Daze Reader

Weblog Archive: March 25, 2007 to Mar 31, 2007

Friday, March 30, 2007

http://www.dazereader.com/24001025.htm This might be the creepiest sex patent ever: Feminine napkin allows external sexual intercourse. From the inventor's abstract:

A round bag is attached to the front side of the napkin. The bag is in the size and shape of the vagina to give the husband the same sexual feelings. The round bag has an opening and rings, windings and protrusions, as well as a suitable cream. This bag has also a downward extension for fixing the napkin on the vagina opening when the woman lies on her back. The fixing extension is placed between the rumps and may be coated by an adhesive material. The round bag can be taken off the napkin and disposed while continuing to use the napkin.

The drawings makes the device look like a miniature Dune sand worm stuck to a maxipad. Ever fantasized about fucking one of those worms? Me neither.

The inventor is listed as one Abdul A. A. Al-Saleh of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Who says the muslim world hasn't contributed to modern science and technology?


http://www.dazereader.com/24001024.htm Smut-mongering libertines and smut-hating prigs alike rejoice: ICANN rejects .xxx domain registry.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has rejected a controversial proposal to create a new .xxx domain suffix for adult Web sites.

ICANN on Friday voted 9-5 to deny an application from ICM Registry, which for the past several years has sought to be the registry for adult-content Web sites.

Unfortunately, the issue isn't dead yet. From the AP story:

Stuart Lawley, ICM's president and chief executive . . . added that ICM would pursue the matter further and when pressed by an Associated Press reporter if that could include a lawsuit against ICANN, Lawley said: "I would go so far as to say likely."

Could ICM simply apply again in a few years? This AVN article makes that sound unlikely.

The round of Top-Level Domain proposals begun in 2004 was completed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' rejection of ICM Registry LLC's proposal to oversee now-defunct dot-xxx, and the organization has "no plans for another round of TLD proposals," according to the chairman of its board of directors.

"My first response [to whether ICANN might consider another dot-xxx proposal in the future] is 'over my dead body,'" ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf said with a laugh during a Friday press conference.


Wednesday, March 28, 2007

http://www.dazereader.com/24001023.htm The stupid idea that won't die: ICANN to vote again on dot-xxx domains, even though they've rejected the proposal twice before. The company pushing the idea, ICM Registry, stands to make a fortune selling dot-xxx domains, so they keep hammering away at ICANN.

Guardian tech columnist Seth Finkelstein does a good job explaining why dot-xxx is a stupid idea.


http://www.dazereader.com/24001022.htm This Toronto Star column (for some reason classified under "science and technology") asks, Is the word "slut" still offensive or hurtful?

These days the word is often used as an affectionate tease among friends, especially adolescent girls. Or it has metaphorical meaning – you're a slut for something you can't resist.

At first it might seem that feminism and the sexual revolution have dulled the word's power to demean: how can anyone be a slut – "a promiscuous woman," as The Canadian Oxford Dictionary puts it – if females are free to be as sexual as men? [...]

But "slut" can still pack a knockout punch of contempt, even when it's aimed at someone who isn't being, well, slutty. For people lashing out against a girl or woman, the four-letter word is – like "bitch" – one of those reflex insults that leap from the tongue.

Witness Barbara Amiel Black's meltdown last week in a Chicago courthouse, in which she called a female Canadian TV producer a "slut." Apparently, Black was upset by the journalist's assertiveness in trying to get into the same elevator – not exactly sluttiness in the traditional sense. [...]

Among younger people, though, the friendly use of "slut" is common. Mimi Hagiepetros, a 13-year-old Toronto student, says her schoolmates mostly use it "lovingly" and "as a joke."

Grown-up women will good-naturedly call each other "slut," employing the word with all its sexual connotations in subtle, ironic rebellion against a double standard that refuses to go away.

Yet the word hasn't been completely defanged. A battery-operated Little Mermaid Shimmering Lights Ariel doll that supposedly says the words "You're a slut" made it to the ABC news website last December after a "shocked" mother contacted the media. Visitors can watch a 48-second video clip of the doll "speaking" to try to hear the offending words themselves (Mattel denied the accusation, and this writer was unable to detect any Exorcist-like language).

Check out the shocking ABC investigative report, a classic in the "every parent's worst nightmare" genre, here: Mom: Talking Doll Called My Daughter 'a Slut'.

And This is London has a detailed account of the elevator incident: "But there was very little regal hauteur on display when Lady Black of Crossharbour lost her temper . . . ."


Tuesday, March 27, 2007

http://www.dazereader.com/24001021.htm Assorted fun stuff:

Scott Adams: Today I Will Improve Your Sex Life. This could work.

The Stranger debuts a new column, I Miss Pussy.

!! omg blog !! presents the weirdest episode ever of Johnny LaRue's Street Beef.


http://www.dazereader.com/24001020.htm Wai Wai assures us that Japan remains in the forefront of handjob innovation: Wine bath for the nads, mud pack for the sack pledges heavenly pleasure.

The mud pack for the penis, which follows a wine bath for the gonads, is part of an Italian-style esthetic treatment offered by a Tokyo-based service called The Aromani.

"A whole lot of operations similar to ours sprung up in a short time and we needed to provide a service nobody else was offering and this was it," The Aromani's boss tells Spa! "Our sales point is that we also offer variations, including having the service performed by multiple workers (groups of two or three women), or you can have it performed by a shy woman or another who'll do it while talking dirty."

The Aromani's boss says the service began with the motto of "providing health and beauty to the willy and anus."

The service involves using a hotel sink or face-washing basin and filling it with warm water and wine. This is aimed at improving the circulation. Instead of inserting the face, however, the client places their bottom in the bowl, allowing the penis and anus to be soaked in the suds of their sommelier.

Once the basic basin service has finished, the genitals are swathed in a chunk of mud supposed to cleanse the skin. Once they are completely covered, the woman (or women) providing the service, then show their handiwork, so to speak, until the client reaches climax, or what Spa! calls the "ascent to Heaven."

I've never been a wine aficionado, but I can tell you that soaking your testicles in a bowl of Guinness Stout feels amazing. Go ahead, try this at home.