Web Log Archives: December 01, 2002 - December 07, 2002
Saturday, December 7, 2002
From the Daily News in Zimbabwe: "Joseph Veve Raphael, 36, of Harare was on Saturday shocked to discover an unidentified object in a one-litre bottle of Coca-Cola he had bought from a Harare supermarket. Raphael said he bought the drink on Saturday afternoon but failed to enjoy it after discovering what he initially thought was a 'used condom'. . . . 'On further examination, I discovered that it was probably fungi or something else.'" No photo.
Annalee Newitz writes about Harry Potter slash, "the hot anal sex between Harry and Snape (my personal favorite, especially if I can picture Alan Rickman in the role), the fondling between Harry and Draco, the furtive kisses between Harry and Ron, and even the occasional dip into the truly sadomasochistic with a special kind of encounter between Harry and the dreaded Voldemort (who was looking pretty tasty in the new movie, if I may say so)."
Police confiscated t-shirts depicting Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush in a sex act from a Brisbane marketplace vendor. More. None of these articles have photos or specify who was doing what to whom on the t-shirt. But it sounds like a pro-Osama shirt, so I'm guessing Osama was fucking George with some pissing-Calvin-style humiliation implied.
Not your style? This anti-Osama shirt makes some strong points.
Friday, December 6, 2002
Check out scans of the Romanian gymnast nudes. Corina Ungureanu also posed nude for the Romanian edition of Playboy three years ago, scanned here and here.
Lambda Legal has lots of background on the ongoing legal challenge to the Texas homosexual sodomy law, including past briefs, decisions and news releases. (Link snagged from David Chess.)
Romanian gymnasts Lavinia Milosovici, Claudia Presecan, and Corina Ungureanu sparked an uproar by posing nude for photos which appeared last month in the Japanese magazine Shukan Gendai. Romanian sports magazine Gazeta Sporturilor downloaded copies of the photos from the Internet and published them. Some Romanian sports officials are outraged, claiming that the trio "have stained the image of the country." Columnist Cornel Nistorescu urges his countrymen to "take it easy!"
A Wyoming town is being terrorized by someone breaking into houses to surf porn sites. "The porn-addict burglar breaks into houses in the town of Gillette and uses the homeowner's PC to buy memberships to porn sites, using stolen cheques from other crimes. The 'burglar' steals nothing in the raids and the owners only realise there has been a break-in after discovering their computer settings have been changed to automatically log on to the naughty web pages."
Before Analyze That there was ...
Thursday, December 5, 2002
Newsweek has a cover story about the abstinence movement in high schools, which the writer depicts as a hip "new counterculture, one clearly at odds with the mainstream media." Give me a break.
Perseus witnessed an unexpected show in the back row of a movie theater (November 15 entry). Nice story, good writer, too bad he hasn't updated much lately.
AccordionGuy has posted two amazing photos of breast scarves that are all the rage in Japan.
A publicity stunt for the release of BMX XXX in England featured eighteen women riding bikes wearing only thongs to recreate the cover photo of Queen's 1978 single Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls. The Sun has photos of both publicity stunt and original cover.
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Harvard researchers studying internet censorship in China have found that "Chinese internet surfers have almost unfettered access to pornography, but news, health and education sites are routinely blocked."
An Ontario man has been convicted of obscenity for making simulated snuff films and distributing them on a subscription website. The judge imposed three years probation, a $100,000 fine and a ban on Internet access. "The clips typically showed a predator surprising a woman showering or sun-bathing. The victim was knifed or shot at close range in the breast or genitals. Special effects were used to heighten the simulated blood and gore. . . . One witness -- a professor of film studies -- testified that the videos were relatively tame on the spectrum of violent slasher films that are available nowadays."
Libby Brooks looks at the popularity of making amateur home sex videos with camcorders as part of sex play. This is hardly a new phenomenon, but still a very interesting article with a good range of interviews. One woman says, "I think filming yourself is quite normal. I was talking about it with female colleagues at work the other day and about a quarter of us had done it. And I suspect a lot of others weren't 'fessing up. I'd certainly do it again. . . . The feeling of being watched was the turn-on, but being able to see the TV screen out of the corner of my eye and knowing the writhing figures on it were us was a bonus. The sex was great - though I was glad I'd been going to the gym - and we did it on the floor, on the chair, on the table, and so on. Nothing too extreme, but on the other hand you don't want to waste the opportunity by sticking to the missionary position. You might as well record a sewing machine for 20 minutes!"
A 2000-year-old bronze dildo from China's Han Dynasty has gone on display at the Hong Kong Museum of History. "The phallus is believed to have been used by frustrated courtesans living in the imperial palace during the Han and Qin dynasties which span 221 BC to 220 AD." No photo, alas. (Link snagged from Evie's Erotic Miscellanea.)
The Spectator editors write about recent San Francisco parties. Dara Lynne Dahl talks about working the magazine's booth at the annual Exotic Erotic Ball, with ten photos of booth babes posing with ballgoers. Vann Hall files an illustrated report from the Slick fetish party over Folsom weekend. "Partygoers were encouraged to dress in uniform ... but the always-cantankerous crowd interpreted that to mean anything from 'Boy Scout' to 'Imperial Storm Trooper,' with stops along the way at 'Napoleon,' 'WAC,' and 'UPS Guy.' (And despite some very nice military-inspired outfits entered in the midnight 'I Love a Man in a Uniform' contest, top prize went to the leather Canadian Mountie.)"
