Kobe Bryant prelim hearing: Columnist Clarence Page was right just after the case broke. Not only does "Forbidden fruit make many jams", but Bryants lawyers will use scorched earth tactics against the womans testimony. They have already said her name which is just the start of a campaign to portray her as a wanton harlot who gave contrary testimony to a stumbling detective. Unlike Mike Tyson who served several years for rape, Bryant will probably walk. Sure, like many couples, my girlfriend likes to tease me after showering as she struts around naked in stilettos for some foreplay before she bends over a chair as I caress and massage her buns before I probe and take her canine style, just like in our favorite pornos. All this after she sunbathes nude and I am a new "pool man", who acts shocked upon seeing her spread out on a lounge chair. A great sexual fantasy, all consensual.
--MBD
10/17 |
Stealth nudity: Seeing exhibitionists on the screens of TV sets or PC screens has come to America on Ebay. Already a hot young couple have been seen, naked, the guy sporting a semi hard on, his arm around his babe. My girlfriend has a neighbor across the apartment court who likes to flash her, but since he is a young bodybuilder with a great tanned bod, she enjoys it. He's hard sometimes, but she thinks I am thicker and longer, thank God. We're nudists, going to nude beachs and resorts, so flashers are no big deal.
--DLG
10/17 |
Carrie Hill -
You are my favorite. It doesn't matter how shitty my week of sitting in this stupid little cubicle, surrounded by conservative male engineers, word processing my ass off has been. All i have to do is read your weekend review and i am served happiness on a platter. Your review item a couple of weeks ago called "Mother's Day Canceled in Mesa, AZ" actually got printed out and pasted in my journal. I laughed so hard i thought i was going to cry (thus I felt the need to save it for posterity). And this week, your Kimmy and her ice cream analogy (with the corresponding analagous items in parentheses! yes!) and your smack down to Ms. Marlow (poor, unhappy, pathetically mistaken woman) make me so happy. It's a pleasure knowing that there's a wiseass, sex-positive, intelligent as all get out lady ripping it up on nerve every week. Thank you!
--EJR
10/17 |
i think this lady might have a point (in reference to the oral sex-empowerment issue). one of my biggest problems as a mostly het bi-guy is the oral sex deal. i am waaay to nervous to go down on a girl who has preconceived notions, that the only way she'll get her joy is orally, when i feel that any such awkward positioning causes sexual disparity/dominance. from my experience, oral sex has way too much to do with organ worship and i hate not looking into someone's eyes when i'm making love to them.
--se
10/17 |
Wilner entirely disregards Marlow’s thesis: the androgynous society is sexually boring. She arrogantly dismisses Marlow with a few prime quotations (she doesn’t even bother to link to the article) and then makes speculative jabs at Marlow’s sex life.
And I hate to pendantically draw attention to specific details for fear that my broader message is weakened, but the quote “Women who want a man to do what only a man can do in bed have to stick to over-40s or men from the Third World” was not “Marlowe’s proposed solution” as Wilner is distorts it to be, but rather a clear, legitimate use of rhetorical exaggeration.
To have somebody misrepresent another’s work as a strawman argument and then respond with personal derision and sarcasm is insulting – not to Marlow who is a professional and will shrug off this sort of empty criticism with ease – but to Nerve readers. It’s neither funny nor cute. (It’s also the type of adolescent diversion I would expect from a girl whose primary strategy to rid herself of inadequate pursuers is deceit).
It baffles me why Nerve has handed so much editorial freedom to Carrie Hill Wilner, one of Nerve’s least talented contributors. The prevalence of former-intern Wilner is a specific indicator of Nerve’s decline. I find her to have little content beyond wax-philosophy and sassitude. If that meets the needs of Nerve’s target audience, then I will not be a reader for much longer.
--ndm
10/15 |
Soccer: round balls. Rugby: oval balls. Ruck: a play in rugby. NB rhymes with fuck. Get the basics right and your journalism will improve.
--JW
10/14 |
I always enjoy the "Review". I also appreciate you taking on Ann Marlow's ridiculous piece in Salon. I didn't know that oral sex and fucking were antithetical, I have always naively assumed I could enjoy them both.
--AC
10/14 |
The Ann Marlow comments you've made are great, WR writers. Keep up the roasting of anyone silly enough to print its like. Certainly, somewhere, there are probably men and women who act as she described, but with some luck, maybe people in general aren't as bad off as all that. Like the most hilarious tags a friend'd ever put on their car say "ETDABOX"
--dls
10/12 |
Having spent the past three years in that most dreadful of places, northern california, I realise that this sort of thing can be difficult for you americans, but I really expected a little more from nerve.com. I'm not sure what event the english soccer fans are arriving en masse in australia for, but it probably isn't the RUGBY world cup ...
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'Male birth control developed; Australian brothels gird for influx of English soccer fans.'
'The key to running a successful business: know your market. Brothels in Melbourne, Australia, are recruiting extra BDSM specialists to satisfy the sexual “needs” of British tourists attending this weekend's Rugby World Cup.'
--TVK
10/12 |
I thought Ann Marlow was pretty damn dead-on about the current climate of sexual politics: no one is really willing to have sex anymore. The number of my (married!) friends that are almost totally celibate boggles the mind. In fact, the only thing she has got wrong is the idea that men over forty are "willing to do what only men can do to women in bed". In my experience, they won't do anything, either.
--lm
10/11 |
That Salon article was one of the disinformational things I've ever read, for all the reasons Carrie states. I have a feeling that "Ann Marlowe" wrote it solely for the publicity it was bound to generate (gee, she has a new book coming out!). People who write inflamatory statements like hers are trolling for outraged reaction from the audience (and in fact have been dubbed trolls in Internet parlance).
--amv
10/11 |
jesuscrist! AIDS caused by condoms and real women are are bored by cunnilingus!? thanks for frightening roundup this week, carrie. will you move over a bit, please? id like to join you in the headbanging.
--bk1
10/11 |
Thank you Ms. Wilner. You will forever hold a special warm place in my heart for your angry, right thinking.
--jih
10/11 |
re: the anti-cunninglingus lady
she was right on one thing. great sex is about putting yourself in the power of another person. there are nights i don't know which is better. being the one in power, or the slave. they can both be intoxicating, depending on your mood.
--tak
10/10 |
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