Mississippi Leads The Way

Most of my regular readers are aware that I reside in the great state of Mississippi or as I call it…..”the cultural Wasteland”…….there is a sign at the borders of the state that read…..”Welcome to Mississippi….Set your clocks back 150 years”……….Mississippi has always been at the bottom of most lists like poverty, education, income and health…….and the state has a large portion of the population that is incarcerated or has been in the past……..and in my incessant desire to know all things political I ran across this little tidbit about my state…..

(Newser) – Only six states allow prisoners conjugal visits—and the state where the practice began roughly a century ago, Mississippi, is poised to halt (but not legally ban) those visits Feb. 1. The prison commissioner in the state, where 155 of some 22,000 inmates had such visits last year, blames budget issues as well as “the number of babies being born possibly as a result.” The New York Times speaks to the spouses who treasure the time, even if it’s brief and less than comfortable. “It’s not romantic, but it doesn’t matter,” says the wife of an Arkansas inmate; she drives eight hours to see her husband, who is due for release in 2022. “Obviously they did something wrong. But they are human, too. So are we.”

Another spouse notes that ending the practice denies her the ability to have children in the future. “I feel like they are taking away my choice,” she says. Vocativ and the Times offer the basics on how such visits work:

  • They’re still also allowed in California, Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Washington; that’s down from 17 states in 1993. (The Times piece implies Connecticut’s program is not currently active.)
  • The practice began in the early 1900s at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, whose warden thought they would prod black inmates to toil harder in the fields; prostitutes were often brought in.
  • Today, inmates must be married and have a clean behavior record (generally no fighting, swearing, etc., in the last six months) to qualify; they usually have to apply for the visits, which occur only in medium- to lower-security prisons; federal prisons allow no such visits.
  • “Extended family visits” can last up to 24 hours for well-behaved prisoners nearing release. Mississippi has recently allowed only one-hour visits, the Times notes.
  • The visits occur in private apartments inside prison walls, which are usually outfitted with sheets, soap, towels, and condoms. The prison does not provide food.
  • California and New York allow same-sex couples to participate in the practice within marriages or civil unions.
  • The visits are largely free; Washington state participants pay $10.

Conjugal visits are permitted in some other countries—not always successfully.

And now you know way too much information on whether inmates get nookie or not…….happy?

I bring this up for a reason, I personally do not give two shits in Hell if inmates get laid or not……I bring it up because of Mississippi.  The state sucks and this is the best the GOP controlled legislature can do.  This is a prime example of the type of government you get when you let one party control everything.

One party rule will destroy a state or a nation…..keep that in mind.

Is It Really An Addiction?

There are many addictions….like drugs, booze adrenalin and of course that addiction that all men love to hear about….SEX ADDICTION!

It is fought with many different solutions….therapy, hypnosis, drugs (but that could create a whole new set of addictions) and just go about screwing your brains out…..every man looks for that perfect nymphomaniac to keep him smiling for a long time…..but there is a new study and research that may shine some light onto the subject…….

(Newser) – The term “sex addiction” might get tossed around a lot these days as a way to explain some not-so-classy behavior of the Anthony Weiner-Tiger Woods variety, but is it really an addiction on par with drugs or alcohol? The first study to explore brain responses in people who describe themselves as hypersexual suggests otherwise, reports UCLA. Researchers there showed the subjects—39 men and 13 women—sexual images, and discovered that their brains didn’t respond in the same way that, say, a cocaine addict would respond to images of cocaine.

“Most people describe high-frequency sexual problems as an ‘addiction’—that’s how the public and even many clinicians talk about it,” one of the researchers tells Slate. “But this data challenges the addiction model and forces us to reconsider how we think and talk about these problems.” The subjects have higher libidos, or sexual desire, but not necessarily a clinical medical problem. They still need help, but if further studies verify this first one, then the type of help they’ll get will be affected. All of which might be OK, writes Jillian Keenan at Slate. “If we turn every single quirk of human sexuality into a ‘disease,’ after all, then we’re all screwed.” The study is in the journal Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology.

