BlackRiverFalls said:but the fisting one is pretty scary:
Thursday, January 12, 2006 · Last updated 4:35 p.m. PT
State senator offers bill to ban bestiality
By CURT WOODWARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Reacting to a story that drew gasps of horror across the country, a state senator is asking her colleagues to outlaw sex with animals.
The issue drew unwanted attention to Washington state last year, when authorities revealed that a man died of a perforated colon after having sex with a horse on a farm in rural King County.
Sheriff's officers believed they had no options for criminal charges for the man's companions because bestiality was not explicitly covered under the state's animal cruelty law. Prosecutors did eventually get one conviction for trespassing.
Animal advocates responded with a push to outlaw bestiality, and Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, vowed to sponsor the measure. Her bill began its legislative journey Thursday, heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee for review.
"It's something from which (animals) need to be protected," the veteran lawmaker said Thursday. "It was shocking to a lot of people that this kind of thing went on."
Bestiality is explicitly illegal in parts of the country, but Washington is one of about 20 states that do not address the issue in lawbooks, animal activists said.
That should change this year, said Susan Michaels, co-founder of the animal welfare group Pasado's Safe Haven.
"Our first response was, 'I can't believe this isn't already illegal,'" Michaels said. "The next response was, 'Who could possibly be against this?'"
Nevertheless, those crafting the bill had to make sure they didn't get too close to free-speech protections afforded to pornography or affect animal husbandry practices, Michaels said.
There also was a more fundamental problem.
"Some people find it so abhorrent that they don't even want to touch the bill," Michaels said. "They didn't even want to see it."
Authorities said the farm involved in the July 2 bestiality death was well-known on the Internet, and people from around the country had gone there to engage in sex with animals.
Investigators also said they found hundreds of hours of videotaped evidence.
Roach's bill also would make videotaping bestiality illegal, along with allowing or helping others to participate. The crimes would be low-level felonies, with a maximum punishment of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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The bill is SB6417.
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On the Net:
Legislature: http://www.leg.wa.gov
Ohio High School Porn Homework Canceled
Jan 13, 5:34 PM (ET)
BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) - A high school research assignment on Internet pornography was canceled after parents in this Cleveland suburb complained.
Superintendent Jeff Lampert said that although the teacher's apparent goal - to discuss the harmful effects of pornography - was well-intentioned, he agreed with parents that the assignment was inappropriate for 14- and 15-year-old freshmen at Brooklyn High.
The assignment asked students to research pornography on the Internet and list eight facts about pornography. Students also were asked to write their personal views of pornography and any experience they had with it.
Lampert said he doubted the teacher, Scott Gioia, would face any punishment. Gioia teaches health and physical education and has been at the school for about five years.
Lampert said he started getting calls Wednesday and met with the principal and Gioia. They decided that day to drop the project.
"We value the partnership we have" with the community, Lampert said. "We take that very seriously."
There was no phone listing under Gioia's name in the Cleveland area.
Last fall, controversy over questionable work-study credits given to a member of the football team led the team to forfeit four wins - the team's only victories of the season and the first in two years.
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On the Net:
Brooklyn Schools: http://www.brooklyn.k12.oh.us
Sex and the electricity
Electricity shortage in war-ravaged Iraq forces young married couples to have less sex in winter.
By Deborah Haynes - BAGHDAD
Ahmed Hadi and his new wife Tiba Mohammed, like many young married couples in Baghdad, are not getting enough sex. The problem, they say, is not a lack of desire but of power - electrical power.
Making love for many of Iraq's Muslim population not only requires a willing partner but also a sure supply of water - preferably hot in the winter - to enable the participants to take a shower afterwards before going to pray.
No hot water means no hot shower and therefore prayers, which take place five times a day for devout Muslims, can become a problem.
Either a couple avoids sex or they are forced to take a cold dip, not a pleasant prospect during the winter months.
"I have less sex than I want because there is no hot water to wash with afterwards," moaned Hadi, 25, a Baghdad local who works in the water sector and has only been married for two weeks.
"Sometimes, when we are in the middle of making love the electricity turns off so we have to stop. I get out of bed to put a generator on and then we have to wait for the water to heat up," he said.
