They got a van ready for me out back of the warehouse. Arm’s guy pulls the woman along by the arm. Kid’s still hanging onto her, nearly falling ’cause that fucker just keeps pulling them across the lot. Not giving a shit if they’re keeping up or not.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27455136/
By Mike Stuckey, Senior news editor

Free sex toys — and much more — for voting

Businesses across nation ready to reward citizens for casting their ballots

Just when you thought it was safe to focus on the issues in this historic election season, a chain of sex toy shops has joined retailers, restaurateurs and other businesses across the nation in the time-honored tradition of rewarding Americans who go to the polls.

Babeland, with stores in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle, is offering a pair of self-gratifying incentives for voters who present their registration cards, ballot stubs or “word of honor” that they voted next Tuesday.
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Ch 23

The tech officer, bored with his job, swept the area again. It was hard to track for certain attributes in Trieste system’s nebula; it threw everything off, sometimes only by a little, and sometimes by a lot. On his fourth cup of coffee he blinked to clear the sleep from his eyes and scanned the list of planets and tried to discern what attributes could be gleaned from them on the console in front of him. Usually he would just let the computer do this mindless chore, but nothing worked quite right here.
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By Michael Bader, AlterNet
Posted on October 28, 2008, Printed on October 28, 2008

The following is a response to Robert Jensen’s recent AlterNet article, “Porn’s Dirty, Dangerous Secret.”

When I was 13, a new friend, Andy, came over my house to watch television. We were watching the show, Time Tunnel. As the show neared its climax, I noticed that Andy was quite nervous. When I asked why, he said that it looked like the hero was about to be killed. I said, “Are you an idiot?! Of course he won’t be killed … this is a TV series and it’s on again next week!” It turned out that Andy’s family didn’t allow him to watch television and, therefore, he didn’t know that the hero of a television series never dies. He didn’t know the code.

Robert Jensen writes about pornography like someone who doesn’t know the code. He seems incapable of differentiating fantasy from reality. He keeps mistaking the reality of the sexual enactments depicted in gonzo porn with their meaning in fantasy to the men masturbating. If the woman on the screen is having 4 penises shoved into her, something that would demean and degrade any real woman reading Jensen’s article (and probably the actress performing such scenes), he automatically infers that the degradation must be the source of the male viewer’s arousal. It isn’t.
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The broad keeps the kid close to her side, tucked behind her leg like she expects me to hurt him or something. Pisses me off. I’ve never fucking hurt a kid.
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Ch 22

Duncan set the last of Theopoulis’ boxes on the chair and carefully unpacked its contents. Over the past few days he had done so with all of the boxes he had brought with him. Their contents were spread all over the desk in his quarters, and pinned and tacked to any available surface. Bishop had come in several times, to bring tea, to tell him about their progress. Duncan believed that the real reason that Bishop dropped in on him was to try to figure out how he did what he did, how he tracked men so well. Duncan looked back over his shoulder to the door of his quarters and looked down at his watch; he expected Bishop any minute. Over the past few years he had begun to grow predictable; Duncan never pointed it out as a dangerous habit.
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Ch 21

Shazza kept her eyes on the ground as they made their way back across the grassland towards where they had found the Moorglade the day before. Much of the grass was still flattened from their previous trip, and she didn’t really need to watch, probably. But she did anyway. Her conversation with Riddick as she lay curled up with Jack had left her quiet. It had felt so good to hold Jack as the girl had cuddled up to her in the night. Shazza looked ahead at Riddick and understood how he could be so taken with her.
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By Robert Jensen, Last Exit
Posted on October 21, 2008, Printed on October 21, 2008

Ed. Note: AlterNet has run a series of articles on the frequently ignored role of pornography in contemporary society. At the bottom of Robert Jensen’s article you can find links to more stories addressing the many questions that pornography poses.

There are a finite number of ways that human bodies can be placed together sexually, and as one pornography industry veteran lamented to me at the annual trade show, “they’ve all been shot.” He sighed, pondering the challenge of creating a sexually explicit film that is unique, and mused, “After all, how many dicks can you stick in a girl at one time?”
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By , The Frisky
Posted on October 17, 2008, Printed on October 17, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/103338/

What’s it like to be a sex writer? Inquiring minds want to know. To find out, we asked Lux Alptraum, editor of sex blog Boinkology and Gawker Media’s Fleshbot. After spending a decade covering the wild world of sex, Lux reveals what a day in the life of a sex writer is like, how covering sex affects her love life, and why sex will never be boring.
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