Rick Shriver, a Democrat running for Ohios 20th Senate District once sought revenge against a man who annoyed him on an airplane.
Shriver said he got home, went online and took up what amounted to a new hobby. He said he used the mans e-mail address (Howard Kochs, he said, is not his real name) to sign him up for every penis enlargement program that I could find.
He also signed the man up for myriad pornographic web sites.
This is the issue his Republican opponent wants to focus on.
Why does the silly public obsess over the sex lives of politicians when it is how they actually affect your lives that matter? One speculation is that what is now trivialization was once a survival trait.
Davis and other evolutionary psychologists argue that the reason John Edwards’s adultery has more zing in our heads than a dry policy dispute that could cost taxpayers billions of dollars is that the human brain evolved in a period where there were significant survival advantages to finding out the secrets of others. Since humans lived in small groups, the things you learned about other people’s character could tell you whom to trust when you were in a tight spot.
“We are continuing to navigate through the modern world with a Stone Age mind,” Davis said.
What about Jerry Springer?
Parents Television Council - folks with an agenda - claim that American television shows people getting more out of sex - including atypical sex - than wedlock.
Shocking, no?
As for references to pornography, sex toys and “kinky” behavior, those are now common on TV, the report said. Visual references to practices such as voyeurism and sadomasochistic sex outnumbered married-sex references by a ratio approaching 3 to 1.
A computer tech managed to use malware to take control of a teenaged girls computer and take a photo of her with her own webcam. He attempted to use the photograph to control her behavior. She chose to go to the police and has found himself going to jail.
“Most spyware is designed to steal your identity, your passwords or your banking information - but it is just as easy for hackers to program a Trojan horse to take over your webcam … “
Sad truth from a recently published study in Evolutionary Psychology:
… the researchers reasoned that since men are physically stronger and able to dominate women, men are more able to try to coerce an unwilling partner into staying with them, and sure enough, women in the study reported more stalking by their partner after they had broken off with him.
And:
Female dumpers were more likely than men to feel sad, confused and scared, while men giving their partner the heave were more likely to be happy or indifferent.
This is why I want to come back as Hugh Grant:
‘The frequent use of self-deprecating humor in sexual contexts - with potential mates, established mates or sexual rivals - was astonishing,’ he said. ‘People who used this humor were considered to be far more desirable as mates.’
Self-deprecating humor is the key to the English art of seduction, a psychological study reveals
Testosterone has all manner of automatic, unconscious effects on male behavior:
The rising levels may then fuel more visible changes in male behavior that occur in the presence of a woman, including a squaring of shoulders, an upright posture, and greater use of hands - and even, it is suggested, a flaring of the nostrils.
The rise in the male hormone may also be the reason why men are more likely to tell women exaggerated stories about their job, career, education and earnings, the researchers believe. The study, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior, involved 63 male students aged 21 to 25 who were not aware of the purpose of the study.
Supposedly she doesn’t have to be attractive nor interesting. We are just hormonal puppets.
Did music come into being just so our guy ancestors could impress our girl ancestors? Are songs ways of attracting groupies? Does this mean that women would have never created music on their own?
Miller proposes that back through the mists of evolutionary time, those of our male ancestors who were a bit more witty, could daub a bison on the cave wall or perhaps hum a nice tune got more mates, and over time creative abilities evolved as the men who were most artistic or musical had more children. At the same time, the preference for these abilities evolved and over the millennia our brains expanded to accommodate our growing creativity. Meanwhile, he says, women too were evolving creative abilities, because the ones that could entertain their men could keep them around to help raise the kids.
The initial preference for creativity could have come from the fact that only a high-quality man could have the time to spend on creating great music or nice pictures the rest would be too busy just surviving to think about knocking out a hit single.
Sexy science: Why music really is the way to a woman’s heart
The basic plot of Chuck Palahniuk’s prose work, Snuff:
His new novel sees 600 men lining up for the chance to have on-camera sex with Cassie Wright, an aging and suicidal porn star, in a giant gang-bang which everyone is sure will kill her (the aim is, no kidding, a vaginal embolism).
