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Shocking But True ~ Some Good Advice!!
25 March, 2008

How to get girls frm orkut

How to get girls frm orkut
I hv noticed many times that girls on orkut start a small conversation through scraps,add you as friends and then after a day or two they stop scrapping and also replying to yr scraps.


They are INTERNET TIME WASTERS.

Plus geography is a killer when it comes to dating. Only date someone who lives within a 35 mile radius from you (Or is planning to move to your city). This is written in stone. Why? It's ineffecient.

You spend months or years talking online, than you meet face to face and realize - she realizes you are not her type physically. Or she meets someone in her town, falls in love with him, and you wasted all that time chatting.

Because until you met face to face(!); in person (!) you haven't passed physical attraction test. And until you pass the physical attraction test, nothing REALLLY starts.

So if you do use the internet, first of all she has to live in your town, secondly after four or five e-mails she has to be willing to meet for coffee. And at the end of a short coffee date you ask her for her home phone number to test her Interest Level. But if she is not ready after a few e-mails/scraps to meet in person, she is just an INTERNET TIME WASTER, and is not looking for a date, just to screw with people's brains online.

WHich is OK if you got no life. We are all part of the hypocricy...

wait 3 days before responding to her message. usually you wait 5 – 9 days to call but this is internet so you wait 3 days to message/scrap back. no chatting!

don’t give too much personal information on your profile.

just say girls like your sense of humor, you are a confident guy. if you give too much info – you are an open book. if she knows everything about you, she wouldn’t want to meet you for the coffee date, get it?

have some real pics on your profile taken by a professional photographer. 3 pics on different locations is enough. one formal one wearing a suit.

keep the messages short, sweet and funny. you can tell if she is interested by how long her replies are. if she gives monosyllabic replies she is not interested. if she gives long replies and tries to help you, and plays along with your jokes, she is interested. but of course none of it counts until you meet face to face. you may not be her type physically. after 3 – 4 messages, you ask for her home phone number, but its ok for her to refuse, because she hasn’t met you in person yet. than you ask her to meet you for coffee. give her directions to the place and the phone number of the place in case she gets lost. you spend 30 minutes bantering with her, than you ask her for her home phone number again.

if after 4 – 5 messages she is not ready to meet in person, she is just an internet time waster. move on to a new adventure.

try to line up 2 – 3 consecutive coffee dates in a row with different girls from the internet in the same shop. this way you don’t waste your time getting there for just one girl.

HER INTERESTS usually you have to fish for that stuff. here you got that information right on her profile! dooh! but make sure you keep it funny and light, stay off the heavy subjects (politics, religion, sex, race)

Fun Stuff ~ Continues!!
25 March, 2008

The toothed vagina myth

March 15, 2008

It’s black humour and terror film directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. It was released in 2007 in Sundance’s festival. The movie Hill be released this year and is about the idea of making real the urban myth of the “toothed vagina”.

The movie treats about a virgin girl who discovers that in her body there is something different. Her vagina possesses teeth and this will gives her an advantage when she turns into a victim f the masculine violence. The protagonist soon Hill Start repudiating men and taking advantage of her physical difference to attack them.
The “toothed vagina” is a classic mythological symbol of men’s fear of sex. It appears in the mythology of countless cultures and societies down through the years. Looking into, entering the female orifice seems fraught with hidden fears, signified by the confusion of sex with death in overwhelming numbers of male minds.

Tariler here 

Category: Erika Lust — Erika @ 8:18 pm

We are shooting again!

March 11, 2008

 

We are about to finish a new LUST FILMS production. We will tell you more soon, because now we are very busy with the last days in the studio. It’s a minimalistic documentary, where six people show us their intimacy, including their true personality and their real orgasms. It a project in collaboration with  La Maleta Roja, Late Chocolate and Jailhousefuck. More pictures and trailer coming up in a few days.

Category: Erika Lust, News — Erika @ 10:46 pm

FIVE HOT STORIES IN HOT MOVIES

March 10, 2008

At last our movie FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER is available in the Pay Per View Theater of HOT MOVIES FOR HER

Here you can read the five texts that HOT MOVIES FOR HER’s reviewers have written about the movie.

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We’ve decided to do something a little different because we are totally in love with Erika Lust’s latest movie, Five Hot Stories For Her. Instead of trying to cram all of our praise into one little review, we’re going to review each scene individually every Monday for the next 5 weeks. Since I won the jello wrestling competition, I get to go first!

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Category: Erika Lust, News — Erika @ 9:25 pm

21 erotic stories for women

Violet Blue, sex writer, has recently published Best women’s sex 2008. This is her third volume and there are 21 steamy erotic stories where women are the protagonists. Nevertheless, Erotica Readers and Writers Association has said that “These stories aren’t only erotic—they’re also enjoyable for their strong characterization and clever narrative devices. Sex is different for each of us with every experience. This anthology is a glorious celebration of all those wonderful and warming differences.”


Violet Blues is a good friend and sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and is also the bestselling author of seven books on sex and sexuality. She also writes about erotica, pornography, and sexual pleasure and health for various magazines, and she is a trained sex educator in Berkley University.

Category: Erika Lust — Erika @ 6:15 am

Award in CineKink NYC

March 5, 2008

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The short movie “Something About Nadia”, one of the five stories contained in “Five Hot Stories For Her” has been awarded with “Honorable Best Mention” in the CineKink NYC Festival 2008.

About cinekink

Founded in 2002, CineKink is an organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality and kink in film and television, most visibly through its annual film festival, CineKink NYC.

Featuring a specially-selected program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, with offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented at CineKink NYC range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn and everything in between.

In addition to screenings, the annual festival also includes a short film competition, audience choice awards, presentations, parties and a gala kick-off fundraiser, all followed by a national screening tour.

Category: Erika Lust, News — Erika @ 9:36 am

We need more Diablos

March 4, 2008

I admire Diablo Cody, she is only 29 and she just won a Oscar for Best Script for JUNO, an amazing movie, written by an amazing woman. We really noeed more like you Diablo.

Here the trailer of JUNO:

Category: Erika Lust — Erika @ 4:07 pm

BAD LUCK BETTIES

February 27, 2008

A new VIVID ALT movie,  the alt-punk-indie label of Vivid.

When four aspiring starlets find themselves in the seedy underbelly of show business, their drams of stardom turn into a living hell. Once deemed damaged goods, they end up fending for themselves in the margins of society.

Now hardened, restless and with an insatiable appetite for revenge and ultra violence, they take control of Transaction Junction, the main intersection used by the purveyors of vice to supply Hollywood s demand for contraband.

Their lucrative racket is at ris when the completion of the freeway bypass threatens to take away their control of their Hollywood connection.

No one gets in or out without paying their dues!!

And on top of all, the movie has an amazing soundtrack, look:

THE GOOMEN -Damn Good ‘n’ Ready
FIRECRACKERS - Break Out
THE TIJUANA BIBLES - Big Belt Buckle
CHUY AND THE BOBCATS - Hard Headed Homan
GISELLE,LUIS ARRIAGA - Baby Please Don’t Go
GISELLE - Chills And Fever
SANTOS - You Gotta Move
LUIS ARRIAGA - Wild In The Heat
LUIS ARRIAGA - Hammond jam
LUIS ARRIAGA - A Bailar
CANDYCRASH - Heartbreaker

More info here vividalt.com

Trailer here

Category: Erika Lust — Erika @ 6:23 pm

Goliath Books

February 23, 2008

Within almost ten years in business Goliath, now located in Berlin, has established itself as a highly acclaimed international publisher of diverse and often daring photography and art books unafraid to introduce controversial, erotic and subcultural perspectives to modern life.

It all started with a photo book about the UFO phenomenon. This was way back in 1997 in New York. Goliath had finally landed. Ever since then Goliath has been fighting to make the world a visually better one with publishing books about The Sexy, The Weird And The Extraordinary.

They don’t believe in pornography, but in fun and art – and of course in good photography. Boredom is the first cardinal sin. This explains why they never specialize, but have a wide interest in challenging perspectives and visual entertainment.

Amongst their illustrious society of artists are names like the north-american subculture documentalist Charles Gatewood, renowed erotic photographer and punk-rocker Dave Naz, the Belgian artist Pierre Radisic, rock photographer legend Derek Ridgers, gender provocateur and chronicler of the industrial and goth culture Fred Berger, artist and photographer Paul Smith, many talented amateur photographers with a fresh view on girls and life, hemp-activist Rob Griffin, alternative sex’n’punk photographer The Lovely Brenda from New York, retro pin-up specialist Octavio Arizala or fetish fashion photographer Emma Delves-Broughton – to name just a few.

Goliath’s variety couldn’t be broadlier based. They often get asked, if Goliath is an “erotic publisher”. “It’s a yes and no. Yes, we like it naked, who doesn’t? No, we publish art. Who says art is not allowed to be naked? But it is not all about the bare naked truths. Our photographers are creative, often multitasking artists with a sixth sense for style, zeitgeist, new visual concepts and the unconventional. At Goliath books we are deeply committed to high standards in production and design as well as to the high artistic quality of our publications. Our latest brainchild is the stock agency Goliathimages.com to help to spread and promote the good photography and art to a publishing world that is full of clichés about the definition of “erotic”. And that’s the mission we are on.”

GOLIATH BOOKS here

Category: Erika Lust — Erika @ 8:30 am

Generation P

February 21, 2008

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Never before have pornography and sexualized material been so readily available and pervasive in young people’s everyday life. TV programmes, advertising, and the music industry exploit and play with pornographic codes and scenarios. The sex industry launches and promotes its products via youth channels and websites.
How do young people navigate through this pornographic landscape? Does the omnipresence of pornography breed curiosity or resistance? How does pornography challenge the role of parents and teachers?

Generation P? provides answers to these questions and presents a unique body of new research on youth, gender and pornography. The study shows that the vast majority of young people in the Nordic countries have seen porn. But young people do not swallow the pornographic messages without resistance, and some are very critical of or actively opposed to them.

It is very seldom that the voices of young people are heard in the public debate on pornography. In Generation P? focus is set on the voices, definitions and experiences with pornography of young people themselves.

The book contains contributions from leading researchers from different academic fields: sociology, psychology, media research, social work and public health.

The book is published by the Danish School of Education Press and my good freind Anne Sabo has written really nice words about my last movie FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER.

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Category: Erika Lust, News — Erika @ 8:41 am

Isabella Rossellini’s ‘Green Pornos’

February 15, 2008

Isabella Rossellini’s short film series “Green Pornos” is probably one of the most talked-about movies at this year’s Berlinale film festival. The actress and director plays eight different insects in the 8 one-minute episodes of “Green Porno,” a series made for mobile phones.

The film has the look of puppet theater, with its sets and costumes made from material and paper. For example, Rossellini dresses up in a green tube to play the role of the dragonfly or she glues six paper eyes to her face and spins a net out of hemp to create a spider’s web in which the object of her desire can be trapped.

“Green Pornos” was commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival based in Salt Lake City.

Rossellini’s “Green Pornos” is being shown as part of the “Forum Expanded” section of this year’s Berlinale. Three glass cabinets contain three mobile phones each, showing the insect sex. The screens are embedded in tree trunks or in the mouth of a frog. Visitors can look through a magnifying glass to observe the details more closely.

Interview of Isabella Rossellini at the Sundance festival with film extracts:

Category: Erika Lust — Erika @ 5:48 pm
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25 March, 2008
jurisprudence: The law, lawyers, and the court.

Why Is Prostitution Illegal?The oldest question about the oldest profession.


Read more of Slate's coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. Emily Bazelon was online on March 13 to chat with readers about this article; read the transcript.

When he was attorney general, Eliot Spitzer had no trouble going after a "sophisticated prostitution ring." As governor, he apparently had no trouble patronizing one. The hypocrisy speaks for itself. But what about the oldest question about the oldest profession: Why, exactly, is prostitution illegal?

The case for making it against the law to buy sex begins with the premise that it's base and exploitative and demeaning to sex workers. Legalizing prostitution expands it, the argument goes, and also helps pimps, fails to protect women, and leads to more back-alley violence, not less. This fight over legalization has been waged in the last few years over international human-trafficking laws and proposals to make prostitution legal in countries like Bulgaria, a movement that the U.S. government helped defeat. In 2004, the federal government expressed its position: "The United States government takes a firm stance against proposals to legalize prostitution because prostitution directly contributes to the modern-day slave trade and is inherently demeaning." The government also claims that legalizing or tolerating prostitution creates "greater demand for human trafficking victims." And yet, prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada, a companion to other cherished vices.

You don't have to be a moralist or a prude to buy the argument for banning prostitution. But if you're so inclined, it's an easy one to take apart. Martha Nussbaum, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago, argues that lots of work involves the sale of bodily services and that lots of the work that poor women do involves bad working conditions. For her, it's all about context—there's a big difference between a street worker controlled by a pimp and a high-end call girl who picks her own clients, and the real question is how to increase poor women's access to decent and safe work in general. Legalizing prostitution "is likely to make things a little better for women who have too few options to begin with," Nussbaum writes.


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The extremely pricey outfit Spitzer apparently used looks like an example of the high-end trade Nussbaum would distinguish from low-rent street work. The further defense of such escort services is that prostitution is inevitable and that conditions will be better for everyone all around if it's regulated (more condoms, fewer beatings). This parallels the argument against Prohibition or in favor of drug legalization: Illegality puts the bad guys and their guns in control. Women who fear prosecution can't go to the police for help. Better to give women more recourse to head off abuse and even inspect brothels for health-code violations.

Would legalizing prostitution increase trafficking? Not necessarily. "By this logic, the state of Nevada should be awash in foreign sex slaves, leading one to wonder what steps the Justice Department is taking to free them," writer David Feingold noted dryly in Foreign Policy in 2005. Countries in which prostitution is legal—Australia, Germany, the Netherlands—aren't cesspools. On the other hand, they haven't seen the demand for prostitution drop off, either, and sometimes it rises.

That's a disappointment for advocates of legalization, and lately there's another favorite model. In 1999, Sweden made it legal to sell sex but illegal to buy it—only the johns and the traffickers can be prosecuted. This is the only approach to prostitution that's based on "sex equality," argues University of Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon. It treats prostitution as a social evil but views the women who do it as the victims of sexual exploitation who "should not be victimized again by the state by being made into criminals," as MacKinnon put it to me in an e-mail. It's the men who use the women, she continued, who are "sexual predators" and should be punished as such.

 

It looks like we have another contender in the Latin American hottie (non)competition: Cuba's Aylin Mujica certainly has the credentials for a winning entry, particularly if she enters with her back to the judges. (dailypoa.com)

 

 

How Fuckable Is Your Country? Latin American Edition

In an effort to quantify, qualify and classify all there is to know about our sexual omniverse, our sexy friends at Guanabee have attempted to help every one out there determine just how easy it is to get laid depending on what country you call home. They've assigned all the major countries of the Spanish-speaking world (and Brazil) a number known as the "Country Fuckability Value" (CFV). We're not really sure how it's calculated, because it's rooted in high-end mathematic theory and therefore too complex for dummies like us the average blogger. But we really like the idea behind it, even if what we really want to know is how accurate it is. To test the system, we've chosen what we think is the hottest babe from each of the countries in the chart and lined them up to see how their national ratings translate to real-life bangability. Granted, some of our choices might not coincide with your own; after all, identifying hot Uruguayan pornstars is not our strong suit, and sometimes we've had to resort to national descent instead of actual citizenship. If you disagree with our choices or the rankings, defend your nation's honor in the comments. That said, and without further ado ... let the battle of the babes begin.

