An Australian navy submarine commander who suggested female sailors wear bikinis to help reverse a recruitment crisis has been asked to step down by lawmakers, Reuters reports. Asked by an Aussie men's magazine "if female sailors all had to be hot and had to wear bikinis, would that help recruitment?" Commander Tom Phillips responded; "It would certainly get the right demographic of young men in. I'm not sure how feasible it is, however." Australia's Minister for Defence Personnel said the comments were "utterly unacceptable," and lawmakers said the skipper should be fired.Oh yeah. He should have to walk the plank.
Phillips also revealed that submariners have an equivalent of the notorious "mile-high club." He said the "Going-Down Club" is for people who've had sex deep underwater.
The "Going Down Club"? Interesting. Does it count if you do it in a swimming pool?
Women who have high levels of oestradoil also show a greater inclination to have sex outside of their present relationship, according to research. "Marilyn Monroe is actually a really good example of a woman who was almost certainly high in oestradoil," sexologist Dr Frances Quirk said. "She was a classic hour-glass figure and, because of her relationship pattern, she was a serial monogamist."
Weird. So, high levels of oestradoil will make you sleep with the Kennedys?
An Alaskan lottery-winner story gets weirder and weirder. First, an Alaska lottery held to raise money for a sexual abuse victims' group had a surprise winner: a convicted sex offender. Proceeds of the $500,000 lottery help Standing Together Against Rape in Anchorage went to Alec Ahsoak, convicted in 1993 and 2000 for sexual abuse of a minor.
Yesterday afternoon, he was attacked on a downtown Anchorage street with a "tire iron or metal pipe," say Anchorage police. There was no robbery attempt. But whether the attack was motivated by Ahsoak's status as a lottery-winner/sex offender is, according to police, "unclear."
Yeah, it's truly a mystery. Perhaps we should call in "The Mentalist."
