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I’m no fan of Hooters, the restaurant. I’ve always been of the mind that strip clubs — which sell sex appeal straight-up — are preferable to Hooter’s brand of cowardly, snickering objectification of women. All that said, I must admit to being unsettled by a feminist campaign in Wales to block the Hooters empire from expanding into the city of Cardiff. Sally Hughes, head of the Cardiff Feminist Network, frames the resistance movement like so:

via Feminists wage war against Hooters – Broadsheet – Salon.com.

As you’ve probably noticed, there are no shortage of iPhone apps. In fact, over one billion apps have been downloaded since Apple launched its mobile phone. The world of iPhone apps is so immense that famed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins launched a $100 million fund to attract app-building entrepreneurs.

But Apple may have a growing problem on its hands. The number of inappropriate, borderline offensive and just plain pornographic iPhone apps has continued to grow. CNET reported recently that Apple is now refusing promo codes to any app that’s rated 17+. Sports Illustrated recently released Swimsuit app may be pushing the app decency standards even further.

To help you sort through the app detritus, we’ve compiled 10 of the most inappropriate iPhone apps we could find, some of which are not be approved by Apple. Which iPhone app is just altogether wrong? Which app is just amateurish? View our SLIDESHOW and VOTE below:

via 10 Inappropriate iPhone Apps (PHOTOS, POLL).

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If you think teaching teens about condoms gets conservatives riled up, just imagine the response to an attempt in the United Kingdom to tell youngsters that orgasms feel good. A National Health Service pamphlet titled “Pleasure,” which encourages parents and educators to add a dose of honesty about carnal delights to traditional sex talks, has been met by finger-wagging moralists and accusations of child abuse. You know, par for the puritan course.

The more acceptable approach: Tell kids that masturbation kills kittens and makes you go blind

Beyond having the audacity to suggest that educators tell students that sex can feel pleasurable, the booklet says that teenagers have “a right” to sexual satisfaction, so long as it is in a safe and consensual situation. It also advises honesty about masturbation being perfectly healthy — it winkingly says that “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away,” which strikes me as a cheesy attempt to be cool — and that sex isn’t always about procreation.

In response, Dr. Trevor Stammers, a spokesman for Family and Youth Concern, called it “nothing less than encouraging child abuse,” Anthony Seldon, head of Wellington College, declared it “deplorable” — and so on and so forth. The U.K. tabloids also went to town: The Sun trumpets, “NHS tells kids: Sex each day is healthy,” and Times Online reports that NHS is “telling school children” to have “an orgasm a day” — neither of which is true. I guess the more acceptable approach would be to tell kids that masturbation kills kittens and makes you go blind, and that sex is a painful experience that always results in pregnancy?

The outrage is absurd on many levels, the most practical of which is that most teenagers are already well aware that there is pleasure to be had in doing the horizontal tango; it isn’t exactly a nationally guarded secret. Acknowledging that forehead-slapper of a fact adds basic legitimacy to sex ed classes and parental “birds and the bees” chats, which so often send kids’ eyes rolling. Teenagers know what’s up, and I don’t just mean this generation of know-it-all Googlers and porn-watchers — kids have always been keen social observers. So, when they’re sat down and told that sex is a dirty and shameful act, they recognize adults’ doublespeak.

via The joy of sex — for teens! – Broadsheet – Salon.com.

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What kidding around about sexual predators and innocent teens says about us. And them. By Dahlia LithwickPosted Wednesday June 17 2009 at 7 50 PM ET David Letterman.David Letterman Anyone who s been scoring Letterman v. Palin knows that it has been a ratings boon to both sides: Last week David Letterman told a tasteless joke. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin flipped out. Letterman apologized. Palin went berserk. Letterman apologized again. Palin accepted his apology on behalf of “young women” everywhere. Letterman s ratings skyrocketed. And Palin is back in the headlines. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. The pertinent facts: During his monologue on June 8 Letterman called Palin a “slutty flight attendant” and joked about Palin s daughter being propositioned by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and “knocked up” by Alex Rodriguez during a Yankees game. Letterman later insisted the joke was about 18-year-old teen mom Bristol but the young Palin in attendance at Yankee Stadium that night was 14-year-old Willow allowing her mom to rage that the late-night talk-show host was contributing to a culture “that says it s OK to talk about statutory rape” and offer up a counterjoke that “it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.” Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND…Single PageSINGLE PAGE Facebook FacebookPost to MySpace MySpaceMixx MixxDigg DiggReddit RedditDel.icio.us del.icio.usFurl FurlMa.gnolia.com Ma.gnoliaSphere SphereStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE So what s more offensive the joke about impregnating teenage girls or the joke about sexually predatory old comedians Answer: neither.

via Will kidding about sexual predators and innocent teens ever be funny? – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine.