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· Argentina: (CFV = 80)
Carolina "Pampita" Ardohain , model
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· Bolivia: (CFV = 40)
Raquel Welch, actress (Bolivian father)
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· Brazil: (CFV = 75)
Gisele Bundchen, supermodel
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· Chile: (CFV = 60)
Leonor Varela, Cleopatra look-alike
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· Colombia: (CFV = 60)
Shakira, hip shaker

· Costa Rica: (CFV = 60)
Candice Michelle, WWE Diva, Playboy model, URL salesgirl, foot worshipee (Costa Rican decent)
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· Cuba: (CFV = 50)
Vida Guerra, ass technician
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· Dominican Republic: (CFV = 40)
Judy Reyes, fake nurse
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· Ecuador: (CFV = 35)
Christina Aguilera, MILF-in-training (father born in Ecuador)
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· El Salvador: (CFV = 35)
Christy Turlington, supermodel (mother from El Salvador)
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· Guatemala: (CFV = 20)
Daphne Zuniga , friend to animals? (Guatemalan father)
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· Honduras: (CFV = 25)
America Ferrera, ugly person (Honduran parents, actually much hotter than this)
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· Mexico: (CFV = 70)
Sativa Rose, star of "I've Been Sodomized"
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· Nicaragua: (CFV = 50)
Barbara Carrera, Bond girl
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· Panama: (CFV = 45)
Ester Cordet, Miss October 1974
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· Paraguay:(CFV = 30)
Cindy Taylor, TV host
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· Peru: (CFV = 40)
Marina Mora, Miss Peru 2001
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· Puerto Rico: (CFV = 60)
Vanessa Del Rio, distinguished porn veteran
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· Spain*: (CFV = 80)
Penelope Cruz, actress (nudeactress.net)

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(*Ed. note: Yes, we know Spain isn't in Latin America -- but it was in the original list we based this post on. We also just wanted to include Penelope Cruz somehow.)

· Uruguay: (CFV = 45)
Natalia Oreiro, famous person (?)
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· Venezuela: (CFV = 55)
Aida Yespica, hottie
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· The International Fuckability Hierarchy Index: (guanabee.com)

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  • The Bisexual Question

    Introducing a new monthly guest column by Audacia Ray!! J.D.’s Sex Tips will be back next week :)

    I was not a porn consumer or seeker when I was a teenager. Though I was sexually precocious and promiscuous in many ways, porn wasn’t really on my radar. In fact, when a high school friend found me on MySpace recently and discovered that I’d become a porn director, he was pretty surprised. But since I’m a bit of an extremist, when I began to explore porn, I really did it up. And I wanted to find porn that was like me – bisexual.

    At my first job in sex, I lucked into a treasure trove of porn with obsessively categorized videos, magazines, and mementos: the Ralph Wittington Collection at the Museum of Sex. I started as a researcher at the Museum and then became an assistant curator the year it opened – and in addition to jump-starting my career as a sex nerd, being exposed (ahem) to the wealth of smut in the Wittington collection plus meeting a delightful array of sex industry legends got me started on my own personal journey.

    Among the carefully labeled boxes that contained videos in plastic archival boxes, polaroids of enthusiastic collector Ralph Wittington with a variety of stars, and a smattering of creepy flesh-colored sex toys was a box labeled “bisexual.” The contents were a bunch of Paul Norman films – the “Bi and Beyond” series that kicked off in 1988. The late 1980s through the mid-1990s were apparently the heyday for bisexual porn – if a heyday can be considered somewhat prolific production from one director.

    I was a bit puzzled – this bisexual porn seemed to be kind of a crappy afterthought (even in it’s heyday). The main thing that distinguishes bi porn –then and today- from straight porn is the fact that men touch each other in it; porn with girl on girl action is essentially considered straight. And no one bats an eye if a female performer who does scenes with other women says she’s straight; but guys who do scenes with other guys are thought of as gay gay gay, whatever they call themselves.

    In addition to the dude-on-dude action, the Paul Norman films often had “hermaphrodites” in them. In one of the films I saw, the so-called hermaphrodites were biological women wearing flesh-colored strap-ons with lots of concealer makeup so they kinda sorta looked like real penises. If you’re feeling generous, you might be inclined to think of these hermaphrodites as Havelock Ellis’ definition of bisexual - people with the genitals of both sexes. Or you might think that Norman either didn’t know MTF pre-op transsexuals exist or for some reason didn’t want to hire them. I don’t really know the answer to that quandary.

    In Norman’s films, the performers generally give the impression that they are doing a job, and not one they entirely understand or think is sexy. To his credit, Norman’s films were a thing unto their own - bisexual porn. Since then, however, bisexual smut has been subsumed into gay porn, despite the presence of heterosexual and girl-girl (I hesitate to say lesbian) scenes. The porn industry seems to not at all believe that bisexuality exists, rather that for guys its a stumbling block on the way to full fledged gay, and that girls just want to get attention (and paying porn jobs) any way possible.

    In porn, girls do each other with a male viewer in mind, and once a guy has done another guy rumors will fly about his sexuality for the rest of his career - often he uses a different name for gay and straight scenes. Many porn studios with contract girls don’t allow their girls to do scenes in bi movies or with men who’ve done gay scenes because of the associated stigma and the perceived risk of HIV infection. Sex educators and sex toy retailers know better and acknowledge a broader spectrum of sexuality, which is probably why one of the few bi movies of note in recent years, Slide Bi Me, was produced by the San Francisco-based Good Vibrations in 2001.

    In 2006, when I got the opportunity to direct and produce my first porn film, I knew immediately that I wanted to make a film that did justice to actual bisexual experiences and identities (and I emphasize that both of those are plural). I aimed to make a film that captured some of the bi action I’d personally seen and participated in at private sex parties in my hometown New York City. I had a wild ride with The Bi Apple, which was released by Adam and Eve Pictures in February 2007. It all started with a big party in a strip club, which was followed by public screenings in Amsterdam, New York and Berlin (as well as plenty of -ahem- private screenings), an award for Hottest Bi Sex Scene at the Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards, a blurb in Oprah magazine, and a nomination for the GayVN Award for Best Bisexual Release. A lot of things about The Bi Apple don’t fit too well with the bi traditions - it has a female protagonist and a female director, and it features authentically bisexual performers, many of whom were amateurs.

    A few people asked me if I felt weird about being given a nod by GayVN but being totally ignored by the AVN Awards, where niche award categories like “Best Internal Release” exist but bi porn is invisible. Honestly - no. I don’t really feel at home in either half of the porn industry - the halves are the problem for me. Sexuality isn’t black or white, there’s a lot of gray area - just have a look at the Kinsey scale and you’ll see that there are very few people who are perfectly gay or perfectly straight. When I first began to wade through the wealth of sexual media six years ago, I wouldn’t have believed that the sex industry could be so, well, conservative and narrow-minded about sexuality. But my experiences with seeking out and making bisexual smut have taught me that indeed, that is the case. Of course some of it is marketing – which I have great respect for. You can’t sell a product if you don’t have a specific name for it, and claiming to make anything goes pansexual porn would be met with silent dismissal from most distributors. But the way that most pornographers steer clear of bisexual activity is about more than marketing – it’s about homo- and biphobia, being afraid of fluidity, and maintaining an outdated, one-drop rule about gayness. In an industry where anal gaping, throat fucking, and group sex are part of normal, mainstream movies, it will always seem bizarre to me that bisexual interaction is the ick factor.

    Audacia Ray
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  • Sex Without Porn? Love LA Rethinks the Adult Industry

    A new monthly guest column by Audacia Ray!! J.D.’s Sex Tips will be back next week :)

    What words strike you as “bad” ones? Maybe that’s a kind of weird way to start off a column on a porn site, because, let’s face it – you’re here for the bad words. And pictures. Or at least, the ones that are so bad, they’re good. But what about words that give you that “bad touch” skin crawly feeling? Everyone’s got them. For me, the phrases that make me feel icky are a few genital descriptors: “meat curtains” for labia and “blue veiner” for penis. Just writing that makes me feel gross, but luckily on the average day I can avoid any mention of those phrases because they aren’t especially common.

    Ian Denchasy, however, has a much harder time avoiding the turns of phrase that make him feel icky – because they describe the industry he works in. Along with his wife Alicia, Ian founded and runs Freddy and Eddy, an erotic boutique in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles that began ten years ago as a website ploy to get free sex toys to review.

    Today the business has blossomed into one of the most unique sex shops I’ve ever been into – Ian prepares cappuccino almost as soon as visitors arrive, while Alicia gives a personalized tour of their space. First timers can expect to spend an hour or more perusing, chatting and learning, and though they might leave with a new product, they’re just as likely to borrow a book or movie from the lending library the couple maintains.

    And those icky words that make Ian shudder? “Porn,” “adult,” and “novelty.” During a gathering at the Adult Entertainment Expo last month, I had an impassioned conversation with Ian about those words, and the fact that they make him feel gross about his sexuality and his desire to seek out erotic entertainment that will respect him in the morning. Although over the last twenty years we’ve seen the rapid growth of the women’s and couple’s markets (hence sites like this one), words like these persist, and they don’t do us any favors.

    After one too many years of being put through the paces of adult conventions and feeling assaulted by ickiness, Ian and Alicia took the initiative to pioneer a new kind of sexuality event, Love LA.

    The one day event took place on Sunday, January 27th in rainy Los Angeles largely due to the passion of Ian and Alicia and the sponsorship of the LA Weekly and Xbiz. Although from a distance it looked like a typical adult trade show, the organizers made sure it was anything but. For one thing, they decided early on that there would be no porn. That’s right: no 18-year-old girls in lucite heels, no balloon-breasted women signing 8×10s for a long line of admirers. No porn.

    Where the porn would be in other shows like it, Love LA had welcoming booths in which independent sex toy companies had their wares on display and did a lot of meeting and greeting. They also offered up seminars throughout the day that ranged from bondage basics to tips on role play to lighthearted crafty fun like making explicit shrinky dinks. The whole event was billed as “the first ever Sexual Health, Education and Entertainment Exhibition,” and it seems to have lived up to the hype.

    Olivia Hayes, who commandeers the Pleasure Happens blog for sex toy retailer the Pleasure Chest, was impressed with the swankiness of the event. “I think there was a strong commitment made to distance this event from the ‘trashiness’ people generally associate with sex toys and the like,” she says, “and I think [calling the event] ‘upscale’ would be about on par.” The event was full of retailers, with female owned and run companies having a major presence, and small, independent businesses overrunning the floor.

    The mainstream adult industry is unfortunately characterized by faceless corporations or male leadership that would make anyone want to hide behind the anonymity of the typical adult transaction, but the small companies represented at Love LA take a different approach entirely.

    Olivia reports that, “I felt like this event was really more about networking, brand awareness, and education… I wouldn’t say there were a ton of actual products sold. A lot of swag was given away and much networking was done, and I think that was more the point than to sell stuff, which I feel is more often the motivation behind other trade shows.”

    The absence of porn seems to have affected the demographic of the attendees – Ian says that of the 1000 people who bought tickets, about 65% were female, and about half of those brought their partners with them. Olivia confirms this and says that, “There were lots of young couples, queer female couples (of all gender expressions…not just the lipstick lesbians that LA is known for), older couples that seemed a little shy, single people milling about…The only demographic I didn’t really get the sense that this event attracted were gay men.”

    The questions Love LA asked were: can so-called “adult” businesses attract attention and enthusiasm if porn stars are cut out of the picture? Will consumers still know what they’re looking at without those words that make Ian go “ew”?

    Overwhelmingly, the event answered both of these questions with a big yes. People who want to get sexy aren’t stupid, they don’t need to be talked down to or always have their basest desires appealed to.

    But for this avowed pornographer and shameless smut watcher, eliminating the porn isn’t the best and only answer. Certainly it made planning easier, but hopefully with a little education and the positive example of the non-porn part of the biz, pornographers with their heads and hearts in the right place will be welcome in the future. The foundation is laid, and the potential is proven – it is possible to make sexy entertainment fun and welcoming without losing the mojo.

    Click here to check out pictures from Love LA!

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  • Power to the Pornographers: A Naked Revolution?

    Introducing a new monthly guest column by Audacia Ray!! J.D.’s Sex Tips will be back next week :)

    The idea of pornographers with ethics and strong political convictions seems ridiculous to many people. After all, isn’t porn just about overly-tanned hedonism, driven by the desire to make a mint while surrounded by swarms of hot chicks who wouldn’t otherwise give you (assuming the portly, fiftyish male “you”) the time of day? Not so fast, assumption-maker.

    “I think a lot of folks are surprised that what I produce even exists,” says FurryGirl, “especially lefty/liberal sorts of people who have a condescending attitude towards the sex industry and people who work within it.” Furry Girl, so named for her commitment to her body hair, has been in the adult industry for five years. She quickly became a photographer and webmistress after she started modeling - and did the math. She cut out the content creator and manager middlemen and took control of production and marketing herself, and has reaped the benefits ever since. In addition to her eponymous site, Furry Girl runs a porn site featuring vegan and vegetarian models, VegPorn; a menstruation porn site, EroticRed; and the Sensual Vegan, an all-vegan sexuality products online shop. Beyond the fact that Furry Girl benefits better financially from cutting out the middleman-her sites are her sole source of income-she can market herself without the trappings of porno protocol. What emerges from her sites is the sense of Furry Girl as friendly, personable, and delightfully naughty, without a hint of the dirty shame that seems to permeate a lot of other sites.

    Amateur and independent porn began getting buzz with the advent of the home video camera and the newly glorious ability it bestowed on the average electronics geek to film his or her pasty white ass bobbing up and down in a poorly lit guest bedroom in New Jersey (not to stereotype or anything). But it really took off in the early 2000s as the Internet began to emerge as the go-to place for sex businesses, especially homemade ones. More specifically, young, technologically inclined idealists began to turn to the Internet to create their visions of sex-positive culture online.

    When the oft-cited Suicide Girls was launched in 2001, it positioned itself as a site of female-empowerment via Internet nudity. In subsequent years, this turned out to be a bit more complicated and maybe not really the way things were running behind the scenes. Still, there are independent pornographers whose hope for the empowering mojo of independent porn springs eternal. The Sharing is Sexy (SiS) collective is one such group - their freshly hatched and totally free website launched just last week. Unlike Furry Girl, the SiS folks have no intention of making a living from their work on the site. In fact, as collective member lotu5 puts it, “SiS came out of anti-capitalist activism. …all our content is free, we try to spend as little as possible, dumpster what we can, leech resources from universities and jobs and make everything free.” At the same time, lotu5 says that, “One of our primary goals is to not discredit sex workers and ‘for pay’ porn sites.”