Now I know my loyal readers will an opinion on this turn of events……speak up!

Plastic Fantastic Lover!

People of my age will recall the song from the drug days of Jefferson Airplane (ask me where that name came from sometime) but this is about the sex blow-up dolls like Nikki the Greek Goddess (49.95 plus shipping and handling)…….and of course I had to know where did these inflatable lovers originate……you may be surprised……

The Nazis invented the worst thing ever: the assembly-line death factory. But they also invented something else, perhaps the only legacy of theirs that endures to this very day. During World War II, Hitler’s war machine created the world’s first sex doll: Borghild.

The “field-hygienic project” was an initiative of Himmler, who regarded the doll as a “counterbalance” to the sexual drive of his storm troopers. In one of his letters, he mentions the “unnecessary losses” the Wehrmacht had suffered in France, inflicted by street prostitutes. “The greatest danger in Paris are the wide-spread and uncontrolled whores, picking up clients in bars, dance halls and other places. It is our duty to prevent soldiers from risking their health, just for the sake of a quick adventure”. One assumes Himmler also wanted to stop any racial dilution of the great German army.

The world’s first sex doll – or “gynoid” – was built in 1941 by a team of craftsmen from Germany’s Hygiene Museum in Dresden. The project was supervised by a famous technician, Franz Tschakert. He was the “father of the woman of glass”, which happened to be the sensation of the 1930s International Hygiene Exhibition.

Between June 1940 – 1941, IG Farben had already developed a number of ”skin-friendly polymers” for the SS. Their special characteristics: high-tensile strength and elasticity.

Now I have given you the most useless information that you could possibly be exposed to in this life……do tell what thoughts are racing around your brain.

4 Times The Fun?

I am always searching for interesting, humorous or weird stuff to post on weekends give me and my readers a break from the mind numbing world of politics…….I also try to find enough stuff to have a theme for the weekend….sometimes I am lucky and do just that……this weekend the theme is man’s fav pastime…..SEX!

(Newser) – Police say four women weighing about 200 pounds each raped a Toronto man last month after offering him a lift home, the Toronto Star reports. Word is he met them at a downtown nightclub and accepted a ride—but they drove him only a few blocks in an SUV before turning into a parking lot and assaulting him. Police describe the women as being about 5’4″ and in their early thirties; one had a British accent and a tattoo of wings on the back of her neck, the National Post reports.

Sexual assaults by females on males are not unheard of in Toronto, a detective tells the Post. A Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Report found in 2003 that 8% of sexual assault complainants were male, and male victims were just as likely as females to report the crime. Like women, men are often stigmatized for seeking help: “Other men will say for example, ‘Oh, he’s so lucky,’ like that was actually a positive thing when it wasn’t,” says a rape crisis expert. “I think that that just feeds into the myth that sexual violence is something the victim wants.”

I regret that when I first read this piece my mind went immediately to the crude stuff…..like hope it wasn’t a sub-compact and what was our hero doing that gave him enough energy for all four…….I know I am a pig and a pervert…..but I cannot help it.

Any thoughts?

You Must Be 21 To Participate

For my readers and followers that do not understand what happened….I am a political animal but on weekends I give my mind a break and find interesting stuff other than politics on which to post…..some of it is cultural, some sciencey and some just plain absurd…..just my small attempt to keep my mind grounded and well rested for the coming week……enjoy!

Holy crap!  There is a wealth of sex news these days……..I just saw the Arias story for the first time last week……you would think the media would be all over this because they love them some gossip……

There are a lot of things that one needs to be 18 to do…..fight for your country, stand trial as an adult, vote, get married and then there are somethings that one must be 21 to participate….like having a drink or buying a gun. And now there is a push for an age upgrade……..

