‘Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose girl’.

The priest asks, ‘Is that you, little Joey Pagano ?’
‘Yes, Father, it is.’

‘And who was the girl you were with?’
‘I can’t tell you, Father, I don’t want to ruin her reputation’

Well, Joey, I’m sure to find out her name sooner or later so you may as
Well tell me now.

Was it Tina Minetti?’
‘I cannot say.’

‘Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?’
‘I’ll never tell.’

‘Was it Nina Capelli?’
‘I’m sorry, but I cannot name her.’

‘Was it Cathy Piriano?’
‘My lips are sealed.’

‘Was it Rosa Di Angelo, then?’
‘Please, Father, I cannot tell you.’

The priest sighs in frustration. ‘You’re very tight lipped, Joey Pagano, and I
Admire that. But you’ve sinned and have to atone. You cannot be an altar boy now
For 4 months. Now you go and behave yourself.’

Joey walks back to his pew, and his friend Franco slides over and whispers,
‘What’d you get?’

“4 months vacation and five good leads.”

Its first exhibit, ‘NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America’, chronicles, in the parlance of the museum, ’sexual subcultures’ ranging from a display of ‘homemade’ strap-on harnesses from the early 1900s to photographs of a lesbian football team that played in the 1930s. This museum, which was founded by a 34-year-old software entrepreneur Daniel Gluck, feels like a sexy SoHo art gallery: gorgeous loft space with minimalist lighting and inviting red velvet sofas that are styled as pairs of lush lips.

Unfortunately, that is where the ’sexy’ ends. Grady Turner, the executive curator, was quoted in The New York Times stating that the museum is not ‘about a lot of pretty white women having sex’, which is kind of too bad because a lot of pretty women (of all races) having sex can be a good thing. Tanya Bezreh, who worked on the NYC Sex exhibit, said that ‘the focus of the museum is too “get over” having sex as a taboo, titillating topic and to present sex in a sober light’. The museum only exhibits items that are defined as ‘historically significant’, implying that the curator knows something is ‘historically significant’ when he sees it.

Although the museum presents erotic art that in a different setting would be, well, hot, the overall problem the museum has is that taking sexual objects out of context and containing them under glass in a sober, hyper-organized museum environment makes the exhibit as thrilling as a stamp collection.

Berzeh pointed out that ‘the museum is, in fact, fairly conservative, for example, it cannot take money from anyone affiliated with the adult entertainment business… and because it is relying on mainstream corporate sponsorship it can’t take risks that an art gallery could’. Ironically, Berzeh said that she hoped that since the museum presents historical porn such as an erotic cartoon from the 1930s as legitimate as a Warhol painting, more women will take porn seriously and porn as a genre will broadcast very different messages in order to have a female audience.

The museum, however, plays it too safe by opting for the exhibition of items that may have titillated your great-grandma during the Great Depression. The visitor is left wondering how the 1970s could be missing from an exhibit which is about how NYC sex practices changed American sex?

Not only are the 1970s basically absent, there simply is not any substantive content from the last 30 years other than a pencil sketch of a Tom of Finland model heartily engaged in self-fellatio. Tristan Taormino, the Village Voice sex columnist and lesbian provocateur, noted that ‘it is more interesting what things the museum will not show than what it will show’.

Perhaps because of former Mayor Giuliani’s campaign against adult entertainment businesses in Manhattan, the museum does not have as provocative content as most modern art museums and galleries. Bizarrely, the exhibit misses even a cursory mention of Giuliani’s campaign against vice in New York (placing Giuliani in the exhibit’s section on Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice in 1870s New York that culminated in the passage of a federal anti-obscenity law might provide for important insights into the American mania for censoring sexual content).

A notable exception to the generally tepid content is ‘Bathroom Kiss’, a sensual photograph by Barbara Nitke, that uncannily captures the degree of trust between a young lesbian couple in a s/m scene. In ‘Bathroom Kiss’ the ’slave’ is obediently sitting on the toilet with her hands tied while her lover, who is above her, leans in to kiss her. Nitke, who is influenced by Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin, uses the flash point process to give a gauzy, dream like quality to her photographs.