    Although I do raise my fist in solidarity with queer, feminist, indie pornographers like the SiS collective, it’s difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea of detaching images of people getting sexy from the money-making industry around it. Part of this, no doubt, is the fact that I’ve made my living in and around the adult industry for the past six years. My impulse is not “it’s a dirty business but someone’s got to do it,” but rather that if you’re going to put yourself out there in a very intense, life-altering way, you should be financially rewarded for it as handsomely as possible.

    This isn’t to say that porn performers and producers should be doing laps in platinum-lined swimming pools, hungry people of the world be damned. In fact, there are a number of porn businesses that funnel some of their porn money into other sex-positive causes. Furry Girl donates 5% of earnings from her adventures in porn to the independently financed Scarleteen, a sexuality resource for teenagers. Madison Young, an adult performer and owner of the San Francisco art gallery Femina Potens, has also used her porn money to fund her work with the gallery, which shows art by women and transgendered artists. Madison also has a website, Anal4Art, in the works. “Anal4Art will feature hot queer and straight artists getting it up the ass in hot settings like rock venues, artist studios, art class, etc.,” says Young. The earnings from the site will benefit Femina Potens.

    But what kind of cultural currency does a free porn site hold? For the visitors the answer is painfully obvious: unmitigated access to free porn (duh). But for producers and performers, things are a little more complex. The collective members of Sharing is Sexy clearly see their disregard for the finances of the porn biz as an act of resistance. “I came to SiS with the remembrance that the realization of my desires has healed my cunt from shame and abuse,” asserts collective member j, “and from this sexual liberation I am ready to share my desires.” For the collective, SiS is about sharing, and constructive exchanges around sexuality. This doesn’t make the site a higher form of porn than that produced by Furry Girl, Madison Young, or the hordes of producers churning out a new DVD every week. Instead, it’s a different form of sexual communicating. If the power of porn is handled well by people who over think (ahem), then maybe the way sites handle their money isn’t the biggest issue of them all, as long as everyone’s free to do as they please with their resources (whether those resources are flesh or cash).

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  • European Ladies Making Thoughtful Erotic Films

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    European Ladies Making Thoughtful Erotic Films


    If there’s one unifying force that brings together female porn makers on either side of the Atlantic, it is a commitment to thinking through the process of making porn before diving in headlong. Maybe that seems kind of dull - why spend all this time thinking when you could be coaxing local hotties into stripping down and showing their stuff in casting sessions? - but the proof is in the pudding. Erika Lust runs her ever-growing Lust Films out of Barcelona, while Julia Ostertag’s independent filmmaking projects are based out of Berlin - both women work against the grain to create unique films that showcase male and female eroticism in a carefully considered way.

    Though neither director shies away from the hardcore nature of porn, both of them reject the absurdity of the beauty standards and simplified sexuality presented by mainstream culture and pornos that are typically aimed at a male audience. Lust observes that, “One of the most repeated clichés is the fact that male porn directors like to portay slutty lolitas, horny teens, sex maniac nannies, desperate milfs, hot nurses, nymphomaniacs hookers, and gangbang heroines - these women are THEIR ideal sex partners. And the guys in the movies are almost always mafia guys, pimps, dealers, multimillionaires, afroamerican mega sized sex machines - (these are the THEIR sex heroes.” Instead of these overblown, eye-roll inducing stereotypes, Lust prefers to watch normal looking people having sex they enjoy under circumstances that most viewers can identify with. Ostertag concurs and takes this one step further, saying, “There definitely should be more real cool strong hot women in front of the camera that I as an ‘intelligent hot girl’ can identify with.”

    Lust and Ostertag both forgo casting agencies to find performers for their movies - it’s a much more involved and personal process than that. Lust searches for talent who are good looking but don’t look like porn stars throughout Spain and also in the Balearic and Canary Islands. Ostertag doesn’t do casting sessions at all, choosing instead to trust her intuition. “I watch people and try to find out if they would also work in front of a camera,” she says, “So I talk to them to find out if the chemistry is right and arrange a test shooting. Berlin is a good place to work that way as there are a lot of people around who are curious and open.”

    Although the two directors have a common vision and share a critique of the way most porn is made, the execution of their concepts is very different and very much linked with their personal tastes. Lust directs her films for a female audience and tries to appeal to feminine - and feminist - sensibilities. Her short film “The Good Girl,” which has now become a part of her most recent feature-length movie, “Five Hot Stories for Her” (http://www.cincohistorias.com - only in Spanish at the moment), has a tongue in cheek approach to the typical porn set-up -there’s a hot pizza delivery guy- but a heavy focus on the woman’s fantasy and pleasure. The man in the film is very much a prop, but not in the ugly-man-with- only-his-cock-in-the-frame way that is prevalent in so much mainstream porn. The characters interact with a lot of playfulness, and the film is shot to give the viewer visual pleasure in looking at the sex as well as the filmmaking. Lust asserts that porn made for men and porn made for women are different kinds of products, and says that, “Women have the right to have our own explicit movies.”

    Although Julia Ostertag finds sex in film compelling and thinks of her films as visual experiments or research studies about human desire, identity and sexuality, she doesn’t exist entirely within the realm of pornography. She films explicit sex in her movies, and considers herself to be a female director working with the language of eroticism, but calling her work porn is a bit simplistic. And though she is indeed a female director, she doesn’t see this as a compelling reason to focus exclusively on a female audience.

    Ostertag’s first experiment with sex and film involved her own body and sexuality as the subject. The 10 minute short, entitled “Sexjunkie,” is very revealing both physically and emotionally - it’s haunting and sexual, and not at all a commercial porn film. The director has also brought her aesthetic to the commercial porn industry in Germany, where she had to curtail her artistic vision a little bit to give the company what it required. She is currently working on a gritty, independently-produced experimental feature-length narrative film tentatively called “Wasteland,” which Ostertag says is, “About a girl in a post-apocalyptic wasteland area who kills her lovers in different ways after having sex with them.” Though she says that the film is experimental rather than pornographic, it certainly toes the line and won’t shy away from explicit depictions of either sex or violence.

    Both Julia Ostertag and Erika Lust have spent the last several years honing their craft, but the results have been very different. Each of the women supports female empowerment for women in erotic films, but the aesthetic and the content of those films ranges from Lust’s tender and playful to Ostertag’s rough and intense. But these visions of sex and sexiness aren’t mutually exclusive - they are part of the fabric of new erotic cinema that is being woven in both Europe and the United States.

    Learn more about Erika Lust’s work on her website, http://www.erikalust.com

    Learn more about Julia Ostertag’s work on her website, http://www.julia-ostertag.de

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The New York Times outs identifies the 22-year-old aspiring singer known as "Kristen" who found herself at the epicenter of the brouhaha surrounding Eliot Spitzer this week. At least now we know one reason why she turned to escorting -- after listening to that track on her MySpace page (you know, the one with what the Times called "dated slang"), we doubt her vocal career would've made her much money anyway. (nytimes.com)


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BOMBSHELL: Gov. Eliot Spitzer a client of call girl ring

Online Hooker Ring Busted

High-priced call girls were rated on a scale of diamonds

MARCH 6--An international call girl ring that solicited wealthy male clients via a web site that rated its hookers on a scale of diamonds (and charged accordingly) has been busted by federal agents. The operators of the New York-based Emperors Club were named in a felony complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Before the Emperors Club web site was taken down this afternoon, TSG grabbed the below screen shot showing part of the firm's hooker menu. Another page from the site described how its rates were based on a woman's rating (which ranged from three to seven diamonds) and noted that "Gift Certificates Available Upon Request." A detailed FBI affidavit provides other details about the Emperors Club operation, which charged up to $5500 an hour for one of its 50 prostitutes, who operated in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, and Paris. The affidavit notes that one prospective hooker, who declined to work for the company because it did not pay enough, complained that a friend of hers had sex twice in an hour with an Emperors Club john who did not even spring for dinner beforehand. In one wiretapped conversation, Mark Brener, the ring's leader, complained that one of his hookers looked like a "butcher." During another call, Emperors Club employees discussed the "baggage" a hooker carries when she is a mother who has to leave appointments early to pick up her kids from school. The affidavit also includes the musings of one self-aware prostitute who remarked in a phone call, "I know what my purpose is. I'm not a...moron." (6 pages)

 
 

   
 

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Emperors Club: All About Eliot Spitzer\'s Alleged Prostitution Ring

Emperors Club: All About Eliot Spitzer's Alleged Prostitution Ring

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*Another prostitute who advertised online, is named Kristen and fits the physical description has denied she is the Kristen who met Spitzer on February 13. Meet the real Kristen here*


Eliot Spitzer announced he was involved with an alleged prostitution ring called the Emperors Club VIP (as was Britain's Duke of Westminster) and resigned. For pictures of the girls (who cost up to $31,000 a day, and are also priced in Euros and Pounds) scroll down.

Last week The Smoking Gun posted papers about the international prostitution ring being busted, as they were last Thursday. The high-priced call girls were rated in diamonds on the club's website:

An international call girl ring that solicited wealthy male clients via a web site that rated its hookers on a scale of diamonds (and charged accordingly) has been busted by federal agents. The operators of the New York-based Emperors Club were named in a felony complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

The New York Times wrote about the bust.

Federal authorities arrested four people Thursday on charges of running an online prostitution ring that serviced clients in New York, Paris and other cities and took in more than $1 million in profits over four years.


The ring, known as the Emperor's Club V.I.P., had 50 prostitutes available for appointments in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, according to a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The appointments, made by telephone or through an online booking service, cost $1,000 to $5,500 [scroll down for fee page] an hour and could be paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfers or money orders, the complaint said.

The New York Sun reports how managerial challenges hindered operations, although Spitzer's wire transfers brought it down:

Several phone numbers associated with Emperors Club have been under surveillance by the FBI, which intercepted more than 5,000 telephone calls and text messages during the investigation, according to court documents.


Excerpts of those intercepted calls, provided in court documents, offer a window onto some of the managerial challenges that confronted the four defendants who allegedly managed the operation. In them, the managers discuss how some of the Emperor Club prostitutes had difficulty taking imprints of their clients' American Express cards, making it difficult to charge them. Prostitutes weren't always punctual in arriving at their engagements. There were scheduling conflicts to resolve caused by the photo shoots of the women who modeled during the day. And clients called in wanting to know what they should tell their accountants about the expenses they were racking up with the Emperors Club.

The website for Emperor's Club, since taken down, said this:

Emperors' Club vip is the most preferred international social introduction service for those accustomed to excellence. Introducing the most impressive models to leading gentleman of the world is our expertise. We specialize in introductions of: fashion models, pageant winners and exquisite students, graduates and women of successful careers (finance, art, media etc...) to gentlemen of exceptional standards. When seeking an evening date, a weekend travel companion, or a friend to accompany you during your next business / social function our models are perfect preference.


We act for a select group of educated, refined and successful international clients who give their best in all they do and who, in return, only wish to receive the best. Catering to clients who will not compromise in any area of their life...

Our meticulous standards of beauty, intelligence and charm ensure that you always encounter the quality you've come to expect in a woman, when with an Emperors' Club vip model. Each of our companions is a product of an exceptionally fine background and a success in her right. All rendezvous are individually crafted to suit the needs of your specific occasion. Note that each model has place in her schedule for a select number of appointments per month, so your date will be a special one for both of you.

Our goal is to make life more peaceful, balanced, beautiful and meaningful. We honor commitment to our clients as we covet long-term relationships of trust and mutual benefit. Experience for yourself a service of obvious distinction...


"Maya" has 7 diamonds, Emperors Club VIP's top ranking:

Here is the page for "Drew," who had hourly rates:

Here is the page for "Anais," a "model, actress, dancer, superstar..."

"Brenda":

A page of the portfolio, although "Kristen" is not listed:

"Lola" is 19:

"Mackenzie":

"Patricia":

"Candace":

"Marina" is a dancer:

"Savannah":

"Alana":

"Evelyn" worked from Beijing:

"Samantha":

"Renee":

"Julia":

The ladies went for as much as $31,000 per day for a "seven diamond" rated girl.


Screengrab of the fees (and package rates):

More screengrabs here at Wonkette, and links, plus see the Kristen conversation NYMag.com highlighted last week.

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This is a political hatchet job by Spitzer's ENEMIES, the criminal element on Wall Street. He is so wealthy that they had no other weapon to use against him.
Doesn't it raise suspicions that a man worth half a billion dollars was turned in to the FBI for transactions of a few thousand dollars, by a BANK? Someone under investigation initiated this, and a sex prosecution is the perfect tool in our overly moralistic, immature nation.
The criminal enterprises that Spitzer prosecuted were "Sex Slave" rings. This is a far cry from purchasing the services of a $1000 an hour CONSENTING ADULT sex worker. He IS worth half a Billion dollars. He surly could wipe his ass with hundred dollar bills.
He fought crime and corruption with every breath he took. He married a lawyer who supports him and believes this is a set up. They raised three well adjusted high achieving daughters. The REAL crime here is selective prosecution.
Parking Illegally is a CRIME! It's against the LAW!
Does that mean if I do it, I deserve to have my Career and Family DESTROYED?
This is a harmless, victim-less crime but most posters seem to have NO SENSE of proportion. It should have never been reported, unless the true intent was to destroy a man who was too wealthy, too tough and too honest to be be bought or bullied.
I suspect the ADMINISTRATION may be involved (the FBI being part of the AG office), fearing he might become the US attorney general and go after Halliburton/KBR and the other thieves that run (and rob from) this nation today. The current administration is a criminal organization that has packed the courts and the FBI with pathological ideologue tools; they fear justice as frost fears sunshine. The American Oligarchy is on the precipice of exposure and will spare NO expense to keep the sunshine away from their unsuspecting serfs.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:28 AM on 03/15/2008

I applied for membership in the Emperor's Club.

Rejected! Apparently my American Express Card is the wrong color.

They suggested I apply at the Centurion's Club and the Gladiator's Club.

Again, rejection. They said, "You might try the ORC -- Ordinary Romans Club." So I filled out an app. it asked if I was familiar with Greek, something to do with the initiation ceremony. . I said "No, but I did take Latin in High School."

Not good enough, apparently.

All that's left is the Christian Singles. If you can make it through a couple of sessions with the Lions Club in the Coliseum, you're in. They've only got a single "escort," and everybody has to take turns "going for a ride" so to speak.

