Sex on the Net II

Here are some more selected stories with a sexual twist collected from various Internet sources.

• Firefighter dons bikini for a stroll in the park

Steven S. Cole, a 46-year-old volunteer firefighter, was arrested Tuesday after police received a report that an intoxicated man was walking and driving around Heritage Oak Park in Mason. Police said Cole was wearing a blond wig, pink flip-flops and a red-black-and-white striped bikini with the top filled out by tan water balloons. Cole's blood-alcohol test registered 0.174, more than twice Ohio's legal driving limit of 0.08, the arrest report said. "He is obviously humiliated and embarrassed by the entire situation," said Cole's lawyer, Charlie Rittgers, who added that he is investigating the circumstances that led to the arrest.

• Pregnant Woman Accused of Selling Sex

Diana Cornwell, 34, and her husband, Jesse, 32, each face prostitution charges, Anne Arundel County police said. Diana who is seven months pregnant is accused of using an Internet ad service to solicit money for sex.


"She advertised that she was pregnant and married," and she did so with her husband's knowledge, said Cpl. Sara Schriver, a police spokeswoman. "I have not heard of this before."


According to police, Cornwell posted an ad on craigslist.org, an Internet classified ad service, in which she offered sex for $300. An undercover officer made an appointment, and Jesse Cornwell greeted the officer at the door of their Pasadena home. Jesse Cornwell knew the officer was there for sex with his wife, police said. Diana Cornwell was charged with prostitution, scheduling an act of prostitution and operating a house of prostitution. Her husband was charged with the latter two offenses.

• The Big Metal Penis Festival

Recently held was the Kanamara festival in Kawasaki city, which basically involves a lot people parading a giant pink penis around the town. Otherwise known as the “big metal penis festival,” the event is traditionally a celebration of fertility. Among those in attendance were couples hoping for children, bemused locals, and a fair few transvestites.

Surely the most hedonistic hi-jinks you'll ever find on a weekend afternoon, it takes place at the Wakamiya Hachimangu shrine, near Kawasaki Daishi station. The jaw-dropping festivities include old folks carving phallic symbols out of daikon, giant wooden members that you can sit astride and hug for good luck, and stands selling willy-shaped lollipops and hot dogs. Live bands and traditional dancing and drumming performances add to the celebratory air, and the event culminates in a parade around town featuring three shlong-shaped portable shrines. This is the sort of demented behavior you'd get into deep trouble for at school, but here, anything goes.

• Sex in the 1700's

Prostitutes, perversions and public scandals – the stuff of the 21st century tabloids was familiar to readers three centuries earlier, according to new research from the University of Leeds. The reading of erotic literature was already a social activity 300 years ago.

Jenny Skipp’s three-year PhD study examined, catalogued and categorised every known erotic text published in eighteenth-century Britain: "I tried to get a grip on just how many were published, detail the various types of sexual behaviour portrayed and find out who was doing what – and to whom." It proved a surprisingly rich field: "Most people have heard of Fanny Hill, but there was a huge amount of erotic literature published in the 18th century."

Despite earlier work suggesting that these texts were only for solitary consumption – at home, alone, and behind closed doors – Skipp’s work throws up a surprising image of how these works were used.


"They would be read in public – everywhere from London's rough-and-ready alehouses to the city’s thriving coffee houses, which weren't quite the focus of polite society in the way we sometimes think," she explained. "Some texts even came as questions and answers and were clearly intended for groups of men to read together, with one asking the questions and the others answering them."

Bush Makes Recess Appointments

What does President Bush do when his nominees can't or won't get Congressional approval? He waits until Congress takes a break and then appoints them anyway. He has taken this approach more than 100 times in the past. In perhaps his most controversial such appointment, he named John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations in 2005. Bolton served until late last year, when the 109th Congress adjourned and he was constitutionally required to step down.

He has continued to use this tactic and made three recent appointments, while Congress was in recess, that could not get Congressional approval.

