California Topless Dancers Can Touch Themselves
Actually, there is a legal-type explanation for this, but cut to the bottom line: The California Alcohol Beverage Control Appeals Board said lower ABC officials violated the Constitution when they adopted a rule that topless dancers couldn’t feel themselves up on stage. (The legal-type argument, apparently, is that the ABC officials could ban “lewd or obscene” activities, but they can’t just ban all caressing, which is what they did.) [San Francisco Chronicle-AP, 8-23-01]
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Female Malaysian Senator Promotes Conjugal Sex
Sen. Jamilah Ibrahim introduced legislation last week that would ban women from nighttime work (with a few exceptions), for the explicit purpose that they remain available at that time for their conjugal duties. If they are not available, Ibrahim says she fears husbands will inevitably resort to incest. A local women’s rights advocate-quotemaster, Dr. Ng Yen Yen, went nuts. [The Star (Malaysia), 8-17-01]
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Cops Want to Disable Pervert by Confiscating His Lawn Mower
Passaic County (N.J.) prosecutors filed a forfeiture action against the 2000 Craftsman turbo twin-cylinder riding lawn mower belonging to Carmin Ezzo, 45, who is crippled (spinal meningitis) and uses it to get out and about to facilitate flashing neighborhood women (and, in the latest case, to make a feeble attempt to flee police). But Ezzo apparently has a stay-at-home scheme, too (except no one falls for it anymore), of pretending to be injured, and when a woman comes in to help him, he happens to have his stuff out. A statute allows instrumentalities of crimes to be forfeited, but some authorities say this mower thing might be on the fringe of that law. [The Record (Hackensack), 8-21-01]
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Changing the Church's Architecture
In a long piece this morning on the child-molesting settlement, by the Orange (County) and Los Angeles Catholic dioceses ($5.2M), a Yorba Linda priest acknowledged the effect the Church’s agreed-upon reforms will have on his under-construction building: “We’re talking about putting windows on our doors so nothing’s hidden [and we’re putting] windows on doors of confessionals. Building a church that creates a safe and open environment will be very important to me.” [Yr Ed is in favor of churches that are safe and also is glad to see that the Catholic Church’s door solution creates brotherhood with the other institution considering such a change: adult video stores needing to resist city regulation by discouraging activity in its viewing stalls.] [Los Angeles Times, 8-22-01]
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Ex-Legislator Wins Clarification of the Right to Masturbate
A judge in Miami tossed out public indecency charges against former state legislator Willie Logan, who had been cited for wanking in a Haulover Park men’s room stall. The police officer couldn’t keep his account straight, leading to the inference by the judge that Logan was discovered only when the officer sought, and used, a peephole in the next stall to detect Logan’s activity, thus invading Logan’s protected “expectation of privacy.” [Miami Herald, 8-21-01]
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Below the Fold for Tuesday
Lest you think parent-child incest is a quiet game of mere intimidation, consider this testimony from a child-victim, now a teenager, in the Boulder, Colo., case against Michael Ballard, who was sentenced last week: “I remember [my father] chasing me and two of my brothers around the living room because he had a friend over who wanted to have sex.” [TheDenverChannel.com (TV Channel 7), 8-20-01]
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