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Apr 05
“Why Don’t You Ever Just Want To Cuddle?!”
from College Candy » Sex Toys for Everyone! by Vivian - Undecided
So we’ve debated whether or not we would date someone who weighed less than us (twice), but what about dating a guy with a lower sex drive?
The stereotype is that it’s always the guy who initiates sex and the girl who turns him down. Well, contrary to popular belief, not every college guy is looking for some sexy time. [Yes, these mythical beings do exist and, as luck would have it, I got stuck with one.] Seriously, my boyfriend has the nerve to call me a “hornball” for all my honest efforts to get him laid.
Case and point: Everyone knows that home movie nights are the best times to get a little groping action going on, but my attempts at playful fondling always end with a humiliating, “Why don’t you ever just want to cuddle and watch the movie?”
I do want to watch the movie, you idiot. It’s called multi-tasking.
I just don’t get it, it’s not like he’s gay. He’s not a prude either. We’ve done it in a public park, for goodness sakes (a story for another time). And he definitely isn’t saving himself - a little too late for that one, bucko. So I’m forced to chalk it up to a lower sex drive, which seriously sucks for me and my libido.
Plus, do you know how seriously damaging it is to your ego when you’re scantily clad in lingerie and your man turns you down? Talk about humiliating. I love him but, dammit, a girl’s got needs.
What about you? Would you date a guy with a lower sex drive? Is love (not the physical kind) enough to satisfy you?
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Mar 29
And You Thought Sex On a Bed Was Good…
from College Candy » Sex Toys for Everyone! by Mandy - Hofstra
Don’t ask how (no, I wasn’t Googling “chair sex,” or “furniture to do it on”), but I came across this site recently and was instantly intrigued.
The Tantra Chair is used to practice the amazingness of Kama Sutra. It’s shaped like a funky wave to help position yourself properly for ultimate pleasure. Don’t know anything about Kama Sutra? Well, you’re missing out. Lucky for you, the site also has a guide to tons of fun positions to enjoy on this lovely piece of furniture. (Warning: there is some nudity…and it’s kind of graphic.)
If I had the place and the money, and - oh yeah, the boyfriend - I would definitely invest in this contraption. Kama Sutra is already saucy enough, but throwing in a new toy (or chair) to aid the process just takes it to a whole new level! And it looks like a couch so you can definitely pass it off to your parents as some piece of artsy fartsy furniture you found on Craigslist.
Doing the nasty on a flat surfaced bed is so last year. This gift from the sex gods will have you in positions you never thought possible on a futon.
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Queer Women to Watch: Spring 2009
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Rachael Cantu, singer/songwriter
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Lesbian Iron Chef Cat Cora Announces First Pregnancy
The first and only female Iron Chef on Food Network’s hit show,
Iron Chef America, Chef Cat Cora (www.catcoracooks.com) today announced she is 4-1/2 months pregnant with a boy.
For the 41 year old Cora, this is her first pregnancy and the fourth child for the Cora family.
Cat and her partner, Jennifer, have two sons plus Jennifer will deliver their third child, also a boy, in April.
“Jennifer and I are thrilled to go through the wonderful experience of pregnancy together. We started the in-vitro process 5 years ago,” said Cat who is due in July. “This has been a miracle for us and we’ll now have 4 beautiful children.”
Together for nearly ten years, the Cora’s share a unique family story in which both women have carried the other’s biological child.
Cat’s pregnancy is a result of in-vitro fertilization with Jennifer’s embryo. The couple’s sons, ages 5 years and 23 months, were both carried by Jennifer. She was artificially inseminated for her first pregnancy, but the second she carried to term using Cat’s embryo. In Jennifer’s current pregnancy, both women’s embryos were implanted, so the biological mother is unknown. They do not to plan to conduct DNA testing to determine the baby’s biological mother.
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Each of the couple’s children was conceived through insemination or in-vitro with the same anonymous sperm donor, making the children biological brothers.
Cat, who was raised in a food-loving Greek family in Mississippi, recently launched CCQ (Cat Cora’s Que) at Macy’s new Signature Kitchen restaurant in South Coast Plaza.
Cat grew up with her own unique barbeque traditions and continued to explore and expand on them as a chef. CCQ is designed as a fast casual concept and the food defines Cat’s passion for global BBQ, offering various sauces and flavors.
In 2006, Bon Appetit magazine bestowed her with its Teacher of the Year Award and named her Executive Chef.
Cat is also a two-time author and philanthropist, founding and presiding over her charity, Chefs for Humanity (www.chefsforhumanity.org). Her latest book, Cooking From the Hip: Fast, Easy, Phenomenal applies her “go with what you’ve got” philosophy to create simple, sensational meals.
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Exposing the Gay Agenda?
by Scott Stiffler
EDGE Contributor
Monday Mar 9, 2009
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Do you believe that churches and religious organizations should be forced to hire homosexuals? Do you agree that Christians should be arrested for speaking against homosexuality in public places? Should children in public schools be taught homosexuality is normal, acceptable, and equal to the traditional marriage of a man and a woman?
