The Dubious Cult of Hugh Hefner
I’ve got an idea. Let’s change the caption on EOnline‘s photo (the image that’s associated with the article, “Hugh Hefner’s Wife Crystal Unveils the ‘Real’ Her After Removing ‘Everything Fake’ From Her Body” written by Lindsay Weinberg) to read “Joe Average and Crystal Hefner.” Then what you’ve got is a greedy old man with the…
Read MoreThe Debate About Public Sex
People are having a debate about whether this is appropriate for air travel? I can’t believe it. The scene — a man pulling a woman on a leash — down the aisle of an airplane is so grossly inappropriate that a debate would be moronic. Would this be appropriate on a public street? That’s…
Read MoreAnti-Semitism and Porn
Thank you to Mira Fox for recently publishing the article, The antisemitic conspiracy behind the anti-porn movement, in Forward Magazine. I’d like to make several points on the subject: I have never seen “Jewishness” featured as a theme in porn. This would, I suppose, be classed as philo-Semitism, if it ever happened. But it seems not…
Read MoreOnlyFans Is Accused of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Picture a gang of prudes, in their Mary Jane shoes and prim expressions, seeking to choke porn by pulling the rope tighter and tighter about its neck. They pull and pull, and zap! There go the major credit card services. They pull and pull some more, and zap! There goes OnlyFans. All Sex Work May…
Read MoreAre Flight Attendants Guardians of Virtue?
These flight attendants who are blowing the whistle on “skimpy” outfits, such as the Alaskan Airlines flight attendant Monica Humphries writes about in Insider: are they faithful servants just exercising airline policy, or officious nuisances? On support of the faithful servant argument, most airline employees are really very nice and try hard to serve the…
Read MoreThe Eroticizing of Handball
Should handball compete with porn? The insistence of the International Handball Federation that women compete wearing bikini bottoms is worse than just “embarrassing,” as though someone had broken wind at the awards dinner. It is so grossly inappropriate for 2021 that one doesn’t know whether to poop or go blind. We are supposed to be…
Read MoreSex Toys and Celebrities
Celebrities endorse sex toys. Why is this even a story? Would “Celebrities endorse toothpaste” be as newsworthy? This story would be remotely interesting only if there were a big portion of the population against sex toys. But outside of Sunday school, who’s opposed to sex toys? There are basically two kinds of sex toys:…
Read MoreMyths About Massage and Prostitution
“Well, duh!” is my response to shocker stories about massage schools enabling prostitution. The problem is, why should anyone care? State regulation of massage is based on two premises: (1) that prostitution is bad and (2) that massage requires skills so specialized that the state must protect the public by ensuring that applicants have them.…
Read MoreDecriminalizing Prostitution in Maine
Maine may decriminalize prostitution. What is good news in all this is that a number of prosecutors at the state level are no longer pursuing prostitution as a criminal matter. This should have happened about 200 years ago, but Jonathan Edwards (the New England religious fanatic) got in the way. Still, better late than never.…
Read MoreJeff Toobin Is Back After Zoom Masturbation Drama
The Jeff Toobin story: Just when we thought we’d reached the acme of simpering political righteousness, a new challenge appears: Toobin’s reinstatement! With the same faux-earnestness the media displays in covering the latest he-touched-her-arm story (remember Al Franken, anyone?), the correctoids of the WaPo now light upon CNN for its supposed indifference to the norms…
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