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Weblog Archive: February 26, 2006 to Mar 4, 2006

Thursday, March 2, 2006

http://www.dazereader.com/24000955.htm Either the AVN Adult Video Awards have gotten respectable enough to be reported on in The New York Times, or the Times has gotten sleazy enough to report on the AVN Awards. You decide.

The actress known as Tyla Wynn took to the stage late Saturday night to accept an X-rated-film award, the pornography version of an Oscar. The category was excellence in a multiperson sex scene.

Although thousands of people have watched Ms. Wynn perform intimate acts, she admitted to extreme nervousness when accepting her trophy, an opaque rectangle with the image of a man and woman intertwined.

"Speaking in front of people is hard," Ms. Wynn said, cradling her award, called the AVN.

Really, couldn't you just accept your award with a "Yes! Yes, yes, yes, ohGOD, YES!"?

The porn hierarchy:

[...] Universally, the participants defend their right to make the films, but even within the sex-entertainment industry, opinions differ about what is tasteful.

"The bikini models hate the topless dancers, the topless dancers hate the nude dancers, the nude dancers hate the adult-film actors," said Stormy Daniels, 26, who won an award for best supporting actress. Ms. Daniels, who said she wished people would stop judging one another, does have her own pet peeve: tired plots.

"There's nothing worse then when the pizza boy rings the doorbell, the girl says she doesn't have a tip, and then they get it on," she said. Ms. Daniels also won an award for best screenplay for a parody, "Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre," which presumably had a storyline more in keeping with her tastes.

Click away to belatedly read yet more of the Times account.

Posted by "Richie Tenenbaum." (RT is a pseudonym of a slightly-well-known blogger not trying to hide his other name from anyone other than Google, who is guest-supplementing at DR.)


http://www.dazereader.com/24000954.htm From the land of the Kama Sutra, India has been talking for months about the Sanjay Joshi sex scandal.

The khaki-white chastity of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh came under threat today with Sanjay Joshi, a senior functionary, getting sucked into a sex scandal.

An interesting way to put it.

Joshi, on deputation to the BJP where he is a general secretary, resigned from the party as well as the Sangh after the emergence of a CD purportedly showing him having sex with a woman. Pracharaks — and Joshi is one — cannot marry, let alone have sex outside matrimony. But they can always seek the Sangh’s permission and start a family, as L.K. Advani, for instance, has done, though they have to surrender the title of pracharak. A collection of celibate men, the Sangh was left red-faced by the scandal.

Possibly not the only reddened body part of the quasi-fascist Indian organization that lies behind the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Meanwhile, intimations of larger sex scandal:

An RSS pracharak’s sex life is not a subject of mass obsession or even interest. It is not going to win or lose the BJP too many votes. Even so, that a Sangh code — pracharaks voluntarily commit themselves to celibacy — has probably been breached is an issue that will exercise and anguish insiders. What has not helped is that, over the past week, Sangh and party circles have been swirling with rumours of other such tapes, allegedly featuring other functionaries. In the end, the rumours may turn out to be only rumours and completely untrue. This may be just a one-off deviation. Yet the fact that these stories have currency at all, that they are being circulated in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue cannot help morale. Individuals make mistakes, and can be punished or forgiven. What is more difficult to deal with is the idea that ‘honey traps’ may have been used as instruments of factional politics, perhaps blackmail too — even if in only one state.

This week, George W. Bush travels to India: coincidence? You be the judge.

Posted by "Richie Tenenbaum." (RT is a pseudonym of a slightly-well-known blogger not trying to hide his other name from anyone other than Google, who is guest-supplementing at DR.)


http://www.dazereader.com/24000953.htm But Dad always gave me my allowance weekly.

Andrei Kirilenko has been granted restricted free agency - by his wife.

Masha Lopatova, a former Russian pop star who has been married to the Jazz forward for nearly six years, understands the temptation NBA players are faced with as they travel around the country for seven months a year. And she believes that forbidding something only makes it more tempting. That's why, she revealed in a story in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, she allows Kirilenko an "allowance" of one night per year with another woman.

"What's forbidden is always desirable. And athletes, particularly men, are susceptible to all the things they are offered," Lopatova said before the Jazz's loss to Charlotte on Wednesday. "It's the same way raising children - If I tell my child, 'No pizza, no pizza, no pizza,' what does he want more than anything? Pizza.

"So this is the arrangement that Andrei and I have," she said, adding, in the spirit of openness, that she does not have a reciprocal agreement with her husband. "If I know about it, it's not cheating."

Kirilenko, according to the magazine story written by Salt Lake City freelance writer Chad Nielsen, has no plans to exercise his "allowance."

"Of course it was a surprise," Kirilenko said. "I'm not planning to do anything. But she said, 'If you want to do it, you can do it.' "

Does this guy have a contract with Nike?

(She's totally correct about this not being "cheating," though, of course.)

Posted by "Richie Tenenbaum." (RT is a pseudonym of a slightly-well-known blogger not trying to hide his other name from anyone other than Google, who is guest-supplementing at DR.)