Friday, January 2, 2009

Today in Sex 1.02.2009

Charles Barkley was on his way to an "amorous encounter" when he was arrested for DUI in Scottsdale, AZ., says TheSmokingGun. When a police officer asked the 45-year-old Basketball Hall of Famer what his hurry was, Barkley replied: "You want the truth?" and said he, "was gonna drive around the corner to get a blow job." Barkley also apparently offered to have the arresting officer's name "tattooed on my butt" in exchange for being let off DUI charges.

Dude, you are a millionaire, jet-setting, superstar athlete. Tattoo space on your posterior is about the last thing you have that anyone would want. The next time you try to bribe a police officer, start with something a little more basic -- like cash.

Futurist magazine says we're all going to be having more sex in 2009. The reason is that women's growing economic power will give them more choices, and one of those choices will be to have more sex.

This, in a nutshell, is why sexual liberation is a good thing. The more power and freedom that women have, the more sex men will get. It's a win-win, people.

The Jewish Daily Forward has a story on transgender rabbis, like Reuben Zellman; the first openly transgender applicant to the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College. The piece quotes transgender activists saying that not all transgender people have had sexual reassignment surgery or take hormones. Many, say activists, do not "opt for the medical route," but "choose other ways of altering their gender identity, like changing their name and appearance."

Wow. Just dressing like a member of the opposite sex is enough to qualify someone as transgender. Who knew? We are old enough to remember when women who look, sound, dress and act like men had a different name. Back in the day, we just called them "female gym teachers."

Kathy Griffin made a fellatio joke on live TV. The D-List comic was hosting a New Year's Eve countdown show with Anderson Cooper when someone in the crowd started heckling her. While Cooper sent viewers off to a commercial break and the shot changed, Griffin was clearly audible in the background suggesting that the heckler enjoys the company of men in an intimate way.



We are going to resist the urge to make a joke about Anderson Cooper.