Apparently it's a Ford, 1987 DX model.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:26 PM on 03/12/2008

Thanks for the smile!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:47 PM on 03/18/2008

OMG that's the funniest post I've read on this site ever1

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:37 PM on 03/14/2008

Whether or not you agree with the ends, Spitzer used the law to pummel anyone who would further his political aspirations. It is ironic that he swore to uphold the law while insouciantly breaking it himself. Your average person on the street certainly wouldn't get any special treatment...let's see what happens to Spitzer. I say press charges, book him and let the justice system take its course.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:15 PM on 03/12/2008

my choice is savannah

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:41 PM on 03/12/2008



A 60" 1080p plasma costs less and you can enjoy it every day.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:36 PM on 03/12/2008

LET US COMPARE WHAT SPITZER DID TO GET HIMSELF 'RESIGNED' : AND WHAT BUSH/CHENY ARE DOING,YET (ILLEGALY) HOLDING OFFICE WITH NO SUCH (COMPAREABLE) PUBLIC UPROAR OR WILLINGNESS TO RESIGN,LIKE ELLIOT, SO HONERABLY DID.
SPITZER CHEATED ON HIS WIFE AND HAD SEX WITH THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOOKERS IN THE WORLD. ASIDE FROM MARTIAL / SEXUAL PROBLEMS,SPITZER APPEARS TO HAVE 'THRIVED' ON EXTRAMARTIAL SEX WITH (WHILST IN OFFICE MUCH THE SAME AS CLINTON ) HOOKERS.IN FACT, THIS MAY HAVE BEEN THE VERY 'ENERGIZED' SEXUAL THERAPY THAT ALLOWED HIM TO DO HIS JOB,FOR ALL THOSE YEARS,AS A PROSECUTOR THEN GOVERNER. HIS WIFE MAY HAVE-EVEN CONSENTED(?) TO THIS AND HE MAY HAVE BEEN WANTING TO 'BOINK' HIS WIFE MORE THAN SHE WANTED,SO SENT HIM TO 'SEXUAL THEARPY' (?) VIA THESE VERY CLEAN-SAFE COSTLY HOOKERS? LOSTA QUESTIONS LEFT TO A MARRIGE CONSULAR,AND NONE OF THE PRES'S BUSINESS,BUT WATCH HOW LONG THIS WILL BE DRAWN OUT BY THE MEDIA,VIA THOSE NEWS'WHORES' WHO NEVER PAY THE CORRECT ATTENTION TO WHAT THE SUPREME COURT ELECTED BUSH CRIME GANG AND THEIR ILLEGAL-BRUTAL-BLOODTHIRSTY-MURDERING-RAPING-LYING-SPYING-TOURTURING-WAR FOR OIL-YELLOW CAKE LYING-SPY BETRAYING-SOVERIGN COUNTRY INVADING,CONSTITUTION THIEVING-PRESS MANIPULATING-DUI -DUST INFLICTIING ON IRAQ KIDS OLD FOLKS WITH HORRIFIC CANCER ILNESSES-SIGNING STATMENTS GALORE-NO BID CONTRACTS--JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ABUSES- AND ON AND ON!!!
WE INTELLIGENT-RATIONAL AMERICANS,THE '76%" OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE SPITZER AFFAIR AND STILL WONDERING IF THE BUSH/CHENY CRIME GANG WILL EVER RECIEVE THE (EQUAL) AMOUUTN OF ANGRY-'ENERGY' NOW DEFLECTED....DEVOTED TO THIS IDIOTIC SEXUAL ESCAPADES OF A GOVERNER.
AMERICANS,GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR...... 'POLITICIAN-SEX-SCANDAL' ASSES AND IMPEACH BUSH CHENY AND ALL THE REST OF THEIR CRONIES FOR WAR CRIMES OR THIS COUNTRY IS DONE-FINISHED,AS A WORLD LEADER.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 03/12/2008

EXACTLY................AGREE TO THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL WITH the above comment of DAWK'S.

Perfect timing, and do i smell that rovian rat virus that's been going around so darn much in the past, darkest of dark, seven-plus years??????????? Me thinks so............stay tuned, darkness is always blotted out by the light of truth.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:33 PM on 03/12/2008

Our goal is to make life more peaceful, balanced, beautiful and meaningful.

That goal was sadly not achieved with Mr. Spitzer.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:16 PM on 03/12/2008


Democrat New York Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer put over 60 people in jail for running Prostitution Rings, and you guys want to give him a pass because you are still angry with Republicans, such hypocrisy, un-frigin-believable.
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replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:09 PM on 03/12/2008

So now we know what former models do for a living after their days on the catwalk are over.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 03/12/2008

wrong...now you know where those huge tax cuts for the rich go.....job creation.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:58 PM on 03/12/2008

I wouldn't pay a dollar to be with a girl with fake breasts. Seriously, I don't even tip the strippers with fake breasts. Stop mutilating yourselves. And note to future progressive leaders: masturbation is not a sin. (well maybe it is ,but at least it won't end your career.)

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:05 PM on 03/12/2008

You people are so judgmental. Kristen obviously needed the $4,300. She couldn't afford a shirt that fits or even a pair of pants.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 03/12/2008

You're right. That's why she is pictured on yachts with Cartier watches and has an apartment in Manhattan.
What's sick is that these prostitutes are getting so much attention.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 AM on 03/15/2008

lol

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:08 PM on 03/12/2008

What an insensitive, boorish boob this Spitzer twit is. How little compassion can one person show? Prostitution laws exist to prevent the abuse of women --- NOT to prevent the sexual jollies of men. Many prostitutes are drug or alcohol addicted. Others are forced into this slavish labor by brutish men, aka pimps, boyfriends and sometimes, yes, husbands. Many illegal immigrant women must perform prostitution to repay the human smuggling price. The list of ills against women is endless when it comes to prostitution.

Spitzer is so anxious to participate in the deviancy of our culture that he overlooks - on purpose, obviously - the toll on millions of women. I hope he rots in Hell.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 PM on 03/12/2008

A model on the cover of Penthouse magazine, circa 1974, in PRECISELY the same sit-down-and-buckle-my-stiletto-heeled-ankle-strap-CFMN-shoe pose as "Drew," above, has been branded in my memory ever since--hey, I was a young, impressionable kid! I guess that this must be a standard cheesecake (pardon me--"boudoir photo") pose. Or maybe the photographer was impressed by the same cover, long ago.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:01 PM on 03/12/2008

Perhaps one day we will get real about paying for sex--it is something that has always been done and always will be---we had might as well get real about it---legalize it, regulate it, etc then go on so we can direct our time and energy on more important matters---like the survival of our species!!
I like what George Carlin used to say (something to this effect--I can't recall his direct quote offhand)---"it is illegal to sell an orgasim but it is legal to sell weapons of mass destruction--now that is what is obscene!!"

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:39 AM on 03/12/2008

Man for the the kind of money Spitzer spent, he could have outsourced his sexual needs to Asia and gotten a lot more bang for the buck. American prostitutue labor costs are just way to high. A cheap flight to Shanghai and we would not have seen Sptiz for several years with the kind of money he spent.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:20 AM on 03/12/2008

I'm reminded of a recent NPR report.
Researchers tested medical subjects with two placebos for headaches. One pill the subjects were told cost fifteen cents a pill to produce. The other pill was claimed to cost $300 a pill. The test subjects claimed the $300 placebo was *dramatically* more effective than the 15� placebo. It makes you wonder if the placebo effect is involved here. $5000 hotel sex does sound *dramatically* hotter than $50 hotel sex.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:38 AM on 03/12/2008

Hey $50 sleazy motel sex can be pretty hot too.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:12 AM on 03/13/2008

Every heterosexual man here can look at those pictures and admit that every man can be tempted to the point of adultery.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:38 AM on 03/12/2008

I think the real crime is his not inviting his wife along to share in the high quality services? Who, male or female, does not want to know what a woman must know how to do in order to charge that much money by the hour? And if the Bush whitehouse needs any evidence that the economy is not in recession, they need only point to how much disposable income even some democrats have! Viva triqueldaun!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:21 AM on 03/12/2008

So, we have some soft porn. Yippee. As a matter of curiosity, I'd like to see police photos of the actual whores to see if they match up with the advertising. Aside from that, Eliot is an idiot for spending that kind of money for whatever sexual favors he wanted. A man in his position should be able to pick it up for free.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:13 AM on 03/12/2008

Eliot Spitzer dressed Kristen in vinyl jumpsuits. Details at 10. and 10:05. and 10:10. and 10:15...

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:23 AM on 03/12/2008

what's wrong with our country where we invade and occupy other countries (Viet Nam, Iraq, etc..) killing millions of people., corporations make millions of these brutal wars ..and that seems like an ok thing to do when we first invade and kill,,yet try and get a little top notch nookie, get caught and the world comes down on you hard..
We have our priorties all wrong..the founding fathers probably would have wanted it the other way.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:51 AM on 03/12/2008

As Ari Gold would say, loudly:
Eliot? GET. THE FUCK. OUT!!! YOU'RE MOTHER FUCKING FIRED!!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:06 AM on 03/12/2008

calm down, frank. did you want sloppy seconds or something?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:24 AM on 03/12/2008

Nice...if I was the King of KaChing I'd be playing heavy. But I'm single and not a public "Servant" and I've done much worse things than paying for sex. I also don't rave on about morals and ethics ,I just keep my mouth shut and do the best I can...faulted human that I am. At least Spitzer wasn't getting 20 dollar BJs in the back of his limo from crack queens or playing with our old buddy Gannon (of White House fame) or diddleing kids (remember the Franklin Affair?).

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:48 PM on 03/11/2008

That we know of ..........YET

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:07 AM on 03/12/2008

Arrogance and power are nothing new under the sun.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:54 PM on 03/11/2008

Politics and sex scandals will always be together
like pancakes and maple syrup.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:52 PM on 03/11/2008

But I like pancakes and maple syrup.

Je pense, donc je suis populiste.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 03/12/2008

The really big crime is that he used a shell company to launder the transactions to the Sex Industry, which in turn then washed the money out of the country. So first charge is that Spitz was involved in money laundering -- big time.
"2nd, he unbulded transactions.
3rd, he broke state laws by moving his prostitute between state lines.
4th. and lastly, the Gov. paid for sexual favors.
This all by a former DA and the Governor of NY.
Who were the owners of the Emperors Club? Where was the money being washed to?
As for a victim less crime? I do not care if it is a 5 dollar/hour crack addict or a 5000/hour lady with a Phd.
Prostitution is dehumanizing and like slavery it has always been around. But like slavery (which was once thought of as beneficial and legal), hopefully it will be seen in a true light for shameful and ugly business it really is.
People serve time in the Big House for less than Spitzer may be charged with.
It is much more that a silly "sex scandal."

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:07 PM on 03/12/2008

Five grand is a lot of money for a piece of ass!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 03/11/2008

Any divorced man can tell you that 5 grand is pretty cheap.

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:27 PM on 03/12/2008

don't worry...'ol Elliot ain't done apyin' by a long shot!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:39 PM on 03/14/2008

I wonder if these girls are reporting their earnings to the IRS and what do they report as their occupation?

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:03 PM on 03/12/2008

and if you had it wouldn't YOU spend it on Anais!

replyReply favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:37 PM on 03/12/2008

what do you think all those big tax cuts for the wealthy go to anyway?...they're creating good paying jobs man.

 

 

 

 

 

Affidavit: Client 9 and Room 871

Published: March 11, 2008

Correction Appended

It was after 9 on the night before Valentine’s Day when she finally arrived, a young brunette named Kristen. She was 5-foot-5, 105 pounds. Pretty and petite.

This was at the Mayflower, one of Washington’s choicer hotels. Her client for the evening, a return customer, had booked Room 871. The money he had promised to pay would cover all expenses: the room, the minibar, room service should they order it, the train ticket that had brought her from New York and, naturally, her time.

A 47-page affidavit from an F.B.I. agent investigating a prostitution ring described the man at the hotel as “Client 9” and included considerable detail about him, the prostitute and his payment methods. But a law enforcement official and another person briefed on the case have identified Client 9 as Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York.

Kristen, having already passed through the lobby, with its wing chairs and its gilded half-clad cherubs, arrived in a small room in a quiet corner of the “Club Floor,” a special wing for V.I.P.’s. A king-size bed commanded the floor. Two photos — of the Capitol and the Washington Monument — hung beside a wood-framed mirror.

As soon as she came in, Kristen called her boss, Temeka Lewis, who was the booking agent for the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., an online prostitution ring, the affidavit said. Ms. Lewis told her that the client had arrived. He was headed for the room.

An assignation of more than an hour ensued, according to the affidavit, which was unsealed Thursday morning in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Room 871 had been booked under the name of George Fox, a pseudonym that Client 9 had been using, and one by which several people in the ring knew him, according to a law enforcement official. However, a few of the prostitutes had recently come to realize who the man really was, the official said.

The affidavit said Client 9 contacted the Emperor’s Club last month, requesting an appointment on Feb. 13 at 9 or 10 p.m. The appointment was to be in Washington, and he sent along what appears to have been a deposit of cash by mail.

Apparently, it was not his first time using the service. The affidavit captures the almost mundane financial back-and-forth prior to the meeting, quoting Ms. Lewis as telling her boss, Mark Brener, the owner of the ring, that Client 9 had a $400 or $500 credit to his name and wished to use it toward his next appointment.

When Ms. Lewis spoke to the client on Feb. 12, the affidavit said, she told him that his deposit had not yet arrived and asked if he had sent it to a business known as QAT.

“Yup, same as in the past,” the client said. “No question about it.”

After these initial matters were discussed, Ms. Lewis reached out to Kristen, the affidavit said, writing in a text message: “If D.C. appt. happens u will need 2 leave NYC @ 4:45 p.m.” The next day she sent along a possible itinerary: Amtrak’s Train No. 129 departed Pennsylvania Station at 4:25 p.m. and arrived in Washington at 7:40.

Minutes after sending this text message, Ms. Lewis took another call from Client 9 and told him that his “package” had arrived. In a prior conversation, Client 9 had already told her that he had booked a room and had paid for it in his own name; now he asked who was coming. Ms. Lewis told him it would be Kristen and, according to the affidavit, he responded: “Great, O.K., wonderful.”

Still, there were some “payment issues” to discuss. Ms. Lewis asked if he could give Kristen “extra funds” at the appointment and the client said that he would see what he could do. The agency did not like models to handle money for future meetings, Ms. Lewis said, but this time they would make an exception so they wouldn’t have to go through it again.

The Mayflower sits on Connecticut Avenue, in the heart of power Washington, a fixture in political circles nearly from the day it opened in 1925. J. Edgar Hoover used to lunch there. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stayed there while writing his 1933 inaugural address.

At 7:50 on the night of his appointment, Client 9 called Ms. Lewis, and they discussed how Kristen could get into the room discreetly. Client 9 was not going to be there when Kristen arrived and, according to the affidavit, Ms. Lewis said she would have preferred that Kristen not have to give a name at the desk. In the end, they reached a tentative solution for her to avoid the desk: The client would leave the hallway door ajar and leave a key inside the room for her to use.

Ms. Lewis told the client that his balance was $2,721 and that he could pay an additional $2,000 — apparently for future appointments. He said he wasn’t sure that he could find a bank machine that would give him that much money, but he would try. He asked Ms. Lewis to remind him what Kristen looked like and she told him, according to the affidavit, “an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds.”

The appointment was originally booked for four hours and, as Client 9 made his way toward the room, Ms. Lewis asked Kristen to send her a text message when he left. Kristen sent her a message at 12:02 a.m., the appointment having lasted more than an hour.

