Virginia Senator Wants to Make Oral Sex Between Teens a Felo A Virginia State legislator is continuing to work on plans to pass a law to make oral sex between teenagers a felony. Conservative state Senator Thomas Garrett has submitted a law that calls oral sex among teens a “crime against nature.” Garrett’s law would make it illegal to have carnal knowledge of “any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth” who is of a certain age. The bill stipulates that his bill would not pertain to adults. A federal court, however, has raised concerns about the law telling Garrett that as written the bill cannot go through because it violates the 14th Amendment guaranteeing the rights of due process and equal protection. Garrett is soon to offer some amendments that he feels will satisfy the courts. The Senator says that his bill is aimed at preventing sexual predation. But UCLS law professor and conservative Eugene Volokh says that Garrett has the wrong focus if he wants to attack sex predators. “If he wants to prosecute people who abuse children, why not write a law that would ban abuse of children,” Volokh said. Naturally the gay groups are all upset over this law claiming it intends to criminalize them but Garrett says that criminalizing gays isn’t his intention at all and he notes that his bill is still evolving and not in its final form. “Our office has been inundated with extremely unsavory telephone calls and emails,” Senator Garrett said. “For the record, I have heard the concerns and have started to draft an amendment to my bill that will deal with the unintended consequences of a bill that is nothing but well-intentioned.” It is always a very loaded problem to try and criminalize sexual activity in this day and age, don’t you think?
VIBRATING PANTS to take sexing to a new level The Smart Underwear is said to 'use technology and gadgets to bring couples closer together' and can even vibrate in tune to music A sex toy company has launched a range of "Smart Underwear" - knickers which can vibrate. The pants have a built in Bluetooth chip, so the wearer can use their mobile phone to control the pulse. The high-tech knickers can even record song or a message then vibrate the pattern. The one-size-fits-all garmet will cost $129 and is said to "take sexting to another level" . Inventor Brian Dunham came up with the idea after realising how much time he and his wife spend on their mobile phones. He said: "Technology can drive couples apart. "But this is using technology and gadgets to bring them closer together." Dunham, who runs sex-toy company OhMiBod with his wife Suki, said the pants will hit the market in March.
Germany is now the Bordello of Europe Berlin: Bordellos with flat rates, package deals, everyone-at-once gangbangs and airport quickies. This is just a tiny sampling of the erotic specialties on offer these days in Germany, where prostitution has boomed so dramatically since its legalisation in 2002 that opponents - ranging from radical feminists to Christian conservatives - carp that it's now the "bordello of Europe." In the past two decades, the number of (overwhelmingly female) sex workers has more than doubled to 400,000, according to some estimates. And you don't have to go to Hamburg's notorious Reeperbahn street to find them. Berlin alone has some 500 brothels; OsnabrÃ1/4ck, a small university city, has 70; and another 3000 or so exist across the rest of the country. Their neon-red lights and windowless facades dot even picturesque little towns known primarily for their cuckoo clocks and gingerbread. The Pascha brothel in Cologne, for example, services an estimated 800 men every day. The 12-story building, open 24 hours a day, is the biggest whorehouse in Germany, with 126 rooms as well as a restaurant, beauty salon, boutique, laundromat, tanning studio, and several bistros. About 150 women work there, supported by 90 other staff members. An entire floor is dedicated to transsexual services. Every day, more than a million men in Germany visit sex workers - most of whom hail from poorer neighbouring countries such as Romania and Ukraine. The country has become a prime destination for male sex tourists looking for cheap, legal and relatively hygienic pleasures of the flesh. Busloads of pleasure seekers from nearby countries - even, now, from the Netherlands, a country once known for its lax attitude toward prostitution - simply cross the border into Germany instead of travelling to faraway sex-tourism destinations such as Thailand. All told, the German sex industry rakes in some $17.7 billion per year. The battle lines on commercial sex services confound the usual political fronts, pitting feminist against feminist, and putting human rights activists and church officials on one side of the barricades and social workers on the other. The incoming German government - a centrist coalition led by Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats - dared to broach the subject during coalition negotiations, only to drop it again pretty quickly in light of the ensuing brouhaha: There simply isn't a consensus within either party about what to do about it. Prostitution, it turns out, is a tricky problem to get right, and a decade after instituting one of Europe's most liberal laws governing the industry, Germany is no closer to being there. At the centre of the storm are the "progressive" prostitution laws that Germany's Social Democrat-Green administration passed in 2002. The idea was to bring sex workers in from the murky underworld of red light milieus and give them rights and social benefits that would improve their working conditions. In theory, this should have pried them loose from pimps and mafia structures, even if it legalised the "promotional" activities of middlemen in the process. Under current law, sex workers can sue for wages, pay into social security and demand that employers help pay for health insurance. The sex industry, never strictly illegal, had long paid taxes, but prostitution was not considered legitimate work. The goal was to make prostitution a job like any other. This way, the liberal politicos thought, women could be rescued from evils like human trafficking. The legislation was meant to set in motion full-scale legalisation and aboveboard regulation of the industry, making sex workers as legit as bakers or physical therapists. But conservative opposition stalled the process, stranding it in the grey zone where it has remained since. A decade down the road, almost nobody is happy with the result. Although the numbers are all estimates - reflecting a very un-Germanic shortage of research - there is little evidence that the plight of sex workers has improved, though it's clear that the sex industry itself is flourishing. Prostitutes do have more rights, but they rarely avail themselves of them. Most sex workers still don't register as such, and few speak out against their handlers. Only very rarely, say police officials, do sex workers file criminal complaints against pimps. German statistics for human trafficking are also woefully incomplete: The German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation logged 987 victims in 2001 and 482 in 2011. How many of them had backgrounds in red light milieus is anyone's guess, and the figures are surely just the tip of the iceberg in terms of trafficking, especially via Eastern Europe. With evidence piling up that the decade-old prostitution law has failed - or at best, been a wash - a growing chorus of Germans is trying to ban the practice outright. Alice Schwarzer, a best-selling author and Germany's feminist in chief, has been at the forefront of this movement. In her view, prostitution is a straightforward human rights violation and should be outlawed as it has been in Sweden and, more recently, in France. The 2002 laws protect pimps, Ms Schwarzer says, not prostitutes, whose plight has only gotten worse - a point echoed by many law enforcement officials. According to Ms Schwarzer, sex work is on a par with slavery, and its clientele and handlers should be treated like the criminals that they are. "Ninety per cent of prostitutes are forced into the sex industry through poverty and trafficking," she argues in her new book, Prostitution: ein deutscher Skandal, the publication of which kicked off a nationwide campaign