FBI Busts Consenting Adults for Having Sex!

For Christ’s sake, don't FBI have anything better to do, then bug adults for having sex?! There’s the whole story from AlterNet: 

The stories of consensual adult sex workers, who are often the targets of police busts, are missing in all the hysteria about sex trafficking and underage prostitution.

Last summer, a sex worker from San Francisco called a client she found through Craigslist and they made plans to meet in the best hotel of a small Southern town. Shortly after they stepped into the hotel room, police stormed in to join the FBI agent who had posed as the client, and arrested the sex worker as part of a nation-wide sting which targeted venues such as “truck stops, motels and the Internet,” according to an FBI report on Operation Innocence Lost. Operation Innocence Lost focuses on rescuing children forced into sex work, but has arrested hundreds of consensual adult sex workers since its inception in 2003.

“They kept me in the hotel room and tried to interrogate me for more than three hours, but I refused to talk to them,” recalls the sex worker. A year later, after spending approximately $5000 on bail and legal fees, she continues to work as an escort, although she is traumatized from her arrest: 

“Now I feel paranoid and jumpy in ways that might be too extreme. I still have nightmares where FBI and police are chasing me. I just wanted to run and hide and be somewhere safe. I’m generally easygoing, but my emotions have been all over the place.” 

You can read the whole story here

The vibrator was a Victorian gift to women, new film Hysteria reveals

Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in a movie that takes a humorous look at the invention of sex aids as a mechanical cure for presumed 'hysteria'. 

Location shooting in London is under way on Hysteria, and the jokes are flying thick and fast. In fact, the film industry is "buzzing" with the news that rival claims to the invention of the first vibrator are to be settled in its screenplay.

The film, in which the Oscar-nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal will appear alongside a British cast including Jonathan Pryce, Sheridan Smith, Ashley Jensen, Rupert Everett and Gemma Jones, is to tell the story of the accidental discovery of motorised sex aids in Victorian England. The film will support the contentious claim that, around 1880, a Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville, played by Hugh Dancy, was the first to create an electromechanical vibrator and that his invention was followed in 1902 by the patenting of a device later retailed by the American company, Hamilton Beach.

"It's set in 1880 and it's based on fact," said Pryce, who plays a physician, Robert Dalrymple, father to Gyllenhaal's character. "There are humorous elements, for sure, but ultimately it's a film about female emancipation and liberation."

You can read the whole article here. 

Pornstar Devon James confesssed! The supposed sex tape with Tiger Woods is fake.

His golf game may still be off, but Tiger Woods' luck could be starting to change.

A porn star who attempted to sell a sex tape she claimed showed her and the golf champion has admitted it is a fake, RadarOnline.com reported. 

Melinda Janette, a.k.a. Devon James, added a disclaimer to the web page where she sells the 62-minute tape shortly before it was set to ship conceding it was a "spoof."

The price for the footage, which can be bought via credit card or PayPal, has also been lowered to $19.99 from $25.95.

In June, Janette’s ex-husband told the gossip website that had made a deal with a DVD production company to sell the tape, from which they expected to make $5 million in sales.

They also claimed that Woods' lawyers had contacted them and threatened to sue - a charge the golfer's lawyers denied.

Woods never denied having relations with Devon James, an admitted prostitute, who said she met the golfer when she was 19, but her claims of a sex tape were always considered shaky.

Nor was it the first time she tried to score money from the embattled golfer.

In June, Janette claimed Woods had fathered her 9-year-old child, Austin T. James - a claim even her own mother, Sandra Brinling, wouldn't back up.

Brinling, who had custody of the youngster, told the Daily News her daughter knew exactly who the father was.

"All she is looking for is to get money," she said.

On Sunday, Woods finished an arduous PGA Tour, where he managed only three top-10 finishes. It was his first PGA Tour season in 15 years without a victory.

