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November 16th, 2008

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This is the Jeff Booth Show for November 16th, 2008. brought to you by the Center for Sexual Expression and Education, and Erotic University. I’m Jeff Booth. This week we do a lot of catching up on our entertainment news, since we have been more focused on politics during the election season. We also have a little political news, though. And we have an interview with the fictitious Father Flanalgan about the anti-Prop 8 protests against churches. And by the way, it has been a few years since I acted and performed for a living, and every so often I am reminded that some skills do get a little rusty- Turns out my Irish accent – not so good. Still, I think the interview hits the right balance between funny and informative, so I hope you enjoy it anyway. Just click on the topic you want to listen to, and thanks for clicking in.

Political News

It is so smokey outside from all of the fires here in California that you can barely breathe. I’ve had to stay indoors the last few days. Is it a coincidence that California seems to be on fire all over just shortly after the voters took away gay marriage? Maybe God is angry. I know the gay community certainly is. Before the election, there were groups of young enthusiastic and smiling people gathered on street corners with signs urging people to vote no on Prop 8. This was in contrast to the dour older NRA hat wearing crowds we saw on street corner with the Yes on 8 signs. The attitudes have now reversed. Yesterday, organized by Join the Impact organized protests involving thousands turned, who turned out in eight countries, 50 states, and 300 cities in support of marriage equality and protesting the  passage of Prop. 8. Many held signs that read “Are you better off now that I can’t marry?”. No, we’re choking in smoke here.

SO, what does Obama plan to do about porn? That is what Morality in Media wants to know. Their president, Bob Peters, has written our soon to be president asking him just that, and pointing out that under Clinton, pornographers got a free ride. He writes "Bill Clinton became president in 1992, when the Justice Department really had the hard-core pornographers on the run. Within a year-and-a-half, his Justice Department had virtually shut down law enforcement against pornography." Unfortunately, he is referring to a time of the Justice Department having adult film makers on the run by using highly questionable and at times clearly unconstitutional methods. He was not that much more impressed by Bush, but at least there were a few prosecutions. Referring to Obama, Peters says “"At one level I hope he embarrasses the Bush administration and does a much better job. That wouldn't be hard to do." True, it would not be that hard to do a better job than Bush in almost every category, except ignoring the Constitution, the very thing that Peters would want Obama to do in repressing free speech and going after the adult industry.

Did you know that Washington, the state I mean, has no official ban on nudity, and in Seattle parks, it was not that big an issue in a city that also has no regulations regarding nudity. That has changed under the new leadership of Parks Superintendent Tim Gallagher. He discovered that people were finding secluded spots in city parks or at the beach to sunbathe, and play naked volleyball, and there was even an officially acknowledged nude bike ride. That will all change if Gallagher gets his way. He announced a hearing on January 8th to enact a new anti-nudity ordinance, which takes 53 words to describe what nudity is. I think I can use just one name to describe an asshole.

The Supreme Court is now hearing one of the most important obscenity cases in a long time. It is all about what are known as fleeting expletives and excited utterances. The case, fueled by the current Bush appointee to head the FCC, Kevin martin, began ironically on the final curtain of the Bush legacy- the day Obama was elected the 44th president.  It is all about singer Bono and the Golden Globe Awards, where he excitedly uttered an expletive. It happens. Just last week, conservative talk show host Joe Scarborough accidentally said fuck you when quoting someone- he meant to say f u. It was quite entertaining as his other guests were all shocked and trying to make comments about what he had done as he went on oblivious until someone must have gone up to his ear and told him directly.  But really- what is the difference between fu and fuck you? Why is language like this, the way people speak in real life, so dangerous to our society if it appears on television?  The FCCs decisions about what are obscene are more arbitrary than the decisions of the MPAA, and no way in hell should they be given the power to extract huge fines from broadcasters overly vaguely defined guidelines. Fuck them. It may be partially moot as the censorship happy Kevin Martin will be riding off into the sunset with the rest of the Bush administration. Still, hopefully the Supreme Court will act like adults and reign in the powers of an FCC that wants to treat broadcasters like naughty children and take away their allowance.

