Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex“.
Merriam Webster’s 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the “sexually graphic” entry is “just not age appropriate”, according to the area’s local paper.
The dictionary’s online definition of the term is “oral stimulation of the genitals”. “It’s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we’ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature,” district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.
While some parents have praised the move – “[it's] a prestigious dictionary that’s used in the Riverside County spelling bee, but I also imagine there are words in there of concern,” said Randy Freeman – others have raised concerns. “It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground,” father Jason Rogers told local press. “You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina?”
A panel is now reviewing whether the Menifee ban will be made permanent. The Merriam Webster dictionary joins an illustrious set of books that have been banned or challenged in the US, including Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, which last year was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a Michigan school after complaints from parents about its coverage of graphic sex and violence, and titles by Khaled Hosseini and Philip Pullman, included in the American Library Association’s list of books that inspired most complaints last year.
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According to Scientific American magazine, more than 90 percent of people lie in their online dating profiles. Women in their 20s and 30s slyly deduct anywhere from five to 20 lbs. from their weight, while men tend to lie about income, education level and, yes, relationship status. Yikes.
Here, we count the ways regular folks get creative while creating sexier versions of themselves online.
FIB #1: “I’m slim and petite” or “Tall and well-built”
Translation: “I was slim and petite or tall and well-built 15 years ago. I haven’t accepted the fact that I’m no longer a skinny, sexy young thing, and I know that potential dates won’t accept it either, so I take liberties with my self-description and hope you won’t notice the additional 20+ lbs. of jelly I’ve accumulated since the days when my profile photos were taken.”
FIB #2: “I’m tall, dark and handsome.”
Translation: “I’m average in height, looks and style. Simply … average. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Yup — according to Medical News Today, 52.6 percent of men lie about their height online; 39 percent of women do the same. So if you’re expecting someone tall, dark and handsome, think again. When it comes to internet dating, you’re lucky if your date shows up with a couple of hands and a tongue.
FIB #3: “I’m 29.”
Translation: “I’m an old pro at sites like these, and I know that lowering my age to under-30 will help me turn up in more people’s searches. In reality, I’m getting really effing sick of not having any effing luck on these effing websites and, oh yeah, I’m anywhere between the ages of 35 and 50.”
FIB #4: “As the CEO of a successful internet start-up, I enjoy the finer things in life.”
Translation: “As the founder of a bare-bones mail order business that I run out of my mother’s basement, I enjoy spending every waking second of my time on the internet, watching porn, gambling, and living vicariously through my avatar on SecondLife.com.”
FIB #5: “I’m sensitive, smart and funny.”
Translation: “I’m hyper-sensitive, a pretentious wannabe-intellectual and I just might have Tourette’s syndrome, which makes people laugh sometimes. DICKWEED!”
FIB #6: “I make more than $250,000 per year.”
Translation: “I have grandiose fantasies of winning the lottery or striking gold with an internet porn empire … but for now, to make ends meet, I’m your friendly neighborhood manager at Walgreens.”
Salary is one of the biggest things people — especially men — lie about in their profiles. According to Scientific American, men claiming incomes of more than $250,000 got 151 percent more replies than men claiming incomes less than $50,000. Ugh.
FIB #7: “I’m not big on playing games.”
Translation: “I am utterly, unfortunately devoid of ‘edge.’ My lack of sarcasm will astound you. I pride myself on being a good guy/girl, but I’ve been screwed around by prior partners who couldn’t decide whether the sex was decent enough to continue dating earnest little ol’ me. Now I make sure to let everybody and their mother know that I DON’T PLAY MIND GAMES. Never ever ever.”
FIB #8: “I can’t wait to meet you!”
Translation: “I can’t wait to scope you out in person to see whether you’re worth having sex with—or, at least, determine whether you look anything even remotely like that foxy photo you posted of yourself.”
FIB #9: “I just got out of a long relationship, so I’m mainly looking for friends right now.”
Translation: “Having just escaped a bitter, years-long romantic war, I am damaged goods, and I can’t deal with anything more serious than frenzied sexual escapades to help me temporarily forget my misery. But I know that my chances of getting laid will plummet if I indicate that I’m only interested in slutting it up, so I’ll just say that I’m looking for friendship only.”
FIB #10: “My interests include good wine, live music and fine dining.”
