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Sex Better Than Marriage : At Least on TV (Research Shocker!)

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?

When ever any group does this kind of counting it needs to be audited by someone with no vested interest in the outcome.

Sex generally is fun - in or out of marriage - this simply is true.

Marriages generally don’t last. That has been clear for some time. Especially since the economic incentive for women to endure life with a lout vanished.

Many of us enjoy sexual self-expression that doesn’t match what are imagined to be the norms and are glad to see TV in the US reflect that.

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.

Sex beats marriage on network TV, study shows

Richard Evans Lee
August 06, 2008 • Permalink • Leave a comment • Top↑ • TrackBacks (0)

Spied On By Your Own Webcam

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 … “

Webcam hacker-ogler jailed for four years

Richard Evans Lee
August 05, 2008 • Permalink • Leave a comment • Top↑ • TrackBacks (0)

Gender and Break-ups

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.

Breaking up is less hard to do with a new hairdo

Richard Evans Lee
August 05, 2008 • Permalink • Leave a comment • Top↑ • TrackBacks (0)

Seductive Self-deprecation

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

Richard Evans Lee
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Hormonal Puppets

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.

Male lust is blind, research suggests

Richard Evans Lee
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Why Rock Stars Get the Girl

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

Richard Evans Lee
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Vaginal Embolism

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

Richard Evans Lee
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Sexual Harassment Legal

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

Richard Evans Lee
August 04, 2008 • Permalink • Leave a comment • Top↑ • TrackBacks (0)

Happy Penis Day

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.”

The Annual Phallus Festival in Greece

Richard Evans Lee
June 04, 2008 • Permalink • Leave a comment • Top↑ • TrackBacks (0)

Second Hand Porn

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”.

City’s libraries oppose filters

Richard Evans Lee
June 02, 2008 • Permalink • Leave a comment • Top↑ • TrackBacks (0)

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