Interview

Jeff: The Catholic Church, along with the Mormon Church, has taken a lot of heat lately for their active participation in getting Proposition 8 approved in California, banning gay marriage. Here to talk about this issue is Father Flanalgan, from the organization Priests Proudly Without Partners, which advocates continuing celibacy for priests and against gay marriage. Welcome to the show.

Flanalgan: Thank you for having me. And I must say. I am outraged by the response of the radical homosexual community to the passing of Proposition 8, the overwhelming will of the people of California, and their actually protesting at churches for simply exercising their constitutional rights. That is unconscionable.

Jeff: Well, I don’t think it is overwhelming when you win by what was a razor thin margin, and many question whether such major changes to a state’s constitution and the taking away of people’s rights should be made by a simple majority vote. Part of our form of democracy is to protect the rights of the many from the will of a simple majority. I understand you are outraged by the protests at churches. Does that also mean that you are outraged by the protests at Family Planning organizations that choose to offer abortion services or information? Aren’t they also exercising their constitutional rights.

Flanalgan: The two issues are entirely different. In one case, you have people protesting an organization that tries to keep people from going to hell. In the other instance, you have people protesting an organization where everyone involved in that organization is going to hell. I don’t see how you can equate the two.

Jeff: The boycott movement does seem to be growing. When it came out that Scaramento’s California Music Theatre director Scott Eckers had given $1000 to Prop 8, people were shocked. A heterosexual musical theatre director? Susan Egan, who appeared on Broadway as Belle in Beauty and the Beast publicly supported a boycott of CMT, and Eckers was forced to resign. Scott Eckers, by the way, was Mormon, and the Mormon church is getting a lot of the blame, or credit depending upon your political position, along with the Catholic church..

Flanalgan: I think this was an historic instance of a false religion and the one true church coming together to accomplish something positive. And we are coming together again to do something about these protestors and boycotters. What we want to do is go after the people who are protesting against churches and trying to make us pay for our exercising of our civil rights, and we want to make them pay for their actions. We are joining forces with a newly founded organization by the Mormon Church, the National Association of Mormons Boycotting Legislative Agitators.

Jeff: The National Association of Mormons Boycotting Legislative Agitators? You are joining forces with NAMBLA?

Flanalgan: It seemed like a good fit.

Jeff: Your organization is in a bit of a quandary in that the gay community is calling for a boycott of the Cinemark theatre chain because the CEO gave a penny short of $10,000 to the Proposition 8 people. But your group has also called for a boycott of the Cinemark theatre chain, because you claim they promoted bestiality by being the only theatre in California to show Spiderman in Imax, a movie you called, and I quote “an unrepentant metaphorical promotion of merging man with animal, or in this case, insect, contrary to the will of God.” How do you deal with dueling boycotts?

Flanalgan: I support one but not the other.

Jeff: Don’t you think there is some hypocrisy in the church’s stand, considering the churches’ own problems with pedophile priests and the fact that priests aren’t even allowed to be married themselves, making them something less than experts on marriage?

Flanalgan: I’ll be the first to admit that there is a huge difference between two adult men getting married and an adult having sex with a child. One is a moral outrage that shocks the senses. That is why we so strongly backed Proposition 8.

Jeff: You say the courts should play no role in the gay marriage issue, but wasn’t it court activism that got rid of miscegenation laws in the Supreme Court Loving v. Virginia case?

Flanalgan: It is entirely different. In that case, they had no choice in being born the unfortunate color that they were. But homosexuality is a choice.

Jeff: Most experts would disagree with you on that, as would virtually all gay people. But even if you buy the notion that homosexuals are made and not born, isn’t it interesting that disgraced pastor Ted Haggard just came out and claimed that his homosexual activities with a gay prostitute were caused because he was sexually molested by a man when he was seven. Disgraced Congressman and now openly gay Dan Foley just came out in an interview and claimed that he was molested by a priest as a child. Since we know that the church has tacitly sat by while priests molested hundreds of children, and that the church claims that homosexuality is not a choice but a learned behaviour (even though I disagree with that), can you really say that it is morally right to deny gays civil rights when your church admits that it was partly responsible for making a lot of them gay in the first place?