Translation: “I have a well-groomed goatee and I like dancing to cheesy techno at Eurotrash clubs. I love having dates buy my dinner. Oh, and I also really like getting hammered. Shots all around! Take off your top!”
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WASHINGTON — The pioneer of media sex therapists, Dr Ruth Westheimer, has teamed up with the city of Washington to promote a 28-day romance stimulus plan for the US capital.
“The word stimulus is a dream. It has something arousing,” Westheimer, who is better known under as Dr Ruth, said at a press conference to announce the partnership.
Dr Ruth will serve as honorary US Secretary of Love and Relations during the month of February — the month of Valentine’s Day — with the brief to “jump-start the District’s love economy.”
Around 16 million tourists, including 1.5 million from abroad, visit Washington every year — but few head to the US capital for a romantic get-away.
In fact, Washington ranked second to last out of 30 US cities that visitors think of as romantic destinations, according to an annual poll to find America’s favorite cities.
Throughout February, Washington will put a new, lovey-dovey spin on its monuments, museums and restaurants.
Couples are being offered 20 percent off the entrance fee at Madame Tussaud’s museum in the US capital, and a two-for-the-price-of-one offer during the week of Valentine’s Day — February 14 — at the news-orientated Newseum.
Born Karola Ruth Siegel in Germany in 1928, Dr. Ruth was sent to a children’s home in Switzerland at the age of 10 to escape the Holocaust.
At 17, she went to Israel, and later moved to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten.
She emigrated to the United States in 1956 and obtained a masters degree in sociology from the New School of Social Research in New York, a doctorate of education from Columbia University, and later studied human sexuality at Cornell University.
In 1980, she started a 15-minute radio program in New York called Sexually Speaking. A year later, the show had grown to an hour-long live show.
Dr Ruth has now appeared on television, has her own website, and even an iPhone app that says sex-related words in the doctor’s distinctive European accent.
Her message to Washington locals and visitors in February was to get out and do something in the city.
“Do something for Valentine’s Day, go to the museum, take the risk to talk to someone. At least you know one thing: this person is not a couch potato,” she said.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Last night’s episode of “The Real World: DC,” which, thus far, isn’t living up to our high expectations (which were probably higher than they should have been, but I digress), was the show’s token weight issues episode. Ty—who has managed to confuse “honest” with “completely dickish”—told bubbly, blonde workout freak Callie that she wasn’t skinny enough to be a Playboy model. And then she cried. A lot. And I don’t blame her, as it’s totally crappy when you’re told you’re not BLANK enough to be BLANK. But seriously, it’s a sad day in the universe when one girl’s self-worth is deeply wounded because she’s not “skinny” (or plastic) enough to take her clothes off for a no longer relevant magazine run by a Peter Pan in diapers. Clip above.
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The Sword has the scoop on Raging Stallion’s one-of-a-kind deal with a mainstream distrubution company to rework Focus/Refocus into a dysfunctional family-friendly R-rated DVD.
In a press release set to go public in a few hours, Raging Stallion announces their new partnership with a mainstream retailer called Breaking Glass Pictures. The non-hardcore cut of Focus/Refocus, which will be released on DVD on March 30th, marks the studio’s first mainstream cross-over, and it comes at a time when everybody is saying that story-driven porn is a thing of the past. But Tony DiMarco, who directed most of the non-hardcore scenes in Focus/Refocus, has always believed that the power of the plot is just as strong as the power of the cock.
I for one will continue fast-forwarding through the talky scenes in between the sex scenes, but it’s still a delight to see a few members of our humble porn industry family get included in a line-up of gay indie films.
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You can’t escape them.
Fangs are everywhere these days, hoping you’ll also want a taste of the bloodthirsty fervor that has gripped the nation.
Between the best-selling books-turned-movies “Twilight Saga,” HBO’s wildly popular “True Blood,” and the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” vampires have become a serious pop culture obsession.
“New Moon,” the second installment of the “Twilight Saga,” hits theaters this weekend, and it literally has teens and adults all over the world lusting after the movie’s lead vampire, Edward Cullen (played by British heartthrob Robert Pattinson).
So why have these folkloric creatures made such an amazing comeback? In two words: vampire sex.
They’re hot.
When “Dracula” was produced on stage in 1924, Bela Lugosi made vampires irresistibly handsome for modernity. But beyond hot bodies and good looks, it’s the male vampire’s depiction as the James Dean of Goth that holds the greatest appeal.
