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October 21st, 2007

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I’ve always thought that the right to life movement was misnamed. They should really call themselves the right to pre-life movement. Once you are born, they seem to lose interest. It makes sense. Fetuses are not much of a problem. They don’t cry. They don’t whine. They don’t vote Democratic or disagree with your religious viewpoints. They’re nearly perfect people. And most of all, they don’t demand health care. They just take what you give them. Which doesn’t always turn out too well. But they take what you give them. The post born are another problem entirely. They go on national television explaining how government healthcare saved their life and  asking the government to expand healthcare for kids. This is rather annoying to the right to pre-life crowd. The National Right to Life Committee has gone on record as not supporting the SCHIP bill, which would provide healthcare to children in working families. Why? Because the bill does not have anything specifically for fetuses. Yes, they actually said that. They can’t support the bill because it only supports the post-born. The NRLC legislative director explained that “There’s nothing there [in the SCHIP bill] for us to really grab onto.” Yes, because it only supports the already born, the people actually living life. Sure, it might prevent some of them from dying, but they are already born. And after that, we’re all facing death anyway. The important thing is to get born. After that, you’re on your own.

How are Republican pundits dealing with the first serious female candidate for the U.S. presidency? One would hope with better judgment than the first time a woman ran for the presidency. It was Victoria Woodhull, in 1872. But alas, it does not appear to be so. On the Tucker Carlson show, when host Carlson raged on about how idiotic it is to vote for someone just because they are a woman and how the Clinton campaign constantly talks about the glass ceiling and how ridiculous it all is, stating that people who vote for her just because she is a woman should not be allowed to vote, right wing pundit Cliff May interjected “At least call her a vaginal American.” I’d at least call you a dick. These clowns would have been saying the same things during the Woodhull campaign, although slightly more nuanced and less coarsly.

Its now called Secure Flight, requiring the government to check passenger name’s against watch lists and then clear them for travel. These watch lists are so well maintained that they have snagged Congressman and many innocent civilians. What is interesting now is the kind of information the government will be collecting about international passengers (even those who only fly over the United States but never land here). And it is unclear whether this information is going to be collected on American citizens. Sure, we might want to know have you now or have you ever been a terrorist? Have you ever blown anything up? Ever gone to a terrorist training camp?  Those questions make sense. But the government wants to know a whole lot more. Like, who you’ve had sex with. And your religious and philosophical beliefs. And whether you have ever been a member of a trade union, which is apparently even more dangerous than being a member of a terrorist organization. How it makes any sense for this information to be recorded and available about anyone who flies is unfathomable. How can knowing about a person’s sex life make us safe from terrorists. We already know that such details as what you are reading when you fly can go into your dossier. One person discovered that in his file was a note that eh was carrying the book “Drugs and Your Rights”. Maybe this is about a lot more than just terrorists. This is more than big brother. This is more like a really pervy uncle who wants to know way too much personal stuff, including about your sex life.  And some how, that pervy uncle just got put in charge of the entire country. And you have an idea that what you thought he always fantasized about doing to you, he now wants to do to everybody.

Sure, we could go on about the recent extremely creepy interview with Larry Craig by Matt Lauer, and his claim that he could not have gone on the internet to discover that the bathroom he just happened to seek out was a notorious as a gay cruising spot, because he had never used the Internet. Even though he has mentuioned googling things in previous interviews or despite the fatc that he is on several committees dealing with Internet issues. But we won’t. I’m sick of talking about this really creepy guy, and we need to move away from political sex scandals. This week anyway. Instead, how about a jucy religious sex scandal. One not involving little boys and the Catholic church, but involving a prominent leader’s wife and underage boys. Teen boys, to be more specific. It’s a strange story. Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts has had to take a leave of absence amidst a very long list of accusations of using donor’s money for his personal expenses. And getting the professor’s fired who ratted him out to the university board. None of that is particularly surprising. And it is a little surprising that he is accused of hired a convicted sex offender who exposed himself to a 15 year old in a locker room. But what is really surprising is the story about his wife. Lindsay Roberts The fired professors are suing. And in their suit, they accuse Lindsay of spending the night in a university guest house “with an underage male nine times, was photographed 29 times in her car with an underage male after midnight and after minors’ curfew, visited Victory Christian School with an underage male 81 times in 2004, smoked with an underage male at her house, and repeatedly moved her ‘male 16-year-old friend’ into her family’s house.” Plus there were school paid for $800 cell phone bills for hundreds of well after midnight text messages to underage boys. She has stated, and I quote, “I live my life in a morally upright way and have never ever engaged in sexual behavior with any man outside of my marriage…” Well. Technically, no one is claiming that any of them are men.