When she called Ms. Lewis, they discussed the client’s reputation as a “difficult” man who sometimes asked the prostitutes “to do things you might not think were safe,” Ms. Lewis said. But Kristen, according to court papers, was prepared: “I have a way of dealing with that,” she is quoted as having told Ms. Lewis. “I’d be like, Listen, dude, you really want the sex? ...You know what I mean.” The fact was that Kristen liked him, though, and told Ms. Lewis that he wasn’t all that difficult.

“I mean, it’s just kind of like ... whatever ... I’m here for a purpose,” the affidavit quotes her as saying. “I know what my purpose is. I am not a ... moron, you know what I mean.”

Ms. Lewis complimented Kristen on her sang-froid, telling her, “You look at it very uniquely, because ... no one ever says it that way.”

After that, they discussed her train ride home. And her share of the cash.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: March 15, 2008
An article on Tuesday about the night that Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York spent with a prostitute named Kristen in a Washington hotel, as detailed in an affidavit filed as part of a federal investigation of a prostitution ring, included incorrect information from the affidavit about an Amtrak train referred to in a text message as a possible itinerary for Kristen’s trip from New York to Washington. Train No. 129 leaves Pennsylvania Station at 4:25 p.m., not 5:39, and arrives in Washington at 7:40 p.m., not 9. (The later timetable applies to Train No. 193.)

 

Shocking But True ~ Disgraced - Governer Spitzer At The Bottom With All Of US!!
25 March, 2008

Affidavit: Client 9 and Room 871

Published: March 11, 2008

Correction Appended

It was after 9 on the night before Valentine’s Day when she finally arrived, a young brunette named Kristen. She was 5-foot-5, 105 pounds. Pretty and petite.

This was at the Mayflower, one of Washington’s choicer hotels. Her client for the evening, a return customer, had booked Room 871. The money he had promised to pay would cover all expenses: the room, the minibar, room service should they order it, the train ticket that had brought her from New York and, naturally, her time.

A 47-page affidavit from an F.B.I. agent investigating a prostitution ring described the man at the hotel as “Client 9” and included considerable detail about him, the prostitute and his payment methods. But a law enforcement official and another person briefed on the case have identified Client 9 as Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York.

Kristen, having already passed through the lobby, with its wing chairs and its gilded half-clad cherubs, arrived in a small room in a quiet corner of the “Club Floor,” a special wing for V.I.P.’s. A king-size bed commanded the floor. Two photos — of the Capitol and the Washington Monument — hung beside a wood-framed mirror.

As soon as she came in, Kristen called her boss, Temeka Lewis, who was the booking agent for the Emperor’s Club V.I.P., an online prostitution ring, the affidavit said. Ms. Lewis told her that the client had arrived. He was headed for the room.

An assignation of more than an hour ensued, according to the affidavit, which was unsealed Thursday morning in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Room 871 had been booked under the name of George Fox, a pseudonym that Client 9 had been using, and one by which several people in the ring knew him, according to a law enforcement official. However, a few of the prostitutes had recently come to realize who the man really was, the official said.

The affidavit said Client 9 contacted the Emperor’s Club last month, requesting an appointment on Feb. 13 at 9 or 10 p.m. The appointment was to be in Washington, and he sent along what appears to have been a deposit of cash by mail.

Apparently, it was not his first time using the service. The affidavit captures the almost mundane financial back-and-forth prior to the meeting, quoting Ms. Lewis as telling her boss, Mark Brener, the owner of the ring, that Client 9 had a $400 or $500 credit to his name and wished to use it toward his next appointment.

When Ms. Lewis spoke to the client on Feb. 12, the affidavit said, she told him that his deposit had not yet arrived and asked if he had sent it to a business known as QAT.

“Yup, same as in the past,” the client said. “No question about it.”

After these initial matters were discussed, Ms. Lewis reached out to Kristen, the affidavit said, writing in a text message: “If D.C. appt. happens u will need 2 leave NYC @ 4:45 p.m.” The next day she sent along a possible itinerary: Amtrak’s Train No. 129 departed Pennsylvania Station at 4:25 p.m. and arrived in Washington at 7:40.

Minutes after sending this text message, Ms. Lewis took another call from Client 9 and told him that his “package” had arrived. In a prior conversation, Client 9 had already told her that he had booked a room and had paid for it in his own name; now he asked who was coming. Ms. Lewis told him it would be Kristen and, according to the affidavit, he responded: “Great, O.K., wonderful.”

Still, there were some “payment issues” to discuss. Ms. Lewis asked if he could give Kristen “extra funds” at the appointment and the client said that he would see what he could do. The agency did not like models to handle money for future meetings, Ms. Lewis said, but this time they would make an exception so they wouldn’t have to go through it again.

The Mayflower sits on Connecticut Avenue, in the heart of power Washington, a fixture in political circles nearly from the day it opened in 1925. J. Edgar Hoover used to lunch there. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stayed there while writing his 1933 inaugural address.

At 7:50 on the night of his appointment, Client 9 called Ms. Lewis, and they discussed how Kristen could get into the room discreetly. Client 9 was not going to be there when Kristen arrived and, according to the affidavit, Ms. Lewis said she would have preferred that Kristen not have to give a name at the desk. In the end, they reached a tentative solution for her to avoid the desk: The client would leave the hallway door ajar and leave a key inside the room for her to use.

Ms. Lewis told the client that his balance was $2,721 and that he could pay an additional $2,000 — apparently for future appointments. He said he wasn’t sure that he could find a bank machine that would give him that much money, but he would try. He asked Ms. Lewis to remind him what Kristen looked like and she told him, according to the affidavit, “an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds.”

The appointment was originally booked for four hours and, as Client 9 made his way toward the room, Ms. Lewis asked Kristen to send her a text message when he left. Kristen sent her a message at 12:02 a.m., the appointment having lasted more than an hour.

When she called Ms. Lewis, they discussed the client’s reputation as a “difficult” man who sometimes asked the prostitutes “to do things you might not think were safe,” Ms. Lewis said. But Kristen, according to court papers, was prepared: “I have a way of dealing with that,” she is quoted as having told Ms. Lewis. “I’d be like, Listen, dude, you really want the sex? ...You know what I mean.” The fact was that Kristen liked him, though, and told Ms. Lewis that he wasn’t all that difficult.

“I mean, it’s just kind of like ... whatever ... I’m here for a purpose,” the affidavit quotes her as saying. “I know what my purpose is. I am not a ... moron, you know what I mean.”

Ms. Lewis complimented Kristen on her sang-froid, telling her, “You look at it very uniquely, because ... no one ever says it that way.”

After that, they discussed her train ride home. And her share of the cash.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: March 15, 2008
An article on Tuesday about the night that Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York spent with a prostitute named Kristen in a Washington hotel, as detailed in an affidavit filed as part of a federal investigation of a prostitution ring, included incorrect information from the affidavit about an Amtrak train referred to in a text message as a possible itinerary for Kristen’s trip from New York to Washington. Train No. 129 leaves Pennsylvania Station at 4:25 p.m., not 5:39, and arrives in Washington at 7:40 p.m., not 9. (The later timetable applies to Train No. 193.)

Shocking But True ~ Disgraced - Governer Spitzer At The Bottom With All Of US!!
25 March, 2008

For an Aspiring Singer, a Harsher Spotlight

Published: March 13, 2008

She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.

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The Spitzer Scandal

Today’s articles look at Eliot L. Spitzer's resignation, the woman at the center of the downfall, and the preparations being made as Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson prepares to succeed Mr. Spitzer, with reaction from Harlem, the neighborhood that Mr. Paterson represented in the State Senate.

Additional coverage includes a reconstruction of events, and a look at how a money trail led to the governor.

The resignation of the governor also affected those outside government, including parents who endured tricky conversations to explain the news to curious children, Spitzer supporters who grappled with the issue, and the news media, which scrambled to set up for Mr. Spitzer's short resignation speech.

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Kristen, the prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having had a rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court, where a lawyer was appointed to represent her. She is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating a prostitution ring called the Emperor’s Club V.I.P.

In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week, with all the stress of the case.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story.

Born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, she spoke softly and with good humor as she added with significant understatement: “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”

She has not been charged. The lawyer appointed to represent her, Don D. Buchwald, told a magistrate judge in court on Monday that she had been subpoenaed to testify in a grand jury investigation. Asked to swear that she had accurately filled out and signed a financial affidavit, she responded affirmatively.

A person with knowledge of the Emperor’s Club operation confirmed that the woman interviewed by The New York Times was the woman identified as Kristen in the affidavit. Mr. Buchwald confirmed various details of Ms. Dupré’s background but would not discuss the contents of the affidavit.

Ms. Dupré said by telephone Tuesday night that she was worried about how she would pay her rent since the man she was living with “walked out on me” after she discovered he had fathered two children. She said she was considering working at a friend’s restaurant or, once her apartment lease expires, moving back with her family in New Jersey “to relax.”

She did not say when she had started working for the Emperor’s Club, or how often she had liaisons arranged through the ring. Asked when she met Governor Spitzer and how many times they had seen each other, Ms. Dupré said she had no comment.

As of Wednesday morning, Ms. Dupré’s MySpace page recounted her “odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas;” public records show that she lived in Monmouth County, N.J., in 2001, and in North Carolina in 2003. She owns a company, created in 2005, called Pasche New York, which her lawyer said was an entertainment business designed to further her singing career.

Music is her first love, and on the MySpace page, Ms. Dupré mentions Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Christina Aguilera and Lauryn Hill among a long list of influences, including her brother, Kyle. (She also lists Whitney Houston, Madonna, Mary J. Blige and Amy Winehouse as her top MySpace friends.) In the interview, she said she saw the Rolling Stones perform at Radio City Music Hall on their last tour after a friend gave her two tickets. “They were amazing,” she said.

On MySpace, her page says: “I am all about my music and my music is all about me. It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel.”

She left “a broken family” at age 17, having been abused, according to the MySpace page, and has used drugs and “been broke and homeless.”

“Learned what it was like to have everything and lose it, again and again,” she writes. “Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone.

“But I made it,” she continues. “I’m still here and I love who I am. If I never went through the hard times, I would not be able to appreciate the good ones. Cliché, yes, but I know it’s true.”

Ms. Dupré’s mother, Carolyn Capalbo, 46, said that after her daughter finished sophomore year in high school, Ms. Dupré moved to North Carolina. “She was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now,” Ms. Capalbo said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

In 2006, Ms. Dupré changed her legal name, according to records in Monmouth County Superior Court, from Ashley R. Youmans to Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, taking her stepfather’s surname since she regarded him as “the only father I have known.” But in the interview, she referred to herself as Ashley Alexandra Dupré, which is how she is known on MySpace.

On the Web page is a recording of what she describes as her latest track, “What We Want,” a hip-hop-inflected rhythm-and-blues tune that asks, “Can you handle me, boy?” and uses some dated slang, calling someone her “boo.”

“I know what you want, you got what I want,” she sings in the chorus. “I know what you need. Can you handle me?”

Her MySpace biography says she started singing professionally after a musician she was living with heard her singing the Aretha Franklin hit “Respect” in the shower and burst into the bathroom with his lead guitarist. She says she toured and recorded with them, then moved to Manhattan in 2004 and “spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry.

“Now it’s all about my music, it’s all about expressing me.”

In the affidavit, the woman the Emperor’s Club called Kristen is described as “an American, petite, very pretty brunette, 5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds.” She apparently was booked at about $1,000 an hour, placing her in the middle of the seven-diamond scale by which the prostitutes were paid up to $4,300 an hour.

Ms. Capalbo said that she was “shell-shocked” when her daughter called in the middle of last week and told her she had been working as an escort and was now in trouble with the law. She said she was not sure that Ms. Dupré realized who Mr. Spitzer was when he was her client.

“She is a very bright girl who can handle someone like the governor,” Ms. Capalbo said. “But she also is a 22-year-old, not a 32-year-old or a 42-year-old, and she obviously got involved in something much larger than her.”

Benjamin Weiser contributed reporting.

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Fun Stuff ~ Lohan assumes the pose: Monroe's final sitting!!
25 March, 2008
Lindsay Lohan in the current issue of New York magazine, photographed by Bert Stern.
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Lohan assumes the pose: Monroe's final sitting

The Feb. 25 issue of New York magazine welcomes this spring fashion season with a cover image that doesn't bother trying to promote the Op-Art prints of Miuccia Prada or the free-form gowns of Missoni or Lanvin. The marketing of fashion has had little do with clothes for a long time, after all. At play instead is a commercialism that is both creepier and more compelling: a picture of a nude Lindsay Lohan, less than a year out of her third go at rehab.

The image is causing a ruckus in the blogosphere, and not because her nipples can be ogled through the thin triangle of pink chiffon she clasps with her mouth like a schnauzer. The photo and eight more inside the magazine mimic, frame for frame, a handful of the fabled and ubiquitous pictures known as "The Last Sitting" that the photographer Bert Stern took of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, six weeks before she died of an overdose.

To make the echo that much more macabre, Stern has taken these pictures as well. As an editor's note explains, he volunteered for the duty. Like a star quarterback who has never moved on, Stern has apparently been hankering to relive the old days — to find just the right sad beauty with whom to recreate his erotic and melancholy images.

"How did it come about?" the editor's note asks. "Stern had decided that Lohan was the perfect actress for this project, and when he asked if we might be interested in working with him on it, we were naturally more than enthusiastic."

A cover line that hangs to the right of Lohan's freckled leg heightens the unseemliness of the project. It reads, "Heath Ledger's Double Life." In a short profile of Lohan that precedes Stern's pictures, she talks about the tragedy of Monroe's death as well as Ledger's, announcing that no comparisons hold. "I sure as hell wouldn't let it happen to me," she says.

No matter Lohan's protestations, the pictures ask viewers to engage in a kind of mock necrophilia. They are sexual, funereal images. Given the context and the specter of Ledger's death, you can't help but feel you are looking at someone all made up for the grave. For the 10,000th time we are forced to ask: Lindsay, what were you thinking?

Lohan surely consented to these pictures in an effort to resurrect her career, in bad shape if not tatters after her difficulties with the production schedule of "Georgia Rule." But all they do is tell us what we already know: Lohan is a spaced-out head atop a singularly well-articulated form. The celebrity fashion shoot has become a vital tool in recasting a tainted or too-staid image: the good girl dresses up as if Charlotte Rampling in "The Night Porter," the bad girl puts on a cocktail suit. Lohan could have seized this moment to rebrand herself: a few pages in which she would be costumed to look like Margaret Thatcher. But here all she manages to accomplish is to remind us of her tendencies toward self-destruction.

Regardless, she appears dramatic doing it. Lohan looks narrow-hipped and voluptuous in the pictures, taut and soft. At 21 she seems even older than Monroe, who was 36 in the originals, and hardened by her excesses. The photographs bear none of Monroe's fragility. In the first picture — Lohan wears a platinum wig and false eyelashes for all the images, by the way — she drapes the pink chiffon across her torso diagonally, and if she looks like anyone at all, it is Madonna. Monroe looked available in her Stern photos; Lohan looks available for sale.

