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Virginia Is For Covers Horrors! We are living in a country where adults going to strip bars might actually see nipples. That's why Delegate John A. Cosgrove has sponsored a bill in Virginia to get pasties on topless dancers. The legislation, which goes into effect in July, says a business can have its mixed-beverage license suspended or revoked if there is "entertainment commonly called stripteasing, topless entertaining, or entertainment that has employees who are not clad both above and below the waist." Actually, the law already exists and has been around for a while, but authorities did not enforce it and club owners knew they could get away with having totally topless dancers. But thanks to Mr. Cosgrove — and tax dollars — we'll never have to worry about bare areolas in Virgina again. [Reason.com]

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State Fires College Prez For Hosting Sex Worker Art Show That "Threatened The Commonwealth"

It goes without saying that the Jezebel platform on the Sex Workers Art Show is um, pro, namely bc sex workers almost always have this rare combination of intimate experience with a wide spectrum of humanity/sufficient leisure time to honestly process experiences/balls that yields material that at the very least doesn't suck. (See: Diablo Cody, Michelle Tea, Tila Tequila etc.) So the Sex Workers Art Show has been touring of U.S. America, and a little public college called William & Mary — Jon Stewart's alma mater! — played host to it last week, and now W&M's much-loved college president (and former college football player!) Gene Nichol has been canned. It was just the latest in a series of the president's Free Love pinko infractions that offended the state's House of Delegates: he moved a cross displayed prominently on a public building to make the place see more accomodating to Jesus haters, and he started an aggressive effort to recruit minorities and sundry other poors to the school. Well, goodbye to all that, as they say. They offered him big $$$ to leave quietly. But no! More »

That's Nuts Perhaps you've seen trucks or trailers with large rubber testicles attached to the back? Virginia state delegate Lionel Spruill has introduced a bill to ban "displaying replicas of human genitalia." He claims the big balls are a safety issue, because drivers can get distracted. Spruill was prompted to take action when a constituent's young daughter asked her father to explain the nutsacks. Spruill also had the stones to say he'll bring a set of the $24.95 trailer testicles with him for legislative show-and-tell. Frankly, it's unbelievable that these things haven't been outlawed already. Think they'd let women drive around with labia majora on their cars? Bollocks! [CBS News]