• Susan E. Dudley --- Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs


• Andrew G. Biggs --- Deputy Director of the Social Security Administration


• Sam Fox ------------ Ambassador to Belgium

All three were either rejected or would have been rejected by Congress.

Susan E. Dudley, "A conservative academic who has written that markets do a better job of regulating than the government does and that it is more cost-effective for people who are sensitive to pollution to stay indoors on smoggy days than for government to order polluters to clean up their emissions." will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies.

Andrew G. Biggs, "a researcher at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, has been an outspoken proponent of converting Social Security benefits into self-directed retirement accounts" becomes its Deputy Director.

Sam Fox, "a St. Louis businessman and GOP fundraiser who contributed $50,000 to the Swift Boat veterans' controversial campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in the 2004 presidential race" named Belgium Ambassador.

Leslie Phillips, Communications Director, of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, criticized Bush:

The recess appointment, she said, "shows disrespect for the advise-and-consent responsibilities of the U.S. Senate and for the American people, on whose behalf the president acts. The power to recess appoint should not be used to avoid any scrutiny of presidential nominees."

Is it that Bush just doesn't care about the opinions of Congress and by extension the people of the United States and is willing to use/abuse his presidential powers to get his own way or is he just playing to his political base, knowing that his time in office is running out?

Jonathon Alter of Newsweek Magazine discusses some of the issues involved with Keith Olbermann:
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Barak Challenges Hillary

Barak Obama stunned the world of politics and at the same time showed Hillary Clinton that she is in a real race with a formidable opponent. He announced that his campaign took in $25 million in contributions for the first three months of the year. Just one million less than the historic $26 million raised by Hillary.

"It means we've got broad-based support, and I'm very proud of that," Obama told The Associated Press while campaigning in Mason City. "We're particularly proud that we were able to do this without any money from federal lobbyists or PACs."

In an e-mail message to supporters, Obama said his fundraising success represented "an unmistakable message to the political establishment in Washington about the power and seriousness of our challenge."
His campaign released additional details illustrating the breadth of Obama's support. He had 100,000 contributors in the first quarter, with more than half donating online for a total of $6.9 million. Clinton, by contrast, had about 50,000 contributors and raised $4.2 million online.

Although Clinton herself had no comment on Barak's numbers, her campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, issued a statement congratulating Obama and said the fundraising of all the Democratic contenders "demonstrates the overwhelming desire for change in our country."

Rudy Giuliani, who himself had raised $15 million in Republican support, congratulated Barak Obama saying: "I admire his fundraising ability. It shows he has a tremendous amount of support,"

Just for Laughs

A list of the biggest celebrity fools in the entire country according to the 8th Annual Most Foolish American Survey. Did your favorite foolish celebrity make the list?
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Mitt Romney Leads in Republican Money

Mitt Romney has proved to be a formidable fund raiser, collecting $23 million in campaign contributions in the first three months of this year. Giuliani, who leads the GOP candidates in national surveys by double digits, brought in $15 million. John McCain who at one point was the favorite to win the GOP nomination raised $12.5 million.

Combined, five of the six top-tier presidential candidates reported raising a jaw-dropping $90.5 million from Jan. 1 through March 31. The sum doesn't include Obama's tally; he likely will disclose it this week.

Mitt Romney's surprising lead for the GOP money now needs to be converted into a rise in the polls. He remains in single digits in most national popularity polls and sought to solidify his standing in the top tier of the GOP field with a substantial fundraising report. He did just that. Now he faces the challenge of sustaining that brisk fundraising pace and building upon that momentum to raise his standing in polls.

Giuliani, the former New York City mayor is a celebrity who has been a huge fundraising draw for the GOP in years' past. His campaign said he raised $10 million alone in March. However, McCain's numbers were disappointing, only $12.5 million, given that he spent more than a year building a national campaign organization, collecting endorsements of the Republican establishment and locking up the support of a slew of big-time GOP donors. He is now under tremendous pressure to post a big number in the second quarter and prove he's still a viable candidate.