Lohan has spoken freely about her obsession with Monroe over the years, but it is Madonna's strategy of managing the image of her own sexuality that perhaps Lohan hopes to reproduce. There is a chance this approach could work for her if she is willing to offer the world more than her bust line. And if, in her recreational hours, she is prepared to turn simply to yoga.

Strange But True ...
19 March, 2008
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The best creepy campfire stories are always the ones that end with the words, "...And it’s all true, because I have the damned documentation here to prove it!"

In that spirit, we've tracked down five of the creepiest tales and urban legends that really happened to real people, proving once and for all that nothing is more terrifying than everyday life.

The Dead Body Under Your Freaking Matress

The Legend:
A couple checks into a hotel and have to put up with a foul odor in their room all night. They call the staff to complain and somebody figures out the stench is coming from the bed.

Now, there's no way that scenario is going to have a good ending. You're almost hoping at that point that it'll turn out the last guest just got drunk and pooped behind the headboard. But, no, the staff take off the matress and discover the couple has been sleeping over the rotting body of a dead girl who had been stuffed in the box spring.

The Truth:
This actually happened, in Las Vegas. Also, Kansas City, MO and Atlantic City, NJ and several times in Florida and California and, well, let's just say that in or under the bed in a hotel room seems to be a fairly popular destination for the recently deceased.

It makes sense if you think about it. The closet and under the bed are the two most popular places to hide just about anything, so it's not surprising a hell of a lot of corpses end up there as well. In fact, the odds are pretty good that at least once a guy has killed a prostitute, tried to stuff her under the bed, only to find there was already a body there.

The strangest part isn't that the bodies wind up in such a terrible hiding place (killers often aren't the type to plan ahead). No, the strange thing is that in almost every story people will sleep part of, or in many cases, the entire night, on top of the corpse before reporting it.

Most people we know will complain if they detect that someone might have smoked a cigarette in their room four months ago. Not these people, they slept inches above an oozing heap of rotting human flesh rather than inconvenience the hotel management by asking for a new room.

Or, at least we hope sleeping is all they did on that bed. Oh, man, can you imagine dying and then the first thing that happens is some middle age couple starts porking over you? Ew.

Hopefully they at least got a free continental breakfast out of the ordeal.

The Funhouse Mummy

The Myth:
A prop at a carnival was discovered not to be made of the usual combination of papier mache and carni spit, but human skin and bone. All the little kiddies at the haunted house had been poking and giggling at a real, mummified dead body.

The Truth:
Apparently the smell wasn’t just coming from the convict manning the corndog stand. Back in 1976, a camera crew filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man began to set up in the haunted house at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, Calif.

As they were moving aside a "hanging man" prop, they accidentally knocked off its arm and discovered human bones inside. Bionic, this poor sap wasn’t.

The story gets stranger. The body was actually that of criminal mastermind Elmer McCurdy, who was killed in a shootout after robbing a train in 1911. The princely sum old Elmer got killed for? $46 (and two jugs of whiskey).

McCurdy was embalmed by the local undertaker, and apparently the guy was so darn pleased with his work that he propped up the corpse in the funeral home as evidence of his skills. People were charged 5 cents to see the corpse, which they paid by dropping a nickel in the cadaver’s mouth. Remember that little bit of history the next time somebody turns their nose up at you for liking Hostel 2.

 

Think it can’t get any stranger? Oh, you naïve fool. After several years of raking in the nickels (how exactly these coins were retrieved after being dropped into the corpse’s mouth is something probably best left to the imagination) our enterprising undertaker’s scheme was ruined when McCurdy's brothers showed up to claim him. Of course, these guys weren’t his brothers at all, but wily carnival promoters. From that point on, McCurdy’s mummy went on a morbid mystery tour all around America, popping up at carnivals all over the country before finally coming to rest in Long Beach.

McCurdy is now buried in Oklahoma. Because McCurdy apparently had the most entertaining corpse in history, they prevented anyone else from taking him on tour by dumping concrete on top of the casket. No, really.

The Curiously Realistic Decoration

The Legend:
What was thought to be your typically charming Halloween decoration depicting a lynched woman hanging from a tree, turns out to be a genuine suicide.

The Truth:
In the town of Frederica, Delaware, a 42-year-old woman, perhaps distraught by the fact that she lived in Delaware, hung herself from a tree near a busy road on a Tuesday night. The body managed to hang there until the next day and was viewed by many unwitting (or perhaps retarded) spectators before somebody realized it wasn't a decoration and finally called the police.

Once again it's the lack of complaints from passers-by that amaze us. Even if the hanging thing wasn't a body, it was something that looked exactly like one and would be considered an extremely distasteful Halloween decoration (unless she put on a wacky witch's costume before doing the deed).

With the political correctness these days, you'd have expected two special city council meetings and 30 letters to the editor within the first ten minutes of someone seeing it.

We can't help but wonder, if the person who eventually called the police hadn't bothered, how much longer would the body have hung there? This happened five days before Halloween. Add five days of decomposition to the equation and suddenly you have something a whole lot more terrifying.

Also, did the woman plan this? She knew what time of year it was, and intentionally hung herself in a public place. Did she want her corpse to blend in with the bed sheet ghosts and stuffed witches around the neighborhood? If so, it sounds like she may have been a fascinating person.

A Halloween Stunt Goes Wrong in the Least Surprising Way Possible

The Legend:
A teenager manages to provide the Halloween show he’s in with the ultimate finale when, while pretending to hang himself in front of the audience, he actually hangs himself.

The Truth:
While the fine citizens of Frederica we discussed were perhaps a bit slow on the uptake, the people involved in this hanging-related legend are on the dipshit honor roll. Mainly because it's happened more than once.

Yes, people have repeatedly tried to pull off an imitation hanging for a Halloween show, forgot to include the "imitation" part and went ahead and accidentally killed themselves. Yes, they were pretty much all teenage males.

In one instance, an entire working gallows was built for a show, with the "victim" secured by a harness so that he’d stop just short of actually being hung (take a wild guess how that turned out). Now we’re just thinking aloud here, but if we were standing on a gallows, fake or not, with a rope around our necks, we’d want to take a few precautions. For example, and again just blue-skying, maybe don’t use a real rope that is tied into a real noose that is wrapped around your real neck in a way that could really kill you.

Perhaps the saddest thing about the story was how completely unnecessary the whole thing was. Here’s a tip for anyone trying to thrill kids on Halloween in the future: You don’t need to hang yourself. Just give out full-sized chocolate bars instead of those not-so-fun "fun-sized" ones. We can guarantee the tykes will be talking about the house that gave out full-sized Snickers bars long after some life-risking stunt was forgotten.

The Legend:
Some poor schmuck is committed to his or her eternal resting place, even though they aren’t quite ready to take that final dirt nap. Scratch marks are later found on the coffin lid along with other desperate signs of escape.

The Truth:
This not only happened, but back in the day it happened with alarming regularity. In the late 19th century, William Tebb tried to compile all the instances of premature burial from medical sources of the day. He managed to collect 219 cases of near-premature burial, 149 cases of actual premature burial and a dozen cases where dissection or embalming had begun on a not-yet-deceased body.

Now, this may seem ridiculous, but keep in mind this was an era before doctors such as the esteemed Dr. Gregory House gained the ability to solve any ailment within 42 minutes. If you went to the doctor with the flu in those days, he’d likely cover you in leeches and prescribe you heroin to suppress your cough. Their only method for determining if a person had died was to lean over their face and scream "WAKE UP" over and over again. If you didn't react, they buried you.

The concern over being buried alive back then was so real that the must-have hot-ticket item for the wealthy and paranoid were "safety coffins" that allowed those inside to signal to the outside world (usually by ringing a bell or raising some type of flag) should they awake 6-feet under. Though, answering that bell sounds like a good way to get ambushed by a zombie if you ask us.

Unfortunately safety coffins aren’t in vogue anymore, so if you’re at the cemetery and hear a muffled voice calling out "OK guys, joke’s over. Let me out!" it might be a good idea to inform someone with a shovel quickly.

Of course, that last sentence was merely facetious, there’s no way something like this could still happen today. Uh, well, except for this story about a Venezuelan man waking up during his autopsy. On second thought, you might want to consider adding a line in your will that states you’re to be buried with a gas-powered auger in your casket when you go.

Nathan Birch also writes the disgustingly cute webcomic Zoology.


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March 13, 2008

Incompetent government ministers

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March 12, 2008

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Alan in Jo'burg is now taking a quick 40 winks have sent this one in

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March 10, 2008

Clearly he is cooking spaghetti tonight

& has been out get the ingredients … such as mince

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A wave of the fat capitalist cigar to Hugh for snapping this one

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Economics explained

You might have looked at this before, but this version (via AJDS) has a couple of additions that I have not seen...

SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour

COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk

FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk

NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you

BUREAUCRATISE: You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, then throws the milk away

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank,then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for fivecows. The milk rights of the six cows is transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.Sell one cow to buy a new President of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull

THE ANDERSEN MODEL: You have two cows. You shred them

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'cowkimon' and market it worldwide

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so theylive for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.You charge the owners for storing them

A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported otherwise

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them

A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad

IRAQI CORPORATION: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out ofyou and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a democracy

AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate

WELSH CORPORATION: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive

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March 7, 2008

Passport Application

I don't care if this is true or not, or even if it has been posted on a thousand other sites: to my mind, it just about sums it all up...

Dear Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport but I am a total loss to understand or believe the hoops I am being asked to jump through.

How is it that Bert Smith of T.V. Rentals Basingstoke has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a satellite dish from them back in 1994, and yet, the Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date?

How come that nice West African immigrant chappy who comes round every Thursday night with his DVD rentals van can tell me every film or video I have had out since he started his business up eleven years ago, yet you still want me to remind you of my last three jobs, two of which were with contractors working for the government?

How come the T.V. detector van can tell if my T.V. is on, what channel I am watching and whether I have paid my licence or not, and yet if I win the government run lottery they have no idea I have won or where I am and will keep the bloody money to themselves if I fail to claim in good time. Do you people do this by hand?

You have my birth date on numerous files you hold on me, including the one with all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30-odd years. It's on my health insurance card, my driver's licence, on the last four passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes and boats over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done every ten years and the electoral registration forms I have to complete, by law, every time our lords and masters are up for re-election.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, I was born in Maidenhead on the 4th of March 1957, my mother's name is Mary, her maiden name was Reynolds, my father's name is Robert, and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and the day I die!

I apologise Minister. I'm obviously not myself this morning. But between you and me, I have simply had enough! You mail the application to my house, then you ask me for my address. What is going on? Do you have a gang of Neanderthals working there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to activate the Fifth Reich for God's sake! I just want to go and park my weary backside on a sunny, sandy beach for a couple of week's well-earned rest away from all this crap.

Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to back to Salisbury and get another copy of my birth certificate because you lost the last one. AND to the tune of 60 quid! What a racket THAT is!! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day? But nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some tosser to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know... the one where we're not allowed to smile in in case we look as if we are enjoying the process!
Hey, you know why we can't smile? 'Cause we're totally jacked off!

I served in the armed forces for more than 25 years including over ten years at the Ministry of Defence in London. I have had security clearances which allowed me to sit in the Cabinet Office, five seats away from the Prime Minister while he was being briefed on the first Gulf War and I have been doing volunteer work for the British Red Cross ever since I left the Services. However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am -- you know, someone like my doctor...

who, before he got his medical degree 6 months ago WAS LIVING IN PAKISTAN...

Yours sincerely,
An Irate British Citizen.

(via AJDS)

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March 3, 2008

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Its not round you know...

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After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
Revelation 7:1 (NIV translation)

It is a well-established Biblical fact that the Earth is flat and immobile. Every good Biblical literalist knows the Scriptural passages which demonstrate that the Earth does not move and that its surface is not curved: Daniel 4:10-11, Matthew 4:8, Joshua 10:12, 1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalms 93:1 & 96:10 & 104:5, Isaiah 45:18; the list goes on and on.

But far too many lazy Biblical literalists today ignore the plain fact that the Bible also tells us that the flat Earth does not have curved edges. Even the late, great Charles K. Johnson, the valiant fighter for the Truth who carried the message of the earlier Zetetic Astronomers forward into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by founding the International Flat Earth Society, made the grievous error of assuming that the Earth was shaped like a circular disk. Nothing could be further from the Truth.

The Book of Revelation, chapter 7, verse 1, makes the following unmistakable statement about the shape of the Earth

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.

This clearly shows that the Earth has exactly four corners. One might argue that the edges of the Earth between these four corners could be curved. But look at the following passages in the Book of Job

for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Job 28:24 (NIV translation)

He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:3 (NIV translation)

Both of these passages clearly state that the earth has ends — that is, straight edges. This, combined with the four corners provided in Revelation 7:1, means that the Earth must be some kind of quadrilateral shape. The possibilities are:

Square
Non-square rectangle
Non-square rhombus (i.e. a "diamond" shape)
Non-rectangular, non-rhombic parallelogram
Trapezoid
Concave quadrilateral
Isosceles quadrilateral
Scalene quadrilateral

Narrowing down the possibilities, we can find more information about the shape of the Earth in the Book of Isaiah

He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
Isaiah 11:12 (NIV translation)

A quarter, of course, means exactly one-fourth. In order for the Earth to have four quarters, it must be of a shape that is divisible into four pieces that are all exactly the same shape and size as one another, i.e. four congruent pieces. Not all quadrilateral shapes can be divided into four congruent pieces. In fact, the only kinds of quadrilateral shapes that can be divided into four congruent pieces are the following

(so, in light of Isaiah 11:12, the two Job passages, and Revelation 7:1), the possible shapes of the Earth are limited to

Square
Non-square rectangle
Non-square rhombus
Non-rectangular, non-rhombic parallelogram
Isosceles trapezoid with three sides of identical length
Isosceles trapezoid with the shorter parallel side 1/3 the length of the longer parallel side
Isosceles concave quadrilateral .

Finally, we can look to the mention of the four winds in Revelation 7:1 to give us the last clue. Everybody knows that "the four winds" are the North Wind, the South Wind, the East Wind, and the West Wind. Right?

Well, Revelation 7:1 clearly shows four angels holding back these four winds. In order for each angel to "hold back" one of the Four Winds, he would have to be standing at the point on the Earth from whence the Wind originated. Thus, to hold back the North Wind, an angel would have to be standing at the northernmost point on the Earth. To hold back the South Wind, an angel would have to be standing at the southernmost point on the Earth. Et cetera.

The four angels would have to have been standing at the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, and westernmost points on the Earth — in other words, at the extreme ends of the four main compass points.

But we already know that they were also standing at the four corners of the Earth. This means that the four corners of the Earth are located at the compass points! A non-square rectangle, a non-rhombic parallelogram, or an isosceles trapezoid cannot be aligned in such a way that their corners are pointing directly at the compass points. Only a rhombic shape can be aligned in such a way.