Predictably, there will be those who think the museum shows too much and legitimizes the objectification of women. To this critique, Taormino while rolling her eyes responded that ’sexism in the sex industry is not more pronounced than other industries such as the fashion industry. And it is important to see and acknowledge the sexism inherent in our culture, which just happens to be particularly visible in mainstream pornography’.

The museum successfully exhibits how the boundaries of pornography have shifted wildly over the last two centuries. Craig Wilder, a history professor at Dartmouth College who was an advisor to the museum, quipped that ‘historically porn has been “all action and no talk”, and hopefully this museum will make people start talking more openly and intelligently about sex.’

The Museum of Sex is located at 233 Fifth Avenue in New York. Admission is $17.00.
All visitors must be 18 or older.
www.museumofsex.com

Article source: http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2002-11/museumofsex.htm

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Reading the Kama Sutra or the Perfumed Garden and learning the positions outlined in them will bring you numerous sexual positions to give you and your partner huge satisfaction in your sex life.

The 3 top best sex positions are culled from the two works above, and also the life of Casanova.

There seems to been, in our ancient past, an extensive knowledge of a lady’s erogenous zones, including by not limited to the clitoris, the G-spot and T-Zone…all having to do with pagan sexual rights and knowledge, as well as the sacred writings of India and China.

In fact, the early treatise such as the Tantra has classified the sexual act in much greater detail than even could be imagined in our own day.

There are three powerhouse positions that stand out in the human experience as very special, and they are indeed the top 3 best sex positions in history. They are the Crab (modified doggy style), Dok-al-Arz (translated from Arabic as ‘pounding the spot’, a sitting position), and the Horse position (a modified missionary position).

The Crab:

This is NOT the doggy style, as in that pose – the woman has her head parallel with the floor (or the bed). She is on all fours, but her head is down, touching the bed, and her arms stretched out in front of her for balance and support.

The man enters from the rear, and begins a slow and rhythmical thrusting. In this position you have some clitoral stimulation, but lots of G-spot stimulation if aim for this area. You will also have the thrill of pure sex.

You have deep penetration, and your hands are free to explore your partner’s body. You can also raise the head of your partner till it is parallel with the bed, or even higher, adjusting your thrusting the whole time.

Dok-al-Arz.

This is the most famous position mentioned in the classic Arab work on sex (from the early 1400s), called the Perfume Garden.

This is recommended if you wish the woman to love you afterwards. It is quite simple to achieve. The man will sit on the edge of the bed, with his legs firmly on the floor.

The woman will mount him, face to face, inserting his penis as she mounts. She will then wrap her legs around the man’s waste.

There is no thrusting in this position, only some circular motion, as in a belly dance. The woman is in control, and there is maximum clitoral and G-spot stimulation, even T-Zone at the back of the uterus. When orgasm arrives, it is profound and long-lasting.

The Horse.

This is a favorite mention in works of Tao of Sex, and gives the man a maximum time for this erection, and the woman has a deep penetration, and super G-spot stimulation, as well and full T-Zone.

The woman is placed on her back on a high-raise bed or table. The man must be standing and able to offer a full pelvic swing.

The woman’s legs are spread apart and raised at knee length towards her chest, exposing her genital area.

The man then penetrates the woman, and begins thrusting. The thrusting should follow four short thrusts followed by one or two complete and deep thrusts. The motion must be slow and rhythmical and not forced.

Sooner than you might expect, due to all the stimulation, the woman will arrive at a spectacular orgasm.

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Quiet Depravity
The demure outrages of a standup comic.
by Dana Goodyear

The comedian Sarah Silverman exerts a kind of mesmeric control over an audience. She doesn’t laugh at her own jokes, and when she smiles it is deliberately inappropriate. The expression that lingers on her face is usually one of tentative confusion or of chipper self-satisfaction, as if she had finished her homework and cleaned up her room, and were waiting for a gold star. “I’m just sensitive,” she says onstage. “My skin is paper thin. People don’t realize it, because I’m sassy and I’m brassy, but I just— I see these care commercials with these little kids with the giant bellies and the flies, and these are one- and two-year-old babies, nine months pregnant, and it breaks my heart in two.”

