Into Temptation

Posted By jss on December 2, 2009

I can’t let the feeding frenzy go by entirely without comment, much as I would like to.

A relatively up-to-the-minute link on how the most famous golfer in the world is doing these days:

Tiger Woods voicemail to Jaimie Grubbs, Kalika Moquin new girl

I have a couple of quick points, things the mainstream media won’t say:

– I bet Tiger Woods has slept with a lot fewer women than he could have.

– Marriage is a negotiation. Tiger and Elin are apparently doing a lot of negotiating:

Apparently, Tiger having sex with other women was not part of the initial deal. Apparently, anyway. We don’t know what the deal was; it could have been the traditional “Keep it in your pants from now on, golfer-boy,” or it could have been “I know what you are, just don’t ever drag me through the mud.” Either way — deal’s off.

– We won’t ever get the whole truth. Nor are “we” entitled to it.

Do you think the percentage of famous people who have sex outside marriage is greater than, less than or about the same as the percentage of everyone else? I’m guessing … about the same, actually. They just get a lot more publicity.

Oh, and one other thing. Jack Nicklaus’s record for winning major titles is looking a little more impregnable, wouldn’t you say?

“Impregnable.” Great word, huh?

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Tags: Elin, Jack Nicklaus, Jaimie Grubbs, Kalika Moquin, Tiger Woods

Posted By jss on October 29, 2009

No, I’m not offering.  I can say this categorically: Offering me tickets to see the Phillies play the Yankees will not increase the chances that I will have sex with you.

But I am not Susan Finkelstein.

Police: Woman offered sex for tix

As it all turns out, she gets the tickets and some small measure of fame/notoriety as well:

Maybe police spending a little too much time on Craigslist …

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Tags: Finkelstein, Phillies, sex, World Series, Yankees

Posted By jss on October 28, 2009

I have a lengthy article about the Ashley Madison Agency published today at YourTango.com:

Adultery Benefits Women? A Case For Ashley Madison

The article is excerpted from a preliminary chapter of Into Temptation. So it is a bit of a sneak preview, long in advance …

Let me know what you think, and please join in the conversation over at YourTango.com.

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Tags: adultery, Ashley Madison, into temptation, yourtango.com

Posted By jss on October 13, 2009

You would think that back in the ’60s and ’70s when, according to legend, sexual mores were looser than ever before or since, reams of newsprint would have been devoted to sexual advice.

But no. There was pretty much no such thing unless you want to count Penthouse Forum or The Playboy Advisor; and the former was more about sexual escapades while the latter had as much to do with mixing perfect highballs as it did about sex.

And you still can’t find sex advice in mainstream newspapers. Sure, every alternative weekly has one. Glossy magazines have 999 new ways to turn him (or her) on every month! (Does anyone know how often those have been recycled and rewritten?)

But college newspapers are where you find sex advice columnists, writing on cutting edge topics such as whether swallowing is a must for oral sex.

OK, yes, I know. That’s California, and that is where college sex columns really got going — in the ’90s. But there are more than 200 college newspaper sex columnists all across the country now, enough for The Nation to call it “A Movement.”

Which I think is great, and it fits right in with the narrative of Into Temptation. Except for one thing:

There aren’t enough sex columnist jobs out there for all these kid sex columnists coming out of school. And there *should* be. Newspapers are dying, in part, because they have almost no relevance to anyone under 35. You’d think at some point they’d try dumping “Dear Margo” for Mustafa “Will Write for Sex” Shaikh …

Or me.

But they won’t. They’d rather die.

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Tags: college, journalism, newspapers, sex columnists

Posted By jss on October 12, 2009

An ad campaign that depicts Louisville, Kentucky as a place where one *might* find a single woman with a tattoo on her derriere, or where someone might possibly have fun for longer than a dose of Viagra lasts — in other words, an ad campaign that appeals to single, educated people — is under fire by politicians. (Of course.)

…

Louisville ads take racy turn some question

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Those ads and others have received “an incredibly positive response,” said Pip Pullen, an accounts director for Louisville-based marketing and advertising firm Red7e who worked on the Possibility City campaign.“Except,” he said, “some members of the Metro Council took umbrage.”

The Courier-Journal covers the story with a commendable lack of bias, though I’m half expecting an editorial page salvo. It is the Metro Council that amuses me, though. Because eventually, politicians who count votes, even in Kentucky, are going to find that having moral values that are far more conservative than those of voters is not the way to get re-elected.

The story is spreading around the web. Funny, though, I’m not seeing other news sources linking to the actual ads. Here’s the “Louisville: Where Happiness Lasting More Than Four Hours is Perfectly Normal” ad.

Over the line? Give me a break.

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Tags: ad campaign, derriere, Louisville, tattoo, Viagra

Posted By jss on October 7, 2009

I got lucky last night …

I was channel surfing, which I rarely do, and stumbled upon CNBC’s report:

Dirty Money: The Business of High-End Prostitution

… which was surprisingly non-sleazy, non-judgmental and about as devoid of histrionics as is possible when TV reporters and cameras are unleashed to cover such a topic.

They even allowed speculation that “a sizeable minority of Americans” (somewhere between 25 percent and half) might be … unopposed … to legalizing sex work.

Which is not the same thing as saying that Americans are, well, ready to take to the streets. But still.

If you missed it, the majority of Dirty Money is online. Here is one of the many clips from the CNBC site:

At the “high end” of the sex business — apparently, most wealthy men are looking for connection, conversation and intimacy instead of kinky acrobatic porn-star sex. “The Girlfriend Experience,” in other words.

I’ve always thought the free girlfriend/boyfriend experience was pretty satisfactory. Though it obviously can have its ups and downs and some misery as well as joy and pleasure. The paid-for experience … falls under the heading of fantasy fulfillment.

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Tags: CNBC, Dirty Money, fantasy fulfillment, girlfriend experience, Prostitution