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[ via Anita Rowland ] A family in Washington State stops junk mail by using a postal regulation left over from the days of Comstock: you can forbid someone from mailing sexually oriented advertising from you.
The trick that makes this work is that you, dear reader, are the judge of what is sexually oriented materials. [...]

[ via Flutterby ] Continuing on the mating in NYC theme, Dan found an article on ‘Terrifica’, a costumed hero who patrols the party scene, intervening before a woman who’s too far into her cups can be picked up by the leisure-suited, open collared, armies of the night.

Ah, ghod bless Oliver Willis for pointing out an article at Salon extolling the virtues of women who wear glasses. Damn right they are sexy. Remember Barbara Bel Geddes in “Vertigo”? What was Jimmy Stewart thinking? Ignoring a sexy/smart designer, for a doomed millionare’s concubine? I was always a little disapointed when the last woman [...]

The contradictary forces of globalization and Islamic ‘fundamentalism’ have dwindled the numbers of Egyptian women performing professionaly as belly dancers. Meanwhile, western tourists raised on “Aladdin” and “Jeannie” expect to see the show, so westerners have taken up the slack. The result is a spectrum from vaudville to folk-dance fusion.
The author describes one performance by [...]