I thought of a way to drive toy banners literally insane. Market a vibrating gun. With an anal stimulator feature. They are hard line about not banning the sale of guns, so this will be like the old Star Trek plot where the robot is faced with two opposing but logical conditions and their head explodes.

Entertainment

Well, apparently Dave really is the king of late night. At last the king of late night doings. He thwarted a $2 million extortion plot to expose his sexual affairs with staff members by coming clean and setting up the extortionist. And while some applaud his openness, others point out that he opens himself up to some serious lawsuits from those he had sex with, who can claim coercion. Which, in fact, they can rightfully claim, since he was their boss. It was clearly a power imbalance. But then again, when you work all the time, and are one of the richest men in television, where else except at work are you going to find people to fool around with? What’s the point of being rich and powerful if you can’ fool around? Has that not been the tradition of rich and powerful men, and even rich and powerful women? If we take that away, what incentive will men have to become rich and powerful? And then what will happen to our economy? This is such a dilemma. I don’t know what to think. I guess I’ll need to turn to Fox News. I’m sure they will tell me.

And in Who is Getting Naked Now, its Serena Williams. And not just her. Besides this famous tennis racket swinger, there is also surfer Claire Bevilacqua, and mixed martial artist Gina Carano. Oh yeah, there are a couple of guys, but in the two pics I saw they were still wearing pants and covering their manly chests like shy debutantes. It’s for ESPN’s Body issue, which is hoping to compete with Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Admittedly, this is far more interesting and a lot less sexist than SI, and it just hit the newstands this weekend so I have not had the chance to see it.  I hope some of the guys man up a little and show some more skin. As men, we all win when male nude bodies turn women on. Come on guys. Spread the love.

And in a surprise, Marge Simpson appears naked on the cover of Playboy. It is the first prominent cartoon character to ever appear on the cover, and no, of course, she does not get her own pictorial. Just kidding. She has a 3 page layout inside, but it is in very good taste with implied but not explicit nudity. But it is also another landmark for Playboy. She is the oldest woman to appear nude in Playboy. The Simpsons first appeared on the Tracey Ulmann Show in 1987. Marge was 37 years old. That would make her 59 years old today. That beats out Nancy Sinatra whowas 54 was when she posed for Playboy in May 1995, Vicki LaMotta who was 51 when she posed in November 1981, Farrah Fawcett was 50 when she posed in July 1997, and Terry Moore, who she was 55 in the August 1984 issue. But like the others, Marge really looks great for her age.

Is the Miss America Pageant a sexist relic from our less enlightened past? Rather than take the difficult path of trying to update it and make it appear less sexist, the Miss America Pageant has decided to go whole hog and fully embrace the absolute worst of its past. And by whole hog, I am referring to their selection of the corpulent Rush Limbaugh as one of their judges. Were they jealous of the controversy stirred by judge Perez Hilton at the Miss U.S.A. pageant and wanted someone even more controversial?  These young women are going to be thrilled to death being leered at and judged by a man who has linked feminists with Nazis, said that women love Hillary Clinton because they’ve “had two or three abortions,” and that women “live longer than men because their lives are easier”. Sure, this fat load carries the weight of a pregnant woman and much more, but I doubt he could handle the pain of childbirth. But I am guessing that it was this comment that inspired pageant officials to bring him on board when Limbaugh said to his female listeners, both of them “"How many of you in the secrecy and privacy of your own dreams and hopes would love to be hired as eye candy?" You know, because that is every woman’s dream to be passed over for her skills and intelligence and hired solely for her looks, so she can look forward to a future of sexual harassment. In that context, picking Limbaugh makes perfect sense.

 Science

Welcome to Sex Science Sunday, our monthly roundup of all the latest in sex science research and the intersections between sex and science.

In a new poll from OnePoll.com, they asked women from 20 countries to rate men from different countries based on their ability in bed. And the winner of the award for world’s worst lovers goes to the Germans. To be fair, they were just following orders. Actually, the reason given was that they were too smelly. Wow, to be told you stink as a lover ad having them mean it literally. That has to hurt. Lovers in England came in at number two, rated as too lazy. Then the Swedes, who were too quick, followed by the Dutch, who were too dominating, and then the Americans at number 5 who were too rough. So, in order to preserve American exceptionalism, during sex we need to avoid showering and be quickly and roughly dominating, but not put much effort into it. Then once again, we can be number one!

The New York Times played completely into the hands of the anti-abortion movement, which has long had a secondary agenda of eliminating women’s choice not just to have an abortion, but to choose whether she has a baby or not. Their goal is to ensure she has no choice by denying her any effective form of birth control. A preliminary part of their agenda, which also includes making most forms of birth control illegal,  is to convince women that birth control is dangerous. And the Times jumped right in to help them with their September 25th article on the dangers of the birth control pill, specifically, the popular oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin which have been under scrutiny lately. There are risks of serious side effects to almost any drug, and women taking them should be informed about these potential side effects, but this just fed into the agenda of scaring women away from birth control. What the article failed to mention is the much higher risk factors of being sexually active and not using effective birth control. The risks from pregnancy are higher than the risks from taking birth control. For example, studies have found among women taking low-dose birth control pills, risk of thrombosis (formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel) increases to 12 to 20 per 100,000. But among pregnant women the risk is 48 to 60 per 100,000- significantly higher. If articles like this focused on the risks of pregnancy in the same way they focus on the risk of the pill, women would be absolutely terrified to get pregnant. And what they completely fail to mention inn articles like this is all of the additional benefits besides keeping you from getting pregnant. The combination pill reduces the risk of a number of health problems, including cancers of the uterus and ovary; ovarian cysts; pelvic inflammatory disease; bone loss; benign breast disease; symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome; ectopic pregnancy; and anemia. And they can reduce breast pain and cramping associated with the menstrual cycle, and control heavy, painful, or irregular periods. Menstrual suppression reduces the risk of ovarian cancer. Plus it can clean up your acne. And control excessive hair growth. When you look at the big picture, and not the narrow scary picture the anti-contraception people want you to see, oral contraceptives are wonder drug. 

