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Okay, here are two phrases I never wanted to put in the same sentence: Frankie “The Hair” Luntz and sex. Now that I’ve controlled the reflexive shudder and dry heaves that caused, I’m able to continue. It appears that Playboy Magazine commissioned a study from FOXNews’ favorite wordsmith. And to Luntz’s surprise, it turns out that although we may snipe at each other from across a vast ideological divide, between the sheets, we’re just not that dissimilar (okay, dry heaves returning…sorry). The thing that I didn’t understand is that Luntz claimed that Democrats were more sexually adventurous, but after hearing about Craig, Vitter, Foley, Haggard and other Republican sex scandals, I’m struggling to figure out how Democrats could be. Bathrooms, e-sex, hookers & diapers, hookers and massages. I mean, where do you go from there? (Wait, nevermind, don’t answer that, my stomach just settled)
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1rst, no heaving.
What “the hair” meant was that his masterbation is more adventurous when he thinks of Democrats.
You know this dude is a virgin.
Liberals may appear in a survey to be more sexually adventurous than conservatives, but all that means is that liberals are able to admit to being more sexually adventurous. Conservatives are simply too frightened to admit their sexual behaviors to themselves, much less anyone else.
Do you think Senator Craig admits to himself that he’s gay? Would he admit to ANY survey that he likes getting it on with other men? Heck the only reason we know that Tweety is a self-closeted gay man is because his job involves so much talking that he sometimes admits his man-crushes on the air. I’m sure if he filled out a survey it would read “Straight!!!”
This would all be amusing except that many people are so frightened of their own sexuality that they’re willing to do harm to others.
frank probably has more disgusting sexual hang-ups than most perverts.
this sanctimonious asshole gives lesson in perversions, look at all
the scandals in the reichwing
christianhypocritesOn a completely serious note:
I think its entirely possible that “adventurous” here may not just refer to ‘kink’.
I suspect, if I’m understanding properly, what it amounts to is that partners who are more liberal politically are also probably more likely to be willing to have an open dialogue about sex and how to please each other.
Its not so much a question of “what”; but about a willigness to discuss and try the “what” for a partner; as opposed to the obvious sexual repression most Republicans obviously have.
I mean for instance - Vitter needing prostitutes. Now I don’t know about you all; but if you’ve got a kink, I’d figure its best to discuss it with the significant other, ya know? Maybe they won’t want to try it; but its part of an honest relationship.
That’s how I interpret it at least. It certainly ‘feels’ right (pardon the pun); as most liberals I know are MUCH more willing to discuss bedroom activity without feeling weird about it.
I think all of the male commentators on Faux News are repressed homosexuals. It sure explains their obsession of the subject. Between the gay bashing and O’Lilely’s contstant use of clips of women degading themselves speaks volumes.
We know that Hannity would like to do it with Bush or Cheney. He bows down and kisses their ass whenever he gets a chance.
We really have much more to worry about.
As Stalin said, It’s not the votes that are counted, it’s who counts the votes. We have more to worry about than who is the nominee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEQ7qHvgM
This is why I “read” Hustler. Flynt knows the score. He nails politicians, doesn’t give them commissions.
You forgot to mention The Gannon/Guckert dude.
Albatross @ 3:
Your right, it seems there are only 1 Gay republican (the rest are still in the closet) While there are quite a few Gay Dems (balls enough to admit who they really are).
Frankly I would rather feel better having gays in Government than Republican religious fanatics.
P.D. @ 6:
god, i hope not. these guys are just repressed morons. billo has and does (more likely than not) indulge in gay sex and some form of abnormal ’straight’ sex, if anything he
does can be classified as normal. for billo gay sex is taking the clothes pins off
his nipples and attaching them to his scrotum.
Sex is a reminder of our actual condition . . . mortal beings. It seems many of my fellow citizens are so disturbed by this reality that they spend inordinate amounts of energy trying to not feel the natural fear that is associated with contemplating one’s mortality.
My bible:
The Denial of Death
New York Times Book Review
…a brave work of electrifying intelligence and passion, optimistic and revolutionary, destined to endure…
dadams @ 4:
I am certain that the rug piece on Mr. kLutz head doubles as both, hairloss concealed and sexual device.