On the evening of the Eid Al-Adha (Muslim feast of the sacrifice) holiday which started on Tuesday, Hadi had hoped for a night of romance.
"Unfortunately, the electricity cut out from 5 pm until 11 pm. There was nothing for us to do other than sit and look at each other. I did not get married just to have conversation," he said.
In contrast to the situation in Iraq, power cuts in Western countries often lead to a spike in births nine months later as couples abandon watching television to share a warm bed.
Baghdad and much of central Iraq is suffering its worst ever electricity shortage, said a Western diplomat with expertise in the electricity sector. The power is on for just two to six hours per day in the capital.
In contrast, southern and northern Iraq - where most of the power stations are based -- have more energy then before the US-led invasion when Saddam Hussein used to divert most of the power to Baghdad, depriving everyone else.
Following his downfall in April 2003, US-led and Iraqi projects have been launched to generate permanent power for all of Iraq, but so far they have failed to make much impact.
This is because the US-led coalition underestimated the dilapidated state of Iraq's electricity infrastructure following a decade of international sanctions, the diplomat told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
In addition, repair work has been hampered daily by insurgent attacks against transmission lines and power stations.
For normal Iraqis, especially those living in Baghdad, this has resulted in further hardship.
Yasser Mohammed Saffar, a 26-year-old shop owner, and Tamara Shimary, 20, his wife of one year, live together with Safar's parents and two sisters in an apartment in southeastern Baghdad.
He too said the lack of electricity has affected his sex life because there is no hot water in the winter months and no air-conditioning in the summer - another major impediment to a person's libido.
When Safar got married in the summer of 2004 he was so worried about the electricity cutting out in the flat on his first night with Shimary that he decided to bribe an official from the local grid to keep the power flowing.
"However, I then realised that it would be cheaper - and more private - to book a night in a hotel for my new wife and I," he recalled. "We had plenty of electricity, air-conditioning and water, it was great."
Major hotels try to secure a constant supply of energy for their guests.
One such hotel is the Al-Mansour in central Baghdad, which is conveniently located close to the well-powered Green Zone, where the Iraqi seat of government and a number of embassies are based.
Mohammed Jabbar, assistant manager for house-keeping at the hotel, agreed that guaranteed electricity and hot water were an attraction for newly-weds.
Safar said the lack of electricity in Iraq was definitely preventing people from having as much sex as they would like, but he also blamed other stress factors such as the deadly violence.
"Each kind of disorder you face - such as the security problem and the lack of electricity - reduces your sex drive, eventually down to zero," he said.
"Fortunately I am still going, thank goodness."
Iron Crotch Truck Pull 2005
by Gene Ching
A friend of mine recently commented, "Don't know why a guy getting kicked in the nuts is funny. Looks very painful to me." She's a woman commentator, obviously. And she's right. As any guy knows, few things are as painful as a boot to the goods. On the flip side, anyone who's actually managed to deliver such a blow in a real fight will attest that nothing is quite so rewarding. Trust me on this. I got the chance to kick a man repeatedly in the crotch. Believe it or not, it was part of my job here at Kung Fu Tai Chi. It's funny to think about now, but at the time, it was nothing short of awe inspiring.
On the morning of November 22nd, 2005, Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng demonstrated his most extraordinary skill at Iron Crotch, right here in our office parking lot. It was at the behest of some documentary filmmakers from the UK. They were working on a three-part series titled PENIS ENVY; Grandmaster Tu will appear in the episode titled "BUILDING THE PERFECT PENIS". Our parking lot audience was small, just the filmmakers, our magazine crew, some of Tu's students and Tiger Claw staff, plus a few lucky Tiger Claw customers who happened to be picking up orders. The truck pull made the headlines of six of our local newspapers, several of which ran it on the front page.
