A MAN caught fire Wednesday evening inside a San Francisco porn store and was fighting for his life in the hospital after suffering third-degree burns, KCBS-TV reported.
The "Hot" Shop
He probably was not looking at food porn*.
Arson experts said it was not clear what ignited the fire but police said the man had been watching videos in a private booth when the blaze erupted.
The man ran out the front door of the adult arcade “engulfed in flames” and was spotted by police standing across the street, a police spokesman told KCBS.
“He came out of the building already on fire,” Lt. Kevin McNaughton said.
Firefighters, who luckily were only about a block away on an unrelated call, raced to the scene and doused the flames.
Of course the crime experts were involved. He did have his arson fire!
It seems the only mainstream press to report this story is News Ltd. The BBC hasn’t mentioned it!
*Food porn found at Azahar’s Kitchen
Tony Abbott is the Leader of the Opposition and is hoping to become Prime Minister.
“Tone” is not only a politician but also a keen athlete, being involved in triathalons and bicycling events. His lycra biking outfit has become famous while his budgie-smuggling swimming costume is infamous.
On the other side of Australian politics is a Minister for the Environment named Peter Garrett. Peter was possibly better known as the front man for the rock band “Midnight Oil”.
Now the political shenanigans begin.
It seems that other parts of our rapscallion Leader of the Opposition need protection as well. From the ABC comes the important headline;
Reprinted from an article in The Scientist (1st Mar, 2010) and published here as a reaction to the Australian Government’s plan to filter legal adult porn (and political discussion) on the internet.
Most people have seen it, and have a strong opinion about it. Many of those opinions are negative—some people argue that ready access to pornography disrupts social order, encouraging people to commit rape, sexual assault, and other sex-related crimes. And even if pornography 
doesn’t trigger a crime, they say, it contributes to the degradation of women. It harms the women who are depicted by pornography, and harms those who do not participate but are encouraged to perform the acts depicted in it by men who are acculturated by it. Many even adamantly believe that pornography should become illegal.
Alternatively, others argue that pornography is an expression of fantasies that can actually inhibit sexual activity, and act as a positive displacement for sexual aggression. Pornography offers a readily available means of satisfying sexual arousal (masturbation), they say, which serves as a substitute for dangerous, harmful, and illegal activities.
Some feminists even claim that pornography can empower women by loosening them from the shackles of social prudery and restrictions.
But what do the data say?
Over the years, many scientists have investigated the link between pornography (considered legal under the First Amendment in the United States unless judged “obscene”) and sex crimes and attitudes towards women. And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.
It’s not hard to find a study population, given how widespread pornography has become. The United States alone produces 10,000 pornographic movies each year. The Free Speech Coalition, a porn industry–lobbying group, estimates that adult video/DVD sales and rentals amount to at least $4 billion per year. The Internet is a rich source, with 40 million adults regularly visiting porn Web sites, and more than one-quarter of regular users downloading porn at work. And it’s not just men who are interested: Nelsen/Net reports that 9.4 million women in the United States accessed online pornography Web sites in the month of September 2003. According to the conservative media watchdog group Family Safe Media, the porn industry makes more money than the top technology companies combined, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon.
To examine the effect this widespread use of porn may be having on society, researchers have often exposed people to porn and measured some variable such as changes in attitude or predicted hypothetical behaviors, interviewed sex offenders about their experience with pornography, and interviewed victims of sex abuse to evaluate if pornography was involved in the assault. Surprisingly few studies have linked the availability of porn in any society with antisocial behaviors or sex crimes. Among those studies none have found a causal relationship and very few have even found one positive correlation.
Despite the widespread and increasing availability of sexually explicit materials, according to national FBI Department of Justice statistics, the incidence of rape declined markedly from 1975 to 1995. This was particularly seen in the age categories 20–24 and 25–34, the people most likely to use the Internet. The best known of these national studies are those of Berl Kutchinsky, who studied Denmark, Sweden, West Germany, and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. He showed that for the years from approximately 1964 to 1984, as the amount of pornography increasingly became available, the rate of rapes in these countries either decreased or remained relatively level. Later research has shown parallel findings in every other country examined, including Japan, Croatia, China, Poland, Finland, and the Czech Republic. In the United States there has been a consistent decline in rape over the last 2 decades, and in those countries that allowed for the possession of child pornography, child sex abuse has declined.
Significantly, no community in the United States has ever voted to ban adult access to sexually explicit material. The only feature of a community standard that holds is an intolerance for materials in which minors are involved as participants or consumers.
In terms of the use of pornography by sex offenders, the police sometimes suggest that a high percentage of sex offenders are found to have used pornography. This is meaningless, since most men have at some time used pornography. Looking closer, Michael Goldstein and Harold Kant found that rapists were more likely than nonrapists in the prison population to have been punished for looking at pornography while a youngster, while other research has shown that incarcerated nonrapists had seen more pornography, and seen it at an earlier age, than rapists. What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing. Richard Green too has reported that both rapists and child molesters use less pornography than a control group of “normal” males.
Attitudes towards women .
Studies of men who had seen X-rated movies found that they were significantly more tolerant and accepting of women than those men who didn’t see those movies, and studies by other investigators—female as well as male—essentially found similarly that there was no detectable relationship between the amount of exposure to pornography and any measure of misogynist attitudes. No researcher or critic has found the opposite, that exposure to pornography—by any definition—has had a cause-and-effect relationship towards ill feelings or actions against women. No correlation has even been found between exposure to porn and calloused attitudes toward women.
There is no doubt that some people have claimed to suffer adverse effects from exposure to pornography—just look at testimony from women’s shelters, divorce courts and other venues. But there is no evidence it was the cause of the claimed abuse or harm.
