Can't Possibly Be True
(1) Britain's Channel 4 public television announced in July that it
would soon schedule a week of documentaries on masturbation,
including one by self-designated "orgasm coach" Betty Dodson,
"Masturbation for Girls," teaching hands-on techniques to three
women. (2) The pendulum swung the other way in October,
however, when Britain's Tesco stores agreed that a kit for learning
pole dancing (advertised on its website), to "[u]nleash the sex
kitten inside," with a garter and suggestive DVD, was perhaps
unsuited for its "toy" section, where it might have been appealing
to adolescent girls. (Tesco moved the listing to its physical fitness
section.) [Daily Mail, 9-21-06; The Times (London), 11-15-06]
[Daily Mail, 10-23-06]
The Law of Unintended Consequences
The Tel Aviv newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported in October
that the much tighter border security that resulted from the recent
war with Hezbollah guerillas had caused marijuana prices in Israel
to jump as much as 800 percent. And, though general tensions
between Arabs and Jews remain high inside Israel, prominent
Ultra-Orthodox Jews joined militant Palestinian Muslims in fierce
opposition to the November gay-pride parade in Jerusalem,
according to a Boston Globe dispatch. (Said activist Rabbi Yehuda
Levin, "Only this onslaught of homosexual radicalism could bring
together such disparate voices.") [Reuters, 10-31-06] [Boston
Globe, 11-9-06]
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~What are the chances that in the not so distant future "g-rated" pole-dancing becomes part of high-school and college cheer-leading routines? The Olympics? (Make up your own joke about masturbation competitions.)
Posted by Stubbornson at November 28, 2006 09:44 AM