As the audience reacts, she presses on. “It breaks my heart in half. And I don’t give money, because”—out of the side of her mouth—“I don’t want them to spend it on drugs, but I give. You know I give. I, this past summer, sent fifteen really fun cowl-neck sweaters to this village in Africa, in really fun colors—expecting nothing, by the way—and they culled their money together, whatever they call it, and bought a stamp and sent me a postcard thanking me, and it said thank you and that they had enough sweaters for every single member of the village to get one and that they were delicious.”

Silverman is thirty-four and coltish, with shiny black hair and a china-doll complexion. Her arms are long and her center of gravity is low: she is five feet seven, and moves like a vervet monkey. Onstage, she is beguilingly calm. She speaks clearly and decorously. “Quiet depravity” is how Michael McKean, who was with her in the cast of “Saturday Night Live” (she was a writer and a featured player for the 1993-94 season), describes her demeanor. The persona she has crafted is strangely Pollyanna-ish and utterly absorbed in her own point of view: “I wear this St. Christopher medal sometimes because—I’m Jewish, but my boyfriend is Catholic—it was cute the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn’t burn through my skin it will protect me.” In another of her bits, she invokes the events of September 11th: “They were devastating. They were beyond devastating. I don’t want to say especially for these people, or especially for these people, but especially for me, because it happened to be the same exact day that I found out that the soy chai latte was, like, nine hundred calories. I had been drinking them every day. You hear soy, you think healthy. And it’s a lie.” Her constructions are minimal but the turn is sharp. “I was raped by a doctor,” she says. “Which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.”

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Mayor Oscar Goodman grabs the headlines whatever he says or does – and he relishes it. He is proud of Las Vegas’ image as “Sin City” and happily calls it “an adult playground”.

He boasts about his love of gin, cigars and pretty women and calls himself “the happiest mayor in the universe”.

Before he became mayor, he was the top criminal lawyer to the Las Vegas mafia.

There’s no check and balance as far as the women’s health is concerned Oscar Goodman Mayor

But when he suggested legalising prostitution and creating a red-light district and a string of “magnificent brothels” in downtown Vegas, the mayor got his most dramatic headlines yet.

He had opened up a debate on a taboo subject: Las Vegas’ illegal prostitution.

Everybody knows it goes on, many businesses profit from it, but in-keeping with the city’s slogan “What happens here, stays here”, it is rarely discussed.

“It’s disingenuous when people say they don’t want to legalise it,” says Mr Goodman. “Right now it’s uncontrolled and unregulated. There’s no check and balance as far as the women’s health is concerned and legal brothels could be an important revenue-raising device for the city,” says Mr Goodman.

“When you speak about it intellectually, not morally, it makes sense,” he says. “If we had a referendum or ballot on legal brothels, it would probably pass.”

Not without a fight, though. The vested interests in this city are legion.

Spectrum of workers

It is estimated that there are as many as 10,000 prostitutes operating illegally in Las Vegas, in an industry that may be worth as much as $6 billion a year.

Over 150 pages in the Las Vegas phone book advertise “escorts” and “massage”, and leaflets promising to deliver “hot babes direct to your room in 20 minutes” are handed out to tourists openly on Las Vegas Boulevard, usually called “The Strip”.

“Lucy” [name has been changed to protect her identity] is a top-end “companion” selling her time with men at $4000 a night. She explains how the sex trade functions in Las Vegas.

Even though prostitution is illegal it is easy to spot suggestive adverts

“There are women who get propositioned in the casinos, bars and hotels,” she says.

“There are women who do ‘extras’ out of strip clubs and who ‘give pleasure’ in massage parlours. Women who do what we term ‘outcall’ – going to specific apartments to spend erotic time with gentlemen.

“There are women who work by print ads or on-line. And every casino host has a bevy of girls to call at a moment’s notice to satisfy their high-rollers.”

