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Fortunately, things have improved since the 18th century; no more than one in ten of my London friends are harlots. Then again, I don’t know any Tories…

Chris Blattman.

Stop all sex change operations now!

We don\’t need to cut and chop any more!

Hurrah!

\’I lost over half my body weight and found myself a man\’, says woman who shed 13 stone.

Just send everyone who wishes to change sex on a diet instead.

Snigger

An 18-year-old ran off with his (34 year old) stepmother after being reunited with his father for the first time since he was a baby, a court has heard.

Not sure what this tells us about modern Britain but it is interesting, no? I\’m not even sure why I find it amusing but I will admit that I do.

Giggles

Ahahahahahah:

The UK\’s biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country.

The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.

It is to laugh, no?

Everything, all this criminalising punters who rent a woman controlled for gain, Harry Harman\’s campaign, Julie Bindel, has all been based on lies. No, not just bad information, but ideologically driven lies.

It\’s worth reading the whole piece in full. Even when they used a wider definition of trafficking (ie, transport for prostitution with the agreement of those transported) they still didn\’t find anybody in Pentameter II.

There\’s also a fuller werite up of the story here.

It\’s by Nick Davies (Flat Earth News) of course and good on The Guardian for publishing it. For they\’ve been one of the worst papers in spreading the story themselves.

I simply cannot wait to see the coverage of this elsewhere. I\’ve been shouting about how the published figures were cock for ages: schadenfreude isn\’t pretty but it is enjoyable.

Stephen Gately and Jan Moir: apparently I\’m supposed to be outraged

I\’ve just had a Facebook request (no, I don\’t log into it) asking that the \”The Daily Mail should retract Jan Moir\’s hateful, homophobic article\”.

This one.

OK, it\’s a bit strong but…..I can imagine the same writer saying exactly the same things about someone who was in an open heterosexual relationship and then died in the same manner.

So, umm, \”homophobia\” I\’m not sure sticks. It\’s the \”shagging someone you\’re not married to while the person you are married to is dying on the sofa\” bit that seems to concern, not the implements or orifices that were being used to do the shagging.

And to claim that \”some homosexuals have open relationships therefore criticising open relationships is homophobia\” is simply nonsense.

Massive surprise!

A spokesman told The Sun: \”The UK had the longest time. We found no major difference in those who used condoms. But men who drank alcohol before sex tended to last longer.\”

Also, perhaps I should invest in a couple of Union Jack t shirts for those trips down to the nightlife?

British men have more stamina between the sheets than their foreign counterparts – lasting just 10 minutes,

Or maybe 10 minutes of beery breath is not quite what the ladies are after?

Quite Liz

This thought did cross my mind when I saw his comments:

Then up pops the mincing pantomime dame of couture to crush the hopes of the curvaceous. In an announcement that embodies perfectly the disdain the fashion industry has for real women, Karl Lagerfeld denounces critics of skinny models as \”fat, chip-eating mummies\” who are \”jealous\” of the stick-insects who stalk the cat walk. \”Nobody wants to see a round woman,\” he says. I think many real men would demur (not that Karl would know).

Why are we taking advice on whether men like to look at round women or not from a gay man?

Surely he\’s one who has a distinctly \”other\” view of the issue?

So here\’s a question for you

Steven Levitt has done an excellent paper about the economics of prostitution. It\’s included in the upcoming SuperFreakonomics. One conclusion is:

….having a pimp in Chicago actually boosts a prostitute’s earnings.

And we\’re just passing a law to make it illegal to have sex with a prostitute who has a pimp.

Why?

Amazing, eh?

NY Times front page.

Two-year-old Evan plays with his dads, Kevin Yoder, right, and Harvey Hurdle. From health care to family planning, life is more expensive for same-sex couples.

Amazing, truly. You mean a sexual partnership where they need to purchase gametes is going to be more expensive than one where one or other of the partners generates them for free?

Astonishing what you can find out in the newspapers.

Astonishing!

Sexual satisfaction keeps women in good health

Having a shag makes you feel better.

Ah:

according to a study that suggests improving the quality of sex could be key to wellbeing.

Having a good shag makes you feel better.

Absolutely amazing what scientists can find out these days, eh?

So, anyone need cheering up then?

One reason for marriage

He has already been married to Thobile Vilakazi for 12 years and has 11 children, but did not specify who their mothers are.

\”I want her to be happy,\” he said of Ms Vilakazi, who was given a golden wristwatch at Saturday\’s ceremony. \”I think getting married to her for the second time would make her happy since I will be taking in three other wives so this will relieve her in some way.\”

\”relieve her\”?