Funny how the modern day equivalent of Goebbels is seen not as a charlatan sans scruples, but a visionary communicator. May god how low has this country fallen. Half a century ago we used to eat nazis for lunch, now the American public tolerates these bad apprentices of fascisti at face value. I miss the old days, when Lutz et al would have had the shit beaten out of them for uttering 1/100 of the bile they have spewed for the past few decades… I miss my grand dad, liberal, and as American as they come, he and his buddies were union folk to the core… without fear of opening a can of whoop ass when necessary, while being able to put an honest day of work rain or shine.
Dadam I tried to visualize your comment and almost gagged!
What is up with this site today? It’s slower than the average Republican.
P.D. @ 14:
Ditto
Hamsters and farm animals?????
Hamsters and farm animals and loofas, Oh MY.
Do you want to have a great and riveting read? I highly recommend that you all read Susie Bright’s book: The Sexual State of the Union
The Sexual State of the Union (Paperback)
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher:Touchstone (March 24, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684838508
ISBN-13: 978-0684838502
Amazon.com
Susie Bright is a sexual liberationist of the highest order. The Sexual State of the Union includes essays about dirty pictures and porn, lesbian marriage and lesbian murder, lesbian men and switching genders, vibrators, and the longevity of feminism. The writing is crisp, intelligent, and provocative; there is sure to be something that will make you cheer as well as something that will deeply offend you. Much of Bright’s writing is personal, based on conversations and relationships with queer friends of different genders and sexualities. One of her most impressive strengths is her ability to forthrightly ask obvious questions–Why did you want to change your gender? Why do you want to be hurt?–without presupposing either judgement or an answer. Bright’s mind is open and fertile, curious, and eager.
From Library Journal
Famous lesbian and “sexpert” Bright, editor of On Our Backs magazine and books likeBest American Erotica(LJ 9/15/93), has put together a set of disparate essays on disparate topics, bouncing from censorship to cybersex to motherhood to S&M and back again. This would be fine except that the essays are also uneven in tone; some are thoughtful reminiscences about her experiences, both sexual and not; some are insightful analyses showing that people of both sexes and all ages need sex education; and one is just a list of questions asked by college students. Despite the irregularity of her writing, Bright’s unvarnished truthfulness shines through. She obviously wants readers to understand where she’s coming from and what she has experienced. Recommended for most public libraries because of Bright’s popularity and candor, this also deserves a space in academic women’s studies collections.–Pamela A. Matthews, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore
JJohnson sez….
Agreed..Problem is that could be a relationship end-er as well. Is why honesty often under best intentions, can be fatal. Your partner would have to be open minded first, and that takes communication as well.
And can we imagine Huntley-Brinkley bringing this on the nightly news back in the day?
Fox News, the family values channel.
Then how would Luntz explain Senator Larry Craig’s Own ‘Stimulus Package’
The Republicans are a collection of the most repressed sexual deviants I’ve ever seen. To make it perfectly obvious and clear how awful these particular party members are check out the following Documentary made for the Discovery Channel and scheduled to air in 1994, yet subsequently never aired after the truth of the matter was uncovered. It’s all I needed to know to understand the depravity of these sick people…
The Franklin Cover-Up
Do you want to have a great and riveting read? I highly recommend that you all read Susie Bright’s book: The Sexual State of the Union.
The Sexual State of the Union (Paperback)
Paperback: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0684838508
Sexual State of the Union. - book review
The Advocate, March 4, 1997 by Guy Kettelhack
“Lust,” Susie Bright writes in her terrific opening sentence, “brings out the liar in everyone.” Well, everyone except Susie Bright. Sex educator, amateur pornographer, frequent speaker on college campuses across the country, and author of earlier iconoclastic sex-positive titles such as Susie Bright’s Sexwise, Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, and the Herotica series of erotic women’s fiction, Bright is a woman with a mission. Lust brings out the truth in her (or, to ape one of her stylistic tics, TRUTH; she frequently hammers home IMPORTANT WORDS with capitalization). Mounting the podium like Joan of Arc brandishing sex toys instead of a sword, she’s gonna give us the real deal about sex in her Sexual State of the Union–and launch a frontal assault on the sexual hypocrisy with which so many Americans continue to cover their burning lusts and fears….