At the other end of the spectrum – in the seedier parts of downtown Las Vegas, among the cheap motels and ganglands – there are women who sell their bodies to pay for their drugs. They might charge as little as $20.

Robert Clymer, a former FBI agent in the city working in organised crime, says human trafficking adds to the industry.

“The number one problem, according to the FBI, is Asian prostitution,” he says. “That means Asian organised crime and human trafficking into the US, straight into Las Vegas. And it’s all fuelled by money.”

Strange vacuum

With 600,000 people, Las Vegas is the largest city in Nevada.

Its illegal sex trade operates in a strange vacuum because in most of the rest of the state prostitution has been legalised.

In fact, Nevada is the only state in the US to allow legal brothels, which stems from a 1970 state law allowing Nevada’s individual counties to licence their brothels. But this only applies to counties with populations under 400,000, which excludes Las Vegas and Reno.

The question today is – is what is good for Nevada, good for Las Vegas?

There are nearly 30 state-sanctioned brothels in Nevada.

With names like “Mustang Ranch” and “Moonlite Bunny Ranch”, their owners say they contribute to the local economies and provide safe, clean sex.

Brothels are so much part of the Nevada culture that Home Box Office (HBO) even films a reality TV show inside the Bunny Ranch called “Cathouse”.

Legal brothels across the state have to abide by strict regulation

George Flint is the chief lobbyist of the Nevada Brothel Association.

“Legal brothels could work anywhere,” he says. “They could be huge in Las Vegas. It would be great for the women and for our industry which is today fragile because it remains a teeny business in a big state.”

‘Sexual slavery’

But some religious groups, academics and campaigners say that all prostitution is wrong and legalising it does not stop sex trafficking or the abuse of women.

“I see it as sexual slavery,” says Candice Trummell, director of the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking. “I think it’s morally and ethically wrong for governments to say it’s OK to sell humans in that way. The government should not pimp the girls.”

I don’t think prostitution will ever be legal here. There’s too much money to be made from the illegal sex trade Kate Hausbeck sociology professor, University of Las Vegas

When asked if she was calling the government a pimp, Ms Trummell answered: “Yes, absolutely”.

Kate Hausbeck, a sociology professor at the University of Las Vegas, has spent nearly 10 years researching both the legal and illegal sex trade in Nevada.

She concludes that the best model for Nevada – and any country in the world – is the decriminalisation of prostitution.

“Empower the women who do the work. Give them labour protection and the rights given other workers. Because it’s a job and a choice for many women,” she says.

But, when asked about Mr Goodman’s idea of legal brothels for Las Vegas, she says she doesn’t think prostitution will ever be legal here.

“There’s too much money to be made from the illegal sex trade. The casinos and convention industry fear it would be a step too far,” she says.

Article courtesy of Rosie Goldsmith, BBC

Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said Jeremy McIntosh, 27, was arrested Saturday outside Intimate Ideas in Detroit after he repeatedly slammed his car into the store, causing $3,000 in damage.

McCabe says McIntosh was wearing makeup, lipstick, blue Capri pants, red flip-flops, a flowery blouse and a matching flowery women’s bra.

McIntosh remained jailed after his arraignment Monday on charges including malicious destruction of property and reckless driving.

CONTRACTS FOR SEX?

 A FEMALE politician today confirmed she was serious that women should sign a contract before sex to combat false rape allegations if proposed laws are passed. 

Independent MP Ann Bressington yesterday told Parliament the planned new laws – which make it an offence to continue a sex act with a person after consent if they changed their mind – would make it easier for men to be accused of rape.

She also claimed “one-night stands” and casual relationships would become a “high-risk activity”.

“Perhaps this parliament could devise a contract which men could carry around in their pocket, next to their condoms,” she said during a speech to Parliament.

“There could be a waiver should a man meet up with a woman who has had a couple of drinks before they engage in sexual intercourse.

“The contract may contain the name and address of the women, with her driver’s licence number, so that the man can see the signatures match, clauses that state that the woman has or has not been drinking or taking drugs – licit or illicit – and that she consents to foreplay.”

