Betty Dodson's blog

Back in the early 70's Margot St. James created COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) to decriminalize prostitution.  She had a fundraising ball that was the talk of San Francisco and I attended one as a gender bender with my shaved head, eye brow penciled mustache, and bare breasts.  Finally, time binding is kicking in and the new generation is learning from the one before it.  Bravo, Patricia West!

San Francisco would become the first major US city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K - a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex not involving minors.

While FOX news makes a big deal out of ACORN, a community group that registers new voters, thanks to the Bush White House, the Federal Govt has put new rules in place that could disenfranchise many Democrat's votes. Unless we have a landslide for Obama, the unscrupulous, sneaky GOP could steal the election AGAIN.

Rolling Stone Magazine is making this important investigative story available on the net in its entirety, free of charge.

Read this excerpt, then read it all on-line at www.RollingStone.com Or download it all, with the Kennedy-Palast voter guide, Steal Back Your Vote, at www.stealbackyourvote.org.

"The new registrations thrown out, the existing registrations scrubbed, the spoiled ballots, the provisional ballots that were never counted - and what you have is millions of voters, more than enough to swing the presidential election, quietly being detached from the electorate by subterfuge.

"Jim Crow was laid to rest, but his cousins were not," says Donna Brazile. "We got rid of poll taxes and literacy tests but now have a second generation of schemes to deny our citizens their franchise." Come November, the most crucial demographic may prove to be Americans who have been denied the right to vote.

After confronting my first case of censorship over images of my erotic art in the seventies, I knew I wanted to produce the first "feminist porn." By the time I got into video production in the nineties, I coined the term "Erotic Sex-Ed" for what I was doing. By then, porn was so totally predictable that I didn't want to use the term. Now the timing is perfect. The Paris women are right on target with their festival showing porn by and for women. I bet these women will approve of our new site that's been called: "The best sex on the web":

A group of French intellectuals has now gone one step further in the quest to integrate hardcore erotica into mainstream cinema by holding Paris's first alternative pornographic film festival: a no-holds-barred celebration of X-rated action that organisers say showcases a new wave of progressive porn that not only titillates but empowers. Read more

Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast have had it UP TO HERE. They stole 2000. They stole 2004. Now, they're snatching it again. So Bobby and Greg are doing the most important thing they can do in a crisis of democracy: write an investigative comic book.

Here it is: Steal Back Your Vote is out today. Download it right now at StealBackYourVote.ORG

Its 24 full-color pages cut open the Rove-arian cancer on our ballot box: the Six Ways They're Stealing Your Vote - plus a two-page pull-out guide - 7 Ways to Steal it Back.

Print it out. Pass it out. Right now.

I grew up in a family with a working mother and father struggling to pay the rent and feed a family of four kids. Back in 1970, when I marched down Fifth Avenue in the first Women's Rights demonstration I would never have guessed that 38 years later we'd be fighting the same battle. Come to think of it, I'm still trying to liberate masturbation, so why am I surprised?

Both Candidates Say They Favor Equal Pay, but How Do They Vote?

While media cover the economic bailout plan in great detail, few outlets have paid attention to how working women and families are doing in the face of an economic crisis. Economic issues like pay discrimination, paid family and medical leave, and flexible work hours get little attention or lip service from pundits. But the candidates running for president this year have very different views on these issues. The debates have the opportunity to highlight or hide their stances on issues important to women.

Three Cheers for the Alaskan teens demanding sex information that goes beyond the abstinence until married crap! I wonder what the Holy Rolling Governor Palin thinks about them apples? The McCain crew is keeping her extreme religious stand pretty quiet so far.

Alaska Students Demand Sex Education in Schools "We were not informed," 20-year-old says.

Amber Sawyer remembers her classmates, young and giggly and still riding a euphoric teenage high, cutting class and sneaking off with boyfriends to the nearby running trails. In the winter, when the Alaska cold was too much to bear, the same couples, passing on algebra class, would rendezvous at a local theater.

Some girls ended up pregnant. She doesn't know who ended up with a sexually transmitted infection.

Palin did much better than I expected. I gotta hand her an A+ for the remarkable cramming she did for her national TV Test. However, I couldn't stop watching the strand of bang that was caught on her eyelash that moved every time she blinked. Women! Please understand that hair in our eyes is NOT sexy or feminine but STUPID. It might make some insecure guys feel better to know we can't see clearly past the hair falling in our faces, but it reinforces women's second class status by stating: "See how pretty and feminine I am?" The Barracuda was there in her tight lips that turned many a smile into a grim determination to win. Notice how religion didn't enter the picture or where Palin stands on women's rights?

Biden Teaches Palin the Meaning of Maverick

I can't wait for carlin and me to be guests on Real Time with Bill Maher.  Then I'll be able to have a face-to-face opportunity to tell Bill how much I have enjoyed his show.  We so agree on how "religulous" America is and, like him, we long for intellectual sanity. Watch the Religulous trailer:

CONTRACEPTION FOR WOMEN THE WORLD OVER IS CRUCIAL. Poor women can feed the children they have if they have fewer children. Imagine the insanity of the Bush presidency curtailing contraception to poor countries because it's the same as abortion. I'd like to see those greedy old men wearing suits in Congress deal with a hungry, sick, crying child just for one day. Shame, shame, shame on the US government for imposing a cruel sadistic religious morality that causes more suffering for the poor.  Even the UN has failed women:

Listen to the Women: The UN Weighs Its Millennium Development Goals

The Alliance for Climate Protection has put together an ad that tells this simple story. And they're going to put it on national cable TV. They have Al Gore's blessing and their push is for clean energy.

If they can raise an additional $80,000 online, they'll also put it on 60 Minutes and 20/20 this coming week. Wouldn't that be great? Watch the clip and donate.  

At the end of my seventies, I'm in much better health than McCain and I am not on any meds. I have been known however, to occasionally imbibe in the Magic Herb instead of taking an anti-depressant that are known to depress orgasms as well. As healthy as I am, there is no way I would consider running this country. That's a job for a much younger person. The thought of Sarah in charge is terrifying.  

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im a 19 yr old lesbian girl, i have only came out on the scene and i am being flocked by women, however i have had some sexual encounters but they haven't went that far..... now my main fear/concern is oral sex, im worried i may not be able to pleasure the woman and maybe she mite not like it, i know this sounds silly but i would like my partner to squirt..... because then i will know for definate it was good for her, do you have any advice for me????

A high school friend of mine in Wichita sent this to me several years ago. I adore Rodney and his song. It makes me proud to be a cowgirl. I lost the link but it just came around again from a girlfriend living in Florida. What's better than the world wide web?

Listen to the Penis Song

Love Ernest Borgnine. How smart he was to whisper the word "masturbation" to the guy sitting next to him just loud enough for us to hear. The real kicker was watching the others on the panel fall apart laughing with embarrassment. They looked a bunch of born again teens who just got caught in a circle jerk. Pathetic I'd say. Thanks Marty Klein from Sexual Intelligence for the link.

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