I guess I always thought they had them already. I find this really interesting. I find it personally hilarious that the brothel industry is on the conservative side. It’s like a gay republican – it just seems wrong somehow.

George Flint, longtime lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Assn., has said that allowing male prostitutes could be the industry’s Pearl Harbor. He has hinted that brothels possibly offering gay sex — a choice each prostitute, as an independent contractor, would be free to make — might sour some legislators on the entire brothel system.

Nevada lawmakers are notoriously skittish when discussing the birds and bees. The Legislature, even when severely cash-strapped, has repeatedly declined to tax the brothels (which are banned in Reno and Las Vegas) for fear of, well, legitimizing the business.

“This is the first time in the history of the world . . . that men have been licensed to sell sex,” Flint said Tuesday, his voice rising. “It’s never been done!”

LA Times Article Here

I’m on Drugs!!

I’ve been in the mood to watch Almost Famous for ages. I freakishly love this movie. There are so many amazing moments, so many beautiful images… and the soundtrack… seriously? As with any Cameron Crowe movie, music plays a huge roll in it. Tiny Dancer will always and forever be that scene on the bus in the same way that Free Fallin’ will be Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. Cameron Crowe seems to have an almost preternatural feel for sense memory with regards to songs. He’s amazing at creating those moments that actually happen in life. People really do break into song together. It’s not something strictly left to musicals. Watching the movie got me to thinking about drugs, sex, and rock n’ roll. It’s one of those associations that will probably never split apart. The VH1 show Behind The Music became almost formulaic. Every band worked for success and then when they found it, “Tragedy struck…”

It’s interesting how differently music’s written these days. We’re willing to put any kind of talk out there. It wasn’t that way when our parents were kids. There were rules about what could be on the radio and while this is still true, the rules are much more lax. Songs like Meredith Brooks’ Bitch (Blip.fm / Amazon mp3) wouldn’t have even been recorded, let alone put on the radio… and that song’s tame compared to what we’ve seen in recent years.

The Kingsmen

I sent an email to my dad about this very thing his picks for this topic and I found it hilarious that it included Louie Louie by The Kingsmen. (Blip.fm / Amazon mp3) It wasn’t that the song was actually about sex, but the lyrics couldn’t be understood so people thought it was dirty. One woman actually went so far as to write a letter to Robert Kennedy, then the Attorney General of the United States, to have it pulled off the shelves for being pornographic. The FBI actually took on the case and The Kingsmen were asked to submit the lyrics to the song as well as to provide other evidence. It took two years of research for an FBI lab to determine that the lyrics were unintelligible at any speed and therefore could not be considered licentious. Read more about the case here.

There’s a perfectly good reason why so few song come up when you’re looking for sex songs of the early/mid ’60s… I leave it to Peter, Paul & Mary in I Dig Rock and Roll Music – (Blip.fm / Amazon mp3)

I dig rock and roll music
I could really get it on that scene
I think I could say something
If you know what I mean.
But if I really say it
The radio won’t play it
Unless I lay it between the lines.

I promise these posts won’t come in such large bunches anymore as my Christmas vacation is almost over. It was nice to have a visit with the family but I’m looking forward to the drive back to Atlanta. I loves me some hanging out with friends but I’m really happy to be going home. I leave you with some words of wisdom from Lester Bangs.

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world
is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”

The Kama Sutra is an ancient and sacred Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Mallanāga Vātsyāyana. A large part of the work consists of practical advice on sex. The work is mostly written in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. Kama means sensual or sexual pleasure, and “su tra” literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual.

The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra.Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or “Discipline of Kama” is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva’s doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.