Postal worker unmasked as Netflix scourge!
DVD delivery services began to flourish once it became clear that people weren’t going to start paying to download full-length movies in bulk anytime soon. But there are weak points in the system: a Houston postal clerk was busted after stealing nearly 6,000 Netflix DVDs — and close to 1,500 Blockbuster DVDs for good measure.
Adult shop zoning on emergency bill
he Worcester County Comm-issioners are scheduled to hold a public hearing today on an emergency bill that seeks to control zoning for adult entertainment businesses in the county.
The bill examines adult-oriented establishments where at least 20 percent of the stock consists of items that depict, describe or relate to sexual activities, adult movie theaters regularly and routinely offering films, videos, electronic files or other similar materials depicting, describing or relating to sexual activities and live adult entertainment establishments.
The bill calls for setbacks from other buildings and other zoning districts for adult entertainment businesses and would require that no merchandise or performances be visible from outside the building.
It also calls for a moratorium on adult entertainment businesses until Dec. 31 so Worcester Commissioners can further study the situation.
The move follows the opening of an adult entertainment store in the 137th Street shopping center in Ocean City.
The Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission last month recommended to the mayor and council a change in the zoning code that permits sexually-oriented businesses in only 1 percent of town.
The zoning restrictions would leave about 223 acres, or about 1 percent, of the town’s acreage available for the business type.
Also on the Commissioners’ agenda today is the adoption of the $8.9 million fiscal 2007-2008 Solid Waste Enterprise Fund Operating Budget and fees for the operation.
Adoption of the Water and Wastewater Enterprise Fund Budgets and Assessments are also on the agenda. The operation covers the sanitary service areas in the county.
Susan Jones, executive director of the Ocean City Hotel Motel Restaurant Association is expected to give the Commissioners an update on tourism trends.
Chief Deputy Reggie Mason is retiring after 28 years with the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and is to be presented a commendation for his services to the county.
Adult Toy Magnate and Cypriot Army Separate Amicably
While visiting Cyprus, you may now hear the following: ‘at this point, we’d like to ask everyone to discontinue use of any electronic devices that may emit radio frequencies, or to please turn on the in-flight mode’. The difference this time is that it won’t just be on the plane, or be in regards to your cell phone.
www.newsoftheweird.com - ‘Earlier this year, Britain’s Ann Summers sex-product company announced it would stop selling its remote-controlled Love Bug 2 personal vibrator in Cyprus after Cypriot military officials complained that the device’s signals were interfering with army radio transmissions. ‘
This story was also carried in the Guardian and the Observer, where it becomes evident that the item must be within 15 meters of the radio device being used by the military. No one seems to mention that to be within that space of a military radio transmitter, you’d have to be in the army… and likely on duty. But I digress.
For those of you with any sort of radio transmitter, you’ll know of the phantom door-bell, baby monitor, garage door, and TV remote interference they can cause, in this case I don’t feel I need give you any more fodder for the imagination… have fun with this one.
As I write this, and just to prove that the machine world is in
complete support of this technology, my iTunes just randomly selected
‘you sexy thing’… I’m absolutely serious.
Perverted Justice: Updating the Genarlow Wilson Tragedy
The travesty continues. Despite a national outcry to help Genarlow Wilson, the Georgia teen sentenced to ten years in prison for engaging in consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, the state legislature recessed last week without addressing the issue. Even though that body has already changed the law to make his “crime” a misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of one year, and even though Wilson has already served more than double that time, the Senate failed to push through a measure allowing judges to retroactively adjust earlier sentences. And so, Wilson will continue languishing in the Burruss Correctional Training Center for as many as eight more years.
For those not familiar with the case, in 2003, Wilson was a 17-year-old senior at Douglas County High with a 3.2 GPA and football skills that had caught the attention of a several Ivy League schools. He was popular among students and teachers and had been voted Homecoming King. That all changed after a New Year’s Eve party during which he received oral sex from a 10th-grader. She was 15 and by all accounts the initiator. At the time, Georgia law stipulated that it was “a misdemeanor for teenagers less than three years apart to have sexual intercourse,” but a felony for them to have oral sex. Despite the inconsistency in severity of the two laws, Wilson was found guilty of aggravated child molestation, which carried a mandatory 10 years without parole.
