The big news is the launch of the Jeff Booth Show on Erotic University Radio. This weekly show is on Sunday nights at 7, and you can listen to it anytime during the week. It features interviews with porn stars and sex experts, along with sex in the news and commentary. The first show running this week features an interview with the current Penthouse Pet of the Year, Heather Vandeven. We have the song First of May, illustrated with a number of interesting photos, as well as a discussion of sex outdoors. And, as always, there is the roundup of sex in the news. The show differs from other streaming radio shows in a number of ways. First, it is intended to be a sexual educational comedy show. It is an Internet Radio Show with Pictures, which means we can show you who we are talking to and what we are talking about. It is also more like a magazine than radio, in that you can select the segments of the show in the order you want to hear them.

Up and running, with over 500 members, is Adventurous Couples. It is primarily for couples in the Los Angeles area, and you can join by going to adventurouscouples.com. Membership is free for Eu students. It combines education and social group adventures, guided by EU founders Jeff and Kris Booth.

-Jeff Booth
 

Where's Andy?

Poor Greg Sakas of North Carolina. His store was raided by police in January and had all his inventory confiscated for committing a pretty serious crime- he was selling both DVDs and dildos. See, in South Carolina, you can sell one or the other, but not both at the same time. That’s bad. They have weird laws like that, such as you can have sex with your sister or your cousin but not both at the same time. He had to turn himself into the police. Except they didn’t really know about the law and then had to drive him 70 miles to book him, then insisted on a bond of $10,000, which they reduced to $1,000.  Five people in all arrested. For a dildo. What, were they worried that the dildo and the DVD would breed? After months of uncertainty, he finally has a court date June 11th.  The raid on his store was at the insinstence of the local Christian Coalition, who also complained about the lack of FDA approval on the dildos. The right wing Christian chief of police Frank Palombo is pushing the case and fighting to keep the city from settling. The police have never provided an inventory of everything they confiscated, which they continue to hold onto, probably with one hand.  Where is Andy Taylor when you need him?  Palombo should be in the tank hanging with Otis, not running the police department.

Convertible Carwash
In Australia, washing your own car is banned because of water shortages, so you have to go to a professional. If you go to Bubbles n Babes, those professionals will wash your car topless and even give you a lap dance, although my concern is that it would get your leather seats all soapy.

A Surprise in Every Box

A grandmother found a wrapped condom inside her daughter’s Happy Meal at a McDonald’s in New Zealand. While apologizing, McDonald’s spokesperson Dana McHamburgler stated that in their defense, the woman did accidentally order a Happy Ending Meal.

Morrisette Humps
Alannis Morrisette is back, this time exclusively on YouTube, with a parody of the Black Eye Peas song, My Hump. The original song is a bit of a parody, so you have a parody of a parody, but it is pretty funny. She does it more as a ballad.

Late Night Wake Up
I caught something on late night tv that caught my attention. You know how when you are only barely awake and something truly strange comes on tv. This happened one time when I had a cold and they showed an old Brady Bunch Variety Hour. I’d never seen the the original and was sure it was a really bad side effect of my cold medicine. This happened again just the other night with a really long commercial featuring a psychic pitching a book on how to increase your Extra Sexual Potential by getting psychic The Amazing Mac’s book called The Amazing Secrets of Extra Sexual Perception. The whole commercial is a parody of late night infomercials. You can see the whole thing on the website boostyouresp.com, which is where you can also get a free copy of the book. The whole thing is really a clever promotion for Axe Shower Gel, the gel which apparently gets men gang raped by women.

Investigate Around the Rosie
So let’s get this straight. The Office of Special Counsel, led by Scott Bloch, is investigating the White House over violations of the Hatch Act. This seems to be a response to the investigation of Scott Bloch by the White House. Previous employees under his leadership have filed official complaints. They claim that Bloch created a hostile work environment with retaliatory acts against his employees. One of the Office of Special Counsel’s jobs is to protect government employee whistle-blowers, yet 12 career employees claim they were involuntarily reassigned because they were believed to have been involved in whistle-blowing. The complaint, being handled by the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general, also alleges that Bloch did not enforce bans against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the federal workplace.  In fact, he seemed to have serious issue with gays in the workplace. Cynics believe that the only reason the previously reluctant to investigate anything Bloch is now actually investigating something is to make it harder to fire him.