The media were quick to jump all over the “disgraced” Miss Delaware Teen USA’s alleged turn in a porn video. But everyone missed the larger point: Melissa King was just 18 when she supposedly filmed it, writes Charles Lane in the Washington Post. “Why is it even legal to cast an 18-year-old in a sexually explicit movie?” he wonders. Eighteen might be the age at which you can vote, but certainly “having sex with a stranger for money and on camera belongs on the short list of risky behaviors that one can’t legally engage in before age 21,” like drinking, gambling, working as a stripper, or buying a gun. Congress set the minimum age to participate in porn at 18 in 1984, back when it took a lot more time, effort, and money to make a porn film. These days, anyone can film a sex act on a cellphone camera and distribute it on social media. “Mistakes like King’s are much easier to make but much harder to erase,” Lane writes. It’s time for Congress to recognize “the immaturity and vulnerability of some 18- to 21-year-olds” by changing the porn age. Click for Lane’s full column.

This is total crap!  If a woman can get married without parental permission then she should be able to have sex and make a movie…….okay let’s say they get their way…..can the female be emancipated and work in porn?  Can the parents give their permission for her to work?  Can we then expand their little law to include regular movies….no kid actors under the age of 21?  Where will it all end?

Wanker Here, Wanker Gone

Time for some news and info that does not have anything to do with the circus we called American politics…….we all know just how wrapped up in our wankers we males are….how size matter, shape is good…….but there seems to be a more interesting wanker story…..

Newser) – The Chromodoris reticulata has a peculiar way of mating: After the deed is done, the sea slug sheds its penis … and then grows a new one within 24 hours and does the whole thing again. “I haven’t seen anything like this before,” says one expert. A team of Japanese researchers discovered the surprising behavior in the species, which lives in the Pacific Ocean, the BBC reports. Chromodoris reticulata is the first creature known to have what they’re calling a “disposable penis.” Other creatures discard their sex organ post-copulation, but they don’t re-grow it. The researchers called the slug’s behavior “extremely peculiar.”

A large part of the slug’s penis is actually an internal one that’s coiled inside its body; this is what regenerates the detached portion after sex. The studied slugs were seen to mate three times in a row, 24 hours apart each time; it’s not clear if the penis could regenerate once again, perhaps months later. The evolutionary purpose? Scientists aren’t quite sure, but they say the purpose of the first sex act may be to remove any sperm left by a previous partner. The disposable penis is far from the slugs’ only sexual quirk: The penises are equipped with spines that could help with the removal of prior sperm, AFP reports. The creatures are also “simultaneous hermaphrodites,” which means they have male and female sexual organs that can be used simultaneously.

There was a time in my life when this would have been a desirable trait to have…..

Bottom Feeders!

I am always looking for weird stuff for my wek end posts, when I try to put politics and such behind me for a couple of relaxful days……Remember that famous line from Shakespeare, “First thing we do is kill all the lawyers”……I think that the HufPo has found that lawyer……

Thomas P. Lowe, a divorce lawyer in Eagan, Minn., has been barred from practicing law for the next 15 months. Lowe recently admitted to having sex with a client — and then billing her for his time.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports Lowe and the woman had known each other since 1985, but that affair took off in August 2011, when she approached him to represent her in a divorce. Several days after agreeing to represent her, Lowe reportedly asked if she would be interested in having sex (which is clearly against the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers).

After their sexual encounters, Lowe would bill the client for his time, coding them as “meetings or drafting memos,” reports the United Press International.

The affair continued until March 2012, then met an abrupt end when Lowe’s wife learned of her husband’s infidelity. According to the Star Tribune of Minnesota, Lowe ended the tryst, withdrew as the woman’s attorney and sent her a bill. His former client then attempted suicide.

When pressed, she disclosed the affair to hospital workers.

You gotta love the cajones of this guy…….but it does little to improve the perception of divorce lawyers……..

I thought my exe’s lawyer was 7 feet tall until I realized he was standing on my wallet……(insert rim shot here)

A Moron Will Always Be a Moron

You would think that with all the idiots that do something illegal and then post it on Youtube and get caught would learn a lesson or two…..apparently a moron will always be a moron…….and this guy is a huge moron with the IQ of his hat size…….