against prostitution this year. At her urging, more than 100 big-name actors, artists, politicians and church figures signed a petition calling for a ban on prostitution. The Brussels-based European Women's Lobby is also on board, as is the women's liberationists' onetime nemesis, the Catholic Church. Abolitionists have relied heavily on the firsthand testimonials of former prostitutes. Their graphic stories of abuse, exploitation and shattered lives are gut-wrenching. Some women tell of regularly being forced to have sex with as many as 60 men per day at the Pussy Club near Stuttgart. Others tell of group sex situations in which several men would have anal, oral and vaginal sex with them at the same time. These women's passports are confiscated, their movements controlled, and their living conditions squalid. The lion's share of their earnings, meanwhile, is pocketed by the middlemen. There's no doubt that these stories are true. The question is whether they are representative of the average sex worker. Ms Schwarzer says they are; her critics say they aren't. There is a formidable array of well-informed German and international observers who think that Ms Schwarzer is well off the mark. They may not share her media canny, but when the two camps do battle on talk shows, the sparks often fly. One particularly raucous public discussion this past November in Berlin degenerated into tumult. Pro-prostitution groups such as Sexworker, Hydra and Doña Carmen, which include many sex workers and former professionals, had members scattered through the audience who booed and jeered Ms Schwarzer, hoisting symbolic red umbrellas and banners reading: "Our Profession Belongs to Us!" As is often the case, Ms Schwarzer was flanked on stage by a big-city police chief and former sex workers. When the latter spoke, the activists in the crowd shook signs reading: "You Don't Speak for Us!" At the end of it all, one activist, naked from the waist down, stormed on stage. The sex worker groups are a welcome addition to a debate that until now has largely been conducted over the heads of those involved. These groups, together with other defenders of the 2002 reforms, argue that Ms Schwarzer's numbers are bogus, that most sex workers in Germany choose their profession voluntarily, and that what is needed is more openness, not less. Unsurprisingly, many sex workers object to the notion that they are helpless victims: "We don't need to be saved" is one of their slogans. The contention that most sex workers are trafficked and then held against their will is a red herring, argues Juanita Rosina Henning of Doña Carmen, a group that provides sex workers with rights-based counsel. "I've conducted studies myself in which I've gone into brothels and interviewed the women," she told the left-wing daily Die Tageszeitung. "Over 90 per cent told me they knew they were coming to Germany to work as prostitutes." "It's telling that these groups accuse the likes of Alice Schwarzer of denying them the ability to exercise their own free will," says Mariam Lau, a columnist of the weekly Die Zeit, who advocates reform of the present law. "It's like the way the left used to talk about the working class - that it has to speak for them because they hadn't developed the right consciousness yet. These women have their own minds and volition." The sex worker groups, among many others, argue that outlawing prostitution has never worked and that doing so will only turn sex workers into criminals and force the industry back underground. The vast majority of male clients, they claim, are composed of decent-enough men who require sex or tenderness for a range of reasons. The cliched picture of the abused woman at the hands of violent johns and predatory pimps simply isn't accurate, they say. Ms Schwarzer has never set foot in a brothel, they like to point out. What does she know?
Zhirinovsky Tells Party Members to Have Less Sex Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky has demanded that party members abstain from excess by having sex no more than three to four times a year. "The influence of pornography, porn tapes and various frivolous films have produced a norm among the younger generation: the more [sex] the better." Zhirinovsky said Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported. "The less [sex], the better. And only when there is a mutual desire. As a standard, once a quarter — or three to four times a year — is enough," the LDPR leader, known for grabbing headlines with his statements, said. In addition to refraining from sexual activity, Zhirinovsky added that a healthy lifestyle included abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and eating meat. In November, Zhirinovsky said his party members would gradually all become vegetarians. However, a member of the LDPR said that Zhirinovsky's remarks about sex were only a joke intended for a "bored press." Deputy Sergei Ivanov said,"Do you think Zhirinovsky is that stupid, as to tell deputies, members of the party or ordinary citizens how many times he should associate with the opposite sex?" Indeed, Zhirinovsky may have had difficulty enforcing his new guidelines. According to studies conducted by Durex in 2008, Russian respondents said they had sex 143 times a year on average, while about 80 percent said they had sex at least once a week.
Can Sex Make Your Smarter? Having trouble remembering key things due to the stress of the everyday grind? Forget your ginkgo biloba tablets, have some sex instead. Scientists have discovered that sex can counteract the negative effects stress has on the memory by stimulating neuron production in the hippocampus. In other words, intercourse can enhance long term memory retention and make you smarter. But engaging in excessive so-called fake sex (otherwise known as pornography) may actually make you permanently dumber. The Atlantic discusses the science and theories behind these seductive suggestions: In April, a team from the University of Maryland reported that middle-aged rats permitted to engage in sex showed signs of improved cognitive function and hippocampal function. In November, a group from Konkuk University in Seoul concluded that sexual activity counteracts the memory-robbing effects of chronic stress in mice. “Sexual interaction could be helpful,” they wrote, “for buffering adult hippocampal neurogenesis and recognition memory function against the suppressive actions of chronic stress.” So growing brain cells through sex does appear to have some basis in scientific fact. But there’s some debate over whether fake sex—pornography—could be harmful. Neuroscientists from the University of Texas recently argued that excessive porn viewing, like other addictions, can result in permanent “anatomical and pathological” changes to the brain. That view, however, was quickly challenged in a rebuttal from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, who said that the Texans “offered little, if any, convincing evidence to support their perspectives. Instead, excessive liberties and misleading interpretations of neuroscience research are used to assert that excessive pornography consumption causes brain damage.” Whether or not porn “addiction” literally damages the brain, even brief viewing of pornographic images does interfere with people’s “working memory”—the ability to mentally juggle and pay attention to multiple items. A study published last October in the Journal of Sex Research tested the working memory of 28 healthy individuals when they were asked to keep track of neutral, negative, positive, or pornographic stimuli. “Results revealed worse working memory performance in the pornographic picture condition,” concluded Matthias Brand, head of the cognitive psychology department at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The Atlantic article adds an interesting side note: “If having sex can make people smarter, the converse is not true: being smarter does not mean you’ll have more sex.” More intelligent teens apparently put off sexual initiation longer than others. In the end, it may all just be wishful thinking, according to some critics who believe the only thing that will stimulate brain development is active learning. But given all the other recorded health benefits of sexual activity, it seems worth a try anyways.
