Susan Alexander is mad. Writing for SFGate, the feminist is angry about sexist Christmas toys. Alexander believes that little boys should be given dolls to play with. She writes, "If toy kitchens are your chosen gift, you should let both boys and girls know that you expect them to play chef now and then."Right. Because there is nothing that seven- or eight-year-old boys love more than playing with dolls. Nowhere in the essay, of course, does Alexander consider the possibility that sex roles aren't simply a product of parenting and other social forces, but have a basis in biological fact. The idea that most boys just plain don't like playing with dolls, and would be more likely to, say, twist their heads off and stuff the body with firecrackers apparently doesn't occur to her.
It's turns out that recession makes you horny. The pleasure industry is one of the few retail sectors to end the year with a smile. Many lingerie and sex toy retailers are reporting big sales and condom kings Durex reported revenues for November were up from last year. A report in the Financial Times detailed how London's laid-off or frustrated bankers are flocking to "Encounters," a site for arranging extramarital affairs.
The economic logic behind the bedroom boom is simple: Sex is cheap. Wait, that sounded wrong. That is, in a economic downturn people don't go out as much. They stay home and knock boots. It's not only inexpensive, it's also reassuring. In uncertain times, people want a real, human connection. Sex is about the best way to get it.
A 29-year-old Springfield, MO man faces 17 felony counts of invasion of privacy for allegedly videotaping females after talking them into weighing themselves naked, reports the Kansas City Star. Scott Johnson, employed as a trainer at St. John’s Health Tracks, is accused of convincing the females — currently between 16 and 24 years old — to take off their clothes and weigh themselves naked for “a more accurate weight.”
The Understatement of the Year award goes to officials at Health Tracks, who say Johnson was "not authorized to ask the females to undress."
A Swedish court sentenced three men to prison after they were convicted of robbing and blackmailing men who sought sex with teenage girls. Prosecutors said the gang posed as teenage girls seeking to sell sex in an Internet chat room. Prospective "clients" would arrive and be confronted by a group of men who robbed them. The ten victims were awarded $15,350 by the court.
And they were told to come pick up the cash at a seedy local motel on the outskirts of town and not to tell anyone where they were going.