Congressional Lap Coverup
Having lost the House and Senate in part to the public’s dislike of questionably ethical activity, House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) appointment of Rep. Ken Calvert to the House Appropriations Committee seems very odd. He replaces Doolittle, who was forced to resign over his own ethics investigations by the FBI. Calvert is not only also being investigated by the FBI, but he was caught in his car getting a face dance in his lap by a prostitute in 1993. He an attempted coverup, he tried to cover his erection with his hands, and he then ran from the police. He tried to coverup the event as well, denying it for over a year until the courts ordered the release of the police report, which is now available online. Calvert managed to get reelected in a fiercely conservative district by sending out flyers claiming that his Democratic opponent was gay. So, a lying homophobic whoremonger with questionable real estate deals under official investigation is the guy they choose to replace someone removed for ethics questions on one of the most important committees in the House? I think Boehner really missed the point of the last election.

There is always something new on the EU Virtual Campus. Here is the latest:

Philosophy: In the Magdalene Code game that is part of the Sex and the Bible class, we have added a number of additional rare examples of Egyptian erotica. These can be found in the tomb.

RTV: The radio station has been launched, with new weekly content.

Bug Fixes: We think we have fixed the bug that caused two classes to not show up in the transcript even after passing the final. It appears to have something to do with the order in which classes are taken. If you have any problems with this, let us know, as we can remotely fix your transcript.

Abstinence only proponents have long touted this study this continuing study as proof of the effectiveness of their agenda. That is, until the Impacts for Title V. Section 510, Abstinence Education Programs: Final Report, from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., was actually released in its final form. It pretty much thoroughly repudiates the effectiveness of abstinence only education, something we pretty much new already. The Abstinence Clearinghouse, which receives government funding, attempted to spin the report by stating that what is important “is not [program] effectiveness, but rather the values that are being taught. Whether or not these programs work is a “bogus issue.” It is this type of clear and logical thinking that is a hallmark of abstinence education. The Bush administration has tried to bury the report by publishing it on an obscure government website and quietly releasing it. Had the results been different, they would have shouted from the mountains.

Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, conducted each May, finds current public tolerance for gay rights at the high-water mark of attitudes recorded over the past three decades.” Today, 59 percent of Americans believe that “homosexual relations between consenting adults” should be legal, and 89 percent believe “gays should have equal rights in terms of job opportunities.”  

New research shows an important genetic link to breast cancer. Cancer Research UK scientists have isolated five regions of the genome containing genes which can raise a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. With further research, it may be possible to screen women with a high risk of breast cancer.

With a title like Freedom to Offend, you’d think that Raymond J. Haberski Jr.’s new book on the emergence of less censored film in the 1960’s would be a celebration of the lifting of restrictions. It is, in fact, just the opposite.

Haberski questions the notion of freedom of expression, and considers its support absolutist. He seems fond of the notorious bad old days of the Legion of Decency and Production Code, where movies were censored to a ridiculous extent and were very limited in the issues they could deal with up until the 1960’s. To the author, freedom of expression was just an excuse to put objectionable and sensationalized material on the screen. Of course, that’s the problem. Who decides where to draw the line? One man’s sensationalism is another’s important topic of the day.

You can learn a lot more about the Production Code in the Erotic University class on Pre-code films (it comes with the campus). It was a horrible system run by a rabid anti-Semite that imposed ridiculous and arbitrary rules on what films could explore and show. It lasted from 1934 to the 1960’s, and this author seems to believe that it somehow honed creativity. Sure, you had to figure out ways to say things in a clever enough way to get past the censors, but I would hardly call that contributing to the creativity if film making.

The author seems to reject the notion of the title. There is some interesting history here, but most will find this to be very different from what they would expect from the title.  

The Real World Bank Scandal

The real scandal about World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was not about giving huge pay raises to his girlfriend, ultimately getting her more in pay than her boss, Condoleezza Rice.  Sure, that was just stupid for someone on an ethics kick criticizing other countries ethics. And it wasn’t just his girlfriend. He brought in other White House loyalists with little experience and gave them huge salaries, while shutting out the career employees who actually knew what they were doing.

Nor is the real scandal how he lied about it all, or the fact that when the office of the general counsel’s Roberto Daniño told him that there were ethics issues with his relationship with Shaha Riza, he forced him out and replaced him with his girlfriend’s girlfriend.

Nor is it the fact that Wolfowitz put into her employment contract that no matter what she did in her job, all of her performance evaluations from her boss would rate her as excellent. Nor is it his foul mouth, telling the bank’s head of resources that “"If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too."

The real scandal is the level to which Wolfowitz politicized the World Bank to the detriment of those it was supposed to serve. The Banks’ job is fighting poverty and economic development in poor countries. He missed the first part of that and read it as just fighting economic development, because he is against one of the most essential elements: family planning. They rewrote rules eliminating family planning from proposals. This is the real scandal, and one he should have been fired for immediately.