Dutch CEO in drag entertains staff as brothel-owning sister ABN Amro chief executive Gerrit Zalm entertained staff at the bank’s traditional New Year cabaret by appearing in drag as his ‘sister’. Rather than the usual speech about market conditions, ‘Priscilla Zalm’ outlined how she advised her brother to lead the bank, Nos television reports on Wednesday. Priscilla claimed to have run a brothel for years. Had the bank not learned to make the customer all important, she asked, pointing out she had never done it differently. ‘We embrace the client, we look for a connection with him and we are happy to see him come back,’ Nos television quotes Priscilla as saying. Nor did she have any trouble attracting outstanding female personnel, Zalm said. ‘Women on top, that is our motto.’
I just caught this story on Reason TV on YouTube. And Sunny Lane is always fucking hot in any interview she's in <a class="postlink" href="http://youtu.be/9oLC2mA1i30" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://youtu.be/9oLC2mA1i30</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; <a class="postlink" href="http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/01/14/legalize-prostitution-to-fight-sex-traff" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/01/14/l ... -sex-traff</a>" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Canada has it right! Just legalize prostitution and put certain restrictions like we have here at the ranch like getting tested regularly. I think not only would the STD's rate will go down but it would be a very good thing with helping with this countries deficit. I watched a documentary on Uganda and Homosexuality.. It was just sickening what they would do if they (including friends and family) found out someone was homosexual!
Court says Hulk Hogan sex tape can be posted A ruling issued by the Florida Second District Court of Appeals on Friday says a sex tape featuring an extramarital affair by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan can be posted online. The ruling reverses a temporary injunction previously put in place that stopped the publishing of the tape online. Gawker Media posted a story and showed excerpts from the tape in October of 2012. The tape reportedly shows a sexual encounter from 2006 between Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, and Heather Clem, the ex-wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge. In court filings, Bollea has said that he did not know that he was videotaped and did not consent to the tape's release. Bollea sought to have Gawker remove the tape from its website, and was granted a temporary injunction on April 25, 2013. Gawker challenged that order. On Friday, an appellate court said that the tape "addresses public concern" as a result of the controversy surrounding the affair and sex tape. The ruling also states that the controversy was exacerbated in part by Mr. Bollea.
Hong Kong police raid toilet-cubicle brothels Hong Kong police have shut down brothels run out of converted public toilet cubicles, arresting 86 people in raids. Prostitutes from mainland China were found operating one-woman brothels from toilet cubicles in a mostly empty shopping centre in the Yuen Long district, it was reported Friday. In comments published in the South China Morning Post, Chief Inspector Law Kwok-hoi said: "I think it is the first time police have discovered public toilets turned into brothels." "An initial investigation showed up to 100 customers visited the seven brothels each day," Law said, adding that each were charged $32 for sex services. The 14sq m blocks on the second floor also served as the prostitutes' working and living space. There were seven brothels, some converted from empty shops or office space, and operators dealt only with regular customers, who had to give a secret code before being allowed in, the Post reported. Police later said in a statement that they had arrested 51 women and 35 men aged between 17 and 72 in a two-day operation that started on Tuesday. There were raids on more than 20 other locations and a quarter of those arrested in the raids were suspected to have connections to triad gangs. The 86 were arrested for breach of conditions of stay, extortion, and possession of illegal drugs, among other charges. Officers seized a knife, metal pipes and a small amount of a drug suspected to be ketamine. The South China Morning Post report, citing police sources, said the toilets-turned-brothels had been running for 10 months and that the raids were part of a nine-month operation into the Yuen Long faction of the 14K triad society. Prostitution is legal in Hong Kong, but soliciting and living off the earnings of prostitutes are criminal offences.
Re: Hong Kong police raid toilet-cubicle brothels So, I wonder if any of them had a "potty mouth".... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Cops 'Snuck Into Hamptons Cottage for Sex While the 1 percent’s away, the cops will play. Shocked cops in tiny East Hampton Village say they caught a couple of frisky fellow flatfoots trespassing in a cottage down the road from police headquarters — reportedly to have sex. The two — she’s a 20-year-old part-time traffic-control officer, he’s a 31-year-old patrolman — were caught in a secluded, shingled hideaway, according to police in the scandalized station house. The patrolman, who has not been named publicly, has been suspended with pay and relieved of his gun and badge, police said. He is believed to be out of the country. The woman was summarily fired Friday at a village board meeting, retroactive to Dec. 30, the day of the alleged shenanigans. She’s also a part-time maid — at the house where the alleged tryst occurred. Both the maid and her patrolman-colleague were allegedly engaging in some off-duty internal investigations at the house on leafy Talmage Lane while the owner, prominent Manhattan interior designer J. Arthur Dunnam, 55, was away. The two were allegedly caught when three house-guests arrived from Georgia, invited by Dunnam to stay for the New Year’s weekend, according to police paperwork obtained by The Post. The three startled visitors quietly left and called in a trespass complaint to police, who were undoubtedly surprised by what, and whom, they found inside. “Upon arrival, they located two suspects inside the residence that were not authorized to be there,” the East Hampton Village Police incident report states. Dunnam declined to comment, but the incident report says “he does wish to pursue charges because no one should be in the house.” Dunnam is design director of Jed Johnson Associates; his Sutton Place apartment has been featured in Architectural Digest. The cops are being investigated for trespassing in the home for a “sexual encounter,” the East Hampton Star reported. “Further departmental action is expected,” Chief of Police Gerard Larsen Jr. wrote — without a note of irony — in a press release.