Flanalgan: That is the kind of low blow that you people in the liberal media use against the church all of the time. The problem is that the radical left knows no boundaries. They are willing to say anything, make any accusation, no matter how morally reprehensible.

Jeff: I just saw an appearance by Dennis Miller on the Bill O’Reilly show. I know that I am dating myself, but I remember back when Dennis Miller could be sort of funny. On the show, Miller made a joke about openly gay Massachusetts representative Barney Frank. After O’Reilly said that maybe Barney Frank should be arrested, Miller came back with the response that maybe Barney Frank would want to be arrested, inferring that Frank would want to be forcibly anally raped. Does that surprise and shock you?

Flanalgan: Sadly, no, nothing the gays do shocks me anymore. By the way, I am a big fan of  both O’Reilly and his name.

Jeff: Bill O’Reilly also said on his show that “Gay marriage just the beginning. Other cultural war issues will also be in display very shortly. These include limiting gun possession, legalizing narcotics, unrestricted abortion and the revocation of the Patriot Act.” Do all of those things really go hand in hand?

Flanalgan: Well, I think a lot of homosexuals would not be able to do the perverted sex acts they do if they were not on drugs. And of course the gays want to take away our guns, leaving us completely undefended in the case of gay rape. And of course they want to get rid of the patriot act, because no patriot would have sex with another man. I do not agree that they would support unrestricted abortion, because then where would the next generation to convert come from?

Jeff: Cardinal Roger Mahoney said “Proposition 8 is not against any group in our society. Its sole focus is on preserving God's plan for people living upon this earth throughout time.” SO he is essentially saying that the purpose of Proposition 8 is to enshrine God’s will in California’s constitution. Which seems to me to be a violation of the separation of church and state. And how can it not be against any group when it is specifically targeted at just one group- Gays?

Flanalgan: That is another one of the lies. It says specifically that marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. That does not target just gays. It also prohibits a man from marrying a dog, or a woman from marrying a robot.

Jeff: I just can’t understand the arguments against gay marriage and that it somehow threatens marriage. Doesn’t our high divorce rate threaten marriage?  And how can you say it is just an issue about the right kind of families when many heterosexual couples choose not to raise children while many gay couples do.

Flanalgan. You have hit the nail on the head. This is only a first step. Next we want to get enacted the Marriage and Family Act of 2010, that will invalidate marriages for couples who use birth control and choose not to have children. Then, in 2012, we hope to pass the Marriage Permanency Act, where divorce becomes illegal unless a church determines that they were never really married in the first place. Finally, we hope to outlaw birth control, and make all gays legally required to be celibate. Once we have all those laws enacted, all of our arguments against gay marriage start to make sense.

Jeff: Well, Father Flanalgan, thanks for being on the show. I don’t know that we have changed any minds here, but it certainly gives us something to think about.

Entertainment

We have a lot of entertainment news to get caught up on. The election sort of distracted us.

Let me see if I understand this. Beauty Pageants objectify women, but if the contestants pose naked, even if they did it before the pageant, they can lose their crown, because they did something that objectifies women. This is what happened to Miss Lubbock USA, Amanda Gass. Well, she did not actually appear nude. At a Halloween party she wore short black shorts and body paint covering her chest. Not exactly nude, and even street legal in some places. The 23 year old black haired beauty queen voluntarily surrendered her crown. Nancy Smith, director of the Lubbock pageant, said that she was totally shocked. Not much must happen in Lubbock. And Gass had to turn in her scholarship money. So, without college money she can what, work as a stripper to pay her way through college? Way to support women Lubbock.

