megan, no kidding. It just cracked me up.

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I'd assumed that the reason homely men can succeed in straight porn is because male consumers are likely to have a hangup about watching pretty

I think it's more what Hec said, that ugly men got work because nobody was looking at them, anyway. I swear that somewhere I've read that the change happened as gay porn become big business. So I think Peter North was just part of a general trend; gay porn led to more attractive men in the business. And around the same time the home video market exploded, so appealing to female consumers became more of a priority.

Kinkiness requires some pathology.

I probably wouldn't use the word pathology because of the connotations -- or, actually, I'd say that non-kinky sex is just as rooted in pathology. The difference is that those pathologies are more common. But I agree with the gist.

I think there could be a person without pathology who just likes being tied up during sex.

Do think there could be a person who just likes being tied up, period, without it being in any way sexual? I mean, if you don't normally enjoy being restrained, but you do enjoy it in a sexual context... again, pathology is too strong a word, but that by itself suggests that it's not just "I like A, and I like B, so A+B is even better!"

I mean, they do tend to have shaved, toned chests and pretty faces, but, you can only tell in the three or four glimpses you get.

I think you're watching the wrong porn.

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Survivor:

I loved the opening, with people scrambling to get supplies off the boat. Nice and dramatic and team-building and a great start.

Plus, I continue to Love me some Jeff Probst.

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I missed the first five minutes, Robin, so I missed the splitting into tribes. Did they know before then that they were going to be divided by ethnic groups?

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Southern-style baked chicken ... spinach with a little ham hock, baked sweet potato fries, yummy cornbread, salad and fruit. And for dessert, we had red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

Ummm...that sounds like a meal I've had at my mom's and grandmama's house. I served red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting at a party just a few weeks ago.

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Trust me, I understand political expediency, but treating same-sex unions (whether they're marriages or not) as an afterthought while he vigorously defends Jane Doe and John Smith's right to essentially have the same rights as married couples just smacks of fence-straddling and avoiding the primary issue the amendment raises.

Do you thnk it's that, or is this just a way to try to highlight the harm the law would do while taking (for the moment) the issue of sexuality out of it? Though frankly, I'm guessing that the people who are all worked up about Teh Gays and Their Crusade Against Good Chiristian Folk don't really give a damn what happens to cohabitators either.

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Survivor:

The opening was cool, but I wish we had gotten a better idea of who got what. Were some teams much more successful than others? I couldn't tell.

Oh, and losing the chickens? Stupid.

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Is there such a thing as a shoe kink which does not rise to the level of fetish?

I think most kinks don't rise to the level of fetish. The term fetish, I feel, is thrown around a lot. There may be some people who like sex better with spinach involved, but much fewer who need spinach to achieve orgasm.

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I think you're watching the wrong porn.

Any recommendations?

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Southern-style baked chicken ... spinach with a little ham hock, baked sweet potato fries, yummy cornbread, salad and fruit. And for dessert, we had red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

I thought the Big Dog wasn't supposed to be eathing that kind of stuff anymore--and I thought that before I read the confirmation of Bill.

God, I miss Bill. Nobody has a homespun, affectionate nickname for Dubya.

Hell, I miss Dubya's Dad, and that's a sad, sad thing.

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