The discovery of Ardi, the oldest fossilized skeletal remains of a direct human ancestor ever found, have some interesting implications for our sexual development. She lived in what is now Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago, which makes her over a million years older than the famous "Lucy" fossil. The big surprise here is that she lived part of her life in the trees, but she could also walk upright. It had long been thought that walking upright was something that developed after we moved out to the plains. So the question remains, why did we start walking upright? According to Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University, part of the reason may have to do with sex. He theorizes that fighting and aggressiveness may not have been the only winning way to get females to copulate with you. Bringing her food may have impressed her even more than your ability to fight, flash your large canines. Filling her belly might have proved to be an even better strategy. And those less aggressive and with smaller canines may have discovered that walking upright allowed you to carry a lot more tubers, fruits, and other tasty items. She would be so impressed, he  would get to copulate with her. And we see that over time, smaller canines were favored, and walking upright became predominant. In a way, it was the earliest revenge of the nerds, who won the day by figuring out a better strategy that involved more than brawn.

I love all the great adult sex education sites out there. Never before in history has so much sexual information been so freely available. Add to the mix the new site, Sense and Sexuality, which has the motto “All science, no spin girls! Your happiness depends on it.” It is brought to us by the Center for Women’s Sexuality at the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute. Wow, a science based site targeted at women affiliated with an organization named after Clare Booth Luce, an accomplished American playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and U.S. Congresswoman. What could possibly go wrong? Here’s a clue. Luce was a staunch conservative. The site named for her hails Sarah Palin, supports only conservative women, opposes health care reform, and tried to shut down the play The Vagina Monologues. So, what does their sex site teach you about science and sex? We learn that the rectum is an exit, not an entrance, and that even with condoms, anal sex is simply too dangerous to practice. Ever. You can get STDs from mutual masturbation. Women feel used after hooking up. The naturally produced chemical Oxytocin works only as a bonding agent on women and it is a powerful drug triggered by any sexual contact makes women stupidly fall in love with whoever they are intimate with (even kissing) and take risks and turn off caution,  while for guys it won’t even inspire them to remember your name. Women should have babies in their twenties, the earlier the better, so women should never put their career first or it will lead to sadness. Having babies is the best protection against breast cancer. And, of course, the only safe sex is no sex, and safer sex protocols are hopelessly outdated. What it really is is an anti-sex propaganda site run by anti-sex proponent Miriam Grossman, a doctor who rails against the hook-up culture, and who seems to wish it was the 1950’s all over again.

The stimulus plan was not supposed to fund anything to stimulating, according to conservatives, which is why they were enraged when stimulus money was used at Syracuse University to fund sex research. Sure, it provided money for researchers to help pay their bills, and its study of women’s sex practices is focused on women’s health which has long term benefits, but studying women’s health and sexuality is just too controversial. I mean, who cares about a bunch of whores? Can’t we get back to studying men’s health? We need a new improved Viagra. That is a stimulus plan even Bob Dole could support.

Do vaginally orgasmic women walk differently from those who are not? That is what is suggested by research at Catholic University of Leuwen’s Institute for Studies of Family and Sexuality. The objective of the research was to determine if appropriately trained sexologists could infer women's history of vaginal orgasm from observing only their gait. Using a sample of half vaginally orgasmic and half not women, sexologists had a better than 80% success rate of determining which women were vaginally orgasmic. Apparently, vaginally orgasmic women have greater pelvic and vertebral rotation and stride length- a gait they describe as comprising fluidity, energy, sensuality, freedom, and absence of both flaccid and locked muscles.

And we’ll close with a roundup of what we call Duh research. Gay hook-up site Manhunt  compiled a list of the averages of all the self-reported measurements by state, from largest to smallest. It turns out that the biggest dicks in the United States are in Washington, DC. Could have guessed that. Research at Melbourne's Victoria University found that men tend to overestimate and exaggerate the size of their penis so that self-reporting tends to be unreliable, but I still think the Washington D.C. conclusion is correct.  According to a study published in Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, 83 percent of people who suffer from allergic rhinitis claim that their allergies are impeding their sex lives. Its not just the fact you feel bad, itchy, tired and you can’t breathe. The other side of the coin is that while there is a fetish for almost everything, I have yet to hear of anyone with a fetish for sneezing and running noses. Just not sexy. And it is an urban legend that sneezing rapidly several times in a row will provide the equivalent pleasure of an orgasm. However, it has been reported that some people have sneezes triggered by an orgasm- and some people can even have a sneeze triggered by thinking about sex.  A study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 47 percent of men notice a woman’s chest first. One third initially take note of the midriff and less than one fifth are first to notice a woman’s face. This is obvious, but I believe the results are skewed by the many women who wear t-shirts with printed phrases on them. You know, we’re just reading their shirts.  Dr. Anthony Little of Stirling University in Great Britain presented results recently confirming the notion that hanging around ugly people makes you appear more attractive. Unless, I guess, you are one of the ugly people making someone else in your group more attractive. But don’t despair, ugly people. There is a strategy for you as well. Unattractive people can make themselves appear more attractive by hanging around really beautiful people. He calls this the Hugh Hefner effect, as people will assume you must have something really going on to attract so many beautiful people. I’m really torn by this one. I like the results of the Hugh Hefner effect, but that sort of automatically places you into the group of ugly people. I don’t know which strategy to use.