And it is the end of an era in objectifying men. Playgirl magazine, founded in1973, has just published their final issue, January/February 2009. Currently run by a neophyte skeleton staff of three women in their 20s just out of grad school with little understanding of adult content, it is not surprising that they failed to remake the brand that has long struggled. As reported in the New York Times, these women were shocked by all the photos of naked men when they first started, horrified by x-rated material. They knew little about sex. They were thrilled to get interviews with Jack LaLanne and Dolly Parton. For their final issue, they had the brilliant idea of doing a centerfold with the cowboy guy from the Village People. With this kind of editorial leadership, it is little wonder that it failed.  I guess the owners wanted a lower profile than previous editor Michele Zipp, who made headlines in 2005 with this statement “"The Democrats of the Sixties were all about making love and not war while a war-loving Republican is a man who would fight, bleed, sacrifice, and die for his country. Could you imagine what that very same man would do for his wife in the bedroom? Those on the Right are presumed to be all about power and greed -- two really sexy traits in the bedroom. They want it, they want it now, and they'll do anything to get it. And I'm not talking about some pansy-assed victory; I'm talking about full on jackpot, satisfaction for all." Playgirl’s editors have consistently failed to answer the question that has long perplexed men: what do women really want?

Janet Jackson is in the news again, shocking the sensibilities of viewers. But not in Detroit. Michigan state law prohibits simulated sex acts in a public performing space. She had to cut her Discipline segment. It is a heavily bondage themed three song set and includes a man bound and suspended and then lowered over the whip wielding Jackson who is lying on the stage. The bound man is not a dancer, hence not necessarily gay. He is actually a member of the audience, brought on stage for this interactive segment that the guy will probably renenact in his mind for many years. And it is very sexual. And it does sort of have simulated sex, albeit everyone is fully dressed. She does simulate riding him. But still, it is far less than you would see in an R-rated movie, and it is definitely art whether you like Jackson or not, so are there not Free Speech issues at play here? I am sure that simulated murder and mayhem on stage is perfectly fine in Michigan. You could have fake blood squiring out of everywhere, but a little simulated and non-actual contact bump and grind can be prohibited? And what exactly is the legal justification? I just don’t get it.

Sure, Hustler got a lot of buzz about their porn parody, Nailin Palin, but just think about the buzz you could get out of a real porn tape with the real Sarah Palin. Florida-based porn director Cezar Capone has offered to pay Palin $2 million to appear in an adult film production. Palin's husband Todd has been offered a co-starring role in the production, offering him $100,000," and a new Arctic Cat snowmobile. After her disappointing attempt at the Republican Governor’s Convention to reignite her national political career, she might want to reconsider the offer.

The Impetus for using real porn stars Katie Morgan and Traci Lords in the Kevin Smith movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno came from star Seth Rogan, according to star Seth Rogan, in an interview, oddly enough, for Parade. He said about Morgan- "To Katie it was easy. All she had to do was take off her clothes and pretend she was having sex. It was a dream job for her. By the way, Katie is super cool. She's a lot smarter than I am. She's like a MENSA member."  The film was banned by the Megaplex chain in Utah, and had its posters censored by the MPAA. Rolling Stone wrote “If there is such a thing as a stroke flick for your funnybone, then Zack and Miri is it.”

Rogan isn’t the only one who likes real porn stars in his mainstream comedies. So does Sacha Baron Cohen, who hired a couple of gay male stars for his upcoming "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America” in which he plays a flamboyant Austrian fashion journalist. Bruno returns to his hotel with several guys, amongst them male adult stars Paul Barba (usually billed as "Tony Capucci") and John Martel (known as "Tyler Saint"). Turns out, gay male porn stars have few reservations about doing full frontal male nudity.

Former boxer and bouncer then porn star Buck Adams died of heart failure. He popular star from the golden age of porn, he appeared in over 600 movies and directed 80. His sister was adult star Amber Lynn, who got him into the industry, but not as happens to so many guys who have a girl who gets them  an entrée into the biz, by appearing in a scene with him. They did appear in some of the same adult movies, but never in the same scene. One of his most successful films as director was 1993’s big budget by porn standards Uninhibited, starring Rocco Siffredi. It was released in an R-rated version and was picked up by HBO and USA Network- the first R-rated film to from a porn director. The hardcore version was made available on DVD in 2006.

And in Who is Getting Naked Now, its Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who appears in the November/December issue of American Photo, where from the tan lines we can clearly see that she does not sunbathe in the all together.

Kate Winslet poses naked in the December issue of Vanity Fair, where she graces the cover. She is really coming into her own, much sexier than her Titanic days. She looks like a woman now.

Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon had naked pictures stolen from her laptop, and they have surfaced on the Net. Well, maybe. The 25 year old’s publicist has revealed that it was used as a publicity stunt to pump up her career, and it has netted her an offer to appear in Playboy. The photos were supposedly taken by boyfriend Robert Kardashian, brother of Kim Kardashian, who made herself famous for her “stolen” porn tape.

And in Sex and Nudity in Mainstream Film, we start out with The Art of Travel, writer/director/producer Thomas Whelan and writer/producer Brian LaBelle. It stars Christopher Masterson from Malcolm in the Middle. He dumps his high school girlfriend and heads of for a life of adventure traveling around the world. Along the way, he manages to find the sexy and topless Scandanavian women played by Silvia Spross and Annie Huntley, who invite him in for a little adventure of the bedroom type.

From director Pan Nalin, comes Valley of Flowers, about a man who spends 197 years exploring his love for a demon in the mountains of Tibet, and then in modern day Tokyo. Miland Sonam and the demonese played by Mylene Jampanoi rise into the air as they make love- which goes to show that forbidden demon love can also be uplifting.

Dangerous Parking is the hedonistic tale of a British director played by Peter Howitt, also the British director of this film. He leads a life of drugs and promiscuity, exemplified by his romp with the Tribeca Twins, played by Raquel Azevedo and  Rebecca Jones. That life changes dramatically with the discovery of a tumor

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Parts of the strange film Wicked Lane play almost like an artsy porn film, such as the scene of the four naked women on a bed taking turns slowly taking turns kissing each other. The almost always naked Robin Sydney, Carlee Baker, Eryn Joslyn, and Eve Mauro are coeds off on a holiday in the woods, but a mysterious force makes them less interested in sex with men than in feasting on their blood. Sure, these guys come off as kinda creepy hillbilly types, but still. And how seriously can you take a horror film co-written by Adam Rockoff?

In the world of Porn, we have Shay Jordan starring in Shay Jordan: Scream, out now in Blu-ray from Digital Playground. It is part of director Celeste’s Scream series, porn horror spoofs of classic horror scenarios along with the explicit sex we don’t get to see in mainstream horror films. You know, the sex that ultimately ends in the demise of the lovers, while the good girl virgin stays unscathed.

Also from Digital Playground is Lacie: Sexual Freak, where Lacie Heart gets her freak on. It also includes Shay Jordan, who apparently must now be in every Digital Playground production directed by Celeste. It’s about dominant women, submissive men, and light fetish and role play.

This Ain’t the Munsters was out in time for Halloween. Lee Stone does a very funny and at times dead on Herman Munster, and Roxi Deville does a very impressive turn as Lily. The plot was inspired by a technical necessity- the green Herman Munster would have a difficult time having sex with his cock covered in green makeup. So they have Herman getting a new cock transplanted on for Lily as a gift. The cock comes from a non-green guy. Lily does look rather fetching all in green, and yes, the original pilot for the Munsters was shot in color and Lily was green. Its from Hustler.

Hustler is introducing Barely Legal Girls Interactive, directed by Michael Adams. True, DVD has given us more control over how we watch porn, more easily going to just our favorite scene, but the concept here is to offer even more control. Here is how they describe it: “In the first scene, Eva Angelina teases the viewer with flirtatious dancing and a striptease before letting you decide whether to give her a massage or watch her masturbate. Eva goes on to let the viewer choose between a titty fuck, a blowjob or deciding which toys to watch her play with. You can also cut right to the chase and tell her whether you want to fuck her from behind or missionary style.” I am not sure if at the end you have the option of letting her spend the night or just sending her out the door.

And if modern porn is not your cup of tea, you can take a trip back in time with VCX’s release of several more Cal-Vista classics  Grind was directed by iconic filmmaker Henri Pachard, who passed away from cancer last September. It starred Shanna McCullough, Krista Lane, and Mike Horner. Amber Lynn and Sherri St. Clair get close in  Perfect Partners, directed by Robert McCallum, certainly the only adult film director to have been a frequent collaborator of Orsen Welles. McCallum also directed Please Don’t Stop, starring Buck Adams’ sister Amber Lynn. Lili Marlene and Kay Parker take the leads in the Bob Vosse directed Three Faces of Angel, and starring Angel.