Sex is damnably difficult to write about. You can’t get at it merely by describing sexual acts (mechanics are almost always banal or alienating to anyone not turned on by them); and political ranting about sexist and sexual inequities quickly numbs. But Bright (wonderfully apt name; her quippy prose burns like a Roman candle) does not shrink from the challenge. In a series of 24 short riffs of chapters, with such catchy heads as “My First Dirty Picture,” “Cooties.” “Spankful,” “The Vibrator Clerk Chronicles,” “Is There Good Sex After Vassar?…
And Other Student Sex Questions,” and “Totally Offensive,” she attempts to take on the whole shebang of sex in America today, puncturing balloons of sanctimony as she goes. In her chapter “I Love Being a Gender,” she defends–among other stands unpopular with the PC police–her love of femme/butch dyke sex. Talking about the sexual dichotomy of a drag queen, Bright declares her mantra: “You can not only have it both ways, you can have it ALL ways, which is many more than two and looks a lot like infinity.” Bright rejoices in the polymorphous perverse: She wants us to revel in every bit of who we are as sexual beings….
Growing up Catholic seems to have been terrific preparation for her; it gives her so much to rail against. In a grade-school religion claw, she listened as one female teacher sternly lectured a roomful of tittering girls: “As you grow older and become a woman, you are going to grow hair under your arms…and also in other places. Hair under the arms is a sign of woman’s original sin, and we do not let this shame be seen.” Little did the teacher know the defiant flames she was stoking in the tall, thin girl sitting in the third raw: The admonition made Bright want to lick an armpit, not shave it…
Bright questions erotophobia wherever she finds it, and she finds it nearly everywhere. In addition to excoriating the church, she batters away at the antiporn forces of both Right and Left, at AIDS as an excuse for homophobia, and at proscriptions against S/M and gay marriage and transsexualism….
Susie Bright tells us that sex is an unpredictable circus–a dizzying arena of potentiality that we’d all do well to explore. She is also the mother of a 5-year-old daughter and is currently involved with a male lover she calls “Jon.” Bright’s lesbianism turns out to be only one of many facets of her sexual, social self. This was the source of my primary (though minor) discomfort with the book: As truthful as she seems hell-bent on being about the rest of us, she does no more than scratch the surface of her own polymorphous perversity. What does bisexuality mean to her? For all her candor, her sexual identity remains elusive…..
Read the rest @:
http://findarticles.com/p/arti.....i_19392861
I would have thought that the percentage of republicans who would bang a president in the oval office would be closer to zero since the minimum age to become president is 35 years old, not something like 12 years old.
This is how people like Jeff Gannon/Guckert get press passes to the White House. Where do these people come from. Who the hell gave Jeff Gannon a press pass? Figure that one out for me. Why does no one care about that.
And where did that Anthrax come from? Another “mystery” that needs to be solved.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdamOzrfZI0
“…claimed that Democrats were more sexually adventurous, but after hearing about Craig, Vitter, Foley, Haggard and other Republican sex scandals, I’m struggling to figure out how Democrats could be.”
There is a difference between sexually adventurous and sexually criminal.
Don Davis @ 22:
Damn that’s funny!….I picture 25c vibrating tolet seats…lol
Truth in a video
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/253.html
August 27, 2007
Susie Bright’s Journal
http://susiebright.blogs.com/s.....one-1.html
Is There a Republican Senator Who’s NOT Having Bathroom Sex?
This has gone from novelty to nausea.
The names change, but the story’s the same.
This time it’s Senator Larry Craig of Idaho. In a Minneapolis Airport Bathroom Stall. With Colonel Mustard.
Fuck you, Larry.
Fuck you Bob, David, Tom, Harlan, Randall, Al, Duke, Jeff, Ted, Joseph, Mark, Edward, Jim, Matthew, and all the rest. I don’t have time to list all your names and details, but other people do.
From now on, as far as I’m concerned, every single Republican legislator is a Reeking Freak Closet Case until proven innocent.
These men wouldn’t know “safe, sane, and consensual” if you tied it to their weener with a red flag. I won’t call them “gay” or “kinky” because that would be an insult to the healthy spectrum of human sexuality. Instead, they’re the worst face of sexual repression, because they don’t care who they hurt, or how many lies they tell. Their whole life is a SHAM.
