2 Comments January 2nd, 2008 by ThunderDragon
I suppose the best we can do is be grateful for small mercies, that
this wasn’t Prescott:
Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek has admitted that he is the man who features in two widely circulated DVDs of an unmarried couple having sex.
He said he had apologised to the prime minister and other ruling party leaders but would not resign…
Mr Chua said he had taken no part in the making of the DVD recordings, one of them said to be almost an hour long. (BBC)
Had it been Prescott, it would have been so wrong on so many levels. The mental image is bad enough, without the inevitable tabloid stills.
Add a comment December 30th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
No, not the poll tax or even a tax on poles [or even Poles] - but rather a tax on pole dancers.
Customers at strip clubs in Texas are facing a controversial $5-a-head “pole tax” which is intended to pay for sex crime prevention programmes and rape crisis centres.
The surcharge, backed by women’s rights campaigners, comes into effect on Tuesday and is expected to raise an estimated $40 million (£20 million) each year from those paying for lapdancers and pole dancers. (
The Telegraph)
Their legal defence, that the tax “violates their constitutional rights to freedom of expression”, is less than convincing in itself, however, since it isn’t preventing them from doing it, just taxing those who watch them. This tax is ridiculous, but not because it infringes on the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Source: The Telegraph
3 Comments December 22nd, 2007 by ThunderDragon
Selling and buying sex has never been illegal in the UK. Yet Harriet Harman seems to think that that’s simply not good enough, and that the precedents set by centuries of history - covering even the most prudest eras - isn’t good enough for her. What she is attacking she says “just because something has always gone on, it doesn’t mean you just wring your hands and say there’s nothing we can do about it” she is ignoring the very foundation of British society, law and democracy - precedent and organic development, taking into account the past. Of course this doesn’t mean that what has gone before is always right, but it certainly means that there needs to eb damn good reason before you even consider changing it.
Let’s look at this from a rights perspective. I own my body, right? We all agree on that point. So I can do whatever the hell I like with it. After all, that is what manual labourers - the people Harman’s party claims to represent - do when they sell their labour. And what we all do when we work - we sell our labour in whatever form. Thus, we can do what we want with out own bodies.
Then we have the fact that the money I earn, after I have paid my taxes to the State, are mine to dispose of as I wish. This money I can spend on anything I wish, as it is my money, that I have earned, and on which no-one else has any claim. Right?
So, why should I not be allowed to buy or sell sex if I so wish - wish my own body or my own money? It is right that some activities associated with prostitution - such as pimping and brothel-keeping - are illegal. But the simple activity of selling and buying sex certainly should not be. It is referred to as the “oldest profession” for a reason, and it will long outlive Harman and her ilk. After all, sex is a one of the basic needs of mankind - and not everyone can or wants to get it without paying.
Sources: BBC, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian
2 Comments November 30th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
Well, it’s a unique way to raise money for charity…
A Chilean prostitute has become an instant celebrity in the Roman Catholic country after auctioning 27 hours of sex to raise money for a disabled children’s charity.
Maria Carolina has made headlines and appeared on talk shows since she announced her donation to the televised Teleton, Chile’s largest fundraising event that will run for 27 hours this weekend…
Miss Carolina, who charges $300 for a 90-minute session, estimated that she would raise more than $4000. (The Telegraph)
It’s not exactly Children In Need is it?
2 Comments November 28th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
This passage has
won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which is given to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.”
His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.
- Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest
I’m not surprised in the least. That really was bad. And there are many many more passages like that out there. We can but hope this award will indeed discourage it…
2 Comments November 1st, 2007 by ThunderDragon
“Please don’t join the Mile High club”:
Singapore Airlines has taken the unusual step of publicly asking passengers on its new Airbus A380 plane not to engage in any sexual activities.
The potential problem has arisen because the first class area of its giant superjumbo contains 12 private suites complete with double beds.
Singapore, which is the first airline to start flying the A380, said the suites were not sound-proofed. (BBC)
If you provide privacy and double beds, what do you expect?!
Add a comment October 16th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
Shooting blanks? Try every day:
Some men should have sex every day to maximise the chances of getting their partner pregnant, researchers say.
It is known for couples with fertility problems to abstain from sex for several days to boost sperm numbers before trying to conceive…
[But] [o]ne UK expert said daily sex might be better for men with damaged sperm. (BBC)
Seems like a good enough excuse!
1 Comment October 10th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s, that is. She is complaining about journalists being “obsessed” with her cleavage and has told them “to get over themselves”. She says:
Honestly, the morning when I made the statement to the House about the terror incidents that I had faced on my first weekend… funnily enough the main thing on my mind when I got up was not: ‘Is my top too low cut or not?’
I’m going to carry on concentrating on protecting the country’s borders, securing us from counter terror and bringing down crime.
And I will try and think a bit about my clothes alongside that, but it is not my top priority and nor should it be for those journalists who have been obsessed with it. (BBC)
I think it is you who needs to get over yourself, Jacqui. Why would anyone be obsessed by your cleavage? You’re not exactly the most attractive woman in the world ["face like a horses arse" is one way of describing it...], and your breasts are hardly huge. And neither are you exactly the first woman to be in high ministerial office in Britain - and they managed to get by without claiming that journalists were obsessed with their tits.
So why would anyone be especially interested in your cleavage? The sort of cleavage in that I will be posting tomorrow or regularly at display over at Theo Spark’s, yes, but yours? Not a chance.
Source: BBC
5 Comments October 4th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
I can’t see what that problem is here:
A calendar showing Conservative MPs from Sussex posing with models dressed as saucy nurses has offended the people it was meant to be supporting.
MPs Peter Bottomley and Tim Laughton appear in the calendar to support a campaign to stop the downgrading of Worthing and Southlands hospitals.
But it offended nurses at Worthing Hospital who complained to Unison which has now called for it to be scrapped…
[Unison says] “It is a dinosaur stereotype of nurses as sexual objects which is deplorable and inappropriate and unacceptable.” (BBC)
Oh come on! Get off your ridiculous high horse. It is a joke to raise money to save a hospital. There are far, far, more distasteful things that happen every day without any intent to do good. It is because Labour have failed to manage the money they have pumped into the NHS properly that such are campaigns are necessary.
What if it was two Labour MPs. Would Unison be complaining then? Bollocks would they be. They’d be lauding them for doing a public good.
Even if the particular calendar may be ill-advised, it is an attempt to a lot of good and to, in the end, save lives. Sex sells, and it’s as simple as that.
Source: BBC
1 Comment August 24th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
Old people
still have sex! I’m shocked. I thought they stopped as soon as they got their free bus pass? But apparently not:
Old age is not preventing people from enjoying active sex lives, researchers in the US have discovered.
A survey of 3,005 Americans aged 57 to 85 revealed that people often remain sexually active into their eighties.
Health problems or lack of a partner, rather than lack of desire, were the most common barriers to having sex…
About half of the men and a quarter of the women said they masturbated, regardless of whether they had a sexual partner. (BBC)
I think they’ll find that that the lack of a partner is the most common barrier to having sex, whatever age they are.
