Archive for January 21, 2010

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: King service has Jesus as its star

Ms. Dixon urged members of Lo-Salem, whose church is near an outdoor basketball facility, to go out and get to know the young people who shoot hoops during the warm months. They could take them bottled water, she said. They should stay and talk to the young people, she said. If church members are filled with Jesus Christ, she said, that essence ”will come out of your pores” to the young people, Ms. Dixon said.
”Dont expect sinners to knock down your [church] doors,” she said. ”Jesus said, Go and make disciples.
”Are we willing to step out of our pulpits and out of our pews and make a real and practical difference in the lives of the gang bangers across the street, the alcoholic next door, and the prostitute we drive by, in order to draw them to Christ, teach them how to use their skills to make legal money and show them how to be real fathers and real mothers to their children?”

See the full article from “Toledo Journal”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Is Tiger’s Sex Addiction Real?

The story I wrote looked at how the addiction nearly ruined the lives of a Chasidic father of 12 who was raped as a child in yeshiva, a Reform husband and father who was raised by alcoholics, and another rabbi who became a leader in 12-step programs after facing his own addiction to internet porn. It’s been seven years since I wrote the story, but I still receive feedback on it.
One Friday night 33 years ago, when Yisroel Richtberg was 12 years old, an older boy sneaked into his dorm room at his Chasidic yeshiva in Israel, pulled off Richtberg’s pajama pants and raped him. The same thing happened the next Shabbat.
The boy told Richtberg (not his real name) that if he ever told anyone, the two would be blacklisted at all the yeshivas, and the attacker said he would kill himself.
Richtberg didn’t tell.
Instead, he sank into a cycle of depression, shame and isolation, one that would lead to a 20-year addiction to prostitutes, pornography and drugs, fronted by a double-life as an upstanding Chasidic rabbi, businessman and father of 12.

See the full article from “The Jewish Journal of greater L.A (blog)”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Biggest Edwards Shocker: Enquirer Was Right All Along

If there’s a real story here, it’s that the distinction between the mainstream news (such august papers as The New York Times and The Washington Post, and the major television networks’ news divisions) and less traditional outlets (Web sites like the Drudge Report and Gawker and tabloids like the Enquirer) is an increasingly false one. It’s not that papers like The New York Times are always hesitant to break salacious news on their own. After all, the Times broke the story about then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution habit. Rather, it’s that the MSM professes to be squeamish about Enquirer-style “checkbook” journalism, in which sources are paid to divulge information. This can provide sources an incentive to make up information, as the Enquirer found out in its coverage of the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case, when sources “concocted a story that members of the Smart family were involved in a ‘gay-sex ring,’” Politics Daily columnist Emily Miller recently pointed out.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Christians plan to both enjoy the Olympics and protest it

The two out of five residents of Metro Vancouver who identify with the Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox denominations are being urged to greet the Olympic onslaught with “radical hospitality,” which includes reaching out to the disadvantaged.
Some Christian denominations will be throwing open their doors to February’s flood of Olympic visitors with free coffee, Olympic pins, Internet access and a quiet place to meditate. Many church members are also offering travellers free places to stay.
Some of those same denominations will be holding demonstrations and workshops to raise the profile of the city’s homeless during the multi-billion dollar Olympics, as well as draw attention to sex-trade workers whom they are calling victims of “human trafficking.”
If some Christian activists have their way, the most popular T-shirt to emerge out of the Olympic Games, which they argue typically places prostitutes in high demand, will be the one reading, “Buying sex is not a sport.”

See the full article from “Kelowna.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Conan O’Brien, NBC reach deal

On Jan. 10, NBC announced it wanted Leno back in the 11:35 p.m. slot.
The announcement sparked a televised nightly war of words, with rival late-night hosts mocking the NBC fiasco and O’Brien saying he didn’t want to be pushed back to just after midnight. He asked to be released from his contract, with 2½ years to go.
During his short tenure as host of The Tonight Show, O’Brien had not fared well in the ratings against his CBS rival, David Letterman.
When Leno first started out in 1992, he also faced lower ratings against Letterman, whom he had beaten for the Tonight gig.
This continued until 1995, when Leno’s viewership soared after he landed an interview with actor Hugh Grant following his arrest for the actor’s encounter with a prostitute.

