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God, I missed Pee Wee:

For more years than I can remember, I have either subscribed or donated money to The Nation. It has and will continue to be the voice of reason for liberals. Recently an announcement came through about their upcoming auction to raise money to keep them going. I'm always interested to see if liberal political folks can handle my topic: The importance of masturbation has been rejected by many organizations that I support. So I am happy to announce that THE NATION came through with "Yes!"

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This 80 page booklet was self-published by Betty Dodson in 1974 and became a feminist classic. Only the authors name appears on the cover. The title is Liberating Masturbation: a Meditation on Selflove. There are 15 full page pen and ink drawings of vulvas by the author that was a feminist fist! Dodson personally distributed 150,000 copies which she called a monumental hand job as she took her books in a shopping cart to the PO. She knew she was mailing out orgasms to women across the country. A signed copy is a collectors item! Value $500

 For Betty....

MyPleasure.com brings you the MyVibe iPhone app - and it's FREE. Now, it's not going to vibrate as intensely as the Hitachi Magic Wand but it is refreshing to have an iPhone app that caters to the sexual preferences of the female market. 

Debbie Herbenick, PhD tried it out and broke it down for us: there's an on/off button that looks like many computer on/offs so it's easily recognizable. On the right side, there are up and down arrows to control your vibration - short, quick pulses (smaller #s) or longer, slower ones (higher #s, up to 100). [If your phone isn't vibrating at first, make sure your volume switch on the left of the iPhone is turned to vibrate.]

This is unfuckingbelievable.  I'm so sick of the fashion industry disrespecting women.  We're the ones who buy your clothes!

A stylist and casting director have left a London Fashion Week show over a decision to use average-sized models, a fashion boss says.

Amanda May, managing director for Canadian designer Mark Fast, said there were "creative differences with regards to the casting of those girls".

Fast broke fashion convention by putting three size 12 to 14 models on the catwalk on Saturday.

"There was a team change and we're glad we stuck to our vision," said Ms May.

I love watermelon but didn't realize that it's the gift that keeps on giving ;)

Eating watermelon has a similar effect on the body to Viagra, according to researchers in the US. 

It's down to a chemical called citrulline which is found in the juicy fruit.  Citrulline is an organic compound which affects the body's blood vessels in the same way as the sex enhancement pills.

It helps relax the blood vessels which means blood gets around the body more easily. 

Bill Clinton was on the Daily Show last night.  Love the magenta tie with the white hair.  AND I REALLY LOVE that his main focus is on improving the lives of women and girls because, and I quote, "the number 1 thing you can do to slow population growth and increase income is to get all the girls of the world in school and access to the labor market."

After Carlin and I spent 10 days in Cuba two years ago, we are thrilled to hear the good news that Cuban artists are going to perform in the US for the first time since 2003. We loved the people, the art, the music and especially the strength of the people to survive under extreme hardship and deprivation.

Cubans can teach us a lot about lean times that appear to be just around the corner for many of us. We went with a group of women artists bringing medical and art supplies. It was amazing what they could do with so little while we here in America appear to be expert gluttons who know best how to waste our resources.

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Nancy Pelosi choked up today as she begged the nation to give the rhetoric a rest (hear that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh) and warned that such words can lead to violence.

And Tom Cruise revealed that sex with him is like flying

Yesterday, I was writing a new article for my website about my childhood habit of making my barbies have sex. And, no, not just knocking two plastic bodies together. I would create "scenes" - sometimes incorporating orgies, BDSM, incest... I'd make my dolls do it in the Barbie convertible, the foldaway bedroom with an usable closet (I would make Skipper masturbate in said closet while she watched Barbie and her gf Kira get it on). My Barbies were a salacious bunch. And I loved it.

I admire this woman for having the guts to make a point.  When I practiced law, I kind of used the same technique and became the predator instead of the prey.  It worked like a charm:

Burly builders fled when a naked blonde rushed at them on a construction site in the Austrian capital Vienna shouting: "Who wants me?"  The hard-hat hunks ran for cover when the woman turned the tables on them on the building site beside the city's main railway station.

"We like to chat up girls as they walk past - it's a tradition," said one builder.

We don't need you to figure out our lives, save the day, or lie and say we look fabulous in coolots and clogs.  We just want you to smile when you look at us just like George:

Scientists found that women who are unhappy with the way they look feel significantly better about themselves after being greeted by a smiling face.

The boost in self esteem has led psychologists to think that for many, confidence in their appearance is all about social acceptance.  The study found that women who are unhappy with the way they look feel better after being greeted by a smiling face.

Once again sexual health is all about STDs with no mention of sexual skills or sexual pleasure *sigh*

Channel 4 Education has commissioned independent developer Zombie Cow Studios to create a PC download game about sexual health.  Aimed primarily at young males, the game will take a light hearted approach to advice on sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy.

Speaking at a briefing today, Channel 4 Education commissioning editor Matt Locke revealed that Privates will be a "spoof on the Space Marine genre", in which players enter a young man's privates to shoot down infections.

Betty and I always talk about how there aren't any smart, strong, vixen archetypes in film anymore.  Betty was named after Betty Boop - a single woman who always beat out the villian.  And Betty's fave of all time: Mae West.  She always out smarted the men and flaunted her sensuality shamelessly.  Let's go back to the golden age of cinema when women had "balls" or should I say "big clits".  Thank you, Daily Mail for calling out Hollywood for depicting women as desperate, pathetic and frigid:

Seen any good films recently, ladies? Ones that had you skipping out of the cinema happy to call yourself a woman? It's hard to think of one, isn't it?

JoAnn Wypijewski's article is timely now that we're debating the public option for health care. Sexual health care for women is as simple as redefining heterosexuality by adding a little clitoral stimulation along with vaginal penetration. Many sex professionals including Leanore Tiefer, Becky Chalker and myself have railed against the medicalization of women's sexuality for some time now. To say nothing of all the anti-depressants that supposedly deal with depression but block women's abilbity to have orgasms which is depressing, we all agree that the pharmacuetical companies are out of control.  This is a must read and I've attached JoAnn's entire article below: