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Notes from a bemused canuck



China Plans Crackdown on Funeral Strippers
The Chinese Ministry of Culture is preparing an attack on the habit of inviting strippers to funerals in the country, a move intended to bolster the apparent popularity of the deceased by ensuring more people turn up to mourn. The practise is rooted in cultural reasons, apparently, with superstitions believing that a well attended funeral is more likely to mean a successful spot in the afterlife for the deceased, even if all attendees are stifling erections while completely unaware of who the dead person in the box is.



The Conservatives say they will force hardcore pornography websites to put in place age-restriction controls or face being shut down if they win the election. The culture secretary, Sajid Javid, said the party would act to ensure under-18s were locked out of adult content after a recent Childline poll found nearly one in 10 12-13 year olds were worried they were addicted and 18% had seen shocking or upsetting images. Experts welcomed the move – targeted at both UK-based and overseas websites – but warned it would take hard work to implement in practice.
What I tried to do in my sex-advice column is simply this: tell it like it is, and never sweep the “nasty” bits under the carpet. Sex is only dirty to those with dirty minds. Although sex came out of the closet with the pill in the ’60s, the act of talking openly about it still remained taboo. As a sex advocate, my mission is to encourage people to dins a depth of pleasure in sex through honest education, which until the early ’70s hadn’t existed. My approach was new because I discussed all those things that we do but don’t dare talk about.
For over 30 years, Xaviera Hollander wrote a column in Penthouse. I recently came across this image again an it brought back a flood of memories :-)