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Bill O’Reilly fancies himself a “crusader” in the “Culture Wars,” which we presume is why he aired a segment tonight about the dangers posed to children by the shocking amount of pornography available on the popular video site YouTube. Now, we applaud the Fox News host’s determination to keep pornography away from children, however it’s puzzling why O’Reilly and his producers felt the need to show clips of porn from YouTube during his discussion of the dangers it poses. And not just a single clip, or a quick montage: O’Reilly aired extended montages of multiple YouTube porn clips.

O’Reilly began the segment with a rather strange statement:

“I know a lot of adults don’t go to YouTube, but this is the rage among American children, children as young as six, seven years old.” In fact, we’re quite sure that YouTube is “the rage” among adults as well, but moving on.

His guest was conservative columnist Amanda Carpenter, who started her analysis by explaining exactly what YouTube is. However, the camera quickly turned away from her and went full screen to YouTube porn videos, effectively turning Ms. Carpenter’s description into a voice-over for a porn montage.

via O’Reilly Fight Against Porn Involves Showing Lots Of Porn VIDEO.

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A NEW beer that promises to leave drinkers holding a naked woman before they finish the last drop has been labelled dangerous and sexist.

Health and women’s groups called for Skinny Blonde beer to be banned.

And they want the Advertising Standards Bureau to investigate the provocative ad campaign.

via Health, women&squo;s groups demand ban on Skinny Blonde beer | Herald Sun.

On yesterday’s episode of “The View,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck responded to the Playboy.com article written by Guy Cimbalo that listed her as one of the conservative women he’d like to “hate f**k.” I don’t blame her for being offended—I would pitch a fit if, say, Rush Limbaugh said he wanted to hate f**k me—but her annoyance that the National Organization for Women didn’t immediately respond (in fact, they didn’t know) is misplaced. After all, they have bigger fish to fry right now, like the murder of doctors like Dr. George Tiller.

However, NOW did eventually release a statement that said the Playboy article encourages violence against women. And then “The View“‘s Sherri Shephard went on to equate “hate f**k” with rape. This bugs me. Where I come from, hate f**king is not the same as raping someone. In every instance that I’ve used it or someone I know has used it, it has been in reference to having consensual sex with someone you just cannot stand, but you want to f**k for fun anyway, and that the animosity between you actually makes the sex hot in a way that’s different from sex with someone you love or like. You may want to call them horrible names afterwards, or never see them again, but hate f**king, in any definition I’ve experienced, has never been about sexual assault. In fact, I have a friend who hate f**ked an ex recently and had a grand ol’ time.

Of course, Hasselbeck doesn’t want to hate f**k Cimbalo, so if he actually followed through on his stupid little list, then I suppose it would be rape, but for the love of god, it is a LIST not a PLAN. It’s an offensive, gross, icky list, sure, and the sex he’s describing is hugely disrespectful and misogynistic, but it’s not rape.

via Hate F**king Does Not Equal Rape | The Frisky.

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Yesterday, Playboy.com posted a provocative story: “So Right It’s Wrong.” The piece was written by Guy Cimbalo, and its premise was to target those conservative women that he would like to, as he put it, “hate fuck.” But if you click on that Playboy.com link, you’ll find the piece is no longer there. And that’s because the blogosphere went crazy after Playboy published it, going so far as to call for a boycott, and Playboy pulled it.

If you want to read the piece in full, conservative blogger Caleb Howe has reproduced it in a series of screenshots here. The piece begins thusly:

Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate fuck. We may despise everything these women represent, but goddammit they’re hot. Let the healing begin.

What follows isn’t, well, pretty. It’s a listicle that eviscerates every conservative female that crossed Cimbalo’s radar as someone who was at least in some regard physically attractive and yet whose personal politics he found to be utterly loathsome. The list includes Michelle Malkin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Laura Ingraham, and Peggy Noonan.

via Guy Cimbalo Playboy article generates controversy..

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