In desperate need of rehabilitation, these rebels are far from pure in thought and deed. Women can’t help but be drawn to these mesmerizing, misunderstood, moody bad boys.
Vampires are made all the more seductive because these soulless seducers with superpowers act as her protector, and they have the propensity to do good. Their story is usually as follows: she’s trying to “save” him, yet he gives her an excuse to be bad.
She has someone to blame for being so naughty, especially when it comes to her sexual desire.
They’re kinky.
Vampires became noticeably sexual with the start of the modern vampire era about 200 years ago. Yet vampire depictions throughout the centuries have involved subtle storylines of sexual deviants flirting with fetishes, for a killer mix of sex, romance, and violence. Since the 1950s, stories have become more overtly “sexplicit,” with more recent movies and TV shows depicting or alluding to frenzied, frantic sex with aggressive appeal, which brings us to the next point about vampire appeal.
They’re into S&M.
Vampires like it rough. They like to bite. And their victims love the bites, scratches and handcuffs as depicted in shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
Sometimes sadomasochists attract what are known as “fang bangers” (a term frequently used in “True Blood”), people who have a thing for manhandle-me vampire sex role playing. The bondage, domination and submission themes mixed with “true love” are perfect reason for stripping off your scarf or turtleneck.
They scare us.
There’s something about feeling spooked that gets humans going. People get in touch with their primal side, including the fear of death, at the thought of coming across a vampire. The dangerous lust of a vampire torn between staying in control with every lick of his prey revs up your body much like sexual response. And it’s delicious.
They tease us.
A number of scenes in vampire literature and on the screen only imply sex, with kink or lesbianism mostly alluded to. Audiences are left to assume that there was some sex, and while they’d love to see more, the pay off of is that their imaginations go wild.
This is especially true with scripts like “Twilight,” whose stars heat up the screen with sexual tension, only to remain abstinent. Viewers thrive off of every episode filling them with sexual desires that only go unfulfilled. Still, there’s hope that maybe later on in the story they’ll take it all the way.
Ultimately, vampire sex is more about seduction and the thrill of the passion potential portrayed.
They always do the walk of shame.
And it has to happen before dawn. There’s no “morning after” to deal with, which holds huge appeal for some.
They make us beg.
When it comes to longing and lust, we love being preyed upon. Vampires go for one of our most sensitive erogenous zones, the neck, becoming even more magnetic as their victims most beg for life, for death, for sex.
They never die.
They’re not totally dead. They’re not totally alive. And they’re not totally human for that matter. These above the law creatures impressively defy all reality. We’re intrigued that these super-beings are more powerful than we’ll ever be.
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Los Angeles, CA — Award winning female performer Bobbi Starr established herself as one of the adult’s A-listers working in gonzo entertainment — but Starr’s appeal proves that it’s broader than hardcore video with a nomination in Wired’s Sexy Geeks 2009.
The nominees include notable personalities including actress and singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” regular Alyson Hannigan, “The Guild” creator and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” star Felicia Day and Danica McKellar, doctor of mathematics and formerly Winnie Cooper on “The Wonder Years.” Digg.com founder Kevin Rose, “The Venture Bros.” creator Doc Hammer and David Tennant, the tenth Doctor Who, are also featured among the nominees.
“This is one of the most exciting awards I’ve ever been up for,” Starr, a former concert oboist featured in the Nercore 2010 calendar and on gamer blog Kotaku.com, said. “The other nominees on this list are amazing and I’m in awe to be in their company.”
To vote for Starr, visit http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/sexy-geeks-2009
Follow Bobbi Starr on Twitter at twitter.com/Bobbistarr and her blog on Popporn.com, updated every Friday.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Truth be told, this is no video. This is Durex’s tribute to the sweet and strange sounds of success.
Why would Durex use this advertisement to sell condoms in China? We’re not sure. Maybe they’re trying to embed subliminal links between condom use and multiple orgasms. Or, more realistically, they’re giving the public the sex they want without running into censorship issues (yet). Either way, everyone can appreciate a quick sampler of orgasms (even if we’re most comfortable with “American style”).
· Durex China: Enjoy moaning (adsoftheworld.com)
· Durex (durex.com)
· Unrelated audiophile pic via Little Liana (galleries.littleliana.com)
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The Frisky reports:
Nooooo! Famously never-married couple, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, have split up after 23 years together, her publicist has confirmed.