Therefore, when we have carefully examined all the clues in Revelation 7:1, combined with the two Job passages and Isaiah 11:12, the only two possible shapes for the Earth are a square, or
a non-square rhombus . . . with its corners oriented to point directly north, south, east, and west.

We know that God is perfect. God would, therefore, have created the Earth in the most perfect shape possible. As I've already proven, we know from Rev 7:1, Isaiah 11:12, and Job that the Earth must be a rhombus of some sort. It makes good Biblical sense that God would have created Earth to be the most perfect kind of rhombus possible. The most perfect kind of rhombus is the square. Its rectilinear corners perfectly match the rectitude of God. Therefore, the Earth must be square.

And if that's not enough to convince you, consider this: Of all the nations on Earth today, God most loves the United States of America. This is evident from the fact that Pat Robertson, God's chosen spokesman, lives in the U.S. One of America's main pastimes is the game of baseball. Baseball is played on a "diamond", which is perfectly square in shape — and which, I might add, has its corners oriented to point toward the four compass points. God would not have made baseball into the national pastime of His 'favourite' nation if He didn't have a higher purpose in mind for it. Clearly, His higher purpose is to show us the true shape of the Earth. The Earth must be perfectly square, just like the diamond-shaped field in God's chosen sport is square.

Take a gander at this passage from First Samuel

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel 2:8 (KJV translation)

This clearly shows that the Earth rests on an unspecified number of pillars (Discworld fans take note). A couple of translations of the Old Testament floating around say "foundations" or "fixtures" in place of pillars, but the original Hebrew word that appears here is "matsuwq", which literally means a cast metal support, a pillar, or a column. What the pillars themselves are resting on is unknown. They might not be resting upon anything. Perhaps they are being held up by divine grace. Perhaps they are infinitely tall. All we know for sure is that a set of pillars beneath the Earth must exist.

This means that Hell, which is under the Earth, is interrupted by pillars in some places. This may explain how Satan is going to break out of Hell after the thousand years of peace in Revelation: perhaps he's going to climb up one of these pillars. This is a speculation for another webpage, however.

F.A.Qs

"Can I believe in the round Earth and still get into heaven?"
No. As you know, if you do not accept every word in the bible as literally true, you are not really accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and are doomed to burn in Hell for all eternity. God won't let any half-assed believers into heaven.

"What about all those pictures from space, showing that the Earth is round?"
Just more proof that Hollywood is in league with the devil. Charles K. Johnson of the International Flat Earth Society has already demonstrated that every picture of the "Earth" as seen from "space" was faked. In fact, the entire NASA space program is a sham. The movie Capricorn One was a documentary about how the Apollo moon mission was faked; the people who worked on the movie knew all about this, but were told to keep quiet. O.J. Simpson, one of the stars of Capricorn One, was going to come forward with THE TRUTH, but he was silenced by being framed for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The conspirators agreed to convince the jury to hand over a "not guilty" verdict only because O.J. Simpson promised not to go public with the cover-up.

"How come no airline pilots have ever reported seeing the edges of the Earth?"
Airline pilots are also in league with the devil. This is for your protection. If True Believers were allowed to pilot airliners, many planes would instantly become unmanned during the pre-Tribulation Rapture, thus crashing and killing everybody on board. When crossing the Equator or the Prime Meridian, airline pilots have to make sharp 90-degree turns to follow the square contours of the Earth. They hide this fact by blaming it on "turbulence."

"Couldn't the phrase 'four corners of the Earth' in Revelation 7:1 merely be a commonly-used metaphor for the farthest reaches of the Earth?"
Beware the slippery slope of interpreting a Biblical passage as "metaphor," for that way surely leads to Death. Next, you'll be saying the Earth wasn't created in six literal days, or that the Earth wasn't literally split in two in Genesis 10:25, and then your daughters will grow up to be temple prostitutes and your children will learn how to cast real spells by playing Dungeons & Dragons® and locusts will descend upon Israel and lions will lie down with lambs. They've already kicked God out of our schools because of such thinking. Don't let Satan convert even more souls away from the One True Way than he already has.

"What about Isaiah 40:22?"
Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 22 reads (in the NIV translation)

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Does this mean the Earth is circular? Not at all. If it were circular, Job's mention of the ends of the Earth would be meaningless. The word translated as "circle" in this verse is the Hebrew "chuwg", which can mean circle, but can also mean circuit or compass. When occurring by itself, this word can also mean the vault of the heavens. This verse probably refers to the fact that God sits enthroned above the vault of the heavens, which encompasses the whole Earth. Besides, everyone knows that tents are supposed to be square.

"What can I do in my community to make the heathenous Round-Earthers see the light?"
Show them this webpage. Take out your own bible, and show them Revelation 7:1, Isaiah 11:12, and the two Job passages. If that doesn't convince them, you can use your bible to hit them on top of the head and shout, "Earth square!". Hold Square Dances where you hand out International Square Earth Society literature. March in picket lines in front of globe manufacturers with signs reading "Earth square!", "Satan says the Earth is round," "No round Earths", etc.. Boycott Rand McNally. Buy square Earth maps and place them prominently in classrooms and on bulletin boards. Yell at the school board and demand "equal time" for the "equally valid" scientific theory that the Earth is square, while reminding them that the notion of a round Earth is "just a theory." Hold up signs saying "Rev 7:1" for the cameras at football games. There's so much one person can do to spread the Word that it's impossible to list all the possibilities here.

(& thanks to Alan for this one)

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February 27, 2008

& this mornings piece of homo-erotic Nazi propaganda is

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Is the sort of thing that Christopher Isherwood (pictured left) would have no doubt have approved of

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As W H Auden (pictured right) wrote of him

He loved the trees, he loved the squares, he loved the little fountains & the cafes; but most of all, he love those beautiful Berlin boys

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The British disease?

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February 26, 2008

The truth behind classic LP covers

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February 25, 2008

Opus Dei launch their new range of lavatory seats

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February 22, 2008

& no, this wasn't me last week

... however a few years ago, it might well have been

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Contributor TDB thinks that he heard a rumour that this chap was looking for his snowmobile after a blizzard. Sadly, we will probably never know

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February 21, 2008

The sun never really set on the Empire

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At last proof of why the sun never really set on the British Empire

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Stolen from here . Sadly, as our author goes on to point out

The British Empire, in one sense long gone, confirmed with the return of Hong Kong to Communist China in 1997, thus continues a slow fade everywhere. At the same time, British sovereignty in Britain itself becomes increasingly compromised by participation in the ill designed, ill considered, corrupt, and heavy handed Euro-government of the European Community, and by separatist movements in Scotland, Wales, and, as always, Ireland.

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February 20, 2008

But we knew this already

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Stolen from Blognor Regis

BTW, here is one for all you bacon lovers (via Breakfast Blogger) & Geoffrey is asking himself the sort of questions that I pose myself every morning

I ran across an odd family last month, and walked away irate. It’s a mother with 5 kids, multiple fathers. Mom doesn’t speak one word of English, and has been living in this country for 20 years. I’m unsure of her status, but she is not a citizen. She doesn’t work, and as far as I know never has. She lives in government subsidized housing, and collects some form of assistance. Why the f*ck are my tax dollars paying for this? I hate welfare to begin with, but the realization that we are IMPORTING people to give our money to burns me. I wish I could build my own country. Not many moonbats would want to live there, though.

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February 19, 2008

& for those of you that thought that their tactical rifles were fully kitted out...

you really need one of these

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Stolen from Last of the Few

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In the light of recent events at SocGen

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Anybody seen one for Northern Rock yet?

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Of pink gins, dolphins & poor puns

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Sometimes I just sit here drinking & smoking: other times I just drink whenever it is that I have run out of cigars, cigarettes or just about any other tobacco product that you care to mention. In fact these days I have become much more selective about who I drink with. In fact there is considerable merit in drinking on your own. The conversation tends to be a whole lot better if nothing else. Indeed when you are soloing a bottle of something dark & peaty you can still construe, in your own addled mind, that mumbling incoherently into the recently drained bottle constitutes an erudite conversation. Indeed, as the years pass, social drinking seems to hold less & less attraction as the pleasure of getting well & truly biffed has to be balanced against the often excruciating pain of those whose company you share.

For example, you are sitting around the dinner table, having had a few little drinkie-poos, desperately trying to resist the urge to stick a fork in the eye of the next person that talks about house prices, when the anaemic ironmongery through the nose vegetarian (who probably lives in a trendy part of North London) finally opines that the sub prime mortgage crisis wouldn’t have happened if we learnt more for dolphins. Eh? Dear readers, I do know that I tend to be rather selective about the reality that I choose to accept but the day that a dolphin can lecture me on the inherent risks of over-leveraging real estate assets & poor credit quality is the day that I will stop strapping limpet mines to their heads.

Upon hearing this sort of nonsense, your immediate reaction has to be to ensure that the speaker is completely flambéed: take my advice, douse with a bottle of (cheap cooking) brandy & just toss in a Swan Vesta. However, when one of the guests looks as though that have been to an Afghan dog fight, conversation over coffee can become somewhat stilted… & all because this waif-like figure who up until that point contributed nothing to the conversation all evening since they refused to eat absolutely anything, not even the carrots, because they were dressed with butter that might not have come from free range fair trade milk, suddenly & so disastrously decided to pipe up.

Indeed, assuming that they survived the ensuing conflagration of pudding course, the red mist will descend & the voices in the salt seller urge you to go a get Jose’s machete that you have secreted under the drivers seat of your car, if the conversation continues on that particular course … which inevitably it will. In those last few fleeting moments of rational thought, you can consider that if dolphins are so bl**dy smart, how come they didn’t invent keyhole surgery, satellite telecommunications or more importantly, automatic grenade launchers.

Maybe it is a function of a flawed childhood overdosing on the Cartoon Network & National Geographic channel but some people still insist on imbuing animals with human qualities. So what if dolphins are capable of forming complex social structures … big deal … so do termites; & to date not even Sir David Attenborough has managed to film a member of the Coptotermes genus, building a proper drink. Piling up mounds of earth is one thing, but building a sensibly sized pink gin is quite another.

In fact the next time you should happen to be in the bar at Sea World & the dolphin behind the bar makes a complete fluff of your chosen sharpener, resist the temptation to ask him if he or she did that on ‘porpoise’ (sorry) & instead ask the animal if they are so damn smart, how come they keep getting caught in tuna nets?

However, it is important when posing such conundrums to ensure that you haven’t already partaken in a few crafty early morning come-back bracers & are in fact talking to a Delphinidae & not Le Dauphin. If you have made such an error, the chances are that your question will be greeted with a Gallic shrug of the shoulders & you drinks order will possibly comprise something green as well as being accompanied with a side order of half cooked Blackbirds feet. Confronted with a bolshie member of the former French Royal family the best course of action is to immediately threaten to smother the nearest soufflé with mayonnaise. This I guarantee you will engender a degree Vichy-ite collaboration not seen since Marshall Henri Petain started receiving long distance phone calls from Berlin.

See, all of this unpleasantness could have been avoided if you had just stayed at home with a half decent bottle which is why this evening your humble correspondent will be in … Bristol of all places. I have truly sinned in a previous life to deserve this & I already have a bad feeling about what might occur over pudding.

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February 11, 2008

More on the Vickers ...

Just picking up from last weeks Vickers machine gun post, I found this cartoon sketch in the National Archive – the full cartoon is under the fold.

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However, don’t you just wish that you Grandmother had given you a Vickers??

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09 March, 2008
7 Minutes of Sex
15:09 - March 07th, 2008

If you’ve been worried that your busy life has been getting in the way of your sex life – according to a new study, you have no need to worry.

The study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, says that even the busiest of us can fit in some sexy fun – because apparently the best sex can be fitted into your Diet Coke break...

The study says 7-13 minutes of sex is the most desirable and 3-7 minutes is adequate. Just 3 minutes! Stories of all-night-long romps aren’t generally untrue then, but unwanted too. For anything over 13 minutes is just too long! So set your timers and get going!

But, as with many things in life, erring on the side of caution is best. Anything less than 3 minutes is deemed inadequate – and we should think so too. So tonight, if you’re tired after work, don’t worry – you’ve only got to commit to 13 minutes of fun. So give the tantra a miss, because it seems all the lady loves is a quickie…

(Image: from overdrive_cz’s flickr stream)

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Fun Stuff ~ Continues Till Today - A Must See ...
08 March, 2008

The 15 Minute Dating Blog

True Dating Horror Stories and Tips from Real People

How I almost married my AIM lover

March 4th, 2008

by Heather.
Author

One night in July, I was up late on the computer, and recieved an instant message from some guy. It stated, “Hey, remember me?” I didn’t know who it was so I asked him a few questions to see if I could remember. Well, he told me that I met him at some party, which wasn’t true, b/c I hadn’t been to any parties in years. Turns out, I really didn’t know him, just some random instant message. He was the funniest person I had ever encountered on the net, so I just kept talking to him.

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Secrets Of The Boys Club: What Guys Really Think The First Time They See You

February 24th, 2008

by Matt Titus.
Author

There is one thing I try to convey to all of the women I work with: most men do not approach a woman because he thinks she is moral, funny or smart. His initial intention is to sleep with her. I know this sounds harsh and it may be shocking, but it’s true. I am a man and it has never been my intention to approach woman to make a new friend. I have enough friends and none of them wear make-up or smell pretty.

I try to teach women how to think like a man while never losing sight of her femininity. In most cases, a man’s actions are (unfortunately) driven by what pleases him visually, acting out of instinct and only thinking in the moment. My basic thesis is that if a woman can be taught to understand a man’s dating behavior, she can easily control, predict and successfully maneuver through all the confusing “MANerisms” during that date. In other words, I teach women how to speak “man.”

So here’s secret #1 of the Boy’s Club: when a man walks down a crowded street he involuntary classifies all women into two categories: “would sleep with” and “wouldn’t sleep with.”

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Speaking the Universal Language of Emotion

February 16th, 2008

by Joshua Thompson.
Arthor

Buddha said, “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” Our thoughts honestly control what we do. There is plenty of material written on this. So I won’t get into it too much.

We are a product of what we think…but also what we feel. And I think our feelings aren’t focused on enough.

Honestly, we are mostly emotionally beings. We act based on thoughts, we react based on emotions. Our emotions can stimulate us to do things. They can also stimulate us to ignore reason.

This is the idea that women can really mess you up…because you don’t think logically. Your control is overrun by your emotional language.

But how does this apply to your dating?

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The “Dealbreaker”

February 8th, 2008

by Katy Franklin.
Arthor

Every girl has her own little hang-ups about a guy that drive her crazy. Whether you’re out on a first date with someone, have been dating him casually for quite some time, or have been in a long-term relationship with a man, these little annoyances can become “Dealbreakers” or “DB’s,” as my friends and I so lovingly refer to them. Some are not so bad, while others can be totally devastating to a first date, or a committed relationship. So I thought long and hard and came up with a list of things I would consider “Dealbreakers” for myself. I also polled some girlfriends to get some second opinions and fresh ideas. The following are 50 serious Dealbreakers…guys, you may want to take notes…

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The Fake Women in My Life

February 3rd, 2008

by Andy Cowan.
Arthor

As with the early days of live TV, the early days of “live women” are starting to seem like a quaint remnant from yesteryear, yet another golden age we didn’t know was golden until it faded away with our memories. I admit that most of the ladies who’ve been “communicating” with me lately have been prerecorded – as when I recently answered the phone and heard, “Hi, this is Wendy! Great news!” It would be greater news if the Wendy in my life wasn’t an automaton.

