Daze Reader

Weblog Archive: December 17, 2006 to Dec 23, 2006

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

http://www.dazereader.com/24001010.htm Bidding may be over, but this clever eBay PS3 auction is worth a peek. Sex sells.

UPDATE: Apparently this is a fullblown internet craze: Ps3 and Wii Sellers from Ebay.


http://www.dazereader.com/24001009.htm The US State Department is pushing new clunky politically correct jargon to replace the established clunky politically correct jargon.

The State Department's office combating human trafficking issued a directive Friday to US agencies urging them to avoid using terms "sex worker" or "child sex worker" and even advised governments not to use them.

"Of course, one can rationalize words such as 'sex worker' and "child sex worker" in an effort to avoid a demeaning label such as 'prostitute," said John Miller, the office's director.

"However, there are other substitutes such as 'women used in prostitution' or 'sexually exploited children' that are neither pejorative nor pretend that violence to women and children is 'work,'" said Miller, who retired Friday after campaigning extensively across the globe to stem the human trafficking problem.

And he has bogus statistics to back up his point.

"People called 'sex workers' did not choose prostitution the way most of us choose work occupations," Miller said.

Clinical research, he said, showed that vast majorities of people in prostitution are subject to trauma, violence and rape, and 89 percent wanted to escape.

"These 89 percent are victims of slavery," he said.

I'm curious where this 89% figure comes from. Certainly most prostitutes would prefer to find safer, more rewarding jobs with better long-term prospects, but that's not the same as "slavery".

Link snagged from Reason Hit & Run, my favorite political blog, where Kerry Howley nails the agenda behind these lexical contortions: "The effort to control language is part of a larger campaign to conflate sex slavery with good old-fashioned hooking, making it easier for officials to use horrifying tales of the former in their campaign against the latter."


Monday, December 18, 2006

http://www.dazereader.com/24001008.htm The freaks at Homemade Sex Toys scoured the US Patent Office archives and compiled this list of top ten sex toy patents, complete with mechanical diagrams. Hard to believe the vibrating tampon hasn't found a mass market.


http://www.dazereader.com/24001007.htm Lindsay Lohan pays tribute to an underappreciated segment of the working class.

An e-mail she sent to pals last week has the subject title: "They're all whores, they're all whores . . . xcept for some obviously!" Lohan wrote in the note, "So . . . 3 hours of pole dancing and bruised. everywhere . . . I mean we're talkin' like, UPPER AND INNER THIGH ACTION-bruised . . . like a walking black-and-blue mark.

"I mean really though, really, I didn't know it was actually possible to have bruises in such areas of the body. Strippers dude, I tell you, I really respect the [c-word]s now. . . I'm not gonna lie to ya."

Lohan's rep, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, said, "She's been in rehearsals for the film and has been taking classes from Sheila Kelly." Kelly developed the famed "S Factor: Aerobic Striptease Workout and Pole Dancing."

Link snagged from Gawker, whose followup comments cracked me up.