U.N. to launch legal challenge against Malawi anti-gay laws The United Nations' AIDS taskforce and human rights groups will launch a court battle against Malawi's laws criminalizing homosexuality, in a rare challenge to rising anti-gay legislation in Africa. The legislation has strained relations between President Joyce Banda's government and international donors, whose aid is desperately needed in the impoverished country. UNAIDS, the Malawi Law Society and local rights groups will ask the high court on March 17 to overturn as unconstitutional laws banning same-sex relationships.
Kanye West: I needed God, booze and lots of sex after Taylor Swift Scandal Speaking to Interview magazine, the rapper compares his level of stardom with being in outer space and reckons he's a master of fine art It was the most iconic moment in recent awards speech history when Kanye West invaded the stage and interrupted Taylor Swift in 2009. The controversial rapper famously criticised the gorgeous pop star who was collecting a trophy for Best Female Video at the MTV VMAs, arguing that Beyonce should have won instead. And now Kim Kardashinan’s odd-ball fiancé has broken his silence on the topic which led for the actual President Barack Obama to label him a “jackass”. Kanye confesses he turned to “God, sex, and alcohol… a lot of sex” after his bizarre lapse of social awareness four years ago. He told Interview magazine: "Well, I don't have an addictive personality, so that means that I can lean on what might be someone else's vice just enough to make it through to the next day. "You know, just enough religion, a half-cup of alcohol with some ice in it and a nice chaser, and then ... a lot of sex. And then I'd make it to the next week." Speaking to Interview magazine, the rapper compares his level of fame with Kim as being launched into outer space. "Well, I've got my astronaut family. You know, becoming famous is like being catapulted into space - sometimes without a space suit,” he mused. "We've seen so many people combust, suffocate, get lost in all these different things. “But to have an anchor of other astronauts and to make a little space family." Kanye tells the magazine: "As a celebrity, I have an opportunity to make a living at being the spokesperson for the third or fourth rendition of a thought - promoting something that has already been proven. "The problem is that I like to be the inventor - I'm the person who works on the concept, who invents new thoughts, who brings new ideas into the universe." In another unsurprising twist – from self-titled ‘biggest rockstar on the planet’ – Kanye explains that he considers himself a “fine artist.” "I'd been in national [art] competitions from the age of 14. I got three scholarships to art schools and I went to the American Academy of Art,” reveals West. "I just make sonic paintings, and these sonic paintings have led me to become whatever people think of when you say "Kanye West." Sure. Kanye, 36, also defended the video for his song Bound 2, which featured him riding a motorcycle with his fiancée Kim posing suggestively in front of him, set to a deliberately false multicoloured backdrop, saying people take him too literally. He said: "I think all that stuff around it is just that: controversy. I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one of the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, or the way joy looks and feels, with the colours. "I think the controversy comes from the fact that I don't think most people are comfortable with their own dreams, so it's hard for them to be comfortable with other people's dreams."
SHOULD TORONTO PARTNER WITH STRIP CLUBS TO OPEN BROTHELS? Technically, prostitution has never been illegal in Canada, but up until recently the majority of activities surrounding the sex trade were. Among other things, prostitutes were prohibited from offering their services in “a fixed indoor location,” a.k.a. a brothel. When Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch, and Valerie Scott challenged this law and two others in front of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, all three statutes were deemed to be unconstitutional. It was a massive step in changing the conditions surrounding sex work, and it opened the door to a multitude of new possibilities for the industry. This ruling also introduces a host of new questions, particularly when it comes to opening brothels. For example, where do we put these all-of-a-sudden-legal sex parlors? And who's allowed to run them? Municipal councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, for one, supports a plan that would let Toronto strip club owners tack on brothels to their establishments. Now, it's hard to take Mammoliti, who is one of Rob Ford's few supporters in City Hall, seriously in the slightest—it seems, however, that he’s thought about a brothel partnership with the city long and hard (pun intended). Way back in 2011, Mammoliti saw the push for legalized prostitution as an opportunity waiting to be seized. He apparently thought, This looks like a neat way for the city to make money and proposed a plan for an official red light district. Unfortunately, Mammoliti’s idea was tragically flawed. He wanted to confine legal brothels to Toronto Island, which is already home to a nude beach, an amusement park, an art center, and a small community of hippie-ish folk. No one wanted to add sex work to that mix, so the initiative was canned. Fast forward to December 2013, when the highest court of Canada confirmed the invalidation of the laws as they were originally formulated and gave legislators a year to come up with new, more constitutional rules. That's when the Adult Entertainment Association (AEA) of Canada, a trade group, figured it would be a good time to propose placing brothels in the hands of experienced and qualified establishments, i.e. strip clubs. As AEA director Tim Lambrinos explained, the idea isn’t to change the demand and turn strip clubs into brothels. The “enhanced experience” would take place in a separate part of the building, accessible through a different door. Also, the exotic dancers would not be working as sex workers. In essence, the AEA is looking toward increasingly regulating prostitution by taking the women off the street and allowing them to work in a supervised environment. The advantage of relying on established strip clubs, according to Lambrinos, is that they are already accustomed to working with law enforcement and health agencies to comply with existing regulations. Despite the AEA's intentions, North American social norms and the stigma surrounding prostitution remain—plus, city-endorsed brothels likely appear just plain wrong to most of the city's conservative voters. Even so, Mammoliti is sticking his neck out for brothels. He's told the media it's “worth our while listening to [strip club operators]” and attended a meeting of the AEA earlier this month, during which a partnership between the city and the clubs to establish the brothels was formally pitched. According to a source who was at the meeting, he agreed with the concept in principle, provided that a comprehensive study paid for by the AEA be conducted prior to implementing a pilot project. (The study hasn't begun yet, but results are expected back in July.) That pilot project would be a yearlong trial period during which the mechanisms deemed acceptable by the study would be implemented. Meanwhile, the infamous Bunny Ranch brothel in Las Vegas has already announced its intention to open up a Toronto branch. A partnership between the strip clubs and the city would likely have serious repercussions on the sex industry and sex workers’ conditions, that’s a given. What isn’t exactly clear is whether the potential benefits would trump the risk of organized exploitation on the part of these club owners. Yes, the increased regulation that would result from a partnership between the city and the AEA could lead to standardized, safer practices in sex work. It could also severely limit the workers’ control of their activities and cripple their earnings. If you ask Valerie Scott, one of the three plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court case and legal coordinator of the Sex Professionals of Canada, handing over exclusive rights to strip club owners for operating legal brothels is a terrible idea. To her knowledge, this “group of guys” have not consulted sex workers about their model for legal brothels. In her opinion, the licensing fees for brothels will probably cost as much as those for erotic massage parlors (around $11,000), which would be unaffordable to the average Canadian sex worker, who earns about $40,000 a year. That would give club owners virtually unlimited power over the women—if they were being underpaid or mistreated, they'd have little recourse other than finding employment at another legal brothel, where they might run into the same problems, or illegally freelancing. In the worst-case scenario, Toronto's brothel licenses would allow the holders to act like pimps with the law on their side. Scott suggests that a more independent model, where workers create their own safe spaces, is a better solution. Although Mammoliti can be applauded for going against the prohibitionist consensus most conservatives embrace, given that no sex workers are being consulted about this potential partnership, his motives are clearly not as FTG (for the girls) as they may initially seem. The issue is complicated, a lot is at stake for the future of sex workers, and clearly there's a battle in the city for control of its forthcoming model of legalized prostitution.