My most serious relationship with a virtual woman – My voicemail secretary. Unfortunately, I know she’s been two, three and four-timing me with other guys, and women, after I reach their voicemail and hear her busily answering their phones while busy not answering mine. But at least she sounds as detached with them as she does with me. (I was starting to take it personally.)

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Dating Embarrassment

January 25th, 2008

by Chania
Chania, author

Well, dating is never easy when you’re 16 and desperately want a boyfriend, but it can get much more difficult if you’re very naive and with your head in the clouds.

I had my first boyfriend at 15 (it only lasted a month and a half), and I can’t possible imagine what I saw in him then. But at that moment I was so eager to have a boyfriend that I was literally “blind”. One afternoon, after waiting 3 or 4 days for him to call, I simply got out of the house, in spite of my father’s warnings that it is embarrassing for a girl to look for a boy and to contact him, and that she should wait (“That’s what I have been doing for 3 days, dad! I want to see him!” Man, how desperate it sounds now…) and I went to his block of flats. I knew that at that hour (around 6.30 pm) he should be outside with the boys, playing football. But nobody was there, probably because it was dark and cold.

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Is that a Sty in your Eye?

January 16th, 2008

by Karen Rodriguez
Karen Rodriguez, author

I was 24 years old and divorced living in a house with six other flight attendants, with only a laptop and a suitcase as my real processions. However, that wasn’t the worst part. I was now at the airport being picked up by my first date via Myspace, which is a current site being used by people who were too broke to pay any fees at a real dating site. Surely, this was a recipe for disaster, but having found love and marriage so quickly at a young age once makes me an eternal romantic.

His name was Peter. He was 26 years old, divorced, with a 5 year old daughter, and working at a hardware store. Amazing the potential suitors you can find by just typing in your zip code while including a twenty mile radius. Even if we did not have movies, passions, and interests in common, we had divorce, starting over and heartache to dwell on. Soon after, what followed were the awkward first phone calls. After the second week of phone conversations he let me know he told his daughter that he had a new girlfriend. This should have set off an alarm in my head. Instead I was flattered. A flight attendant’s life could at times be very lonely, and a friendly voice during a layover in Alaska or Kuwait was better than watching an episode of the Golden Girls.

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Online Dating Profiles: A couple paragraphs that can change your life

January 4th, 2008

by Ed Attanasio
Ed Attanasio, author

Because I am a writer, many of my friends ask me all the time to write their online profiles to post on dating web sites. I always feel like it’s a big commitment — kind of like writing someone’s resume or biography. There’s a lot at stake and the pressure to write something really good about someone can be very exhausting, because many of my friends are highly dysfunctional. How do you effectively describe the essence of a human being in just a few paragraphs? Without lying or opening yourself up to a civil suit?

I must admit, I have gotten pretty adept at it over the years. The secret to writing a great profile is to emphasize the good things about people while minimizing their shortcomings. Stretching the truth slightly is no crime and many people do it.

No matter how bad or messed up some people are, you can usually find something positive to write about them. They say that Attila the Hun was really nice to his elephants (“loves animals”). Hitler was a vegetarian (“healthy and fit”). And legend has it that Genghis Khan took really good care of his fu manchu (“well-groomed”).

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Late Bloomer

December 18th, 2007

by Carly Zinderman.
Author

You know that Drew Barrymore movie, Never Been Kissed? I totally relate to it, except for being a completely pathetic loser. Yet, in high school, no boy ever showed me the slightest bit of interest. I wasn’t worried about it though, my friends were never asked out either, despite the attempts my closest friend occasionally made on random guys that happened to catch her interest. Other than her over-aggressive pursuit of the male sex, my friends and I had next to no contact with boys during our four years of high school and for most of us, the male-free barrier continued on into our college years as well. But the dearth of dating didn’t bug me as much as you’d think. You don’t miss what you’ve never had and never having had a guy; I didn’t miss not having one. Besides, my friends and I had each other, and that was enough. We would sometimes joke about how we would be old cat ladies, which did bother me, because I’m a really a dog person.

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Good Dating Tip or Not?

December 13th, 2007


Are you watching old Seinfeld reruns for dates because you’re broke? Do you need help with saving money without being a cheap date? If you answered “yes” to either or both of these questions, consider this dating advice: Spice things up a bit with these 7 money-saving and fun dating ideas.

Here’s the link to the full article.

7 Dating Tips - Ideas for How to Save Money

Some of these ideas have potentials of being Romantic (e.g. Central Park), while others may be disasterous if you want a second date. It’s definitely worth a look though.

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Happily Single – It’s Not a Myth

December 6th, 2007

by Brenda.
Author

A few months ago I left a comment here on a post entitled “Are You Permanently Celibate” and have been asked to expand on my thoughts.

Basically the post was about a women who had her name on a dating site and in her profile stated that she was permanently celibate. The post itself didn’t compel me to leave a comment, it was everyone’s comments that got me a little hot and bothered. Most of them were about how this woman was a tease, had problems, didn’t like men, was lying to herself, etc. I disagreed completely. She seemed to understand herself well and was very upfront about what she wanted, which struck me as being very honest. Chances are she only got responses from men who felt much the same way she did about dating…more power to her I say.

Unlike this woman I haven’t made some declaration to be permanently celibate, but I do consider myself to be happily single. As I said in my comments to the original post, “There’s a myth out there that women or men who are happily single are not open enough, hate the opposite sex, need therapy or are just lying.” The reality is, being in a relationship or being married does not automatically mean that you’ll be happy. It also doesn’t mean you won’t be lonely. I was married for 10 years and have been single for 14, and during both times experienced feelings of loneliness, along with many other feelings, both positive and negative.

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Dater Beware : My Encounter with …

December 4th, 2007

by Paul G Akins Jr.
Arthor

Dating can be summed up in one word, annoying. The whole process and all of the games involved irritate the hell out of me. Which is why when my friends suggested that I give online dating a try I politely said hell no.

But after about a month of harassment and ridicule I signed up to a few sites to test my luck. I was surprised by the shear number of sites and how many lonely and horny women there are out there. All just waiting for Mr. Right, but for right now they’ll settle for Mr. Big Johnson and Sir Quick Tongue.

I met a few women online but one stands out. Her names was, well you don’t really need to know her name—besides it was bootyluscious or lickous or something. Her real name wasn’t important, however her butt was. From the pictures she had on her site this girl had a nice big, juicy, yet firm butt.

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How I Made It Through the World’s Most Awkward Date

November 28th, 2007

by Sara Hodon.
Author

Online dating is not for the faint of heart. It’s good if you post a profile but don’t have the highest expectations in the world, because more often than not, you’ll be disappointed. But if you’re considering trying it—congratulations! You’re far braver than about 80% of the single population out there.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m no stranger to the world of online dating. Though I haven’t met a bona fide, “Okay-I-must-be-leaving-now-because-you’re-too-weird-for-words” wacko, I’ve definitely had my share of bad experiences. The hard part is just getting through the date itself. This can be tricky, particularly if you seemed to hit it off so well when you first started talking. Sadly, my friends, a person can post as many pictures as they want, but until you experience the real thing, you can truly only take a picture at face value.

So the real question remains—how do you make it past those awkward moments on a first date?

Unfortunately, I really don’t recommend jumping out of the bathroom window—that is, unless you absolutely have no other choice. As a wise man once said, sometimes you just have to suck it up. It is possible to meet The One online (I know plenty of people who have), but it’s a lot like shopping for bargains—the trick is to sort through the rejects until you get to the one worth keeping.

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10 Things You Should Never Mention In Your Profile

November 23rd, 2007

by Vicky Zhou.
Author

Creating an online dating profile can be challenging, particularly if you’ve never done it before. There are some definitely things you do and do not want to do when you create your profile in order to have the best success with your endeavour.

Here are the things you should definitely leave out.

1. Past Relationship Experiences

While it’s okay to mention what you’ve learned from past relationships, don’t ever go on and on about the way your ex treated you or anything of that resemblance. The more positive you are in your profile, the more positive people will think you are in real life - and everyone wants to date someone positive, right?

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Dating in the Islamic World : “Getting a Muslim Women Online is Onerous”

November 17th, 2007

by Wais Hassan.
Arthor

There have been numerous articles written recently about online dating and courtship but I have not seen many from the Muslim perspective. Actually, there are a number of Muslim dating sites that have popped up during the past few years and some of them are pretty well designed and have thousands of registered users. I, an Afghan American 1st generation graduate student, have joined a couple of these sites during the past few years.

It is so difficult to meet and become friends with Muslim women in my everyday life because there are so many expectations the culture places on both men and women. Women do not want to be perceived as being loose or immoral and many who date will never admit to actually be dating anyone. All Muslim parents I know frown on casual dating and most of my relatives agreed to arranged marriages when they decided they were ready to settle down.

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Do most women prefer to date their own race?

November 11th, 2007


A study was done recently by economists and psychologists from Columbia University trying to answering the age-old dating question: “What, exactly, makes someone desirable?”. During the two year study, speed dating experiments were conducted to collect response by more than 400 daters.

Among the result of the study some “not-so-surprising” findings from the experiment typically include things such as:

- Male based their decision heavily on the physical appearance of their dates, while women based their decisions on the intelligence of their dates.
- Women who are more ambitious than their dates are considered less desirable.

These conclusions are fairly well known and intuitive. However, one of the most surprising results from the experiments indicates that women prefer their own race, while men just don’t care.

Also among the findings, it is found that “…East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women’s neutrality, not the men’s pronounced preference….”

Here’s the link to the full article.

An Economist Goes to a bar … and solves the mysteries of dating.

Althought some of the results seems interesting; I think the problem with this study is the experiment smaple size seems too small. The study deals with grad students from an east coast school, which might not be a good representative sample of the general female/male population across the country.

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Around the World for $250

November 7th, 2007

by Janet Trakin.
Arthor

I’m a self-defined lesbian, but what lesbian isn’t tempted by a cute guy? I recently posted my profile and picture on My Space.com, that intergenerational melting pot of cyberbabies and misfits. Where most people wrote, Angelina Jolie, Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton and other assorted luminaries under the question, “Whom would you most like to meet?”, I wrote, “A woman who understands me on all levels.” Amazingly so, my inbox was then inundated by a barrage of e-mails from male geeks from all around the world.

Among the photo of a tribal chief from Ghana, an e-mail of a faceless British artist, and a hate-filled, homophobic abusive e-mail from a Yugoslavian 16-year old punk, appeared the picture of Tom Smith. He had dark hair just messy enough not to be neat, dark brooding eyes and a sweet smile. He appeared to have a melancholy spirit underneath the smile, and his broad shoulders hinted of strength and masculinity–the perfect combination of the hopeless romantic and macho man…the poet and football player…Jung’s anima and animas. His e-mail contained life-weary original musings on love, a desire to settle down, and a propensity to do “anything for love.” I checked him out.

Tom’s profile appeared to be hastily put together just so that he could answer ads. Whereas many people on My Space go to great lengths to create an elaborate, impressive web site, Tom’s remained blank, and only “United States” appeared under his name and age. But the photo—ooh the photo. With no hesitation, I returned his e-mail.

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How Do You Date A Baby Boomer?

November 3rd, 2007

by Charles Pixley.
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Life continues ever faster. Obviously we aren’t the same people we were in high school, when we had everything to learn, wide-eyed, and our life was in front of us. At this chronological phase, we come prepackaged, we are in the middle of a journey, and have a great story, which includes family, wisdom, and a keen intuition, a list of preferences and what we don’t want.

Perhaps, it should go without saying; our youth lives inside us. We still feel, 16 or 23, on the inside, I do. Perhaps, we live with someone and are blessed to have the ideal relationship or we thought it would be for life and something changed the outcome. We watch our partner change ever so gradually, didn’t really notice the changes, as we changed too, and we observed change in ways we found to be intolerable.

Rachel Carson warned us, but our generation endures being nuked, fluoridated, infused with toxic agents, whether emissions or elimination of the rain forest to pollute or limit the air we breathe, pour an ocean of chemicals over our food crop soil and leeching into our aquifers, our vegetarian cattle force fed into cannibals. The ocean is over fished or wantonly poisoned and we suffer the selection of political or scientific leaders who blindly lie on behalf of their benefactors “there’s no evidence linking diseases caused by the aforementioned.”

We were conscripted, strafed blown to bits, napalmed, defoliated, agent oranged, wounded, rejected and forgotten. We are tried and true, battle worn. Endure intentional political falsity of fear intentionally imposed upon us as war psychosis. We stood up, spoke up, protested, resisted, shackled, imprisoned, and some murdered.

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From Charming to Crazy in less than Two Hours

October 31st, 2007

by E. Tracy Coker.
Arthor

After several weeks of searching through the internet dating site I subscribed to, “Carl” (whose name has been changed) sent me a little message saying hello; from his profile and the things he said, he seemed like a nice guy. After a few days of e-mailing and a single phone call, Carl asked me to meet him at a subway station for a first date.

I was looking forward to this date. Carl not only seemed enthusiastic to meet me, but he was intelligent and seemingly down to Earth, as well. The real test was going to see if he looked anything like his picture.

I was a college student looking for a stable and loving relationship. He was a college graduate staying in Boston to attend dental school with the desire of becoming a dentist and opening his own practice. I’m no gold digger, but what girl doesn’t love an ambitious suitor?

Standing outside of the subway entrance, I watched people passing by, anxiously wondering which one of them would be Carl; finally, he emerged. He was handsome, just the right height for me, and I could feel our chemistry click. What I relief! Or so I thought.

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How to Avoid Leaving a Relationship Bruised in the Face

October 26th, 2007

by Jason Nellis.

Arthor A warning to men everywhere:

Don’t be stupid.

I’ll be the first to admit, I am not, nor can I ever be, the perfect date or boyfriend. In fact, sometimes, I’ve been downright moronic.

Chalk it up to being male (a commonly-blamed attribute), young (though this tends to shift—the older I get, the younger I claim to be), or impetuous (or, really, more like ADD, because—hey, look, a kitty cat!).

Whatever the case may be, I’m not without faults. Most of the time, I end up getting myself into heaps of trouble by ignoring them rather than admitting to them.

Let me explain:

At the beginning of my junior year of college, I met a girl named Deanna. She was a freshman straight out of the South, twang and all. She was only four foot eleven, so I towered about a foot over her, but I found that more endearing than funny. She also called me on whatever BS I happened to be spewing (usually when I made outrageous claims to get attention, like “I invented the stapler.” I’m like that sometimes).

She was very cute, and I was very interested. So, of course, I made a move.

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