Joe Francis, 33, the man behind $100M of crap Girls Gone Wild videos has announced plans to open restaurants in Cancun and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, this year.
According to the Los Angeles Business Journal,
“The restaurant rollout will start with owned-and-operated stores in beach tourist destinations. Once the format is set, the company plans to open smaller outlets in college towns across the country. Francis expects some type of franchising or licensing structure for the college-friendly clubs, with a total build-out of about 300 locations.”
“Sexiness sells too, and edginess sells,” Francis explained. “Women want to be around sex as much as men do, because women want to feel sexy.”
SugarBank has managed to gain access to an early draft of suggested menu items which includes:
Intoxicated oysters persuaded to appear live
Underage veal smothered in white sauce
Date raped Tuna steak on a bed of ashamed potato
Split Beaver (served raw.)
Aged beef (market price)
Joe’s Jailbait special
A standard range of cocktails will also be available (mickeys + 15%)
In Europe, outside certain religious communities, it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t think cutting the end off an infant’s dick is a bad idea. In America, as any Euro who’s dated there knows, opinions differ. With a good urologist making $300 a procedure, and doing up to five circumcisions a day (it’s the most commonly performed surgical procedure in America), the reasons foreskin’s slightly less hip in the US than members only jackets are clear. Most American women who’ve never experienced a natural penis claim to prefer the cut version they’re used to. The dice are loaded.
The British Journal of Urology’s new study (commissioned by NOCIRC), “Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis” explains:
“The study shows that the foreskin is the most sensitive portion of the penis,” said study coauthor Robert Van Howe, a pediatrician at the Marquette General Health System in Marquette, Michigan. “It’s not like you’re chopping off plain old skin. The analogy would be like removing your lips, because the lips are more sensitive than the skin around them.”
And
“…the study authors say they’ve achieved something new with their study: a comparative sensory mapping of the male organ.
This new cartography of the penis proffers nineteen zones. Missing from the circumcised male are eight of these penile destinations, four on the dorsal side (the outer prepuce, the orifice rim, the muco-cutaneous junction, the ridged band) and four on the ventral (frenulum near ridged band, frenulum at muco-cutaneous junction, orifice rim, and outer prepuce). Missing from the uncircumcised anatomy are two regions on this new map, and they’re both scars.
In the areas that cut and uncut men have in common, the study showed a sensitivity deficit of between two and thirty-three percent. In those areas peculiar to the intact penis, the deficit is by definition 100 percent. And it’s in those areas, the study concludes, where most of the sensory action is. Perhaps the most salient of the report’s findings is that “the transitional region from the external to the internal prepuce is the most sensitive region of the uncircumcised penis and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis.”
The porn industry plays a part. Manned by lilliputian intellects, and with Jewish men making up a large portion of all male talent, uncut cock’s are seldom seen. The American public’s feeling that uncut means unclean feeds a myth about disease and foreskin which people tend not to question. Even if a cut penis is fractionally easier to clean and therefore slightly less likely to carry harmful bacteria, a vagina’s easier to clean when it’s sewn shut and we don’t generally favor that.
With a generation seeing more strange cock on the web as teens than our parents did in a lifetime, the feeling that ‘US porn cock’ IS cock will spread. With the US advocating circumcision in Africa as an HIV prevention measure (ignoring the fact condoms work better) it’s a good time for people who care about free-will and sexual pleasure to point out starting every boys life by amputating the most sensitive part of his body lies somewhere between unwise and criminal.
Change comes from the young, the young watch porn, and porn has categorized uncut cock as an exclusively gay fetish. Time for a change?
As Waters is now 43, and thus too old to be seen without a burqa on MTV, the video for her latest rumpshaker features an array of dancers dressed as bandsluts pushing the limits of upskirt titillation.
Crystal Waters is best known for releasing the aural toxin known as ‘Gypsy Woman‘ in 1991. It’s still in my head and if it’s not in your it goes “La da dee, la da da, la da dee, la da daa” and will kill a small section of your brain and live there forever after a single listen.
(If you can’t remember it for God’s sake don’t listen to it now. Consider yourself lucky and just get on with your life. There are people all over who’ve had to go and buy CASIO’s just to get it out of their head. Who knew homelessness could be so catchy?)
As Waters is now 43, and thus too old to be seen without a burqa on MTV, the video for her latest rumpshaker features an array of dancers dressed as bandsluts pushing the limits of upskirt titillation because I really like what short skirts and round butts do together.
Joe Francis, founder of Girls Gone Wild (who is opening restaurants in Mexico in case you thought my April 1st post was an April fool) got punched in the head by the boyfriend of a Brazilian model in Miami on Saturday (she models her Brazilian? That’s just a euphemism for porn star right?).
If I was that close to Joe Francis I’d have claimed she was my girlfriend too.
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #74? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.
This Week’s Picks Dawn Tryst (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“The soft noises intensify as he shifts himself once more so that he is turned towards her and his fingertips on her body are mimicking hers on his own.”
The G-Spot Mystery Revealed OR “ACK! Go Back to My Clit” (http://shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com)
“So, since I’ve succumbed to the pressure, let me at least reveal to you the things you might not know about the g-spot, the things Cosmo doesn’t want you to know.”
M Hotel 2 (http://thenakedrhetoricaltruth.blogspot.com)
“I watch his face as his hands pull me open, and then I close my eyes, my arms stretched above my head, as he lowers his face.”