Iron Crotch demonstrations are always eye-popping. Grandmaster Tu began by doing some self stimulation and qigong. He said he needed assistance to warm up and asked me to tug on him. I balked at that request, trying to get clarification. Then he asked me to kick him. OK, that I could do. I started light and struck harder with each successive kick. It's always awkward when some one asks you to kick them in the balls, especially when it's someone you know. Trust me on this one too. I delivered just over a half dozen direct kicks to his genitals. Ultimately, I didn't kick as hard as I could have, but about half of the kicks were good solid shots and any of them would have brought down an ordinary man, given the target area. Contrary to common belief, Tu did not retract his genitals into his body. Quite the opposite, they were all hanging out. After all, it's what he was going to use to tow a 16' Budget Rental Truck (Senior Graphic Designer Patrick Lugo thought we should have rented from BIG 4 RENTS, but I'm the only other one in the office who understood why). Nevertheless, a Budget 16-footer has an empty weight of 8100 lbs. It took several guys just to push it into position.
Grandmaster Tu performed two truck pulls. For the first one, he tied off both the shaft of his penis and his testicles. For the second one, he tied off only his testicles. He said he could have used only the shaft of his penis too, but that required him to be more fully engorged with qi, and that doesn't look so good, he said. Patrick and I assisted by providing leverage, but Tu really only needed us for that second pull. That being said, we were both right next to him. We both saw everything, not that we were staring or anything. We'll both testify about Tu's testicles. There was no fakery. It was genuine all the way.
Now, the testicle tow was a new one. I've seen Grandmaster Tu perform his Iron Penis Truck Pull before. He did one for our 10 Year Anniversary Gala Benefit, but I've never seen him use his testicles alone. Grandmaster Tu said he was feeling good and wanted to try it. Maybe it was my qi-filled kicks. Now in my mind, Tu's two-testicle truck tow trick totally defies the laws of physics and anatomy. I studied Anatomy and Physiology in college. I've done cadaver work and seen what's really inside a man's sack. There's not much to the scrotum, just skin, nerves and gonads. How can a man possibly tow an 8100 lbs truck with that? As I was shaking my head in disbelief, Grandmaster Tu's wife, Sandy, flashed a sly grin at me and said "That could be you. Just ten or fifteen minutes a day." I think my scientific skepticism will forever bar me from such a stunt. As my friend said, "Looks very painful to me."
BlackRiverFalls said:Miss Garland, 39, from Manchester appeared on stage as poet "Rosie Lugosi, the Vampire Queen," a comedy act.
Rosie's also one of the organisers of Club Lash in Manchester, and a former member of the March Violets...
Xenophile - its tentacle porn but with aliens (which may actually make it worse - if thats possible):
I didn't find that too bad. The artwork is (poss. thankfully) a little scrappy. Now if it had been photographs, that would have creeped me out.
Yup, we've all seen enough of Heckler.Now if it had been photographs, that would have creeped me out.
Pathetic phalluses
Freud was wrong. It's not women who suffer penis envy, but men - they all want a bigger one. But, says Jacques Peretti, they should be careful what they wish for
Monday January 30, 2006
The Guardian
In a perplexing and little-known 1970s erotic thriller with the half off-putting, half-intriguing title of The Sex Thief (directed by Martin Campbell, who went on to make Bond movies), there is a single scene, lasting barely 20 seconds, that pretty much encapsulates the entire male attitude towards his penis (and, by extension of that penis, the female sex). This is the scene. A naked woman is lying on a bed. The Sex Thief - a burglar who breaks in to women's flats and takes liberties with more than just their video recorders - stands enigmatically by the window in his 1970s underpants. The camera remains on the woman's face as this Milk Tray man in a balaclava (and not much else) approaches. "No! No!" she gasps as he brings his crotch closer and closer to her face. He unpeels his 1970s briefs. "Oh yes!" she gasps, fainting in amazement.
Ludicrous as it sounds, this scene outlines the two essential male fantasy-come-misconceptions about sex, true to this day - namely, (a) that sex is not an intimate, loving experience between two people but a cold, hard performance with the man's penis resolutely centre-stage, said performance climaxing with the unfurling, to great fanfare, of the mammoth member; and (b), that in spite of what women say, no matter how much they assure us men that "size doesn't matter ... it's what you do with it that counts," etc, we know the truth, that size does matter, that they're lying, and what's more, they know it, too.