This is from an interesing essay consisting of very short reviews of fiction by men that is rooted in sexuality and gender: Sex and the male novelist
Only the most dim-brain toads try to use their capacity as drug store assistant manager (or whatever) to put the moves on a subordinate. At least here in America. In Russia it is permissible - legal - desirable - to make passes at your employees.
The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.
“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.
So much for marriage or just shacking up.
Since Soviet times, sexual harassment in Russia has become an accepted part of life in the office, work place and university lecture room.
Do you suppose someone is now planning to move to Russia with the goal of becoming manager of small town five and dime?
According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses …
Yep, I can see the guys now, going to buy a Russian dictionary and all excited at finally having discovered a fool-proof means of getting a women into bed.
Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed, Russian judge rules
An ancient paga festibal honoring Dionysus lives on in Greece:
If you want to eat phallus-shaped bread, drink through phallus-shaped straws from phallus-shaped cups, kiss ceramic phalluses, sit on a phallus-shaped throne and sing dirty Greek songs about the phallus, then you should visit the little Greek town of Tyrnavos each year on “Clean Monday.”
Is the quaint coinage of San Jose city councilman Pete Constant. Second hand porn is caused by people searching for adult content using public library computers. Mr. Constant views this with grave alarm.
And - perhaps envying the Chinese government - frets about what people my see while searching on Google. His solution is to impose a filter on searches.
A recemt demonstration:
With a satisfied look on his face, Constant queried “orgasm” into Google while the audience watched on three huge projection screens placed in the room. Then he tried “women’s asses,” then “bush tits”.
Ultrasound scanning answers the ancient question as to exactly what the penis is doing during heterosexual coitus:
[Robert Latou]Dickinson was eager to rebut claims being made that a man’s penis, during sex, drives straight on into the cervix and that the two interlock …
At the very least, the paper laid to rest the hokum about penises routinely interlocking with cervixes. Also, we learned that the penis - root and stalk together - “has the shape of a boomerang” during intercourse.
That older men and women were expected to not have sexual needs is just another proof that our society has imposed sexual trauma on millions of people:
Retirement homes have struggled to acknowledge senior sexuality. In the past, elderly people who were caught making out or even masturbating in their own beds were chided like naughty teenagers. That’s changing, with more private rooms, better training for staff members and more open discussions of intimacy and sexuality.
In Sweden a man claims he was unaccountably overcome by a desire to swipe a chocolate phallus:
I lost my head. I even had money with me. I dont know why I took the stuff, the 28-year-old said to the Gφteborgs-Posten newspaper.
In Sweden a man claims he was unaccountably overcome by a desire to swipe a chocolate phallus:
I lost my head. I even had money with me. I dont know why I took the stuff, the 28-year-old said to the Gφteborgs-Posten newspaper.
Even if you don’t believe in pure “freedom of speech” here’s one reason attempting to censor adult web sites is a bad idea:
From two in 2002, the number of governments filtering the net has risen to two dozen, according to Rob Faris, research director at the Berkman Center at Harvard and part of the OpenNet Initiative. Faris’s maps show that social filtering pornography, gambling is far more widespread than political filtering, but that the overlapping diagram of who filters what shows a lot of “mission creep”.
Foot fetishists must be about the most aggressive, addicted folks. Week after week retifists and stockings addicts appear in the news. They invade women’s privacy, sometimes even their homes.
The latest is a well-dressed man in Riverside California:
“It’s a nuisance at this point,” said Riverside police spokesman Steven Frasher. “Invading their space, acting weird. We’re not pre-supposing there are other incidents. But if there are, we want to know about them.”
Time for a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, which defines more or less the official list and descriptions of mental illness in the US.
Those of us with atypical behavior would probably all agree that:
… all paraphilias, like sexual sadism, sexual masochism, transvestism, should be removed from the DSM, insisting that the DSM criteria for diagnosis of unusual sexual interests as pathological rests on a series of unproven and more importantly, untested assumptions.
Controversy erupts over creation of psychiatric rule book’s new edition
HighJoy Products the makers of a vibrator designed to be used over the internet forget that for some people in person sex may not be an option.
“It’s just for fun. It’s not intended to replace sex. We feel that only losers or weird people would do that, whereas it’s the sexually adventurous, open people who are doing it,” she says.
Teledildonics are electronic sex toys that can be controlled via the Internet