Sex scandals keep roiling the Chinese Communist Party Washington • Qin Guogang once held a respectable post as an official in China’s ruling Communist party: He was associate dean at a provincial party school, where public officials study. Now, he is famous for a different position: On Jan. 13, a user of Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, claiming to be Qin’s mistress uploaded images showing a naked Qin removing the underwear from a woman who lay prone. The self-proclaimed former lover wrote that the images were pulled from a sex tape the two filmed together, and threatened to upload the entire video unless Qin confessed to authorities. By Jan. 15, the scandal had become the most-queried topic on Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, and made headlines in major domestic media. Qin, perhaps hoping to salvage what was left of his reputation, turned himself in. (Authorities confirmed that he has been suspended from his position is under investigation.) Qin is far from the first Chinese bureaucrat to fall from grace after an illicit affair. In fact, he is not even the first this month. On Jan. 15, authorities confirmed they had sacked Wang Wen, the official in charge of maintaining party discipline at a state-run scientific institute in southern China, two days after an explicit video showing a naked Wang sharing a hotel room with his alleged mistress appeared online. A local news outlet reported that the peripatetic Wang also had sex with his mistress of one and a half years in his office and in a parked car. Mistress whistleblowers have broken stories before in China, where mistresses are forbidden for party officials but appear to be dishearteningly common among the cadre ranks. Such exposure can have serious consequences: When naked footage of what The New York Times called the "memorably unattractive" mid-tier official Lei Zhengfu and his much-younger mistress leaked in November 2012, the resulting scandal led to a corruption investigation that not only landed Lei in the brig for 13 years on a bribery charge, but cost another 10 cadres their jobs. Chinese media have likened both Wang and Qin to Lei, which doesn’t bode well for either of them. "Qin Guogang was not able to learn any lessons from the cautionary tale of Lei Zhengfu," lamented an op-ed in the People’s Daily. But on the bright side for the party, the article added, the handling of Qin’s case could serve as an "additional warning" for other wayward officials.
WHY ROBOT SEX COULD BE THE FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH Self-replicating machines have been around, at least in theory, for decades. In 1949, the mathematician John von Neumann showed how a machine could replicate itself. He called it the “universal constructor” because the machine was both an active component of the construction and the target of the copying process. This means that the medium of replication is, at the same time, the medium of storage of the instructions for the replication. Von Neumann’s big idea allowed open-ended complexity, and therefore errors in the replication – in other words, it opened up self-replicating non-biological systems to the laws of evolution. His brilliant insight predated the discovery of the DNA double helix by Crick and Watson. He went on to develop mathematical entities that reproduced themselves and evolved over time, which he called “cellular automata”. Although von Neumann’s model initially worked only in mathematical space, it was a clear demonstration that evolution may influence mechanical evolution. Since then, engineers have taken the principle on board and have produced physical applications such as RepRap machines – 3D printers that can print most of their own components. The next logical step would be to apply these principles in robot reproduction. For instance, we could have a robotic factory with three classes of robots: one for mining and transporting raw material, one for assembling raw materials into finished robots and one for designing processes and products. The last class, the “brains” of the autonomous robotic factory, would be artificial intelligence systems. But could these robots also “evolve”?
5 men busted in Reno in a prostitution sting wherein the posed as a prostitute online. They got over a dozen calls within five minutes and busted 5 guys and put their names and faces on the TV news this morning! Just another reason to "Go Bunnyranch" - or go to jail and get "outed" publicly. They don't even publish your face on TV if you get a DUI unless it is manslaughter! Pretty scary stuff guys! :shock: Here's the story: Three Cited, Two Arrested in Prostitution Sting Posted: Jan 22, 2014 6:06 AM PST Updated: Jan 22, 2014 7:14 AM PST Alejandro Garcia-Aguilar Alejandro Garcia-Aguilar A police sting targeting customers of prostitution in downtown Reno has left five men with solicitation charges. Officers with Reno Police Department's Regional Enforcement Team say they targeted prospective customers by posting an ad on a popular website. Within minutes, the team was fielding dozens of phone calls and texts. Brian Starbuck and Jacob Rogers of Reno were both cited for solicitation, along with Michael Lytle of Sparks. Alejandro Garcia-Aguilar of Veracruz, Mexico and Carlos Gonzalez-Hernandez of Sparks were arrested. The charges can carry a penalty up to six months in jail and a fine up to $1000.
