Archive for July, 2007

Botswana: Sex Workers On the Attack

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

The dark side of filthy street sex-trade became darker for a Francistown man who was hammered on the head with an iron bar after the alleged traders rejected his money offer.

Feeling jilted, the enraged and wounded 28-year old Molebi Mosugadikobo allegedly torched a house belonging to some Zimbabwean women believed to be prostitutes.

This week Mosugadikobo appeared before a Francistown Magistrates court. Although he was nabbed at the scene shortly after the crime, the young man pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Mosugadikobo, whose apparent intentions was to have a fling with one of three Zimbabwean women on the fateful night, allegedly broke the door and forced his way in after the occupants refused to open for him. Suspicious that the intruder might be a thief, one of the women said she attacked Mosugadikobo with an iron bar on the head when he stepped in their rented Monarch house.

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It’s Not About the Copious Fake Sex. Really.

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

CULVER CITY, Calif.

THE scene, being filmed on a stuffy and intermittently noisy soundstage, involved lots of talking and lots of groping, as many of them do on the new, soon-to-be-controversial Showtime series “Californication.”

David Duchovny, as the occasionally unpleasant antihero of the show, a creatively blocked novelist named Hank Moody, was fully committed to the moment in spite of a real-life cold and a lozenge-coated throat. He and Amy Price-Francis, playing one of the many wrong-for-him sexual diversions who populate the story lines, were going at it in a full-on lip-locking kitchen-sink clinch.

“I love women,” Mr. Duchovny’s congenitally flippant character said after being accused of just using female partners to distract himself from his continuing writer’s block. “I have all their albums.”

“Cut,” said the director, Bart Freundlich, one of Mr. Duchovny’s closest friends, instructing the couple to disengage and start over. “There was a shadow on her head.”

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Britney’s Vegas Vacation Turns Ugly

Friday, July 27th, 2007

What started out as a Las Vegas vacation for Britney Spears and her two sons turned to violence yesterday, according to police.Britney’s bodyguard, Cesar Julio Camera, 37, was issued a misdemeanor battery summons by the Las Vegas police department yesterday, following an alleged scuffle between him and two men trying to photograph Spears and her sons, 22-month-old Sean Preston Federline and 10-month-old Jayden James Federline, at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino.

Camera was accused of pushing one of the men against a wall in the fracas, and grabbing and punching the other.

According to police, the the incident occurred at approximately 11:30 AM, when Andrew Deetz, 24, and Kyle Henderson, 23, approached Spears and her companions (which included Camera) in a hallway outside the hotel’s spa. A hotel security guard reportedly told the men to put their photo equipment away.

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Kate Moss sex tape in Pete Doherty’s jittery hands

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Rumour has it Kate Moss is worried about the possibility of a sex tape scandal.

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Sex lubricant could stop HIV and herpes

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
AN experimental sex lubricant designed by Australian researchers could help block both HIV and genital herpes, a study suggests.

Tests on lab animals have shown that the microbicide gel, called Viva Gel, inactivates the HIV virus and another responsible for genital herpes.

Lead researcher Dr Jeremy Paull from Melbourne-based pharmaceutical company Starpharma told the International AIDS Society conference in Sydney the gel would be used by heterosexual men who apply it directly to themselves before sex.

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The latest sex books

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Is chaste the new sexy?..
2006 was the year of the raunch, when pole dancing went feminist and “empowerment” became synonymous with a baker’s dozen Jell-O shooters and a topless spot in Girl’s Gone Wild.

But if this year’s crop of “sexy” books is any guide, the backlash is now in full effect. Sure, Porn 2.0 is grabbing more viewers than ever. But with sex so commonplace, people, or at least publishers, are looking for what’s next.

This year’s sex-culture books feature virgins, men vacuuming and crafty sex toys. And, really, what’s less sexy than those?

The Bunny Book: How to Walk, Talk, Tease and Please Like a Playboy Bunny (Chronicle Books)

Sort of like a sexed-up version of The Rules, mixed with a little Swell, The Bunny Book eases you into Heffner-honed advice with sections on grooming, how to dress, and how to hold a drink before delving into the nitty-gritty sex stuff (anal and all). Though you might not want to take the tome out in public (considering the hot pink cover and candy-coloured pages), with illustrations by Annabelle Jasmin Verhoye, it’s fine for home-based consumption. The verbiage leaves something to be desired and features an overabundance of words like coochie, tushy and titties, but the advice itself is fairly realistic and not unlike anything you might find in a popular women’s mag. Think Cosmo. Believe it or not, Bunnies don’t like to weigh themselves, they’re big on safety, and they’re “hopeful about monogamy” even though they “don’t think people are naturally monogamous.” Most importantly, they’re down with personal choice.

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Brief encounter: Britney hits the beach in lingerie to show how sexy she is

Thursday, July 19th, 2007


Britney Spears is nothing if not spontaneous. The former popstar was spotted taking an impromptu swim at Malibu in just a hot pink bra and skimpy knickers.

After a day of house hunting, she decided to strip off and escape the California heat, squealing with delight as she cooled off in the waves.

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“Sex” on the Big Screen! Wait, Didn’t We Know This?

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Two entertainment Web sites set off fireworks on the Fourth of July with reports that Time Warner-owned New Line Cinema was finally moving ahead with Time Warner-owned HBO on the long-time-a-comin’ “Sex and the City” flick, about two years after the idea was hatched.

“Exclusive Major Sex and the City Movie News!” shrieked TVGuide.com, adding, “It’s the climax we were all hoping for,” and urging, nay begging, readers to post their “sure-to-be-orgasmic” reactions.

Trade paper Variety, meanwhile, vamped that New Line Cinema was “getting in bed with HBO” on the movie “after much foreplay.”

Word of the flick first broke in 2004, right around the time HBO was winding down its six-season-old series about the travails of Manhattan sex-advice columnist Carrie Bradshaw and her three BFFs.

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A vibrating condom: a legal contraceptive or illegal sex toy?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

In India, the land of the Kama Sutra — the timeless treatise on love — a ruckus has broken out over the marketing of a vibrating condom. Some politicians have declared it a sex toy, which should be banned as it goes against the country’s culture, while health officials are classifying it as a birth control device.The controversy was recently sparked when Kailash Vijayavargiya, minister in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accusing his coalition government of promoting sex toys and sex for pleasure.

The world famous erotic temples of Khajuraho, a big draw among tourists — both Indian and foreign — is located in Madhya Pradesh.

Vijayavargiya’s ire was raised against the sale of ribbed condoms that are fitted with a vibrating ring. He posited that condoms as a birth control method are fine, but objected to the noted ‘add-on.’

The sale of sex toys and pornography is banned in India.

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WATCH OUT! ICE CREAM: Convicted sex offender arrested while driving ice cream truck

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
A convicted sex offender barred from having any contact with young children was arrested after police found him driving an ice cream truck, DuPage County authorities said Monday.

Raymond Mitchell, 58, was charged Saturday after DuPage County sheriff’s detectives allegedly saw him talking to children while selling ice cream from a truck parked near Glen Ellyn, police said.

It’s the second suburban arrest in a week in which an ice cream truck driver is accused of having illegal contact with children.

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When sex toys turn green — for health, that is

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

It is, perhaps, a measure of just how mainstream sex toys have become that there are now budding consumer and environmental awareness campaigns being waged over them.

The biggest controversy is about the materials from which many toys are made.

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