The interview in question:

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/11/07/2010-11-07_sigh_of_relief_for_tiger_woods_porn_star_devon_james_admits_supposed_sex_tape_wi.html#ixzz14hSyv01a

Now Showing at MMIA: Nude Images of Passengers

Lagos — The 3D full-body scanners procured for thorough body check of passengers at the nation’s major airports for security reasons are now being abused by security officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), THISDAY can confirm.
They use the machines, installed in the wake of the Farouk AbdulMutallab affair, to watch the naked images of female passengers for fun.

The controversial body scanners have been dubbed “e-stripping” in advanced countries because of the way they expose the nakedness of those being screened.
THISDAY discovered that during off-peak periods, the aviation security officials, who are trained on the use of the scanners, usually stroll from the cubicle located in a hidden corner on the right side of the screening area where the 3D full-body scanner monitors are located.
They do so to catch a glimpse of some of the passengers entering the machine and immediately go back to view the naked images, in order to match the faces with the images since the faces are blurred on the monitors while passengers are inside the machine.
The face that appears on the scanner’s monitor is usually blurred so that the operator viewing the full body will not recognise who passes through the machine.
But by coming out to see the passenger in person and then going back to see his or her image, the objective of protecting the privacy of the passenger has been defeated.

THISDAY observed this development first-hand when it visited the screening area, passed through the conventional screening machine at 3pm last Saturday and observed that passengers were reluctant to use the new 3D full-body scanner.
To compel them to use it, one of the conventional scanners was put out of service, leaving the ones at the left end and another very close to the new scanner.

A FAAN senior official expressed shock in an interview with THISDAY, saying: “It is a breach of privacy. I will deal with it immediately I return to Lagos.”
The official informed THISDAY that the actual passengers the scanner was meant for were US-bound passengers, who travel with Arik Air and Delta Air Lines.
But when THISDAY visited the airport last Saturday, these airlines were not checking in passengers.
In fact, it was only Emirates that had opened its check-in desk and passengers were just trickling in and passing through the screening machines.
“In Lagos, we ensure that passengers going to US through Arik Air and Delta pass through the full-body scanner. It is not compulsory for all passengers, but in Abuja all passengers meant for international flights pass through the full-body scanner,” said the FAAN official.
THISDAY also learnt that two out of the four scanners at the Lagos airport are working, while the other two are not working because of non-functional monitors.

So far, only one 3D full-body scanner is working at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
FAAN recently ordered and procured 10 of the machines, which would be deployed in the four major airports in the country.
Since the failed underwear bomb attempt of US airliner by AbdulMutallab, in Detroit, Michigan, major airports in the world have deployed the 3D full body scanners for total body screening of passengers and crew to ensure safety in air travel.
However, there is anxiety over passengers’ complete cooperation with the new screening method as some of them express fear that the radiation from the screening equipment is capable of causing health disorders like skin cancer.
Also, another class of passengers are resisting going through the screening machines for religious reasons, insisting that it is against their religion to expose their nakedness.


An aviation security expert told THISDAY in Lagos:  “The scanner is capable of detecting and revealing substances that could pose security threats concealed on a person’s body that other screening devices, such as metal detectors, cannot detect. The scanner can even reveal very small quantities of liquid explosives, non-metallic weapons, and plastic explosives that could be inimical to aviation safety.”
The new device is expected to boost security operations at the nation’s airports, as it helps to eliminate the threats posed by terrorists, drug carriers, and it will help to improve the image of the country on security.

Cultural Exchange: 'Sex Talk' documentary lets Egyptians discuss a taboo topic

An intersting article from the Los Angeles Times:

"Reporting from Cairo — Take a glimpse across Egypt'ssexual landscape and you'll see the devil's ploys, unrequited passions, mundane marital rhythms, tempestuous affairs, the threat of God, the shame of society and, in one wrenching scene, a village girl circumcised by a man wielding a knife.

Sex in most cultures is balanced between sanctity and sin, that precarious, often titillating, terrain veering from the virtue of the family to a bondage fetish captured on a cellphone and dispersed across the Internet. We become the hidden strands of our desires. Sexual tastes around the world navigate religion, rigid gender roles, centuries of tradition and fears over the allure of Western permissiveness. But in Islamic countries, such as Egypt, these lines are more constrictive and firmly drawn.

You can read the whole article here.