A Way Forward for Canada’s Sex Workers In December, Canada’s Supreme Court struck down its laws that made engaging in sex work infeasible. Although prostitution or the selling of sex for money had been heretofore legal, several restrictions, such as barring sex workers from congregating in brothels or contacting clientele in public, often forced them to the streets and to conceal their activities, compromising their safety and ability to negotiate on their own terms. The laws also criminalized making a living off of sex work, which endangered those who assist sex workers, such as bodyguards. These laws will remain in effect for another year until further decisions are made about how to deal with the conundrum of decriminalizing sex work—guaranteeing the rights of workers to privacy and safety, while ensuring workers remain within the profession voluntarily instead of merely consensually, a subtle but important distinction. Reactions around the ruling have been mixed. Women’s groups that advocate the abolition of prostitution, such as the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and REAL Women of Canada, decried the result, criticizing the Supreme Court’s complicity in licensing the exploitation of women’s and girls’ bodies (though ignoring the significant male population involved in the sex industry.) In an interview with CTV News, Diane Watts of Real Women of Canada stressed that the Supreme Court must introduce “legislation to protect women from trafficking and to protect our neighborhoods, our properties and our children from being influenced into this type of business.” Other critics worry about the potential shift in focus from worker to customer. Emer O’Toole of The Guardian has expressed concerns about the conservative sentiments resurfacing in Canada that seek to criminalize the purchase of sex work. Focusing on the criminality of consumers has put sex workers in even more dangerous positions because of clients’ fears over getting caught, which has resulted in increased violence, unsafe sex practices, and less communication about the limits of the work. O’Toole is especially concerned with how the legalization of sex work in Germany and the Netherlands has expanded the industry and enabled higher rates of sex trafficking. She suggests that Canada follow in the footsteps of New Zealand, which legalized prostitution in 2003 yet continued to criminalize exploitation and coercion and where the government set up a healthcare system with the aid of sex workers. Since then, there has been no increase in prostitution and, while issues of stigma and violence have yet to be eradicated, there are increased feelings of empowerment. Yet others involved in the industry, including the three female sex workers who occasioned the case—Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch, and Valerie Scott—indicate an active desire to decriminalize the trade. They argued that the repeal of these laws was imperative for sex workers’ safety, using the case of the serial killer Robert Pickton who murdered 49 sex workers as one of many examples. “These restrictions on prostitution put the safety and lives of prostitutes at risk, by preventing them from implementing certain safety measures—such as hiring security guards or ‘screening’ potential clients—that could protect them from violence,” the judge wrote in the ruling. Of the repeals to take effect in a year, Lebovitch told The Huffington Post , “I am shocked and amazed that sex work and the sex work laws that affect our lives on a daily basis will within a year not cause us harm anymore.” But the question remains: how can Canada distinguish workers who willingly wish to engage in sex work and those for whom prostitution is a necessary evil for their everyday survival? But the question remains: how can Canada distinguish workers who willingly wish to engage in sex work and those for whom prostitution is necessary for their everyday survival? How can it secure workers’ rights to privacy, safety, and fair wages, while also guaranteeing that workers are not exploitatively prostituted or trafficked? These answers must bring the voices and demands of sex workers to the fore of the discussion. All sex workers—women and men, people of color and transgender people—must be given a platform to represent themselves and their perspectives. The standing policies have disproportionately impacted the most marginalized of workers: immigrants, people of color, transgender and queer people, low-income or single-parent families, and, of course, women. As a result, special care must be taken to focus any decisions on minorities who engage in sex work and to diversify the voices of the workers represented before the Supreme Court. The current laws have proven ineffective and largely unused; yet when used, they have authorized discriminatory practices against sex workers, stigmatized their professions, and shamed the viability of their work. Canada must come up with a way to seriously redress the stigmas attached to sex work, elevating workers from their second-class status. To allow for sex workers to leave the industry, these stigmas must be addressed, alternative professional tracks established, and discrimination against sex workers’ former professional histories eradicated. For the industry to become ethical in any meaningful way, it must be regulated. The Supreme Court must initiate a dialogue on how to protect the rights of sex workers to voluntarily work in the industry while simultaneously enabling workers to pull out of the industry, report violence, and have access to healthcare and justice when wronged. Such a sentiment is echoed by prostituted women like Natasha Falle, who endured physical abuse by a pimp she later husband from the age of 15 after running away from home. “I couldn’t admit that I was not there by choice,” she told The Vancouver Sun, “We couldn’t live in our own skin if we admitted that. We needed to believe that it was our choice." The Supreme Court must also be wary of criminalizing the consumers of sex work. This model has already demonstrated that it only further forces the work underground. It must realize sex workers’ opinions of the trade are manifold; that some find the work empowering or the pay agreeable, others engage in the industry simply out of necessity or are forced to stay within it. For the latter, it must construct exit pathways with employment options. It must reroute the conversation about the moral status of sex work to the oftentimes condoned violence committed against them and the real problem of trafficking. To continue to criminalize the workers far too often punishes only the poor and vulnerable.
Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef JANUARY 22--A female high school student who was having sex in the back of a Pennsylvania school bus allegedly struck another pupil in the testicles after the younger onlooker “began to laugh and chuckle” when she “expelled wind” during the lewd performance, according to police. The bizarre incident occurred last Friday around 3 PM as the school bus traveled in an Armstrong County township about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, according to a Pennsylvania State Police report. The female student, who recently turned 18, was cited for harassment by Trooper Brad Jordan, whose initial report used less than 60 words to provide a memorable description of the encounter between the young woman and the 13-year-old victim. “Both the victim and the accused were riding school bus,” wrote Jordan, who quickly turbocharged the narrative by adding, “The accused expelled wind from the vulva during coitus while at the back of the bus.” It appears that Trooper Jordan relied on the Urban Dictionary for a more artful definition of “queef.” After the audible wind expulsion, the boy “began to laugh and chuckled at the accused for her actions,” reported Jordan. That is when she allegedly “approached the victim and elbowed him in the testicles. Accused was cited for harassment.” Jordan’s report does not identify the young woman’s sex partner. The graphic nature of Jordan’s account was met with consternation by embarrassed State Police brass, who directed that an updated report be faxed Saturday to local media outlets. The second dispatch asked recipients to “please disregard” the prior report. In an interview yesterday, Trooper Jordan said that while the January 17 bus incident was described accurately in his initial report, the recounting of the wind release was, on reflection, too explicit in terms of “terminology and language.” While the name of the 18-year-old (who is pictured above) was released by investigators due to the criminal citation, it will not appear in these pages. Because high school is hard enough without being dubbed the "Bus Sex Queefer." As for the boy, he was not injured by the blow to his testicles.