Sarandon and Robbins met on the set of “Bull Durham,” and, despite a 12-year age difference, had a long relationship and two sons together. (Sarandon’s daughter, Eva Amurri, is from a past relationship.) The split actually occurred over the summer, her publicist explained, but I guess no one noticed until now. [People]
Oh my stars. If Susan Sarandon can’t make a relationship work, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Maddy’s note: Maybe now she can track down Rocky again… gotta look on the bright side somehow, right?
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The Frisky has compiled a list of “21 Sexy Christmas Gifts That’ll Gross You Out.” How about some musical Christmas-themed boxers or a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Penis reindeer thong for the man in your life? I have to say, though, I would LOVE an “I Rub My Duckie” rubber duckie vibrator Christmas tree ornament! I don’t see what’s gross about half of these things, actually, but then I see lots of kinky stuff that would blow most people’s minds in putting together this blog. OK, the gaudy holiday sweater for 200 bucks from Ralph Lauren truly IS perverse, I will admit, and I’m not sure who would want an ornament featuring Santa with his pants down to show off his thong underwear. And if you, too, would like your own boob ornament, the article includes links to buy everything. Helpful!
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Here is an excerpt from an interview with butch/genderqueer performer Jiz Lee.
Jiz Lee exudes three things not frequently associated in tandem — sex appeal, brains, and sweetness — and copiously at that. High of cheekbone and strong of jaw, with a slinky frame and a startling, beautiful ethnic ambiguity, Jiz Lee has a face and name you don’t forget upon encountering. She walks the line between coquettish charm and full-on bravado, and in this she succeeds, exhibited tellingly by the opening line of the biography portion of her personal website: “With an ejaculation scene that knocked the concept of the facial cumshot on its ass, Jiz Lee unloaded into the revolutionary world of queer porn cinema.”
With degrees in dance and theater arts, Jiz Lee’s performance career began well before she started removing her garments on camera. Happily for her fans, she began to perform in queer porn while still remaining active in the local dance community, and she’s capably straddled both worlds ever since. I ran into Jiz in excess of five times before gathering my wits about to coherently request an interview, but I finally managed it. We emailed back and forth a few weeks ago and discussed her work as an adult performer, an artist, and a sex-positive activist.
SFBG: So, Jiz, what’s your back-story? What brought you to San Francisco and what led you to start performing in queer porn?
JL: I moved to the SF Bay Area from Hawai`i in 1999 to attend Mills College. My interests for a major were between experimental music (I was 1st chair French Horn throughout school and was part of the Select Band which toured the state. Band Geek!), in high school I had also performed in dramatic plays, and I was also in the Ensemble, the top level of dance which gave concerts regularly and through which I was able to take masterclass with well-known choreographers. (My background in dance began with Hula Auana and some Hula Kahiko and Tahitian which I performed with a Hula Halau and then in high school studied Limón modern dance technique and musical theater. I ended up finishing college with a B.A. in Dance and a minor in Theater Arts, along with a well-rounded liberal arts education that included Women/Gender Studies, and Queer Studies.
After graduation and working with several dance companies and non-profits, I began to feel the burn out. One of the festivals I produced lead me to meet Shawn, who now goes by Syd Blakovich. Syd told me about Shine Louise Houston’s new queer porn company Pink & White Productions, and asked if I were interested in shooting. I had become very comfortable with my naked body, particularly after touring with a modern dance troupe in a naked performance. I was also comfortable with my sexuality. I had seen “Please Dont Stop” “Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels” and Sex, Flesh in Blood”, however at the time there weren’t any porn opportunities available to me that I knew about until I met Shine, who’s first film was “The Crash Pad” and it’s all history from there.
I’ve since appeared in all of Shine’s feature films as well as her website, each of which has been awarded a Feminist Porn Award (in Toronto), the most recent being Champion which won Movie of the Year. I have also performed for Madison Young, and for Courtney Trouble who has run her queer company No Fauxxx for several years. Most recently I had the chance to work with Belladonna, a performer who was an inspiration to me when I first saw her work — she was the only pornstar I had seen with a shaved head. She’s athletic and a great performer and she’s very queer to me. “Strapped Dykes” releases soon and I was both honored to be a part of it, and thrilled about the rise of butch/genderqueer visibility in porn with casting of performers like myself.
Click here to read the full interview.
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I thought this might make all you girls feel a little bit better… I know it made me smile a little.