The Guardian has posted excerpts from all ten shortlisted novels up for the 2002 Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Wendy Perriam won this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award for her novel Tread Softly. More and more. In the cited passage, the main character fantasizes about her foot surgeon while having sex with her husband.
She lay back on the bed while he positioned himself above her, then she slid her feet up his chest and on to his shoulders - Mr Hughes's shoulders. She closed her eyes, saw his dark-as-treacle-toffee eyes gazing down at her. Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked. Pin-stripes were erotic, the uniform of fathers, two-dimensional fathers. Even Mr Hughes's penis had a seductive pin-striped foreskin. Enticingly rough yet soft inside her. The jargon he'd used at the consultation had become bewitching love-talk: '. . . dislocation of the second MTPJ . . . titanium hemi-implant . . . '
'Yes!' she whispered back. 'Dorsal subluxation . . . flexion deformity of the first metatarsal . . . '
They were building up a rhythm, an electrifying rhythm - long, fierce, sliding strokes, interspersed with gasping cries.
'Wait,' Ralph panted. 'let's do it the other way.' Swiftly he withdrew, arranged her on her hands and knees and knelt above her on the bed. It was even better that way - tighter, more exciting. She cupped his pin-striped balls, felt him thrust more urgently in response.
'Oh yes!' she shouted, screwing up her face in concentration, tossing back her hair. 'Yes, oh Malcolm, yes!'
In her acceptance speech, Perriam said, "I am absolutely stunned to win, particularly for a novel about bunions."
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
Longer articles in the Washington Post and New York Times about the Texas homosexual sodomy law challenge, which the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear this term. And Metafilter.
The lastest issue of Movieline has an article entitled "The Most Decadent Parties in Showbiz," which includes this incredibly decadent anecdote. "Then everyone really chucked their inhibitions out the window. In one corner, two guys and two girls were playing strip Scrabble--within minutes one lady was topless, revealing two very fake breasts and one very large tattoo of a mermaid." (Snagged from a Scrabble mailing list, where the original transcriber couldn't resist a pun on "playing phoneys." Movieline doesn't have this article online, as far as I can tell.)
News you can use from the latest issue of Rolling Stone:
Q: Who are the best-endowed male rock stars? — Angela Allen, San Francisco
A: Since not every well-hung gentleman exposes it on videotape like Tommy Lee, and since we don't carry around a tape measure backstage, the experts to consult on this question are the groupies. And they report that these musicians are men of great repute: Chris Isaak, Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Tony Kanal (No Doubt), Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Jon Langford (The Mekons), Phil Anselmo (Pantera), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), John Dolmayan (System of a Down) and, especially, Huey Lewis.
Also mentioned were Jimi Hendrix and Iggy Pop. And "honorable mention goes to Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, possibly the only rock star ever to brag about having a small penis." Now what about male bloggers? (Rolling Stone doesn't have this column online, as far as I can tell.)
The dating site Ineedanewgirlfriend.com is being sued for defrauding its users. Men can post profiles there for free, but must pay a monthly membership fee to communicate with women who respond. So the site's owners allegedly sent bogus come-ons from attractive, eager women to men who posted free profiles.
To prove his client's contention, [lawyer Neil] Fineman says, he concocted a handful of cyber straw men -- false profiles of men he believed no woman would want to be involved with. They were the Internet's most ineligible bachelors, he said: hard-drinking, overweight, out-of-work men. Their goal, he stated in their profiles, was to meet rich, beautiful women who would support them.
The offers came rolling in.
"You sound HOT!" stated one reply, which included a photo of an attractive woman in a bikini. "I have a never-ending amount of money that my parents left me and would like to spend it on you. We can vacation year-round and stay drunk the whole time. Please say you will meet me."
A very sleazy con, and the site owners deserve to lose every penny. But the men who signed up for this service also sound incredibly gullible. Think about it: how many actual live women would sign up to use a service called "I Need a New Girlfriend"?
Monday, December 2, 2002
The city of Bombay has opened India's first sex museum. Exhibits range from basic sex education and AIDS information to classical erotic art and Kama Sutra verses. (Link snagged from World Sex News.)
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging Texas's law banning gay sex. "Specifically, the Texas men are asking the high court to decide whether their convictions under Texas's 'Homosexual Conduct' law -- 'which criminalizes sexual intimacy by same-sex couples, but not identical behavior by different-sex couples -- violate the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the laws.' They also challenge whether their convictions violate their constitutional privacy rights."
Jeremy Lott at libertarian journal Reason surveys the controversy over Spokane's "Cabaret Ordinance" and recent sting operations in which undercover cops received lap dances.
How bad are things in North Korea? "I used to come home and throw my (fabric strips) into boiling water, then hang them where nobody else could see them. I used the same ones over and over again. Until I arrived in South Korea, I had no idea something as convenient as sanitary napkins even existed."
The Washington Post reported last week that Jack McGeorge, one of the UN weapons inspectors heading to Iraq, is also a prominent leader in several S&M and sexual freedom advocacy groups.
McGeorge is the co-founder and past president of Black Rose, a Washington-area pansexual S&M group, and the former chairman of the board of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. He is also a founding officer of the Leather Leadership Conference Inc., which "produces training sessions for current and potential leaders of the sadomasochism/leather/fetish community," according to its Web site. Several Web sites describe McGeorge's training seminars, which involve various acts conducted with knives and ropes.
(This is not the sole focus of the article, but I'll leave the concerns about the current UN inspectors' lack of experience to the political bloggers.) McGeorge offered to resign from the inspection team, but chief inspector Hans Blix rejected the resignation offer.