The Democrats supposedly are in charge of the House, and one of the great Bush boondoggles is his abstinence only education program, that spends millions to not educate, but ignorate our children about sex. So what idiot talked the Democrats into continuing funding for a program that every legitimate study shows is a colossal failure. That idiot has a name. Democratic representative David Obey from Wisconsin. Obey is the go to guy on this issue, supporting abstinence only education because he wants to steer the panel he heads away from, as the Los Angeles Times puts it, the highly charged terrain of moral issues. And how, Mr Obey, is it moral to have a federal mandate that forces schools to lie about sex and teach scientifically unsupportable information or not receive funding, that forces young people to be ignorant about how to protect themselves from STDs, and that studies show may actually increase their risk of unwanted pregnancy or AIDS? That’s not moral Mr. Obey. That’s just stupid and callous.

SO, is this what it has come down to for the Feds? Going after bestiality and defecation videos? That was the first obscenity case brought in Southern California by the Justice Department’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force set up in 2006. And it took them until 2007. They raided the home of Ira Issacs and charged him with six felony counts of transporting obscene materials and two counts of not properly documenting the age of the performers. Which I suspect was a problem because the dogs were probably under 18. This is what we have a huge FBI task force for? Thank god. Going after a guy who probably has fewer customers than the number of agents who raided him. And maybe only slightly more than the number of jurors who will be forced to watch bestiality and defecation videos as part of their service as citizens.  And being from Southern California, the film capital of the world where we tend to see a lot of movies, they have probably seen worse crap turned out by Hollywood. At least this keeps them busy so they don’t have the time to go after the adult movies I do enjoy. And I am personally against bestiality videos. A dog can’t whoof his consent, and the last thing we need is Mutts and Moms coming into our houses to make sure we are not making porn before they allow us to adopt a puppy.

Entertainment

This is a bizarre story, especially to me, since many years ago I used to work for magician David Copperfield. And to be fair, we did not part on amicable terms. But now his warehouse has been raided by police,  2 million in cash confiscated. Computers taken. All relating to a mysterious case in Seattle. Copperfield’s attorney stated that possible sexual abuse claims against him were false. It will be interesting to see where this leads, if anywhere. Not that I harbor a grudge or anything.

Cosmo is the gateway drug to porn for children?  That’s the claim of some folks in Gainsville, Georgia. Glamour, Cosmo, and Vanity Fair are all problems. "You're just telling teenagers to come out there and get some," Kathy Imes told NewsChannel 32. But the children? What about the children? City Councilman George Wangeman, and yes that is his real name though I could be hopefully mispronouncing it, wants to see these magazines covered up, to protect the children.  He says these semi-pornographic pictures can lead youngsters, like Kathy's son, to look for racier magazines. I have bad news for him. Hormones are going to do that anyway. Oh, and we are showing a cover from 1926, but I’m sure they were complaining about this back then as well.

And in new releases in the adult world- Are you too lazy to go to a strip club? Pure Talent Releasing takes you to strip clubs across the country to view top strippers doing their thing in their new Superstar Strippers series. The dancers are paired with the music of indie and unsigned talent. It also takes you behind the scenes into their dressing rooms, where you apparently, what, get to see them put their clothes back on?