Matthew Rader Oregon

Matthew Abram Rader

A 30-year-old Oregon man who allegedly tattooed his name near the vagina of a teenaged girl faces charges, including third-degree rape.

An affidavit filed in Oregon’s Benton County Court states that the victim, who has not been publicly identified, told police that Matthew Abram Rader gave her three tattoos for her 15th birthday, including one of his name “near her vagina.”

Police interpreted this to mean that Rader had engaged in a sexual relationship with the victim when she was 14 years old. In Oregon, sexual intercourse with a person under age 16 is considered third-degree rape.

The victim told police that she had never revealed her true age to Rader. However, Oregon law states the fact that a “defendant did not know the child’s age or… reasonably believed the child to be older than the age of 16” is not a viable defense for rape.

Beginning December 2012, police investigated Rader with the victim’s cooperation, reviewing dozens of pages of sexually explicit messages between her and Rader, according to KVAL. During a Facebook exchange with an officer posing as the victim, Rader allegedly asked for nude photographs of the girl.

Corvallis, Ore., police arrested Rader Jan. 2. He is being held in Benton County Jail on $200,000 bail and faces charges of third-degree rape, second-degree online sexual corruption of a child and a count of using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct.

So this idiot thought a tat of his name next to a minor’s va-jay-jay was a good idea………this moron is the same moron that writes a bank stick up note on the back of his personal deposit slip……….see what happens when you swim in the shallow end of the gene pool?

Clap If It Hurts!

The weekend and I breath a sigh of relief…….I can post on things other than the Drama Of Obama………

Back in my military days I recall going to sick call one morning and they call out xrays, couple people go off…….shots, a couple more…….and then the orderly calls out for venereal clinic….a the rest of the waiting room got up and stood in line for their clap treatments…….why do I bring this up today?  A good question.

(Newser) – There’s a new reason to stock up on condoms. An “incurable” (or at least, antibiotic-resistant) strain of gonorrhea has made its way across the pond to North America, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At least nine Canadian patients have failed to respond to the typical dose of cefixime, one of the last antibiotics able to treat the STD. “We’ve heard of such cases in Asia and Europe,” one CDC doctor tells NPR. “It’s very concerning.”

The WHO started warning of the dangers of drug-resistant gonorrhea back in June, predicting that in a few years gonorrhea might be able to resist any available treatment. That isn’t the case yet however; all nine Canadian patients were, eventually, cured, most with an injectable antibiotic, CBS News reports.

If that does not put the limber in your Johnson…..then you are celibate or a eunuch…..

Some stories are just scary.  Any thoughts?

Not Something “Clap” About

Sunday and all is calm and serene…….remember the days of ‘free love’?  Probably not….you would have to be an old fart to appreciate those days and all their interests and glory…….where the most popular spot to meet your friends was in line at the local Free Clinic….but the girls you met there you would want to wait a couple of weeks before you hit on them….if you get my drift……(wink)…….

I was once told in a Health class that you COULD get the clap from a toilet seat…..(pause)…….but it is awfully uncomfortable……

Any way I bring up my bad old days for a reason………..

(AP) – A sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable, says the World Health Organization. The UN health agency is urging governments and doctors to step up surveillance of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, a bacterial infection that can cause inflammation, infertility, pregnancy complications and, in extreme cases, lead to maternal death. Babies born to mothers with gonorrhea have a 50% chance of developing eye infections that can result in blindness.

“In a couple of years it will have become resistant to every treatment option we have available now,” says a UN scientist. Once considered a scourge of sailors and soldiers, gonorrhea—known colloquially as the clap—became easily treatable with the discovery of penicillin. Now, it is again the second most common sexually transmitted infection after chlamydia. The global health body estimates about 106 million cases annually worldwide.

Damn!  It use to be sex, drugs and roll n roll……and today it is masturbation, Advil and IPod….damn this generation is boring!