Commentary
Some may argue that a college newspaper would report on pornography and the marketing of sex simply because it can.
Today's special edition of Weekend, etc. Magazine takes on these contoversial issues because we believe that a college newspaper should.
Sex and Porn American Style
On a typical warm Southern California day, a 20-year-old blonde bombshell named Lexus is enjoying her day off the same way millions of other working stiffs do - by hanging around the house. All she wants is a little rest and relaxation after many arduous days of juggling classes at the local college and shooting scenes for her latest film, "Debbie Does Dallas - A New Beginning."
Dispassionate, blasé performance highlights phone sex experience
Phone sex.
Just saying those two words creates an overwhelming flood of negative images, a smorgesboard of sexual perversion - lonely losers forced to shell out at least $2.50 per minute to have an intimate encounter with an unenthusiastic and uninterested operator who could care less whether one wants to be gently stroked or whipped 'till you bleed.
Porn industry dips deep into American culture: Public makes sex stars into celebrities
While it raged across the nation in the 1970s, the women's liberation movement hadn't yet caught on in the world of adult films. The era's quintessential porn flick, "Debbie Does Dallas," features a wide-eyed, blonde, ambitious young coed who has a marvelous solution for the cash flow problems of her cheerleading squad.
Shops offer kinky sexual wares
For a town as liberal and packed full of young people as Ann Arbor, sex is surprisingly absent from the campus marketplace. Sure there's the racy "art" books in Border's, the girlie mags near the counter at the In and Out (ha!) party store, but generally speaking, sex doesn't sell on campus.
XXX on the WWW: Porn takes the Internet by storm
With increased public use of the information superhighway, pornography has moved beyond the realm of raunchy magazines, taken a sharp turn through the land of lewd VCR tapes and has arrived in the high-tech universe of the World Wide Web, interactive computing and CD-ROMs.
Stripping: her bare truth
In a world filled with too much "T & A," there is very little room for schlong. And so goes the moral of my night on the town with my co-editor, Brian Gnatt. Together, we ventured into Ypsilanti's own pride and joy, Deja Vu, and Windsor's Danny's, exploring the dirty, kinky, lap-dancing, g-string depths of the male and female strip-club world.
Stripping: his bare truth
OK guys, let's get one thing straight right off the bat - before I even explain how I know this little tidbit of info. If a woman ever tells you men are wild, sexist pigs who look at women as nothing more than pieces of meat, and that women are calm, cool, collected and look at what's on the inside of a man, not the outside, then you tell them that they are full of crap.
Aphrodesiacs prove little more than hocus pocus
According to folklore, there are some things that work to improve your relationship with those whom you lust after.
The word "aphrodisiac" comes from the name of Aphrodite - the Greek goddess of love and desire. As the myth goes, promiscuous Aphrodite was mainly considered under two forms: As Aphrodite Urania, she was revered as the goddess of pure, wedded love. But as Aphrodite Pandemos, she was the goddess of free love, which could be purchased.
Art or Obscenity?
In an issue of Weekend, etc., devoted exclusively to all things deliberately pornographic and sexual, it seems appropriate to address things that are often mislabeled as obscene.
By now, it's a familiar drill. Each year, artists, writers and others involved in the creative trades spend money and time pleading with Congress. Their plea? Please don't cut the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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