Adam and Eve Pictures released Nina Hartley’s Guide to the Perfect Orgy. I’ve been to a lot of sex parties, and for the novice, there actually is a lot to know if you are lucky enough to be invited to an event like this. And Nina is certainly experienced in this department. Besides her many movies, we’ve run into her at the Lifestyles Convention and she has been an active swinger for many years in her personal life. She walks you through an orgy in one scene explaining the do’s and don’ts, and the second scene is a full out orgy. Although keep in mind that the common conception of an orgy is a pretty rare occurrence, and typically occurs with a group of people who are already intimately acquainted. The fantasy conception of just jumping into a pile of anonymous writhing bodies is much less common in real life. And tricky to manage without winding up with some strange foot in your face. 

And if you think reality porn is a new phenomena, Arrow Productions has released on DVD Anthony Spinelli’s Reel People from 1984. Here ordinary people were paired up with porn stars for on camera sex in the very first porn reality series. It stars Juliette Anderson, John Leslie, Gail Sterling, Paul Thomas, and a host of real people that we never heard form again

This week all of the charges have been dropped in the federal obscenity case against JM Productions. The Justice Department moved to drop the charges after jury selection. That leaves the Max Hardcore and Extreme Associates as the two remaining major obscenity cases being prosecuted by the Justice Department. Ironically, while prosecuting several video titles, including Filthy Things 6, the government is also selling the same titles. When Castle Megastore went into bankruptcy, the U.S. Trustee’s Office of the Justice Department administered Castle’s business while it attempted to pay off its creditors. And during that time, they sold more than 100 copies of the very same 4 titles that the Justice Department is trying to prosecute. They are still going after a distributor for selling the titles, but perhaps a better tactic would be to go after themselves. And if the case could include previous bad acts of the Justice Department, it would be a slam dunk case.

And in whose getting naked now, look for a lot more of Eva Mendes in the new film “We Own the Night”. The film opens with her sex scene with Joaquin Phoenix, to the tune of Blondie’s Heart of Glass. And while she is an avowed nudist and loves gardening in the nude, she found doing such a scene on camera a little unnerving.

And of course, we love Uma Thurman in any stage of dress or undress, but it was more the later at the Swarovski Fashion Rocks event. Her outfit was largely transparent, clearly exposing her right breast and a lot of additional skin.  Just one more reason we love Uma.

Halloween is fast approaching. SO, what is there to do?. Here in L.A., sadly, there is a lot less than year’s past. It was shortly after Halloween last year that the building housing our campus was raided and subsequently shut down by police, so that was the last of what were incredible Halloween parties. The Lifestyles Organization is not hosting a big Halloween party. That does not leave a lot going on here in Los Angeles. The only really big party I know of is at Freedom Acres, quite a few miles outside of the city.

There are two big competing parties on the West coast. In San Francisco, there is the Exotic Erotic Ball, and in Las Vegas, there is the Fetish and Fantasy Ball. Both are great events, and you can learn more about them by visiting our Sexinreview.com site. You’ll find details listed in our events calendar and  inour article on Halloween costumes, which is a great resource for costume ideas and where to get them.

Sexvestigation

Did I miss something? Some pronouncement where rape has become more acceptable? I always thought it was the most detestable of crimes. And yet, many recent stories leave one to wonder. What is going on?

New York Magazine writer Vanessa Grigoriadis wrote a cover piece in which she said that New York Post's Page Six had been "emasculated" by a recent scandal. Page Six responded in a rather astonishing way-  They wrote: “As for us being "emasculated," Grigoriadis ignores that fact that half the Page Six staff is female. The male half might take her someplace private and disprove her theory, but we don't like a woman with a mustache.” Wow the threat of rape, with the always accompanying disdain for women. And this, in print, in a major newspaper.

Maybe they are taking their cue from the courts, the military, and even popular authors who have had some fairly strange takes on this notion of rape.