There’s lots of worrying from parents dealing unsuccessfully with a seismic shift in the availability of explicit sexual material, and unable to maintain the fantasy of perfectly innocent children who become adults at eighteen without prior sexual exploration.
‘Teens Hooked on Porn‘ is a documentary aimed at those who remember a time before the web, and who choose to believe it’s making the world increasingly sexual. It underscores the contrasting opinions of those born into the pre and post web era, at its zenith in the UK where hardcore material only became legal as the Internet exploded, forever gluing the appearance of porn to the rise of digital culture together in many minds.
The assumption here is that any teenager who looks at porn has a problem, and it’s never questioned (by anyone but the kids themselves). There’s no mention of any connection between adolescence and a perfectly healthy need to wank (unequaled by anything but the need to breathe in my case). Or of any differences between healthy and unhealthy porn.
There’s lots of worrying from parents dealing unsuccessfully with a seismic shift in the availability of explicit sexual material, and unable to maintain the fantasy of perfectly innocent children who become adults at eighteen without prior sexual exploration. They are quietly freaking out.
When they mention XXXChurch and introduce the cheesy psychologist you’re officially allowed to start laughing.
You’d never see a program suggesting adults limit their interest in music to playing an instrument, but take no time to listen to recordings or watch other people perform, because music is seen as beautiful, edifying and good. As long as sex isn’t seen that way, any pleasure taken in it will be presented as at best eccentricity and at worst a problem. Of course that view makes for less shocking documentaries.
Business 2.0’s piece on Friend Finder Networks founder Andrew Conru is worth reading. Not only does it treat the adult business as - GASP - business, but it also provides some hard numbers for an area of the online market which, thanks to private ownership, doesn’t publish figures.
The figures are impressive. $200M a year in revenue, 40% growth per anum for the last nine years, 75,000 new users a day and 35 million visitors in 2006; making Adult Friend Finder bigger than Match.com and Yahoo! Personals (almost combined!).
Conru also highlights the dilema faced by all seriously successful adult companies. Unless you build a brand which trancends porn and becomes connected with ’sexy’ (i.e. Playboy) your success is a limitation. Friend Finder is now too big to be bought by another adult company, and too subversive to be bought by a mainstream operation in the US. Conru can’t sell out and has to rely on his own ideas to sustain his growth an income. There’s no cashing in, it’s porn for life.
My comments on circumcision earlier this week are generating a lot of hate mail email. People seem upset that I’m suggesting circumcising kids is some form of child abuse. Some have accused me of anti-semitism.
For the record, though my spiritual beliefs are best expressed via the work of Richard Dawkins (thanks Jonno), if your religion requires you to cut into your kids that’s your prerogative. I’d rather you did that than fuck/starve/kill them and the police only have so much time.
Given no body of doctors on the planet who’d recommend circumcision without a specific medical cause I’m stumped as to what the arguments for it are. Women who are used to circumcised cock prefer it? Men are too stupid to clean underneath a flap of skin? I can’t see where the debate is. I’ve not got any mail from people claiming that female circumcision is okay, whether it’s simply removing the labia or taking off the clitoris as well. Can anyone explain where the difference lies (except one’s familiar and one’s shockingly foreign).
We know circumcision was popularized by people trying to stop boys masturbating so why, a hundred and fifty years later, is it still being done? As someone who makes their money in part by promoting sexual pleasure, this issue is central.
For more information on America’s favorite surgical procedure, by people who are funnier, smarter and better funded than me seek out Penn & Teller’s ‘Bullshit’ episode on the subject.
“The first genital experience of a circumcised male is pain. We then put it to the maternal breast. I don’t feel comfortable with the message we’re sending.” - Alan Rogers, M.D.
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Want in Sugasm #75? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.
This Week’s Picks History: Marlene on the Wall (http://thismuse.blogspot.com)
“3AM, showering, head, his hands soapy on my breasts, I’m thankful I’ve dropped weight, the water is warm and cool enough to feel like bed.”
Afternoon Debauchery (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Occasionally he’d push it further inside me, from where it had involuntarily escaped due to slickness and enthusiastic vibrations.”
Too Many Choices (http://bikersballsandteacherstits.blogspot.com)
“We’d been naked most of the time since getting here on Friday, so I wasn’t surprised when I reached under her skirt and found that she wasn’t wearing any panties.”
I’ve been to LA from London twice in ten days and returning to earth can’t click a link for seeing the MSB (MainStream Blogosphere) freaking out over Jenna J’s uncomely, newly visible, bones.
Here’s what’s happening.
Anyone who’s had a boob-job knows plastic surgery and weight-loss don’t mix. All that stretched skin and scar tissue looks rough when it starts to sag.
Jenna’s had a very well publicized meth habit and meth, makes you thin. I’m not saying Jenna’s back on meth but damn is she thin.
Jenna needs better PR. The ’stress’ excuse for sudden weight loss is like the ‘exhaustion’ one for sudden loss of consciousness. If stress made you thin gyms would replace all those mirrors with pictures of tigers and personal trainers would creep up on you dressed as death. Not eating makes you thin. Stress has nothing to do with it (have you seen Al Gore?)
She’s falling apart faster than a clown car on a cobblestone street. Sad, but I’ve got to say I like this outfit. Very Sydney Bristow.
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