Entries Tagged as 'California'

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Appeals judge: Stripping may be ‘offensive,’ but it’s not ‘depraved’

“Erotic, completely nude dancing is offensive to many people. It is not, however, so ‘base, vile, and depraved’ that it shocks the conscience.”
- Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt writing on California’s indecent exposure law and whether it punishes conduct that meets the federal standard for moral turpitude.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Amazon proves it – Virginia really is for lovers

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Amazon.com has compiled a list of the Top 20 romantic cities in America. They figured this out by tabulating sales data of romance novels; sex and relationship books; romantic comedy DVDs; Barry White CDs; and sexual wellness products for the month of January, on a per capita basis.
The Top 20:
1. [...]

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Rhinos get off with S&M

For Valentine’s Day, zoos like to get their kink on.
In San Francisco, former zookeeper Jane Tollini will host Woo At The Zoo, an R-rated, champagne sex tour where she “talks filthy” about how various beasts mate. 
Sure it may be nice for a man to be told he’s hung like a horse but you better not try [...]

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

New library preserves history, oppression of prostitution

America is a fascinating country. So open, yet so repressed. 
So willing to freak out over an exposed nipple and yet also the home to a new research center paying tribute to . . .
Sex workers.
It’s in San Francisco, of course.
This Sunday (Jan. 31), SF’s Center for Sex & Culture (CSC) presents an opening night reception for [...]

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

In California, latest banned book is the dictionary

The Menifee Union School District has temporarily decided that the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary ban be returned to fourth and fifth grade classrooms. The dictionary was yanked when a curious student came across a definition for oral sex (“oral stimulation of the genitals”).
Parents, of course, were outraged that such a tawdry book as the dictionary could [...]

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Teacher networking with teen girls gets Tagged by police

Do pervy teachers become teachers so they can be around kids? Or does being around kids all day set off some twisted impulse?
In San Jose, the Mercury-News reports, Gilroy High School math teacher and tutor Alberto Gomez Vicuna Jr., was arrested yesterday in the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl they say he met on the Internet.
She [...]

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Girls’ coach found to have girls’ porn on computer

Solid citizen or perv? Sometimes it’s so hard to tell.
James Spencer Hagelston, 41, was arrested at his Tracy, California home this week.

The Tracy Press reports police believe Hagelston was packing his bags and trying to escape at the time.
Found on Hagelston’s computer were kiddie porn movies depicting young girls having sex with adult men.
As his [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

L.A. doctor may face life in prison for molesting female patients

Kevin Antario Brown, 37, the son of Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown, has been ordered to stand trial in Los Angeles on 33 counts of molesting female patients at medical clinics where he practiced.
The decision came after a week of testimony from 12 female patients, including an undercover vice officer (who got felt up by Brown for [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

School counselor demands girl, 12, take pregnancy test. Test negative. Lawsuit positive.

There’s a lot of weird, stuff going on in schools these days, but . . .
Steve Davis, a counselor at Seven Hills Middle School in Nevada City, Calif., pulled a 12-year-old girl out of class and forced her to . . .  take a pregnancy test.
Both he and the school district are now being sued.
KCRA3 [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Man robs sex store to enhance manhood; fellow inmates will see if it worked

Newspaper crime blogs are great because they give an outlet to cover important stories that may not otherwise make the newspaper.
The Sacramento Bee’s crime blog reports that David William Hadeen, 36, put on a cape and allegedly robbed the adult store L’amour Shoppe with a wooden sword.
Well, that’s the way he likes to think of it.
Upon entering [...]