'The best way to feel sexy is have sex. Not chew on kale whi thinking of chips' Women have twice as many diets as lovers, according to a study, but Daisy Buchanan encourages us to ditch weight loss regimes and start getting hot and bothered under the covers. If you don’t count anything involving crime or fatality, I think this headline could be the saddest one of 2014 so far: “Women go on twice as many diets as they have lovers!” It come from new research by a group with a vested interest in women and their obsession with weight loss – a diet firm. Still, they say that apparently the “typical” woman will go on 16 diets in her lifetime, but she will only have eight lovers. I couldn’t possibly comment on my own ratio, but I was shocked by the implications of the study, which suggests too many of us are putting our sex lives on hold while we worry about the way our bodies look. Almost a third (27 per cent) of those surveyed said they dieted “to feel sexier”. I might be missing something here, but I would have thought that the best way to feel sexy is to have sex, not to chew on a mouthful of raw kale while thinking sadly about chips. I’m not sure if it was the same 27 per cent, but the same figure said that they tended to ditch their diets after just a week, suggesting that the serial dieters aren’t choosing long term, viable eating plans, but the headline grabbing, restrictive diets that are hard to sustain. When I worked for an entertainment website, I was more surprised than I should have been to discover that ‘celebrity diet’ is search engine gold – it gets more hits than an Amanda Bynes meltdown, a Lindsay Lohan jail stint or a picture of a member of N Dubz being attacked by a horse. Millions of us are spending hours reading, and thinking about weight loss, and not in a realistic, healthy way. We want to find the Miley diet, or the Beyoncé diet, forgetting that Miley and Beyoncé need to look the way they do in order to keep working. Are you doing a 62 date international tour? Do you have to sell tickets with a series of magazine shoots? Do you need to be metabolically ready to burn 8,000 calories a night with a series of gruelling dance routines?
Could the wearable technology improve your sex life? Now it's 2014, so of course your sex life will be changed digitally thanks to the 'Sex with Glass' app. Want to look up a new sex position without having to search around for your phone? Want to set the mood? Google Glass has you covered, and you don't even need to get up. Most importantly, if you're into making home sex videos than Google Glass will be able to record them for you — in the point of view of your partner. It could definitely help you figure out whether your O face is scary or acceptable ... if you were wondering. As for privacy regarding these sex videos? Well, the app is somewhat like SnapChat where it deletes your video — after five hours. Sounds like that could be long enough for someone else to get their hands on it? If you’re terribly concerned that your sex life doesn’t include a digital component that shows you a view of yourself having sex, you’ll be happy to know that Google Glass might just have the answer. A new app called Sex With Glass (this is a bad name that sounds very painful) is in development to revolutionize your sex life, provided that you don’t mind wearing those super dorky glasses while doing it. According to Business Insider, “[t]he cornerstone of Sex with Glass is the shared live streaming.” My understanding of this is that while wearing the Google Glass, you’ll be able to see an image from your partner’s point of view…of yourself. That doesn’t sound super pleasant. The app also connects to your home so you can tell it to adjust the lighting, play mood music, or even ask for position ideas. I can’t imagine interrupting a sex session to say “OK glass, I need position ideas,” but to each his own. Sex With Glass (god, my vagina cringes every time I type that) also provides you with a video of your sex session, which gives you five hours to watch before self destructing. The response to Sex With Glass has been pretty mixed, but Business Insider points to the app’s promotion as an area of concern: The promotion for the app doesn’t match up with the egalitarian promises: most of the images are sexualised photos of women, the advertising slogans assume heterosexual couples, and some of the statements are just plain odd (“You’ll be able to watch your videos for five hours until they are deleted forever. That’s for all the ladies out there.”) Incidentally, Sex With Glass removed the “That’s for all the ladies out there” remark from their website since Business Insider ran their story, but the site remains dominated by bedroom photos of scantily clad women selling a largely heterosexual experience. If the goal is to make sex better for everybody, why is it so exclusive? Isn’t sex something that’s widely universal? The app will be available in February, and if that’s your thing, then go wild. But can somebody please explain the benefits of looking at yourself while intercoursing? I’d prefer to look at literally anything else.
Porn filmmaker shoots sex film in University campus in broad A self-shot porn film which was shot at the University of the West England in broad daylight, has been viewed 41,000 times on a sex website. The film titled ‘Johnny Rockard at University of West of England in Bristol. Student pick up, and public sex with horny Xzena’ is now being investigated by the cops to determine how the actor managed to film it without having any connection to the institution, the Daily Star reported. The film shows Rockard wandering among students at the University, before chatting up pretty student Xzena, who tells him that she is a third-year psychology student and later performs a sex act on him at the campus gates. The 22-year-old female star also has sex with the actor on a bus heading into Bristol City Centre. University vice-chancellor Steve West has condemned the film and said that he is appalled that his institution was subjected to such behavior from someone with no connection to the university, resulting in a false and misleading representation of the university. West added that the institution’s on-campus security has involved the police to take legal action against the filmmaker. However, a rep for the Bristol-based company that is responsible for the film said that no law was broken, as the University is a public space and if the porn actor was in their buildings they could take issue but it is public land.
woman arrested following alleged sex act on plane A Nova Scotia woman is facing several charges after allegedly taking part in a sex act on a flight from Toronto to Halifax. Two passengers aboard an Air Canada flight Friday were questioned by RCMP after landing in Halifax. Police said the two - a 24-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man - had been involved in a sexual act during the flight from Toronto. As police spoke to the two, the woman became very agitated and distruptive. She was arrested for causing a disturbance, police said. As she was being led away, she continued to be verbally abusive, physically resisting and then assaulted police by kicking the officer, the RCMP release said. The man was released at the airport. The woman was held overnight and released Saturday morning. She is facing charges of assaulting a police officer, causing a disturbance and mischief. She is due in a Dartmouth, N.S., court Feb. 25.
