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Kelsey Peterson's Attorney Blames Child Rape Victim's "Latino Machismo"
Kelsey Peterson, a 26-year-old 6th grade math teacher, plead guilty yesterday to having a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old student, Fernando Rodriguez, and fleeing with the boy to Mexico to evade the police. This morning, Peterson's lawyer, James Martin Davis, argued in an interview with Star Jones that the boy is to blame, saying, "I resent the term 'child.' You're baby-fying this kid. This kid is a Latino machismo teenager." In the clip above, Davis explains to Good Morning America how the boy was actually Peterson's pursuer, not her victim. (On a side note, Peterson's parents and ex-husband are fighting for custody of her daughter. She left the 8-year-old girl with her parents when she fled to Mexico.)
just say no
Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction Special Looks At The Link Between Narcissism And Substance Abuse
Last night VH1 aired Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction Special, and while the show's title would suggest a slapped together rundown of the problems of young women like Lindsay, Britney and Amy, the special was actually a lot more. Dr. Drew looked deeply at how the same narcissism that drives people to celebrity also makes them incredibly susceptible to addiction. (And as someone who kicked a nasty habit of her own just last year, he made a lot of sense to me.) Clip above.
shelf pleasuring
The Clan Of The Cave Bear: Where The Wild Things Are
Please, give a warm, wet welcome to Shelf Pleasuring, an occasional feature where we give a looky-loo at the books we stole off your parents' shelves when they weren't looking. For our inaugural column, Fine Lines proprietrix, blogger, NPR book reviewer and filthy-novel-fiend Lizzie Skurnick looks again at Jean M. Auel's 1980 novel The Clan of the Cave Bear, where young Ayla (it's AY-la, not EYE-la, I looked it up) learns that Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens do a lot more around the fire than roast aurochs.
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pot psychology
"Got Any Deep Throating Tips?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, Rich and I got help from our pal Sasha Frere-Jones, to tackle problems like reclusive behavior, definitions of words, and all the other usual sex stuff. Got a burning question? Send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
teach your children well
Parents Still Messing Up Their Kids, Kids Still Having Sex
It's fairly well-established that having a close relationship with your kids (or, if you're a kid, with your parents) tends to keep those pesky teens from engaging in risky behaviors and delay the onset of sexual activity. The real question no one has really asked until now is what the definition of "close" actually is. It turns out that the definition of close might have a lot more to do with how you walk that line of showing them appropriate respect with still being a parents rather than being a strict parent. As my parents have been finding out since I've been writing here, being strict really doesn't keep your kid from having sex. According to a study by Stephanie Madsen at McDaniel College, parents fall into 4 camps: the permissive ones (whose kids run wild); the ones who set strict rules about their kids' dating habits and sexual contact (whose kids run wild); the ones who have unhappy relationships who try to set rules about their kids' treatment of the people they're dating (whose kids run wild); and those parents who are more focused on parenting and supervising their kids' transitions to adulthood without trying to relive or remake their own (whose kids are the most normal). More »
Yeah, People Wore Condoms…When The Naked Gun Was In Theaters!
Remember how, like, back in the day people were so super vigilant about wearing condoms? I grew up in the eighties and think I learned about condoms before I learned about sex. But anyhow, times change and a new survey out says 40% of New Yorkers did not use condoms during their last sexual encounter. This shocked my friend Jessica, who immediately IMed me to get my theories. It turned out that I was quite the expert in this sort of…stuff? She posted the IM on her website, and I encourage you to read it, because it is at least as funny as the Herman's Hermits human condom love scene montage from The Naked Gun, which I found for you just in time for the TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY of that movie. Watch it after the jump. [NY Mag]
A new study published in the June issue of Human Nature finds that women have more negative feelings after a one-night stand than men. Researchers feel that this is indicative of the failure of the "free love" movement, since women are not enjoying the casual sex they are having. According to the survey, 80% of men had overall positive feelings about the experience compared to 54% of women. But are the women enjoying the sex itself? After all, the study seems to be based more on emotions than actual physical encounters (the predominant "negative feeling" these women had were that of being "used," and the women who were interviewed for the study at the Durham University in the UK said they only embark on one-night stands if they think it will lead to a full-blown relationship, and feel "ashamed" when it doesn't). [Telegraph]
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Penn & Teller Call Bullshit! On The War On Porn
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! debunks myths and ideas by approaching every topic the duo cover with logic and science. The most recent episode focused on "The War on Porn." As magicians, Penn & Teller know when someone is trying to pull one over on them, like anti-porn activists, who have no statistical evidence to back up their assertions that porn is damaging to those who watch it. And as porn enthusiasts, P&T know how important it is to shoot down such activists. In fact, I think I'm a little bit in love with Penn! NSFW clip above.
