THE DAILY BLADE: Sex, Huh, Yeah. What Is It Good For? Actually, 237 Things.
The Stiletto doesn’t understand how anyone ever got away with the dodge, "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache," considering that nookie is better than naproxen at curing a throbbing head. It’s a scientific fact.
Two psychologists at the University of Texas at Austin catalogued 237 reasons people have sex, based on a survey of 2,000 people and "to get rid of a headache" is No. 173 on the list, reports New York Times columnist John Tierney.
Researchers, Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss, who published the list in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, organized the reasons into four general categories:
† Physical: "The person had beautiful eyes" or "a desirable body," or "was good kisser" or "too physically attractive to resist." Or "I wanted to achieve an orgasm."
† Goal Attainment: "I wanted to even the score with a cheating partner" or "break up a rival’s relationship" or "make money" or "be popular." Or "because of a bet."
† Emotional: "I wanted to communicate at a deeper level" or "lift my partner’s spirits" or "say ‘Thank you.’" Or just because "the person was intelligent."
† Insecurity: "I felt like it was my duty" or "I wanted to boost my self-esteem" or "It was the only way my partner would spend time with me."
At the end of his article, Tierney asks readers to cite their own reasons for having sex at TierneyLab – as well as "reasons for just saying "No way!"
The Stiletto can’t even guess at how many reasons there may be to hike up your shorts and run for the hills, but a new dating trend has emerged in New Zealand: "vegansexuals," who refuse to get carnal with carnivores because "their bodies are made up of dead animals." According to The Press:
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.
"I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance," she said.
For her part, The Stiletto could never have sex with a liberal, or with an Armenian Genocide/Holocaust denier, or with a man who declines to accompany her when she goes shoe shopping (that’s just the top three deal-breakers; she won’t bore you with her entire list).
Iraq Was Supposed To Become Like The USA – But The Reverse Has Happened: Part III
In Nashville, TN, home to the largest community of Kurdish immigrants in the U.S. (about 10,000), 20 to 30 teenagers and young adults have formed a street gang called Kurdish Pride that police blame for a series of rapes, assaults and home invasions. The Washington Post reports:
The gang members borrow from California gangster culture by adopting rap slang, scrawling "KP" graffiti on street signs, wearing gang colors and flashing hand signs in photos posted online.
They also put Kurdish flags on their cars, and use yellow - from the Kurdish Democratic Party banner - as their gang color. …
Unlike other gang members, most Kurdish Pride followers grew up in stable, working-class, two-parent homes, and many of their parents [Sunni Muslim, mainly from Turkey, Iraq and Iran] own successful businesses or work at universities, Nashville Detective Mark Anderson said.
Members claim they formed Kurdish Pride in response to threats and harassment after the Sept. 11 attacks. Anderson, who works their neighborhood, is unaware of any anti-Kurdish backlash.
Editorial Note: To read previous posts in the "Iraq Was Supposed To Become Like The USA …" series click here and here.
There’s No Such Thing As Free Healthcare: Part II
A study by the Fraser Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank in Canada, finds that provincial drug programs - which reimburse generic drugs at a fixed percentage of the brand-name drug - caused the price of generics to skyrocket. Generic prescriptions are more than twice as expensive in Canada as in the U.S. – though brand-name prescription drugs are about 51 percent cheaper in Canada. The institute said "misguided government policies" that inflated the prices of generic drugs cost Canadians between $2.65 billion (U.S.) and $6.9 billion in unnecessary spending in 2006.
Pennsylvania Miscellanea
Don Frick, 68, of Hamlin, PA, was struck by lightning twice in his life – on the exact same day, only 27 years apart. The first time, the antenna of the tractor-trailer he was driving was struck by lightning. The second time, he took refuge in a shed just moments before lightning struck the ground nearby and the shock traveled through Frick’s body. "I’m lucky I’m alive," Frick told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
Editorial Note: Hazleton mayor Lou Barletta has vowed to go all the way to the Supreme Court to defend the Illegal Immigration Relief Act. You can help fund the good fight by contributing to Small Town Defenders, which Hazleton has set up to collect private donations. To date, more than $360,000 has been donated by Americans around the country; by July 24, about half that amount had been spent. Thus far, Hazleton has been able to avoid using tax dollars to pay its attorneys fees, but the town could be on the hook for more than $1 million in plaintiffs’ legal fees should the case be lost on appeal.
Won't go shoe shopping with you? I would not go shoe shopping with my woman either - unless we were looking for a certain type shoe - for a specific purpose. Whether that was a four inch stiletto or a golf shoe doesn't matter as long as it is needed for something. Just adding to her daily wear collection - count me out.
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