I can explain this

Researchers examining the link between sexual habits and alcohol consumption among 3,000 women found that half preferred sex after a tipple.

Women said alcohol helped them lose their inhibitions and become more adventurous between the sheets.

The study found that 75 per cent of women like to drink a glass of wine or two immediately before getting into bed with their husband or boyfriend.

Six per cent of women have never had sober sex, the survey revealed.

Just have a good look at the average British man…..

How odd

After graduating, Negar changed sex under Iran\’s Islamic laws which deem transsexuals religiously permissible, in contrast to the blanket ban on homosexuality, which is considered a sin.

Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other country apart from Thailand after the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, issued a religious fatwa approving the practice, which has government funding.

Slightly weird that the place which will hang someone for being gay has one of the most liberal sex change laws.

One problem with democracy

In 1952, he was convicted of \”gross indecency\” – in effect, tried for being gay. His sentence – and he was faced with the miserable choice of this or prison – was chemical castration by a series of injections of female hormones. He took his own life just two years later.

Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time, and we can\’t put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted, as he was convicted, under homophobic laws, were treated terribly. Over the years, millions more lived in fear in conviction.

All according to the law at the time and, if we are to believe those who state that democracy trumps all, all entirely righteous for such laws were enacted by those duly elected by the populace.

Of course, of course, we\’ve gone far beyond that now, such trumping of civil rights, of liberties, by democracy no longer happens.

Tell that to the guys who got four years for consensual homoerotic S&M.

Bongbong Marcos

So, a question.

The widow of Ferdinand Marcos disclosed last week that she is pushing her son Ferdinand Jr, 51, known as “Bongbong”, to stand for president next year.

He was educated at Worth, a Benedictine boarding school in West Sussex.

I remember, when I was at the prep school there, seeing the limo coming to take him off for a weekend exeat or half term or some such. Whether Ma and Pa were in the back I don\’t know although I was told they were.

Anyway, on to the question.

If elected would he be the first head of state to have been educated at an English Catholic (err, yes, specifying Roman, not the Apostolic etc claim of the CoE) school since the Reformation?

The Tudors and Stuarts weren\’t educated at schools and we\’ve not had a Catholic HoS since then (neatly leaving aside all the arguments about whether Charles I, or II, or James II were in fact Papists). Then there were no Catholic schools in England until what, 1837 and the Emancipation (maybe earlier?)?

I doubt very much if any member of any other Royal Family who has ascended the throne was educated in England which leaves elected Presidents and the like since around 1850 or so.

So, anyone any idea?

Ah, looking it up I see that Ampleforth has already had a Grand Duke of Luxembourg and a King of Lesotho. So how about elected heads of state?

This is not porn

On the new Swedish Government funded porn film, \”Dirty Diaries\”:

Cissi Elwin Frenkel, a spokesman for the Swedish Film Institute – the government body that backed the film – insisted that it was not \”regular porn\”. \”Everyone in the films is over the age of 18, no one is doing anything against their will, everyone shares equally in the money from the films,\” she said. \”All of this makes Mia Engberg\’s project different from regular porn in many ways.\”

Yes, it\’s still pictures of people fucking and sucking but if it\’s done by a worker\’s cooperative then that\’s different you see.

I have to admit that I\’ve never quite grasped this point: a can of baked beans from Waitrose is a can of baked beans from a worker\’s cooperative while a can of baked beans from Sainsbury\’s is one from the capitalist patriarchy.

Still a can of baked beans.

Oh, and quite why using £40,000 of tha taxpayers\’ money as a grub stake is different from using £40,000 from a capitalist entrepreneur makes any difference to the baked beanness of the can of baked beans I\’m not sure either.

It\’s still a can of baked beans.

Veronica Berlusconi

Sorry, I just find this very amusing. And amusingly done as well:

But it’s a bit rich for Veronica to be getting on her high horse. Whenever she emotes about her husband “consorting with minors” — insofar as you can register emotion with a face that has been as surgically enhanced as hers — you can’t help thinking that it serves her right.

She was not the first Signora Berlusconi. Silvio was happily married with two children to Carla Elvira Dall’Oglio when he encountered Veronica. She was acting in a play that required her to go topless for artistic purposes. By the time Berlusconi divorced Carla in 1985, he and Veronica had three children.

In short, it’s a little over the top for Veronica to complain now that Mr B is an adulterer. If he weren’t, she wouldn’t be in her present position.