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Reporter's Notebook: Speed Dating
Filed under: City Pages , City Pages
Speed dating was so much fun I have a few more details of the evening that I just have to share.
1. My boyfriend went on a date with Caroline, the hottie I refer to in my story. According to him: "She's a bitch." She made fun of him for still being in school. Even so, I still want to know what happened between her and Ken.
2. Roberto, the blood drawing medical technician who sounded so creepy in the story, has a lighter side. Dance is his passion, especially bopping and moon walking. He also likes to watch Lifetime.
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Posted by Beth Walton at June 17, 2008 5:11 PM | Comments (1)
As Sexy As Drinking Paint Thinner: I Watch the Gene Simmons Sex Tape
Filed under: Sex
I -- this is not a joke -- gagged even reading the words "Gene Simmons Sex Tape."
"I couldn't bring myself to watch it," my buddy Casey was saying over Instant Messenger, shipping me the URL. "You need to do this. I need to know."
I'm curious, I admitted. I was also revolted. The power of procrastination combined with the power of suggestion, though, and I decided I had to do this. For Casey. For you. For America.
For SCIENCE!
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Posted by Jeff Shaw at February 29, 2008 10:18 PM | Comments (9)
Animal bedrooms...
Filed under: Sex
This Valentine's Day, for the fifth year in a row, the Lake Superior Zoo in Duluth lured couples to an "adults only" event with the promise of getting "a little dirty as we discuss intimate details of critter copulation" and "venture behind the scenes to one of our animal bedrooms." Oh, and there was wine and fudge.
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Posted by Jeff Severns Guntzel at February 15, 2008 10:08 AM | Comments (1)
Bang your spouse for Jesus!
Filed under: Sex
"Of course, all the guys say it's genius," said Pastor Paul Wirth. "The married women think we're out of our minds."
In addition to reinforcing stereotypes about sex-crazed husbands denied sex by frigid women, the church will also generate some homegrown porn:
Church members, most of whom are in their 20s and 30s, will get a journal to track their sexual encounters - or lack thereof - and jot down their feelings. Ranters can vent on the church's blog, which is set to go up after the challenge starts, at www.30daysexchallenge.com.
A billboard advertising the challenge got banned by the billboard company, because it was the creepiest thing since Bob Dole's Viagra commercial:
Even its proposed billboard along Adamo Drive, near 22nd Street, didn't pass the billboard company censors, Wirth said. Posting the 30-Day Sex Challenge Web site was fine. The message, "Are you up for it?" wasn't. Neither was the content of a video linked from the Web site that showed a few bellybuttons and a guy without a shirt.
And if all that wasn't creepy enough, gaze at the look on the faces of these Perverts for Christ:
(Via: Obscure Store)
Posted by Kevin Hoffman at February 14, 2008 3:26 PM | Comments (6)
Prairie Homophobic Companion
Filed under: Sex
Garrison Keillor pulls an Ann Coulter in his latest homespun column
Garrison Keillor, the host of American Public Media's Prairie Home Companion, has bloggers fuming over a recent edition of his syndicated column The Old Scout, published on Salon.com.
The March 14 article entitled "Stating the Obvious" begins with Keillor's patented folksy, self-deprecating prairie populism on how neat-o it was to come from a family raised by a plain old mom and dad who put up with each other's shit until they were both in the dirt. Keillor bemoans today's "serial monogamy," where the Thanksgiving table expands to make room for mom's third husband and Grandpa's girlfriend.
Then it takes a sharp right turn. Keillor, possibly on a sugar high from too many Powdermilk Biscuits, worries about that the queers will want to go out and get kids. He ponders how those "sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog," would be able to let their children be the stars of the family.
"If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control," Keillor harrumphs.
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Posted by Corey Anderson at March 20, 2007 11:56 AM | Comments (14)
Faggot-phobia at the Walker and the Children's Theatre?
Filed under: Sex
Within weeks, Carroll received an email dismissing him from his stage door job at the Children's Theatre Company, where he'd worked for three years. More recently, Faggot was left out of this Saturday's Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council-sponsored rock and roll scavenger hunt March of Madness: Bands on the Run!, organized by artist Michael Gaughan, who had included the band in two previous versions of the event, and had informally invited the group to participate again—until, apparently, somebody read the article.
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Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at March 19, 2007 9:20 AM | Comments (13)
At what point does silicone freeze?
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Posted by Corey Anderson at January 31, 2007 9:00 AM | Comments (4)
Maybe Ralph Kiffmeyer was right about dildos
Filed under: Sex
For his one term of service in the Minnesota House of Representatives, Ralph Kiffmeyer is remembered chiefly for a single thing: his failed effort to outlaw the sale of sex toys such as dildos and vibrators. (Oh, to live in Mississippi!) To this day, the mere mention of the name "Ralph Kiffmeyer" leads to sneering in certain libertine circles. And to this day, his name comes up with some regularity because his wife, Mary, is Minnesota's current secretary of state. (I made mention of Ralph in an article about Mrs. Kiffmeyer here).
Now it turns out that Mr. Kiffmeyer's long-ago moral crusade might have had inadvertant merit. At least, if you're inclined to believe the folks at Greenpeace Netherlands. The organization recently issued a consumer alert that warns sex toy fanciers of health risks arising from exposure to high levels of certain plasticisers found in dildos, butt plugs and vibrators.
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Posted by Mike Mosedale at September 12, 2006 4:31 PM | Comments (1)
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