sore subjects
Let's Talk About Sex(ually Transmitted Diseases)
I feel like I'm constantly talking about the STDs I have/had, to the point that I'm pretty sure my friends are sick of hearing about it and I'm paranoid that people I first meet (who might know about it, thanks to the internet) give me weird looks when I sit on their furniture. And even though I'm burdened with forever being identified with this onetime blemish outbreak on my vagina (that's really all herpes is, BTW) that happened three years ago, I think it's important to talk about, so I'll continue to do so. However, it would be way easier on me if you all would share your STD stories. (You're all anonymous anyway!) Anyway, I'll get the party started, by going in depth — literally and figuratively! More »
leftovers
England To Martha Stewart: Denied! • Woman Beats Sex Offender Neighbor With Bat
WTF, England: The British government has banned Martha Stewart from entering the UK because of her criminal convictions in 2004. Wait, didn't Paris visit England a few months ago? • Some genius just found out that word-of-mouth influences shopping decisions and now the workplace is being called a "lucrative marketing channel for advertisers." Ugh. • A Mass. high school has banned the nickname, "Redmen," from their sports teams, while residents claim they will continue to fight to keep the name. Goody! I wonder if these "residents" will enjoy my new sport's team nickname, "'Nillamotherfuckers." I think it sounds "very noble and dignified." • GOP women are defecting from McCain! Ok, two women. But one of them is rich! • Meanwhile, the other side of the political spectrum (sort of) thinks reproductive rights aren't playing a big role for women this election year. • Overheard at the beach: "I'll tell you what I would do if a guy gave me a promise statue! I'd lube that shit up and stick it in my vag!" • A woman beat a man with a baseball bat after learning he was a level 3 sex offender from a police flyer. She snapped after remembering him talking to her young daughter, she said she "would do it again" if given the chance. • Oh look! It is a swimming hedgehog! And he's named Shming! Excuse me for a moment, I have to go see if you can nom a hedgehog. (Warning: The voices on the video may cause your head to explode).
pot psychology
"Does The Horrific Taste Of Vagina Become Less Vomitous As I Get Used To Oral?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the Molly to my Nomi, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like smegma, internet sex, and incest. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
come with the family
"Old Man" Porn Is Fun For All Ages
Shigeo Tokuda is the famed 74-year-old Japanese porn star behind a new Japanese genre of Japanese adult entertainment dubbed "old man porn." And its growth is anything but mature. Tokuda's ouevre comprises such diverse titles as Maniac Training of Lolitas to Forbidden Elderly Care. Young people love him because he has "something that only an older generation has and the young people do not possess, because they lived that much more," in the words of the director. And older people love him because, in contrast to the youngsters and their "school dramas," they can relate to him. Really, it's somewhat analogous to the John McCain phenomenon! And yeah, I know what you're thinking, readers. You're thinking, "Great, just another way men get to grow old and saggy and clog their arteries without any of the devastating desexualization we have to go through." But! More »
The Secret Sex Lives of Female Chimpanzees
Leaving aside the strangeness of a research project that involves watching monkeys fucking all day, scientists studying chimpanzees in Uganda have made the interesting discovery that our closest animal relatives know when to be discreet about their sex lives. Although female chimps will advertise that they're in estrus (i.e., fertile) with a specific call, they only occasionally make noise during sex. In fact, if there are higher-status female chimps around or if they are mating with lower status-males (which was about two-thirds of the time in the study), female chimps are silent while mating. It's only when they're having sex with high-status males that they advertise that fact vocally. Perhaps the Budongo Forest of Uganda is more like Hollywood or New York than anyone realized? [NY Times]
duh studies
"Nerd Girls" Learn To Abandon Risky Sex, Cutting For "Empowerment," Education, And I Am Really Happy For Them
For some reason I just read a story called Self-Cutting Linked To Risky Teen Sex. Okay, so I hate myself for actually reading such a story, since I was really only reading it for the purpose of reveling in how much I hate myself, which is fairly easy since I can't even get it up to make a joke along the lines of "Oh! Cutters and their bareback sex! What'll they take up next, coke and bulimia?" (You see the problem.) But no, I even went and bothered figuring out who we can thank for this breakthrough. Some research center underwritten by the toy industry, apparently. And here I am, trying to carve a post out of this crap when I would rather find a knife. Wouldn't it be cool if vibrators had fold out knives for cutters? Cool, but also scary, obviously? And the worst part is I'm reading about this cool new class of empowered "Nerdettes" that supposedly exists, and embraces its differences and enrolls in engineering classes, obligatory Tina Fey reference even though Tina Fey has fuckall to do with engineering but okay. More »
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"I Have Genital Warts. How Do I Guiltlessly Have Sex?"
It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the Hoda to my Kathie Lee, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like death, balls, and hobos. Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)
Exorcising the Taint of Sex
Earlier this month, the fuzz caught a rather drunk couple doing the deed in a confessional in a Catholic church in Cesena and officially rebuked them. To rid the Church of the stain of the sacrilege, the Bishop held a "Mass of Reparation" after the couple apologized and asked God for forgiveness. If there's a whole Mass to make up for people boning in a Church, it seems like it must happen a lot. The only place I ever had sex outside of a private home was in an law office file room, but I'm pretty sure we were bringing more positive vibes to that place than average. [Reuters, photo by John Keogh]
Shopping Is The New Porn Addiction?
The Daily Mail has a story today about how some women think about shopping more than they think about sex, which left us a bit flabbergasted. In a survey of almost 800 British women, three-quarters of them thinking about shopping every minute. Half of them said they preferred shopping to even spending time with their partner, and about the same amount said they hide their spending from their partner. It says something disturbing about the level to which the consumption of goods has become so deeply ingrained into our individual and collective psyches that it trumps even biological urges like sex and companionship. Given that I'm a blogger, I think I'll stick to thinking about sex all the time. It's way cheaper. [Daily Mail]