In today's "supersize-me" consumer society, here is the paradox. Men need bigger cocks, and a penis of any size is now physically possible. Consequently, no size is ever going to be big enough. I was interested in seeing where this male preoccupation/neurosis with penis size has taken us, and so embarked on a frankly frightening, but undeniably gripping voyage of discovery for a TV documentary series.
In the course of making these films, we encountered men hopelessly and obsessively searching for "the perfect penis", a man who claims to have the biggest cock in the world (and no, he is not happy), a man who pulls trucks along with his foreskin as a means to spiritual enlightenment, and a once famous (but now largely forgotten) man - John Wayne Bobbitt - who had his penis severed by his wife with a knife, and made a career from his castration.
And what did I learn? First, that Freud was wrong: it is not women who suffer from penis envy, but men. Even on a parochial, day-to-day basis, it is men who stand in public urinals sneaking a peep at their neighbour's johnson to see how they measure up in the pecker order. And it is this homoerotic fascination with size that has made it possible and even necessary for certain men to pursue the ever-larger penis - just as some women become obsessed with creating bigger breasts. Increasingly, this post-feminist, post-men's-movement phenomenon of body modification is seen not as self-harm but as a form of consumer liberation. So is penis enlargement becoming as acceptable as breast enlargement?
My journey began with Dean Friedland, who lives in Utah and wants something more substantial than the average five inches. (Pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey first determined the average penis to be six inches long when erect. However, a medical debate now rages on where a penis should be measured from. The consensus seems to be that the average is an inch shorter than Kinsey had it.) Friedland is paying Dr Harold Reed, who operates on two or three men a week at his clinic, $11,000 (£6,000) for two procedures - first lengthening by surgery, and then using weights to maximise girth.
The operation is relatively simple - cutting the suspensory ligament, allowing the penis to drop and hence appear longer - but the majority of men who come for a consultation are suspicious of going under the knife, not least because it can go very wrong, and because, in the twilight world of penis enlargement, clinics can close overnight and the owners disappear. But if surgery is unregulated, alternative forms of penis enlargement are distinctly wild-west frontier.
Mike Salvini runs a website called mattersofsize.com ("The bigger pecker Mecca") and sells a kind of weighted metal splint. If you're having breakfast, look away now. The splint is inserted into the member and pulled down, using weights that stretch the penis for several weeks. Salvini is an enthusiastic advocate for his metal rod and claims to have doubled the length of his own penis. Besides splints, suction pumps and pulley systems, various other Heath Robinson-style appliances are available on the internet. More frightening still, an entire scene has grown up around so-called penis dysmorphia, and men are having their penises injected with silicone to gain size. For the men posting pictures of the results on the web, it is impossible for such malformed penises to become erect. But that is not the point, they say: they just want everyone to share in the beauty of their mental illness.
Why do men put themselves through such forms of penile torture? These lengthening procedures alter the length of the penis when flaccid; there is no "proportional" effect when erect. Thus penis enlargement is termed "locker-room cosmetic" - in other words, the big dick is for the benefit of other men as they undress at the gym.
There is no getting away from the underlying gayness of the male preoccupation with cock size. Men born with abnormally large penises almost invariably find that their first sexual experiences are with men. I met men who said that, once they had reached their 20s, they realised they were straight rather than gay; so they suffered years of sexual confusion and misery.
Invariably, what most men would consider a blessing turned out to be a curse. What I found was that an unusually large penis had, without exception, made a misery of the lives of everyone we interviewed. Jonah Falcon lives in New York and has the dubious boast of owning the largest cock in the world. Yet he has retreated from the low-level celebrity it once brought him (as a dancer in gay clubs, claiming a string of one night-stands with unnamed "Hollywood stars"). Falcon resisted a career in porn, but he now sits at the home he shares with his mum, dreaming of being an actor.
Time and again, these poor, lonely men with their elephantine appendages talk about the moment they get their penises out in front of a stranger (The Sex Thief unfurling moment). "I unleashed the beast," they will say, or "I released the monster." The images they choose to describe the scenario are a mixture of awe and disgust, mirroring the love-hate relationship they have formed with their penis.