See the full article from “CBC.ca”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Sexual healing for caged Tiger

Instead, Woods has a maid tidy up his quarters, and typically undergoes one-on-one “behavior modification” counseling sessions.
And Tiger was allowed to do about $100,000 worth of renovations to a cottage before moving in, angering patients, who got even madder when their regular trips to the YMCA for exercise were canceled so that reporters couldn’t ask them questions about Woods.
“Other patients share a cabin, but Tiger has his own. His special privileges are causing a lot of resentment,” a source told the Enquirer.
But that doesn’t mean Tiger is thrilled to be taming himself in the six-week rehab, which he began in late December.
Nordegren wanted Woods caged after a series of shocking reports linking him to more than a dozen women, including prostitutes, porn stars, party girls and pancake-restaurant hostesses.

See the full article from “New York Post”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Short Takes: 24 Spring Memoirs

Lauren, Jillian. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Plume: Penguin Group (USA). Apr. 2010. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-452-29631-2. pap. $15. MEMOIR
This book’s press release dubs it “more than a sexy read set in an exotic locale,” as if Lauren had merely gone on a sun-drenched beach vacation and ended up finding a lover and finally, herself. Not even close. What readers really get is a deeply disturbing story of a good Jewish girl turned stripper/hooker, who, at 18, willingly heads to Brunei to join the harem of the Sultan’s younger brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah. It’s The Bachelor: Brunei, with an extra helping of manipulation. It’s hard to know what to make of all this, especially as Lauren is also a gifted writer and oddly sympathetic character. Compelling in a way you can’t help but feel squeamish about enjoying. [Lauren is married to Scott Shriner, the bass player of Weezer.—Ed.]—T.B.

See the full article from “Library Journal”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: The Spirit of Broadway offers a bawdy romp in ‘The Great American Trailer Park …

Take the song “Flushed” and add a cameo Elvis and a glue sniffing boyfriend who is chasing his runaway stripper girlfriend. Then throw in an agoraphopic woman cloistered fearfully inside her trailer and a trio of colorful women who act as the show’s chorus, and mayhem — and laughs — ensue.
The musical rips off hits such as Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” with temerity. It also pokes fun at stereotpyes — yet “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” is proving so popular at the Spirit of Broadway Theater it might stretch into a longer run. 
The cast
It’s no wonder this musical has audiences flocking to flamingo land. There are some great comedic characters given the run of the roost.

Pippi, the stripper, is portrayed by Meagan MacLeod with a roar reminiscent of Janis Joplin — a big voice ripping forth from a petite personage.  

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: What Do LA Residents and Conan Have In Common?

On Friday, Northwestern University is holding a “Conan O’Brien Day” where a group of students will gather on campus and do the string dance. Then the football team will beat the crap out of them.
I’ve been having a hard time explaining this whole situation to my kids – because they’re still very young. So I had a doll made of myself – and now I can show my kids EXACTLY where NBC touched daddy.
Believe it or not, there are stories in the news. There was a big Senate race in Massachusetts yesterday, and the winner, Scott Brown, made a victory speech where he mentioned that his two daughters were “available.” At least this explains his campaign slogan: “Scott Brown: Creepy for Massachusetts – Creepy for America.”
Earlier this week in California, a goat somehow got into a strip club and caused $2,000 worth of damage. Then it got up on stage – and earned all that money back.

See the full article from “TheWrap”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: ‘Shocking True Story’ by Henry E. Scott

Only Hollywood was shocked by the breakdown of the gentlemen’s agreement that had preserved a facade most Americans knew to be a crock. The movie industry was important enough to California that the state attorney general got the grand jury indictment that eventually drove Confidential out of business.
Still, the magazine’s imitators kept publishing, and its legacy is alive in today’s supermarket scandal sheets and tabloid TV shows. Scott takes note of this, but again does not consider the wider issues, such as the way Confidential’s coarse, knowing tone and obsession with behind-the-scenes dirt has infiltrated even the coverage of national elections.
Instead, he confines himself to an entertaining, if somewhat skimpy history of the magazine’s five-year heyday. It’s hard not to be amused by the excerpts that precede each chapter, rife with such ur-1950s characterizations as “double-standard dollies” (lesbians) and “cuddle-for-cash cuties” (prostitutes).

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”

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