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The Japanese resort town of Atami has combined forces with the maker of the Love Plus dating sim Konami Digital Entertainment to milk yet more money from the otaku as the obsessed young men are called.

Imagine sharing a vacation with a girl who does not exist but is your virtual girlfriend.

But in the latest edition, game makers have gone a step further and teamed up with the very real city of Atami, an onsen or hot spring town 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of the Japanese capital.

They have selected 13 romantic locations which can be overlaid with images of Rinko or her teenage friends Manaka and Nene, who have all swapped their usual sailor-style school uniforms for casual summer wear.

Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends

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Do you know the difference between an American fundagelical and an Islamofascist? Me neither.

Fact is, I loathe jihadists for the exact same reasons I hate the modern conservative movement — because whether it’s their violent outlook, or their views on women and gays, or their hostility to knowledge and science, or their fear of pop culture, they are essentially cut from the same controlling, ideological cloth.

Markos Moulitsas explains why he wrote American Taliban: How Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right: How Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right

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The Department of Defense’s research into how prevalent homophobia is among American military personnel extends to military wives husbands and wives.

Sample from survey sent to the spouses of American military personnel:

Assume Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed and you live in on-base housing. If a gay or lesbian Service member lived in your neighborhood with their partner, would you stay on-base or would you try to move out?

Military surveys spouses on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

There’s a queer down the street! Flee! - ?

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Another example of Big Brotherism behavior from the world’s most popular and profitable search engine:

Australians go to the polls on Saturday and Google had already approved the advert in question. But on Thursday it abruptly stuck an “adults-only” tag on adverts from the Australian Sex Party, which campaigns against the country’s increasingly clumsy censorship and intrusive social policies.

Prudish Google slammed for Aussie censorship

Oh do protect us Mighty Google. Protect us from all the Viagra and porn spam in your listings.

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Dallas makes neo-soul singer Erykah Badu pay for upsetting the tender sensibilities of tourists. (Tourists? In Dallas?) She was performing a striptease for the video for Window Seat he song about the JFK assassination.

… Erykah Badu was forced to pay a $500 fine for stripping naked in public while filming a controversial music video in support of her latest album. The soul singer from the United States, who was officially charged with disorderly conduct after tourists in the area complained, will also serve six months probation.

Erykah Badu Slapped With Fine for Shooting Naked Video

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Extradyadic Sex = Cheating

Social researchers claim that men who make less money than the women they are involved with are more likely to be unfaithful.

That old devil masculinity is at it again. With the men using infidelity to bolster their weak little egos.

… Men who earn significantly less than their female partners, or who earn nothing, are far more likely to cheat than those in relationships where incomes are more or less equal, the study found.

Guys more likely to cheat on high-earning women

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MSNBC has a report on 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a Hong Kong pornographic movie that aims to be the first in three dimensions.

“Somehow when you’re doing a 3-D movie you always want to make an impressive image because the viewers … are going to buy tickets with double or even triple the ticket price to get into a world they’ve never seen before,” said the U.K.-educated Sun. “It’s not just erotica, they want some ‘wow factor!’”

Race on to make the world’s first 3-D porn film

Wasted on me. I can’t use 3-D technology (one eye is too weak). Besides I’ve never really been much of a porn fan. Just support your right to watch as many dirty movies as you’d like.

So, dear reader, are you planning to see 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy when it comes out?

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In an essay in the London Review of Books, Irish novelist Colm Tóibín meditates of gay men who chose to become Roman Catholic clergy.

Some of the reasons why gay men became priests are obvious and simple; others are not. Becoming a priest, first of all, seemed to solve the problem of not wanting others to know that you were queer. As a priest, you could be celibate, or unmarried, and everyone would understand the reasons. It was because you had a vocation; you had been called by God, had been specially chosen by him. For other boys, the idea of never having sex with a woman was something they could not even entertain. For you, such sex was problematic; thus you had no blueprint for an easy future. The prospect, on the other hand, of making a vow in holiness never to have sex with a woman offered you relief. The idea that you might want to have sex with men, that you might be ‘that way inclined’, as they used to say, was not even mentioned, not once, during that workshop in which everything under the sun was discussed.

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The self-proclaimed beautiful people who make up BeautifulPeople.com’s members are engaged in a anti-fat purge to make sure no unwanted people pollute their ranks.

Men and women who gained weight during the Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day holidays are being banished from the dating site.

According to the BBC, the victims were “singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period”. They were fingered by the user police who apparently patrol the site to ensure standards are maintained, and management moved to show them the door, which had presumably been widened for the occasion.

BeautifulPeople ejects post-Xmas fatties

I understand BeautifulPeople.com’s marketing plan but this sort of enforcement seems a mite extreme.

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Sex Doesn’t Sell — nor Impress! Content, Box Office, Critics, and Awards in Mainstream Cinema

“Sex did not sell, whether in the domestic or international box office, and even after controlling for MPAA rating,” said Simonton, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. “In other words, even among R movies, less graphic sex is better.”

Does sex sell movies? Uh, not really

Social research is subject to bias in a way real scientific research isn’t. One of the researcher had taken acting classes in the past and was distressed by the sexual content. One of the things prompting the study. Indeed this researcher hopes the study will lead to less sexuality being shown in movies.

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