http://yournudelife.com/home/ Your Nude Life's News en-us Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:29:01 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Your Nude Life News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://yournudelife.com/home/images/logo.jpg http://yournudelife.com/home/ http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 Our country is now just days away from what is likely to be one of the most important presidential elections in our nation's history. For adult entertainment businesses, I believe, the stakes could not be greater. This month's article is admittedly going to be a bit more political than usual. Even though I am not a democrat, and not a republican (I am a third-party independent), this month I believe that my duty as an adult industry advocate, and my duty as a freedom-loving citizen of the greatest nation on earth, converge to but one focal point, one mission: do everything I can to get Barack Obama elected as our next president. This, fellow citizens and participants in the adult entertainment industry, compels me to issue this call to arms to motivate everyone in the adult entertainment business to also act, and act now. For the time is short and the cost of inaction will likely be catastrophically great. On Nov. 4, the U.S. adult entertainment industry will stand at a crossroads like none it has ever faced before. Its future lies among one of the two distinct paths before it. One way will almost certainly lead the industry to a new era of greater tolerance of erotic expression and more reasonable regulation of adult entertainment. The other way will likely lead to more outrageous and irrational morality-based regulations and the demise of long-standing judicial protections of freedom of expression that have allowed the adult industry to explosively grow and flourish despite the best efforts of its powerful and determined enemies. To illustrate the starkly differing choices that are now before the industry, let's imagine what it would be like to fast-forward to 2012, to the end the first term of the next president. The following highlights what I believe would likely be the vastly different realities that would confront the industry after four years of either an Obama or a McCain administration. Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:29:01 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20 Christopher Hitchens, hammer of Islamism, rationalist supernova, has just had a “back, sack and crack wax”. Here he is in December's Vanity Fair, pudgy hands clasped in unlikely prayer pose, while a cadre of beauticians yank swatches of what seems to be shag-pile from the nethermost Pelt of the Hitch. Antiwar types might relish his agonised depilation diary — “like being tortured for information that you do not possess, with intervals for a (incidentally very costly) sandpaper handjob” — and wonder if it might afford him some deeper insight into activities inside Guantanamo. Yet, strangely, in submitting to this ritual for a feature on self-improvement to celebrate his recently acquired US citizenship (he also traded fag-stained British hat-pegs for twinkly Hollywood gnashers) Hitchens has stepped into a rare place where Islam and Western consumerism concurs. For both agree that body hair, in its lush, natural form, is gross and repellent, a problem that must be eradicated at all costs. While Hitchens was merely emulating male models, gay men and footballers like David Beckham, who have championed the modern aesthetic of a smoother male torso, he was also echoing the religious rites of the 9/11 bombers, who reportedly shaved chest and pubic hair the night before their missions, to render their bodies pure and cleansed for when they pitch up in Paradise. It is hard not to frown at the contradictions in both reasonings in reaching for the razor. Is Islam suggesting that the human form, created by God, must be perfected by Man, assisted by the Gillette Mach 3? Why in the West is the pubic bush, the most luxuriant manifestation of our sexual hormones, now universally condemned as “unsexy”? Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:56:09 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 A little-known government body--the California Senate Committee on Public Safety--got it right twice last week. They actually enhanced the safety of Californians by defeating two bills that had sailed through the state Assembly without a single dissent. The first, AB1067, required "blinders" on store displays featuring magazines with "harmful matter" on the cover. The second, AB1475, mandated computer repair technicians to report "pornographic images of children" they find while fixing a machine. Both are examples of a terrible, but common, public policy mistake: Good Intentions + Hysteria = Bad Laws Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:40:21 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 Concern about effects of common chemical leads consumers to seek options 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. Most vibrators, dildos and “love dolls,” for instance — especially the soft, pliable “jelly” type — use some form of plastic. In an effort to make the materials softer and more lifelike, PVC plastics suppliers incorporate one or more members of a family of compounds called phthalates (FAY-lates). To hear some environmentalists tell it, using a vibrator that includes phthalates is akin to bathing in DDT. Alarmed, some sex toy retailers, most prominently San Francisco-based Good Vibrations, are banning toys that include phthalates. But to hear the chemical industry tell it, phthalates are about as benign as mountain spring water. So what is a sex toy consumer to do? Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:06:29 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17 Abstinence students still having sex Study tracked 2,057 young people in government-funded programs Updated: 6:35 p.m. ET April 13, 2007 WASHINGTON - Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex a few years later as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress. Also, those who attended one of the four abstinence classes reviewed reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as those who did not attend the classes, and they first had sex at about the same age as their control group counterparts — 14.9 years, according to Mathematica Policy Research Inc. The federal government now spends about $176 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education. Critics have repeatedly said they don’t believe the programs are working, and the study will give them reinforcement. Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:42:51 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16 The prospect of all-female conception By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 13 April 2007 Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from male bone-marrow tissue. The researchers said they had already produced early sperm cells from bone-marrow tissue taken from men. They believe the findings show that it may be possible to restore fertility to men who cannot naturally produce their own sperm. But the results also raise the prospect of being able to take bone-marrow tissue from women and coaxing the stem cells within the female tissue to develop into sperm cells, said Professor Karim Nayernia of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Creating sperm from women would mean they would only be able to produce daughters because the Y chromosome of male sperm would still be needed to produce sons. The latest research brings the prospect of female-only conception a step closer. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:25:48 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15 Erotic imagery is nothing new. The walls of Paleolithic caves show it. The Kama Sutra illustrations created 1,600 years ago remain legendary. Think of "The Kiss," by sculptor Auguste Rodin - which, incidentally, was left out of a 1997 Brigham Young University Museum of Art display so as not to offend. Erick Janssen, an associate scientist at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, says that at its core, there's nothing wrong with erotica. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:47:00 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 Los Angeles Times Thursday March 01, 2007 The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church said that it is being pushed toward painful decisions on questions of sexuality and scriptural interpretation by "impatient forces'' eager for clarity, but urged members to wait and be without fear as the church struggles through a difficult time. Appearing in a live webcast, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori acknowledged Wednesday that the church, the American wing of the global Anglican Communion, risks losing its place and voice in that fellowship if it does not comply with demands from Anglican leaders that it bar official blessings for same-sex couples and take other actions. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:09:45 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13 Boosting breast size with plastic surgery has been linked to a significantly higher suicide rate among women in a new 15-year study. While overall risk of health problems did not change, the suicide rate was much higher for women with breast implants compared with the general population, scientists announced today. Jacques Brisson and Louis Latulippe of Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and their colleagues from the Canadian Public Health Agency and Cancer Care Ontario collected information on 24,600 women who had received breast implants for cosmetic purposes. The women, who underwent the implant surgery at an average age of 32, completed regular follow-up visits from 1974 to 1989—the study's duration. The researchers also monitored a control group of women during the study. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:08:15 GMT http://yournudelife.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 Latest antiporn target: hotel-room TV A campaign urges prosecution of hotels under obscenity laws - and directs people to smut-free lodging. By Matt Bradley The Christian Science Monitor Wednesday, September 6, 2006 It's a business that has become quietly entrenched in America's corporate culture: pay-per-view pornography in hotel rooms. Most large chains provide the service, along with standard-issue films. The pay-per-view service has brought hotels millions of dollars a year. But these days, the US hotel business is also attracting moral outrage and vitriol - on a scale that pornography insiders say amounts to one of the largest organized assaults on the skin business in recent memory. A consortium of 13 conservative groups has created CleanHotels.com, a website that provides listings and reservation services for US hotels where travelers can rest safe from taint or temptation. The conservative groups have also run a series of full-page ads in USA Today, urging authorities to prosecute hoteliers under federal and local obscenity statutes. Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:03:30 GMT