As ridiculous as that is though, what’s even worse is the fact that no one involved — from the supposed victim to the Georgia Supreme Court — actually thinks he belongs in prison, and yet no one seems to be able to do anything about it. The legislature had a real opportunity to right one of the most heinous legal aberrations in recent American history and instead let it slip through the procedural cracks. And while lawmakers may be charged with serving their constituents, it is difficult to imagine in what way their actions (or lack thereof) could have done anything but a disservice to the citizens of the Peach State.
Offbeat erotica pumps porno-maker into big time
Soft on Demand (SOD), a Tokyo based porno company, has earned the weighty distinction of being the first firm from its industry to bust into the Who’s Who of Japanese Business, according to Shukan Asahi (6/15).
But what is it about this stick flick firm that makes it stand out from the pack?
“Adult videos have always been sorta dirty and made as jerk-off aids, but on the other hand they’ve also been anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian. But SOD’s porno is ridiculous. There’s nothing really sordid about it,” says writer and one-time porno director Genichiro Takahashi. “Sod’s flicks are like an extension of TV variety shows. They’re different to anything else in the porno world. SOD is sort of like the convenience store of the adult video business.”
Shukan Asahi notes that the 6-year-old company has certainly pumped out a string of hits, notably its “All Nude Sports Series” films. SOD gathered dozens of women, stripped them naked and filmed them as they performed everyday sports such as athletics, swimming and aerobics. Its 1999 flick featuring nude figure skating ended in disaster when its makers and the starlet ended up being arrested for public indecency.
Another hit was the “Uniforms, Undies and All Naked School Multi-Story.” Sold on DVD, three versions of the same story — high school students searching for a panty thief — play out. Though boys are always clothed, their female classmates and teachers act out the story in various stages of undress, starting in uniforms, moving to underwear and finally stripping fully naked.
Now, the weekly notes, SOD is working on the “All Naked Nursing Home for the Elderly.” It’s a story of a senior citizen’s home where senility runs rampant because of the strict rules enforced on its inhabitants. But that all changes with the arrival of Lulu, a new nurse who decides to brighten the oldies’ days by working in the buff. Lo and behold, lewd little Lulu works wonders and everybody starts stripping.
“We want to show that there’s nothing dirty about elderly sex. We got all the actresses playing nurses to strip off because we wanted people to know that the elderly need sex, too,” director Goro Ryuchi says. “I read dozens of books on caring for the elderly, and we had real nurses in to teach the girls the right sort of moves.”
It’s that sort of attitude that has lifted SOD to heady heights. Its sales were 1.6 billion yen in 1998, 2.8 billion yen a year later and a whopping 4.4 billion yen last year — figures that earned the company its prestigious listing.
“We are simply something entirely different from anything else that can be found in the adult video business,” SOD founder Masaya Takahashi says. “Most people in the porno business don’t study anything. They think that if there’s some even vaguely erotic about their films, people will buy them. It’s an industry where many people want to make as much money as they can with as small an outlay as possible.
“But we’re the other way. We want to spend money making good movies that we can sell cheaply. And people have backed us up on this.”
That’s not to say that SOD hasn’t had its flops, though. Its epic “All Naked Airborne F**k” featured nude women parachuting and weaving their way through a plethora of pyrotechnic tricks. Despite the huge, by adult video standards, investment made to produce the movie, sales were a disappointing 1,000 units. It’s been the only one of the All Naked Sports Series movies to record flaccid sales, though.
“If you can’t make something sexy, it’ll never sell. But that movie showed our customers that we weren’t afraid to spend the dough on making a good flick,” Takahashi says. “We listen to what our viewers tell us, then act. That’s been the key to Sod’s success.”
Shukan Asahi notes the porno company president holds high hopes for SOD.
“One in every 10 guys is supposed to buy porno videos. I want to make that two in 10. Once I’ve done that, I want to get women out there buying them. To do that, I’m going to have to run plenty of TV commercials. I want people to know that there’s nothing dirty about adult videos,” Takahashi says.
“From now on, we have to increase our profits, earn the respect of the wider world and set up a fund to protect women and children. I want to donate money to groups that help battered wives or abused kids.
“If people recognize SOD is making a contribution to society, awareness of the adult movie industry will change. Then, I can see the blokes from the Tokyo Stock Exchange coming to me with cap in hand, begging SOD to go public.”
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