Laura Sessions Stepp, the author of Unhooked, claims in the book that young women don’t even really like sex amongst other ludicrous claims, also writes about a new category of rape. It is called grey rape. It suggests it's not-quite-rape if you say "no" while drunk, or if you say "no" to intercourse after you've said "yes" to making out. She blames it as a consequence of women acting out sexually. Why not just call it- its no big deal layback and enjoy it bitch rape?

That apparently was the thinking behind the bizarre actions of  Howard University Hospital. And George Washington University Hospital. When a disoriented 19 year old sophomore came in to Howard University Hospital claiming she was anally raped at a party, they refused to give her a rape kit. That is rather important in collecting evidence. But since she appeared drunk to them, rather than, as she claims, under the influence of a date rape drug, they sent her away.  Even though she was drifting in and out of consciousness and vomiting. They never bothered to test her for a date rape drug. She came in the next morning and they still refused. They called the Metropolitan Police, who sided with the hospital. So she drove to George Washington University Hospital. She’s pretty sober appearing, but since the other hospital turned her down, they used that as an excuse to turn her down as well. One strange thing I learned from this is that if you are intoxicated, you can’t consent to a rape kit. I’m not sure how that makes a lot of sense, but there is still no excuse for not taking care of it the next morning. Plus, it is unbelievable that they did not even suspect the possibility of a date rape drug.

And there are stories all over the nation of hospitals refusing emergency contraception to rape victims. Wisconsin even had a bill exempting hospitals from having to treat rape victims with emergency contraception, and exempt hospitals from civil liabilities if they withhold care from rape victims.

If some hospitals are curiously indifferent to the plight of rape victims, at least they can still turn to the courts. Well, some of them, anyway. Others are even more indifferent.  There was the strange case of Tory Bowen of Nebraska. She went to court accusing Pamir Safi of raping her. But the judge in the case decided that the term rape was too inflammatory and ordered her not to use the word in her testimony. She had to use the word sex. Nor could she use the word victim to describe herself. Nor was the jury informed that certain words were banned from testimony, which would certainly lead them to wonder why the woman claiming rape never used the term herself. A federal judge just dismissed Bowen’s lawsuit against  Lancaster District Judge Jeffrey Shevront.

And just last week, we reported on a Maryland appellate court that ruled that once a woman consents to sex, she can’t change her mind.  Once she is deflowered, you can’t reflower her- essentially the damage has already been done, according to the decision based on 19th century common law. That deicision is being reviewed by a higher court. 

For women in the military it is even worse. Legislation that would have required that emergency contraception be made available on all military bases was dropped by the Democratic leadership, even when the military supported it. But even worse things could happen to her if she dares report it. Case in point is Airman 1st Class Cassandra Hernandez. She told authorities this summer that three fellow soldiers had raped her at a party involving a lot of drinking. After being subjected several times to intense questioning, she finally decided that the pressure was not worth it and was persuaded not to testify. Now that she was on the record of having sex with three men, the military decided to go after her.

They charged her with committing an indecent act. Then the Air Force granted the three male airmen immunity for their testimony against her. Now immunized by the government, it is impossible to prosecute the men for rape. They explained that the reason she was crying afterwards is because she realized that she was a slut. After a firestorm of protest, they dropped the indecent act charge and charged her with underage drinking.

Kris took a full contact self-defense class. It was very helpful in learning how to reduce the risk of rape by avoiding situations that were potentially dangerous. But if things did get dangerous, they taught her how to quickly disable an attacker. Women should be taught that if a man, any man, tries to have sex with them against there will, their impulse and training should be to hurt him. Even in cases of grey rape, date rape, acquaintance rape, whatever you want to call it. Once a woman says no and the man continues, he should know that he is now in a situation of possibly getting his rocks off or possibly getting them kicked really, really hard. 

Whacko of the Week

When it comes to selecting people for his administration that have anything to do with family planning, Bush always seems to make the most wildly inappropriate choices. Most specifically, people who are against family planning. He’s done it again, by selecting Susan Orr  to oversee federal family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services as the acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs.

This is the same office that last year Bush appointed the equally wildly inappropriate Eric Keroack to. His previous job was medical director of an organization called A Woman’s Concern , whose official stance on birth control is that it is “demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality, and adverse to human health and happiness.” They also believe, somewhat ironically and illogically, that it contributes to out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion. The organization, which provides Christian crises pregnancy counseling, spews the typical abstinence only misinformation. While Keroack does have a medical degree, he is a quack of the first order. One of his many "theories" is that premarital sex alters brain chemistry in a way that prevents happy marriages, despite any scientific evidence for such an incredible idea. So, a guy who is the medical expert for a lunatic fringe organization and himself a medical quack was put in charge of family planning for the United States government. Except he was forced to resign when the state of Massachusetts’ Office of Medicaid began an investigation of Medicaid fraud against him.

Susan Orr, who does not require Congressional conformation, will oversee the nearly $300 million a year in family-planning grants that help women plan their pregnancies through contraceptives and information. Except, like her predecessor, she does not believe in Family Planning.

In a 2001 Washington Post article, she was quoted as supporting the Bush plan to eliminate contraception health insurance coverage for federal employees.  Of contraception, she said "It’s not a medical necessity that you have it. We're quite pleased, because fertility is not a disease."

In what universe is contraception not a medical necessity? Gee, only 98 percent of women in the U.S. rely on birth control at some point in their lives. Has she read any U.S. history where women had baby after baby until they died, where divorce for men was not as common because he just had to wait until she died from complications of child birth? Women who wound up being baby machines did not reach old age, and that was the common experience for many women in much of the history of our country. Or maybe she just supports abstinence after marriage?

For whatever reason, she really dislikes contraception, which seems like it might be sort of a problem when your new job involves family planning.  In a 2000 Weekly Standard article, Orr came out very strongly against requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. “It’s not about choice,” she said. “It’s not about health care. It’s about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.” Contraception is collaborating with the culture of death? Does she mean the type of contraception that keeps people from having unwanted children, making abortions unnecessary? 

Sure, she is against abortion, but she publicly cheered Bush’s bizarre policy that denied international family planning money to any organization that so much as mentioned abortion as an option. Known as the global gag rule, it cut off millions of dollars of funding to organizations that would have helped women receive contraception, which would have cut down on the number of abortions. 

In an article she wrote in Washington Watch in 2000, she advocated making divorce more difficult to get legally, and advocated women staying with their husbands and be less worried about their own self-fulfillment, while specifically ignoring the problem of abusive husbands that lead to so many divorces.

She was senior director for marriage and family care at the Family Research Council. This is a right wing conservative group with an extremist agenda, opposing abortion, family planning, emergency contraception, evolution, stem cell research, gays, and the science on global warming. Some of their stands seem anti-family to me. And what do global warming and evolution have to do with family research, unless your real agenda just happens to be all of the wedge issues of the far right wing of the Republican party?   

Before her appointment she also worked for the Department of Health and Human Services. In that post, she opposed setting federal minimums on the amount of money foster parents receive to provide adequate care to children. She also suggested that privatizing the child welfare system was the best way to fix its problems. And she called child protection services “the most intrusive arm of social services.” You’d think that protecting children would need to be a little intrusive. In a job where she was supposed to be an advocate of children, she seemed to be the opposite. That makes her perfect for her new position.

So, what is Orr in charge of? She will be in charge of annual grants that are intended to provide contraceptive services to low-income families, the office's abstinence program aimed at teens, and the all of the funding for birth control, pregnancy tests, counseling, and screenings for sexually transmitted disease and HIV administered by the Office of Population Affairs." In other words, her background shows her opposing virtually everything that she will be overseeing.