This year’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show brought together balloons, lace, fake fur, thigh high boots…oh, and a $3 million, diamond-encrusted bra. But how do the models manage to look so perfect wearing next-to-nothing on the catwalk? Simple: Butt makeup.
One Angel, Selita Ebanks told the New York Daily News: “It’s all about creating the illusion of this amazing body on the runway. People don’t realize that there are about 20 layers of makeup on my butt alone.”
Ebanks said the body makeup takes an hour to apply, plus hair and face makeup, which takes three to five hours. An average of five people works on each of the 38 models.
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The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award was inaugurated by Auberon Waugh in 1993 to ‘draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it’. The prize is not intended to cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature, and is limited to the literary novel.
This year has seen a bountiful crop of passages, and the judges at Literary Review have whittled them down to a shortlist that contains both acclaimed authors and promising newcomers. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on Monday 25th November. This year’s nominees are:
Paul Theroux A Dead Hand (Hamish Hamilton)
Nick Cave The Death of Bunny Munro (Canongate)
Philip Roth The Humbling (Jonathan Cape)
Jonathan Littell The Kindly Ones (Chatto & Windus)
Amos Oz Rhyming Life and Death (Chatto & Windus)
John Banville The Infinities (Picador)
Anthony Quinn The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape)
Simon Van Booy Love Begins in Winter (Beautiful Books)
Sanjida O’Connell The Naked Name of Love (John Murray)
Richard Milward Ten Storey Love Song (Faber & Faber)
Read the SHORTLISTED PASSAGES
Read some of the winning passages from PREVIOUS YEARS
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Oprah Winfrey has a surprising project in the works. Her Harpo Films has made a deal with HBO to team on a sexually charged hourlong series pilot about a woman who leaves her seemingly perfect marriage and children in Santa Monica for the underbelly of L.A., where she indulges her secret fantasies and desires.
Pilot is being written by Erin Cressida Wilson, best known for writing 2002 indie pic “Secretary,” which starred James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal film in the story of a boss-secretary relationship that veers into S&M.
Winfrey and Harpo Films president Kate Forte will be executive producers along with Wilson.
The pilot is a high priority at the pay web. The idea was hatched by Forte, who pitched it to HBO prexy Sue Naegle right after Harpo made a deal to generate series and miniseries.
“It is unsentimental and pretty shocking, and there is something complicated and destructive driving her,” Forte said. “It is literally a day at the pool, where she gets up, in sarong and flip-flops, and walks out of her life, leaving everyone behind so abruptly that her husband and kids initially think she’s been kidnapped or murdered.”
Harpo Films previously set at HBO “Ida Tarbell,” a miniseries about the true-life muckraking journalist who helped expose the unfair practices of John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil monopoly.
On the film side, Harpo Films is producing for Focus Features a Sam Mendes-directed adaptation of the Joseph O’Neill novel “Netherland” and is partnered with Playtone for an adaptation of the David Wroblewski novel “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” at Universal.
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So much for Levi Johnston’s “aspiring porn career” that Sarah Palin made a snide comment about to Oprah on Monday.
The word is out that Levi, father of Palin’s grandson, did not, in fact, go full frontal in his Playgirl photo shoot.
Says Playgirl spokesman Daniel Nardicio: “He did not give ‘full-frontal’ as his manager Tank Jones reported he would.
“We’re thrilled with the photos we got, and are confident people will love them. Although there may be glimpses, we did not get full on frontal nudity.”
Disappointed?
Not Levi. He reportedly got paid more than $100,000 for this “glimpse” of his hockey stick.
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Is this American Idol approved?
And now, the pictures that people are talking about today – Adam Lambert’s photo spread in Details magazine.
The question posed by the accompanying article, written by Nancy Jo Sales, is this: Why does every woman in America want to sleep with the American Idol?
I WAS going to suggest that Kansas City women aren’t that hot for Adam, until I read the first few sentences of the story.
My mistake.
“They started throwing the bras in Tacoma. That was the second night of the American Idols Live Tour. More flew in San Diego, Kansas City, and D.C.
“There were lacy, flowery bras and perky, polka-dotted bras, and the one that’s currently dangling directly over Adam Lambert’s head—a spongy E–cup on which some ardent fan has scrawled the initials A.L. over each giant boob.”
Maddy’s note: Oh yes, count me as one of those women, even if he does have a boyfriend.
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