The strange panoply of names men have for their penises - boastful, derogatory, coy, jokey - match the subtlety and complexity of the relationship. What is truly extraordinary for me is not the meanings, nor the subconscious urges, nor even the terrible things men are doing to their cocks, but that we have separated the penis from ourselves as an object of love and self-loathing. An instance of alienation that leads to what a female friend of mine wryly refers to as "three in a bed".
It is a strange and unfathomable business. But possibly not as strange as that Freddie Ljungberg Calvin Klein ad. I can see him now in his pants, and there is no getting round it. It is big.
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· Penis Envy, a three-part documentary series, starts on Channel 4 tonight.
The most successful pin-up of the 1950s, Bettie Page’s legendary photographs made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and turned her into one of the first sex icons.
Mighty_Emperor said:More on the upcoming Penis Envy show:
Mini-site (no pun intended):
www.channel4.com/health/microsites/P/penis_envy/
About my illness: It turned out that I "only" had a severe case of pneumonia. There were no problems with the silicone that was injected into my genitals.
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I've had nearly 4 pounds of silicone pumped into my cock and balls; over 2 pounds pumped into my ass. Silicone totals: 650ml in the dick, 2000ml in the balls, 1000ml in the ass, and 16ml in the lips. Circumference of my dick: 11.5", Circumference of my balls: 18". Waist: 35", Hips/Butt: 40", Hip-to-Waist ratio: .88
Mighty_Emperor said:I'm not sure what I was expecting but when that Mister Mark guy got it out I thought I'd die laughing. It looked like something out of a sci-fi film!!
Lobelia Overhill~ said:Years and years ago, back in the days when I owned a horse, there was a colt foal [ie a baby boy horse] at the stables where I kept my mare, this colt was a randy little bugger and would wave his willie at you when you went into the stable. I knew nothing of this and was asked if I'd mind brushing the mud off the cute ickle baby horsey when he came in from the field. I did as requested, and while I was brushing under his belly, I could feel something slapping against my arm, I bent down to look and the little fecker was wanking on my arm!!!!!! :eek!!!!: He was castrated when he was 8 months old ...
A bit more recently I went to a riding school and being a helpful sort of person went to muck out [clean up the shite] in one of the stables, I was unaware that the equine occupant was an ungelded male, who promptly shoved me into a corner and started rubbing himself up and down on me :blah: when I finally managed to get out of the corner and made a run for the door the sweetie nipped me on the arse, I swear blind he winked at me when I turned round to slap him one ...
Man who distributed pictures of genitals gets 7 years
Jim Walsh
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 3, 2006 12:20 PM
A man who repeatedly exposed himself to women in a unique way was sentenced today to seven years in prison by a judge who was unswayed by his recent treatment.
Jeffery Howard Pritchert, 41, admitted to Mesa police that he took pictures of his own genitals and plastered them to the cars of 100 women in Southeast Valley parking lots from 1999 to 2005.
"These offenses occurred over a very long period of time with many victims," said Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens. "You had very many opportunities to change your conduct and you did not."
Stephens stopped just short of imposing the maximum sentence of 7½ years available under Pritchert's plea agreement to more than 30 counts of public display of explicit sexual materials.
He also has a prior conviction on a misdemeanor count of exposing himself in Scottsdale and three drug convictions. Police found methamphetamine and a glass pipe when they arrested Pritchert in April 2005.
Pritchert plead guilty in December, according to court records. That move spared him a minimum sentence of at least 10 years in prison, Deputy Maricopa County Attorney John Beatty said.
"This defendant may have a psychological problem, but the community has a problem with him," Beatty said, noting that the wave of explicit photos stopped while Pritchert served a year in prison on a misconduct involving weapons charge. "He's a scary individual. He's done things no one person should have to deal with. We have 35 people who had to deal with it."
Wearing a red shirt and black jeans, Pritchert quietly bowed his head as Stephens read his sentence.
"I was going through a divorce," he said. "That's how it all started."
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi said Pritchert deserves credit for seeking help.
"In many ways, it's a shame Mr. Prtichert has to go to prison. In many ways, Mr. Pritchert is a changed man," Nurmi said.