Category: Sex

Swedes Don’t Understand the United States at All

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The Swedes have a society that I envy in a number of ways.

A social safety net, a policy of making contraception to teens 15 and above, and the latest case, the requirement that, “Sex education should form part of the curriculum for all adults attending Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) classes,” according to an official report given to the Minister for Health and Social Affairs.

This is a good policy. The idea of teaching people who may have come from very sexually repressive societies things like human sexuality, that clitoridectomy is wrong, and that homosexuality isn’t wrong, that women have the right to refuse sex to their husbands, contraception, etc.

Here is the part that had me spewing at my screen, though:

Milton said he thought it would be unnecessary for people from functioning democracies to sit through classes on sex education. He added however that finding a practical solution did not fall under his remit.

“Clearly people from the UK, US or Canada, for example, know these things already. But it can be sorted out on a case by case basis. It’s something that can be worked out locally,” he said.

While I cannot speak to the sexuality and sexual mores of either the Canadians or British, notwithstanding the, “no sex please, we’re British,” jokes, I find the idea that the United States, with the highest incidence of teen pregnancy, partner murder, etc. is somehow sexually enlightened as a society to be completely unsupported by reality.

Just ask Briston Palin.

Were US sexual mores more honest, and less punitive, we would be a far better place to live.

You Don’t Have to be a Sick F%$# to be a Republican…..

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But they do have more than their share

Case in point, a Republican legislative aide in the Pennsylvania statehouse who propositioned a teen online, he wanted to have sex while one or both of them were wearing a panda costume, and there are indications that diapers may have been involved too.

It gives an entirely new meaning to Richard M. Nixon’s “Checkers” speech.

When he talks about his wife Pat having, “Respectable Republican cloth coat,” and not a fur coat……

Gives New Meaning to the Term “Standing for Election”

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A Sex Party has been formed in Canada, which is committed to the liberalization of sex laws and regulations and to to combat the stigmatization of sex in the political process in North America:

The monster in question is ‘erotophobia‘. “Running amok through the North American psyche – like a deranged yet invisible King Kong – are deeper antisex attitudes that produce stale marriages, anti-prostitution legislation, laws against public nudity, government classification of pornography, cautionary – not positive – sex-education classes, media censorship, homophobia, and the biggest bugaboo of all: guilt.”

This follows the formation of similar political organizations in Australia and the UK.

I actually think that puritanical attitudes about sex, and the alarmist attitudes about the juxtaposition of sex and race in the United States, have created a truly delusional mindset on the part of the right wing, and the emergence of a truly pro-sex movement in the US would therefore be a good thing.

Republicans Formally Come Out in Favor of Syphilis

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Mark Steyn supports Syphilis and other STDs because they might prevent people from having sex outside of wedlock:

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is on TV explaining the (at this point the congregation shall fall to its knees and prostrate itself) “stimulus.” “How,” asks the lady from CBS, “does $335 million in STD prevention stimulate the economy?”

“I’ll tell you how,” says Speaker Pelosi. “I’m a big believer in prevention. And we have, er… there is a part of the bill on the House side that is about prevention. It’s about it being less expensive to the states to do these measures.”

Makes a lot of sense. If we have more STD prevention, it will be safer for loose women to go into bars and pick up feckless men, thus stimulating the critical beer and nuts and jukebox industries. To do this, we need trillion-dollar deficits, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off, but, with sufficient investment in prevention measures, there won’t be any children or grandchildren, so there’s that problem solved.

I really cannot read this as anything but an endorsement of STDs, and this is not The Onion.

H/t Booman Tribune.

Afghan Erection Update

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Not a typo. They CIA is using Viagra to win friends and influence tribal leaders in Afthanistan:

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.

Four blue pills. Viagra.

“Take one of these. You’ll love it,” the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.

The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes — followed by a request for more pills.

At least this cannot be turned into an IED.

No, this is not the Onion.

The Arbitration Industry is Hopelessly Corrupt

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Normally, this is the sort of crap I don’t give a damn about, specifically Dov Charney, CEO of American Apparrel, and his raft of sexual harassment lawsuits, but the machinations of this specific case show just how unbelievably corrupt this system is.