No, it’s not some spooky-assed Christian variation of a Jeff Foxworthy “You Might be a Redneck If…” comedic routine. In fact, it might be amusing if it weren’t taken from the pages of an actual website.
The website? SilencingChristians.com.
The people behind the website? The American Family Association, self-anointed watchmen of all things liberal and gay.
The origin of these cleverly phrased but ultimately deceptive questions? A survey designed to fire up the AFA’s target audience - who, one presumes, has just watched Speechless: Silencing the Christians. The hour-long documentary style film purports to reveal how the mainstream media and Hollywood are conspiring with those dreaded LGBTs to bitchslap all things Christian. The homosexual agenda, they warn, seeks nothing less than to criminalize free speech as practiced by traditional family-oriented Christians. Follow the Money
By the film’s end (depending upon your disposition), you’ll either be a fired up Christian soldier ready to man the front lines of the culture war by making a tidy donation to the AFA. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you’ll have renewed dedication to living life as a man who likes to get it on with other men (a mortal sin which, try as they may, retains its patina of naughtiness and fun no matter how much it’s portrayed as a shortcut to the flaming lakes of Hades!). Either way, it’s worth watching - if only to be aware of the arguments and techniques being used as fundraising-oriented weapons against the LGBT community.
But what’s so bad about a little film that plays “hide the facts” while casting the first stones of sin upon homosexuals? EDGE asked a panel of more moderate academics and religious types.
The answer: “Plenty.”
But first, a disclaimer: Many, many, many attempts were made to secure the participation of both the American Family Association as well as the film’s host, Janet Parshall, (her website).Although Edge was able to speak rather cordially with the AFA’s Cindy Roberts (Director of Media & Public Relations), she was ultimately unable to get anyone to speak with us. Repeated calls to Parshall’s booking agent/lawyer/husband went repeatedly unreturned.
The AFA uses homosexuality as a reliable, effective fishing lure for donations, notes Rev. Jim Merritt, Marriage Equality Coordinator for the Global Justice Team of the Metropolitan Community Churches. Invoking the word regardless of context is, says Merritt, “a huge fundraising mechanism; one of the issues that stir up their constituency.” After valiantly viewing all sixty minutes of “Speechless: Silencing the Christians,” Merritt noticed there was “a place to register. It’s the first thing at bottom, a Donate button. Even at the end of the movie, there’s a clear message about how imperative it is to donate money.”
For those who’ve been keeping tabs on the AFA, finger pointing and fundraising are familiar techniques. Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson, Moderator and Presiding Bishop of Metropolitan Community Churches, points out that the AFA “has been a longtime purveyor of both misinformation as psychology and theology as it pertains to LGBTs.” The cumulative effect of their efforts (at least on their constituency) has “greatly contributed to homophobia and the body of misinformation which continues to get circulated about same sex marriage and reparative therapy. They are using bogus science to prop up their point of view.”
But why is hating on the gays so good for business?
“There is this odd projection that goes on among groups like this.” observes Wilson. “It’s the way they raise money. People project a lot of their anxiety about sexuality onto gays and lesbians.” Staring at a projection of your own anxieties, she says, distracts one from the unpleasant business of facing one’s own transgressions and shortcomings. Want to be a champion of the family unit? “Look at the heterosexual divorce rate.” recommends Wilson. But where’s the fun in that? The Big Lie
Kenneth Sherill, a professor of political science at Hunter College, is another brave veteran viewer of “Speechless.” His assessment? “It’s the kind of thing that would have made Joseph Goebbels proud.” Producer Dan Scalf and editor Scott Zachry have manipulated facts and footage to promote the AFA’s intellectual agenda - not at all unlike how Goebbels and the Nazi party used film as a stealthy tool of propaganda.
The film, says Sherrill, “uses distortion and truth fragments — where they tell you part of something or re-route the material that would enable you not to be scared.” Merritt cites the film’s best example of this technique in its use of the Philadelphia 11.
Not too proud to name themselves in a manner that references those 60s liberals, “The Chicago Seven,” members of the “Philadelphia 11” were arrested on October 10, 2004 when they were arrested and jailed overnight for ignoring orders to move as they conducted a highly vocal protest during the city’s OutFest event.
Although the AFA’s online survey coyly asks us if we “agree that Christians should be arrested for speaking against homosexuality in public places?,” it fails to mention the specifics of this incident - or the fact that charges were ultimately dropped against the protesters. For a full account of the “facts” from a conservative Christian website as well as the HRC, PhillyVictory.php and hrc.org/issues/4856.htm.
As for the incident’s use in the film as an example of Christians being muzzled by the powerful homosexual lobby, Merritt notes that the protesters were hardly the shrinking violets they portray themselves as - there only to bring scripture and witnessing to the gays.