The proposed contract would also include details of the woman’s marital status, whether she has children and whether she consents to being taken to another location to engage in sexual activity. 

Yes, I was serious

On ABC Radio this morning, Ms Bressington confirmed she thought men should carry sex contracts if the current Bill passed both houses of Parliament.

“(The Bill) opens the door to more false allegations that are already occurring. Men will have no defence from women falsely crying rape,” she told the ABC morning show.

“This Bill makes men guilty until proven innocent and they will have no defence.”

When quizzed further about the contract idea, she said she was serious because it would prevent men being falsely accused.

Fellow independent MP Kris Hanna, who has been pushing for new consent laws for years, said the Bill’s intention was to prevent men being able to claim consent was given in ridiculous situations – such as when a women was unconscious or blind drunk.

“We are trying to encourage reasonable conduct,” Mr Hanna told the ABC. He said juries “usually come up with a commonsense result” in the types of cases Ms Bressington was referring to.

Controversial Bill

The same controversial Bill led Independent MP Bob Such to claim T-shirts emblazoned with provocative slogans encouraged sexual assaults when it was debated in the Lower House earlier this year.

Ms Bressington said the planned laws “make men guilty until proven innocent” and suggested the low conviction rate in rape cases was because of inadequate investigative practices rather than poor laws.

She said government was invading “our bedrooms or even the back seat of our cars”.

Yarrow Place Rape and Sexual Assault Service director Vanessa Swan said the laws brought South Australia in to line with other Australian states.

“I think it is a really positive development and will improve the situation for victims of sexual assault,” she said.

Article by Nick Henderson

Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals.

Without these yells, male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) almost never ejaculated, scientists found.

Female monkeys often utter loud, distinctive calls before, during or after sex. Their exact function, if any, has remained heavily debated.

Counting pelvic thrusts

To investigate the purpose behind these calls, scientists at the German Primate Center in Göttingen focused on Barbary macaques for two years in a nature reserve in Gibraltar.

The researchers found that females yelled during 86 percent of all sexual encounters. When females shouted, males ejaculated 59 percent of the time. However, when females did not holler, males ejaculated less than 2 percent of the time.

To see if yelling resulted from how vigorous the sex was, the scientists counted the number of pelvic thrusts males gave and timed when they happened. They found when shouting occurred, thrusting increased. In other words, hollering led to more vigorous sex.

Counting monkey pelvic thrusts is admittedly “quite weird, but it’s science,” researcher Dana Pfefferle, a behavioral scientist and primatologist at the German Primate Center, told LiveScience. “You get used to it.”

Quite promiscuous

Male and female Barbary macaques are promiscuous, often having sex with many partners. This means sperm levels can get quite drained. The females shout when they are most fertile, so males can make the most use of their sperm.

Pfefferle noted her research suggests these calls might also make females more attractive to other males. She added these shouts might play different roles in other species.

Pfefferle and her colleagues detailed their findings online Dec. 18 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

A South Australian woman has given birth to her father’s son after the couple had sex.

John and Jenny Deaves reunited 30 years after Mr Deaves separated from Jenny’s mother.

Jenny was 31 and just two weeks after meeting, father and daughter had sex.

“John and I are in this relationship as consenting adults,” Mrs Deaves told the Nine Network tonight.

“We are just asking for a little bit of respect and understanding.”

Their nine month old daughter Celeste, shown on TV, appears fit and healthy.

Mrs Deaves said soon after reuniting with her father she began to see him as a man first and her father second.

“I was looking at him, sort of going, oh, he’s not too bad.

“Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub.”

Mrs Deaves brought two children, Samantha and Alex, into the relationship after splitting from her former partner.

Mr Deaves admitted that he “initially” thought having sex with his daughter was wrong.

“Emotions take over, as people no doubt realise, there are times during your life where emotions do rule the heart, it rules the head,” he said.

“I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what.”

Mrs Deaves said the physical relationship with her father was like “a sexual relationship with any other man”.

For Mr Deaves the sexual relationship was “absolutely fantastic”.

A South Australian police media spokesman told AAP “the couple is being monitored”.

AAP

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