You see, Mr. Charney settled with one of his victims, and part of the agreement was that in addition to the money and a non disclosure agreement, that they enter into a “special” arbitration:

Los Angeles’ 2nd District Court of Appeal revealed in an unpublished ruling Oct. 28 that attorneys for Charney, CEO of American Apparel Inc., a public company known for its racy ads, had conspired with lawyers for former sales manager Mary Nelson. Both sides had agreed, the ruling says, to enter into an arbitration whose outcome was preordained to favor Charney, and agreed to a press release stating that Charney “never sexualized, propositioned or made any sexual advances of any nature whatsoever toward Mary Nelson.” Nelson, in turn, would get $1.3 million if she kept the settlement secret, according to the ruling.

The 2nd District, in an opinion authored by Justice Paul Turner, said that settlement — which never went through — would have raised “considerations of illegality, injustice and fraud.” The court also held that the purpose of the proposed press release “was to mislead journalists and the public.”

Of course this raises the obvious question:

The attempted under-the-table agreement raised some questions about whether JAMS Inc. arbitrator Daniel Weinstein — a retired San Francisco Superior Court judge and co-founder of the 20-year-old JAMS — had gone along with the ruse.

The answer is that it would have been impossible for him not to have known, of course, because of the precedent that they wanted used:

The appellate decision lays out the sham arbitration of the settlement. It stipulated that the arbitrator would absolve Charney of the sexual harassment claims based solely on his consideration of a California case, Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions.

In that case, the California Supreme Court in 2006 reversed a lower court’s finding that a writer’s assistant on the television show Friends did not come up with enough evidence for a “hostile work environment claim” by contending that the writer used sexually explicit language during the writing of the show.

Any arbitrator, particularly one who is a retired Superior Court Judge, would look at the filings and think that one side was deliberately throwing the case. At that point, they would be required by legal ethics to notify the bar.

This is What Happens When You Allow Republicans to Reflag as Democrats

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Rep. Tim Mahoney (“D”-Fla.) has been accused of using the threat of firing to maintain an affair with a subordinate.

What’s more, he’s released a statement that seems to confirm the affair, if not the sexual harrassment.

Here is the small story with the big lesson: He’s a reflagged Republithug.

What’s more, Rahm Emmanuel and His Evil Minions™, made sure he won the primary to run for Mark Foley’s seat, beating out a real Democrat in the primary, who would also have won once Foley’s hitting on Congressional pages was revealed.

Damn.

Worst Political Commentary Ever

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You can almost visualize Rich Lowry masturbating to the debates:

A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It’s one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O’Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.

And them, I guess, he cleaned off his keyboard.

I’m thoroughly squicked by this.

This is So Undeniably Cynical and Dishonest

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It appears that the McCain campaign wants Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston to have an October wedding, because they think that it would have a positive impact on their campaign:

In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.

Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”

As Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”

Unfortunately for John Sidney McCain III and His Evil Minions™, it appears that the love birds are looking at a Summer wedding.

Seriously, I am NOT Making this Sh*# Up!

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Normally, when some women wants to clone her pit bull, and pays something in excess of 50 grand to a Korean cloning lab to do so I kind of shrug my shoulders, and figure, “another idiot with more money than brains”.

This is further reinforced by the fact that the dog’s name is “Booger”.

However, the case of Bernann McKinney, the coverage of her dog cloning brought her, and her photograph to the attention of a number of people who say that she bears a disturbing similarity to one former Miss Wyoming, Joyce McKinney (see also here and here), who achieved some noteriety in the 1970s in the UK:

For those whose knowledge of news stretches back no further than the launch of Eudora, Joyce McKinney was the former Miss Wyoming who was accused in 1977 of stalking Kirk Anderson, young Mormon Missionary, all the way from Utah to Ewell in Surrey, before kidnapping him and spiriting him away to a cottage in Dorset. There, she allegedly chained him to a bed and forced herself upon him – three times – while wearing a see-through negligee. (Her, not him. He was apparently wearing a Mormon chastity garment, and presumably a pained expression.)

The object of Joyce McKinney’s affections eventually escaped her mink-lined handcuffs. She and an accomplice were charged with kidnapping, but she insisted it was consensual. Joyce escaped the UK using a false passport and disguised as a member of a mime troupe, but not before declaring in court that her love for the mink-restrained Mormon was such that: “I’d ski naked down Mount Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me.”

(emphasis mine)

BTW, she has now admitted that the is, in fact, that Joyce McKinney.

Seriously, if someone wrote this in a novel, the editor would send it back with a not saying that it was simply too weird to be believable.