Sex & Journalism

 Silvio Berlusconi, for "Douchebag Of The Summer".  This puts him in good standings for the "Douchebag Of The Year" award. 

I have so many opinions on this mans behavior, none of them favorable.  I, for reasons I'm sure are obvious by now, am not condemning men who have mistresses, see escorts or enjoy sex.  I am, however, condemning sloppy, slimy, idiots who publicly humiliate their families, ruin their careers with their childish indiscretions, deny the fact that they've made a series of obvious tasteless, poor decisions and then sue those who out them for doing it.  I also deplore men in their 70's who sleep with teenage girls.  Instead of exhausting myself in detailed diatribe, I will simply post some links that will help you understand for yourself what is so reprehensible about this man, in case you haven't already caught the word.

Give them too much, and they think they can get away with anything... Arrogant cows just burn me. 

If you are hoping to make huge life mistakes, would like to lose your family, friends, reputation, career, respect and billions of dollars, if you would like to be infamous for squalid stupidity, or if you would like to greatly increase your chances of developing chlamydia and/or iligetimate children from barely legal Eastern European hookers, your lessons begin here:

Sleazy Silvio in the Chicago Tribune

Sleazy Silvio in Forbes

Sleazy Silvio in Reuters

Sleazy Silvio in MSNBC

Sleazy Silvio in Huffington Post

Sleazy Silvio in Times Online

Sleazy Silvio in Fox News

Sleazy Silvio in NY Times

It is most distressing that this leaves four more months in 2009 for someone to outdo Mr. Burlusconi in his running for the yearly title holder of this douchy award.

Raquel

  Passionate entrepreneurs Rachel Braun Scherl and Mary Jaensch have raised millions in an attempt to revive women’s sex lives through a new marketing campaign for the once failed ointment Zestra.  Giving up their consulting jobs to form the entity Semprae, Scherl and Jaensch have devoted themselves to helping women procure pleasure.  To boost sexual satisfaction is a worthy idea, but is a simple, over the counter lotion for women a realistic saving grace?  And is it the multibillion-dollar industry these two predict it to be?

It seems a sad state of affairs when women are so dissatisfied with their romantic partners that they must turn in desperation to seek something that will assist them in actually enjoying physical encounters.  I can not help but question if it is the need for some synthetic substance to stimulate their chemically depraved sex drives, or just the need for a little extra time and attention.  While I understand that things like giving birth, some medications, certain surgical procedures and occasionally contraception can change a woman’s hormonal balance and affect her sex drive, I also know that these things do not diminish the drive entirely.  If I find myself lacking in lust, it typically doesn’t have to do with a problem that could be improved through medication.  Rather, it’s because my partner has not chosen a good method of catching my attention.  It’s no secret that if the wind blows a certain direction, a man is ready for sex.  It’s also no secret that women require a little more than a slight breeze from the west to be turned on.  So, why we are made to feel as though something is wrong with us when we aren’t ready to romp immediately upon a clumsy groping of our breast or a simple statement made by a selfish and impatient partner who repulsively inquires, “Baby I’m horny, why don’t you blow me?”  Do we really need to seek medication for this?  Or do we perhaps just need better lovers who actually pay attention to our desires and take their time to seduce us?  In many cases, isn’t it education, not medication, that we need to increase our sexual satisfaction?  A little effort on a man's behalf could go a long way.  It’s that, not drugs, that I am convinced is missing from the lives of so many women.

"We think the market for women trying to enhance their sex life should be a multibillion-dollar business."

Scherl states this in her interview, but why does she think this?  Is this based off realistic figures or is this a wanna - be billionaires pipe dream?  I tend to think the later.  Gigantic male egos have made pills like Viagra very successful.  The woman’s ego is not the same.  We do not need or want to be ready to go 8 hours a day. Nor do women typically make as much disposable income to spend on things like sex pills or love lotions.  To be clear and fair, I’d like to state I know very little about business.  I’m not an analyst, a marketer, advertiser, or economist.  I do not come from a background that teaches me about how to accurately predict the success and financial future of a business or product.  My background is simple.  I’m an observant woman whose made sexuality and the understanding of relationships and lust her life and livelihood for the past 10 years. Based off that alone, I am inclined to believe that women would seek after some chocolate and a bottle of KY before dropping billions on a topical cream that probably can not do for them what a tender and intuitive lover could.

Of course, there will be women like 59 year old Margie Levins, who says that by taking the Zestra, she felt as if she were in her 20’s again. But I imagine that many women would find the same sense of sexual inspiration if they just indulged themselves in a new pair of high heels; a far less humiliating and humbling purchase than that of anything that has to do with sexual enhancement.  Even if Zestra was the answer for this open minded, experimental women who was desperate for sexual stimulation after menopause, and a hysterectomy (and dare I presume incredibly boring sex life with the same probably uninteresting partner that she’s most likely had for decades) I hardly think this will have the same effect or intrigue for the majority of women, at least, not a multibillion dollar booming sort of intrigue.

Regardless, I wish everyone involved in the resurrection of Zestra the best. It’s been written time and time again that the wealthy have better sex lives (Rich Sex Lives). This is another outlandish theory that I could fervently debate, but, my experienced opinion aside, if it’s true, than the predicted financial success of Semprae will be just what creators and investors in Zestra need to improve their own sex lives.

Passion Play

Raquel~

Billionaires, babes, booze and books.  It’s not exactly a shocking combination, so why would Guy Laliberte be so sue happy now that a book has provided the public with information about his crazy, drug induced, star studded and hooker packed parties?  He threw these parties again and again.  Inviting "busloads of hookers" and packing his place with naughty celebrities and playful public figures, he wasn’t exactly discreet ... ever. There were no secrets about who was there and what the guests were doing.  Why is he pretending to be so surprised that someone put the information in print?  Guy, the partying, people pleasing Canadian is a once homeless, fire-breathing, street performer turned billionaire owner of the Cirque du Soleil.  Do you hear this description and think of a straight-laced man?  Neither do I.  I’m not sure why he thinks he ever had a clean and sparkly reputation or why he’s fighting to maintain this alleged reputation.

Dear Mr. Laliberte, you’re a Canadian vagabond circus performer turned bilionaire Forbes lister. While stranger things have happened, that's pretty unusual. You don't head a state,  a country, a religious movement or a monarchy.  You have stated before that you "do not believe in marriage",  so there is no pressure for you to be a "good family man".  You’re supposed to be crazy!  This “outing” of information that you never went to any previous length to protect is not going to suddenly ruin anything for you.  It’s only going to make you richer.  Allow yourself the liberty to be Guy Laliberte and embrace the lifestyle and reputation that comes with it.  And pleeease, next time you have one of these parties, invite me!  I have some lovely tricks of my own that I’m willing to share.

Sex, Drugs and Cirque du Soleil

Sex, Drugs and Acrobats

It's twisted like a prepubescent Chinese contortionist and I love it.

Raquel