Lord Rennard ‘could reveal 20 years of Lib Dem sex scandals’ CONTROVERSIAL Lib Dem Lord Rennard is ready to plunge the party into a fresh crisis by revealing details of sexual misbehaviour by its MPs and peers if Nick Clegg tries to kick him out, it was claimed yesterday. Alleged wrongdoing he is said to know of includes adultery, sex pest claims and secret gay liaisons. The former Lib Dem chief executive faces an inquiry over whether he has brought the party into disrepute by refusing to apologise over allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women. An investigation has concluded that, although it could not be proved that he meant to act inappropriately, evidence about unwanted touching and advances by him was “broadly credible” and he should say sorry for upsetting them. Lord Rennard, however, denies any wrongdoing. He maintains the investigation effectively cleared him to resume his party roles. But last week the leadership abruptly suspended his Lib Dem membership, pending the results of a new probe. The defiant peer has countered by hiring a QC to explore whether the new inquiry is lawful. Yesterday his allies raised the stakes again by claiming he could expose 20 years’ worth of misdemeanours by Lib Dem peers and MPs if leader Mr Clegg “goes nuclear” and tries to kick him out of the party. One of Lord Rennard’s friends said the peer had helped fellow Lib Dems handle many scandals over the years and that while he was reluctant to “spill the beans” he would do so if expelled from party ranks. There were reports this weekend that the Lib Dems have hired a professional mediator to “talk about talks” with Lord Rennard. Former leader Lord Steel yesterday renewed his plea for both sides to back down and seek agreement because the row was damaging the party. A senior Lib Dem source said: “I think generally there is a sense of most people now wanting to find a way through this. But obviously, the suspension and subsequent investigation still stand.” Yesterday’s Sunday Politics show on BBC1 said all three candidates for the Lib Dem deputy leadership being contested this week had turned down or cancelled plans to appear on the programme, with one team admitting they did not want to have to answer “difficult questions” about Lord Rennard. No one has yet been appointed to head the new Rennard inquiry. Mr Clegg also faces pressure over the party’s apparent failure to take seriously complaints by a constituent of Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock that he sexually harassed her. The party suspended the Portsmouth South MP last week only after a report about the claims was leaked.
Seattle Seahawks Player Abstaining From Sex for "WHOLE WEEK" to prepare for SuperBowl. mike freeman @mikefreemanNFL 13h Seahawks player says no partying for him. Nothing but football. He added: "No sex for me the entire week. That's how serious I am."
Strip-Club Site Could Have Been Useful For Sex-Positive Venu Strip-club site could have been useful for sex-positive venue To the Editor: With regards to the strip club apparently planned for Stimson Avenue, I had always thought it was apparent that the owner was bluffing in order to take a stab at the city. It is incredibly frustrating to see someone with so many resources at his disposal squandering them on spiteful retaliation. Who does this help? Certainly not the community. The beautiful building on Stimson - currently posing as a car dealership - could be used for so many things. While I am glad that it won't end up as a strip club - those places encourage the worst form of sexuality and would lead our town further into debauchery - I'd always thought that if the owner had been more forward-thinking and less focused on getting back at the city, he could have stuck with the adult-entertainment idea but turned it into something sex-positive: A home for burlesque; a place that hosted adult theater; a venue where women and men could learn to dance, belly dance and pole dance. In the evenings, the place could host dancing and burlesque troupes. People who graduated from the classes would get the chance to show their skills onstage. This would create an amazing experience, make a great singles club, and help people become more accepting of their own and other peoples' bodies. But, those are just my musings - I don't own a big, vacant building or have the capital to start such a venue. But I think it's a shame that those who do don't seem to appreciate what they have. Shala Hill Athens
Texas probation officer accused of sex trafficking Posted: Jan 21, 2014 4:41 PM PST Updated: Jan 21, 2014 4:41 PM PST EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Federal authorities say a 28-year-old West Texas juvenile probation officer is under arrest on sex trafficking charges. In a statement released Tuesday, the federal prosecutors say 28-year-old Timothy McCullouch Jr., a juvenile probations officer in El Paso, is charged one count of sex trafficking and one of sex trafficking of a minor. He's scheduled for a federal detention hearing Friday in El Paso. Five other men, accused of being members of the Folk Nation/Gangster Disciples street gang, also are charged with forcing their victims by fraud or coercion to engage in sexual activities for pay in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado between May 2012 and March 2013. They're scheduled for trial in June Two other men are also charged with forced prostitution charges in a separate but related indictment. Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Africa: Scientists Discovered World's Oldest Sex Toy Women are always denying that they pleasure themselves, even though we all know they're lying. Now researchers in Germany have proof that women have been performing solos on themselves for a long, long time. That's because recently, researchers at the University of Tubingen in Germany discovered a 28,000-year-old SEX TOY. It's an eight-inch-long piece of stone, it's been polished smooth, and it has a ring etched around the top, so it SORT of resembles a guy's unit. Scientists found it in a cave in southern Germany, and pieced it back together from more than a dozen fragments. They say that when it wasn't being used as a sex aid, it doubled as a tool for lighting fires. (??)
Re: Africa: Scientists Discovered World's Oldest Sex Toy What better way to pass a boring night home alone in your cave?!
Sex workers’ six-day festival begins today Sex workers from different parts of the country will participate in a six-day festival that begins in Kolkata on Wednesday to highlight their fight against all kinds of social exclusion. Organised by Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), a sex workers’ collective in West Bengal, the theme of the festival is “Protibade Nari, Protirodhe Nari” (Protest by women, Prevention by women). “The conference has been organised to highlight the exclusion of sex workers and to provide a platform to people so that they can an idea of the lives of sex workers,” DMSC adviser Samarjit Jana told The Hindu on Tuesday. Asked what kind of exclusion sex workers faced, Dr. Jana said they were excluded from different developmental schemes of the government. “It does not end with them but continues with their children who face problems while getting admission in educational institutions.” Dr. Jana said more than 12,000 sex workers from different part of the country would assemble at Triangular Park in south Kolkata. Many of them were affiliated to national networks such as the All India Network of Sex Workers.
