Category Archives: Sex

Horse Action Saddles

April 2, 2022 – 2:32 pm

According to Wikipedia female hysteria was once diagnosed by Victorian doctors as a widespread affliction with symptoms of faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and “a tendency to cause trouble”. Women always caused trouble in the minds […]

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Mea Culpa Barbie

January 13, 2022 – 7:17 am

Barbie was a doll born of the 1960s. Her original body scale if set to the height of 5-9 would give her dimensions of a 36-inch chest, 18-inch waist and 33-inch hips. Her unearthly body was never questioned by the millions of girls, who loved the Mattel creation, and certainly not by their brothers, who […]

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Times Square Babylon Then

November 14, 2021 – 8:08 am

Rent boys. Hookers on the Strip. Flesh peddlers. Martinis at Hojos.

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Modern American Illiteracy

October 25, 2021 – 12:37 pm

After a four-day stay at NYU Hospital in August I was signed out for release. I dressed in my street clothing, thanked the staff for their care, and descended by elevator to the ground-floor to hit the streets. I spotted a gift store in the main lobby and stopped to get a newspaper or a […]

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Gay Porn Is Bad

August 19, 2021 – 7:44 pm

Rick Santorum did not actually say that he saw ‘eye to eye’ with the Taliban, however he has been outspoken on pornography on many occasions and his website featured the following view on the subject; “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography. A wealth of research is now available demonstrating that pornography causes […]

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