The GOP Narcissists aren’t the exception to the rule— they ARE the rule. They personify the very sexuality they campaign against. If they vote against gays, we know they’re queer. If they’re hopped up about “child porn,” we can guess their internet habits. If they hold up monogamous marriage as a Christian ideal, we know they’re adulterous, blasphemous fools….Here’s what they all have in common; They pretend it didn’t happen. They try to buy people off to shut them up. They cry that they’ve been victimized. And then they continue to persecute everyone else by:
>>>Voting YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.
>>>Voting NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes.
>>>Voting NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation.
>>>Voting YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage.
>>>Voting NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation.
They generously fund the coffers of the vice squads and the surveillance creeps— the very people who later catch them in the act. And who wants to repeat all the disgusting insults and conceits they proselytize in public?
I can’t take it anymore. I could spend seven days a week on this blog reporting what new dirt bag has shown his ass on the public square. But I’m fed up. Worse, I’m exhausted with the elected “liberals” and self-proclaimed “feminists” and Democrats who share offices with these pathological liars— and just bury their heads in the tearoom bowl.
There’s not one prominent legislator in this country who’s stood up against sex phobia, who’s led a campaign to take victimless sex laws off the books, or to protect citizens’ privacy. Not one. Are Hillary, Obama, or Edwards going to say one word about this hypocrisy? No….How many repulsive liars does it take before the mainstream media, the voters, and what’s left of political leadership say, “Mind Your Own Fucking Business?”
Apparently, Puritan America has infinite tolerance.
As long as they condemn their “inferiors,” elitists can do whatever their budget affords. Democracy is just not as thrilling as witch-hunting….The religious conservative voters, rather than doubt the wisdom of their biblical values, will continue to believe that they need to find one pure man to lead them. They’d rather believe in sin than sanity. Some of them even think this plague of gay GOP locusts is a “Democrat conspiracy.”…I predict record highs of apathy in 2008. The common man thinks this game’s a lousy racket, and he’s right. There’s no one to cheer, no one who brings integrity and sexual honesty to the table….The mainstream media will treat each scandal as another unfortunate lapse in judgment, an individual crushed by forces one can barely understand….Bite me….No, this is the instant snapshot of American democracy. This is what we look like; this is our Kodak Moment….
UPDATE: In a GOP love triangle gone bad, three Miami men have died in a suicide/double murder. Two of the men, “longtime roommates,” were MAJOR Republican political ops— one of them the former head of the Georgia Republican Party who delighted in demonizing gay men in campaigns all over the South.
Apparently they had a third “friend,” who flipped out, killed them both, and then shot himself…This is all over the gay political blogs tonight, and I missed the breaking headline because I was so busy writing about Senator Craig’s toiletries. What on Satan’s great earth am I missing as I’m writing THIS?
P.D. @ 18:
Lions and Tigers and Al Kida Oh MY!
Ron Paul
Anyone know anything about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY
Correction . . . Ron Paul is a congressman . . . I agree with you!
My father LOVES Ron Paul. He totally creeps me out. In his world the average American would be dust. I’ll think I’ll pass.
Funny, I always thought of Dick Morris as “The Hair”.
No, Dick Morris is “Hookers and Toes”.
I’d rather have sex with a piece of medium grade sandpaper than do it with a Republican.
BUT BUT BUT CLINTON GOT A BLOW JOB
and senator Craig just got a foot………………..
ha ha h ah a hah ha
Democrats are
more sexually adventurous.The stricken phrase would be best replaced with………..
(a) more honest about their sexuality to pollsters
(b) less ashamed of their sexual adventures
(c) less sexually repressed
(d) less inclined to use sexual mores as a campaign issue
(e) all of the above are equally explanatory of Luntz’s statement
P.D. @ 6:
If I had to guess, I would say that people who make careers of condemning other people’s sexual behavior had been raised in environments so repressive of their every sexual instinct that open condemnation becomes their only safe means of expressing their own sexuality.
In other words, the condemnation is itself participation in that which they condemn.
Or, in less complicated words, they get off on it.
Ask yourself:
Who’s more likely to have handcuffs, sheep, big shoes, and the ability to properly announce “yeeeeeeeeeeehaw” on cue? C’mon, you know exactly.