Merritt: “The film shows you the Philadelphia 11, then the survey asks do you believe Christians should be arrested for speaking against homosexuality. In fact, they were arrested for trying to incite a riot. I’ve been to Pride events all over the country where they scream and yell and get in people’s face and it ends up with people being angry and aggressive on both sides. I am a Christian, and I don’t want to be arrested for speaking the truth; but I also want to be smart about it and do it in ways that are not going to incite violence on either side.”
The film certainly scores sympathy points when it trots out two elderly women who were part of the Philadelphia 11. One notes “We hadn’t done anything wrong. I was handcuffed and accompanied the other people into the paddy wagon.” The other sadly confronts the fact that she’s just been charged with “Three felonies? I just couldn’t imagine; just for trying to share the gospels.”
From the dramatic testimony of sympathetic souls, to the music and editing, Sherill observes the skilled way the AFA has contextualized the debate “in the guise of a documentary or news show. That gives it this aura of authoritativeness and professionalism when it’s basically an infomercial.” The key to propaganda, he notes, “is to repeat a message so that it not only becomes believable. Because you’ve heard it so many times, you shut out any competing messages. If you say something often enough, people will believe it’s true no matter how fantastical it is. It’s presenting hysteria in this guise of mild mannered, cool professionalism and it’s made for the gullible.”
The Gay Agenda
Want to play a drinking game that will have you loopy within the film’s first five minutes? Then by all means, down a shot every time you hear the phrase “homosexual agenda” or a reference to what the AFA credits as that dark movement’s ultimate handbook.
“After the Ball,” published by Doubleday in 1989, was authored by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. According to the film, these “two homosexual activists” used the book to lay out “powerful and sophisticated propaganda techniques to manipulate people into accepting the homosexual lifestyle.” As the film would have us believe, the book is used to this day as a blueprint for adopting sly public relations and advertising techniques in the service of advancing the homosexual lifestyle. “Speechless” narrator Janet Parshall often makes this accusation while failing to acknowledge the irony that the very film she’s in is following the book’s strategies - without the ugly consequence of being seen as advancing the “Christian agenda.”
As for co-author Madsen, he blogged on the topic: “the religious right have been treating us like the Elders of Zion ever since the book first came out, which is preposterous. While the book was widely read I see no evidence that the book itself serves as any kind of reference for the movement today. Our work seems to have had little actual influence. To keep insisting that it did is yet another sign, as if we needed any more, that agitators on the right, while professing their commitment to truth, lack fundamental intellectual integrity. “
Impact and Action
If the fact that this film is out there in the Internet ether working its propaganda magic upon deep pocketed conservative Christians has you all in a tizzy, then the words of a Christian film reviewer might calm you down; at least enough to get your shopping done.
Greg Wright, Managing Editor of hollywoodjesus.com, says the film is something he’s heard the odd reference to, “but it’s not something people are paying a lot of attention to in the broader Christian community. My dad’s really on top of what happens with the AFA and when anything gains traction there, he’s at the forefront of forwarding contacts and info to me, and on this one he hasn’t. My guess is it’s not gaining the kind of attention that other AFA major issues have.” Wright, who describes himself as circulating “more on the periphery of the Christian Community” says he’s “Not tied into that stuff. But when something gets a big buzz, it circulates out of the periphery and we get wind of it.” Thankfully, news of “Speechless” has yet to drift into his general field of awareness.
An interesting footnote to the broadcast of the hour-long special on stations throughout the country beginning last month came when a Michigan station, WOOD-TV of Grand Rapids, Michigan, decided not to broadcast it after protests from the HRC. But, true to form, the American Family Association of Michigan, immediately claimed the canceling was part of that omnipotent gay media conspiracy when it was revealed that Trevor Thomas, the deputy communications director for the HRC in Washington, D.C., once worked in WOOD-TV’s newsroom. “Gary Glenn, president of AFA-Michigan, said in a statement to WOOD-TV General Manager Diane Kniowski that he originally suspected the cancellation was merely a matter of political correctness, but now wonders how deeply the connection runs between Thomas and the station,” reads a press release from the AFA of Michigan.
“That new information,” Glenn continued, “leads us to question whether the real story is that WOOD-TV management was unduly influenced by or even acted in collusion with a former high-level staffer who you allowed to openly campaign for homosexual activists’ political agenda while with the station and who now promotes that agenda full-time nationwide.”
As for what “mainstream” Christians and gays can do, Merritt recommends we all “follow their example, regarding the film’s wedge issues such as same sex marriage, public education, protest and reparative therapy. “Stand up and speak up. Call our members of congress and senators and get involved. I’m going to send a link to my friends, because I think it’s important for us to realize that the radical Christian agenda is so anti homosexual. We have to be as involved in political processes as they are, and their suggestions are good for us, too.”
Scott Stiffler is a New York City based writer and comedian who has performed stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy. His solo shows include Damaged by the 70s and An Evening With Insane Mark Twain & Dead Bette Davis. He must eat twice his weight in fish every day, or he becomes radioactive.
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