Ultimately, there is no freedom that can’t be and isn’t misused.
This can range from the freedom to bear arms to the freedom to bear children (just look at “Octomom”). But it doesn’t mean that the freedom of the majority should be restricted to prevent the abuses of the few. When people transgress into illegal behavior, there are laws to punish them, and those act as a deterrent. In the United States, where one out of every 138 residents is incarcerated, just imagine if pornography were illegal—there’d be more people in prison than out.
Adapted from “Pornography, Public Acceptance and Sex Related Crime: A Review,” Int J Law Psychiatry, 32:304–14, 2009.
Milton Diamond is a professor in the department of anatomy, biochemistry and physiology at the University of Hawaii and director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society.
Posted in lifestyle, porn, science
Tagged Australia, censorship, crime, Freedom, illegal, internet, internet filter, legal adult porn, lifestyle, masturbation, men, octomom, porn, pornography, rape, sex, sex offenders, sexually explicit material, women, X-rated movies
Here in our gloriously free and oh so safe country, Australia, yet 
another Government is working hard to ensure our happiness, safety and contentment.
Having just been told that our internet is going to be fixed so that we are no longer menaced by internet nasties that our guardians don’t like we now have a Governmental intent to change the laws on what is and isn’t art.
The New South Wales Government has released recommendations to scrap the defence of ‘artistic merit’ in relation to child pornography.
It is part of a report compiled by police, the DPP and Legal Aid in an attempt to make a clear legal distinction between pornography and art.
So now we will have artistic merit determined by Government Committee.
Just like Germany and Russia during the 1930’s and Eastern Europe in the 1950’s and 1960’s what is considered acceptable in architecture, music, theatre and the visual arts is soon to be decided for us by those who were once our elected representatives.
The talent of Bill Henson has once again been the excuse for this brutal slap in the face for Australia’s arts community.
Regardless of the fact that this law allegedly can only come into force once an item has been declared “Child Pornography”, once that decision is made, apparently by the Director of Public Prosecutions, then “artistic merit” goes out the window and is not even considered. Not a good start for any defense to a crime which is simply “In the eye of the beholder”. There is no objective way of defining “pornography” whether adult or child.
This new law suddenly appears just weeks after Senator Conroy announced in Federal Parliament that the “Great Firewall of Australia” will be fully operational by 2011. If that measure goes ahead in its current form then Australia will be off the internet map. All the little special interest groups will have their special interest desires met.
The “Pro-family” groups will have total censorship of pornography.
Not just the “Kiddie Porn” of which those of us who oppose this measure are assumed (by Senator Conroy) to be devotees but adult porn which is currently legal under Australia’s censorship laws. They will also be able to block all sites which mention voluntary euthanasia, safe drug use or abortion.
The “anti-gambling” groups will have succeeded in banning, in Australia, all gambling sites on the internet.
The Religious Right will get their jollies because atheist websites and “alternative 
religion” websites will be banned, blocked or shut down.
How long will it be until a political party takes advantage of being in office to ban all sites promoting their opposition?
The “Clean Feed Filter” which is going to be used is almost exactly the same as the filter the Chinese Government, a noted liberal regime, was going to use but then decided that it was unworkable.
So, between these two arms of Government, it seems we Aussies are in for – I was going to say, “An interesting time.” In reality we will regress to the drabness of the Puritan regimes in both England and the then new Americas.
“Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci sing a pro-gay marriage song in response to a Pat Robertson quote that legalizing gay marriage would lead to legalizing sex with ducks.”
Found over at daisymae’s place so blame her.
What with Elections and Inaugurations and Terrible Puns the archive has been a little serious lately.
Time for a bit of fun.
A bit of obscene fun.
Find the Nude Dude at the beach.
Burgled from Phil
Anything I try to say here would be misconstrued as “taking the piss”.
So I’m saying nuttin!
Cole Porter, back in 1955, wrote:-
….birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
Well, let’s reproduce!
Birds and flowers and bugs and mammals all do it. In full view of the rest of the world.
Here is an Everlasting reproducing. Having sex! Needing a threesome to do it successfully.
Posted in Australia, Blogroll, Cryptozoology, horticulture, images, Introspective, nature, photography, porn, science, Uncategorized, Western Australia
Tagged Digital Photography, horticulture, images, My Photography, porn
The is sometimes a fine line between nudity and decency.
Borat was a classic example. Now that raincoaster, the squiddly, wet Cthulhuic one, has offended all right-thinking people by publishing the green-clad Kazakhstani on her blog I feel a little bit of equal opportunity is called for.
Seriously, be prepared for a pair of rudely awakened eyes when you go over the fold
Posted in beaver, Blogroll, Cthulhu, photography, porn, Uncategorized
Tagged Digital Photography, Intelligent Design, porn
I’m losing touch with my readers.
While I have my moments of tagging and titling posts to grab a few extra readers, and while I joke about all the 13/14 yo males who drop in to view this, the weirdest blog in the entire blogipelago, I am becoming concerned.
I try to post on a range of subjects. Some serious political stuff mixed in with my photography, a range of humour-based posts and odd news along with some oddly titled and tagged items.
Overall, I like to think I have a reasonably interesting and qualitifericious blog.
I know I have intelligent and mature commenters.
So, why, when I look at the top ten posts which my readers are clicking on, do I see, in order;
Most Beautiful Thai Transexual
Blonde Chick with a Nice Pussy
Cryptozoology and the Double Nosed Tiger Hound
What is the connection between these posts?
The top seven posts all have a “porn” tag. And those seven posts account for close on 50% of yesterday’s hits!
Perhaps we bloggers are all overestimating our real audience.
(I will be tagging this post “porn” just to see what reaction there is in a month or two.)
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