Natalie Dylan is auctioning off her virginity to pay for graduate school.

Natalie Dylan, 22, has decided to auction off her virginity to the highest bidder in order to raise money to send herself to graduate school. So far, the bidding is up to $3.7 million. Putting aside the health, ethical, and legal issues, is this a smart money move?

Almost 4 million? I guess virginity is, after all, a rare commodity these days.

What bugged me about this story is the dichotomy between Dylan's sexual self control and her mercenary attitude about sex.

How do you go from straight-arming all the beta males from junior high school on through college to selling sexual intimacy with no intermediate steps? I suppose she could be a lesbian, or even lying about her alleged virginity, but failing that it just doesn't click.

The real kicker? She wants to be a family therapist and marriage counselor.

Good luck with that.

The other question of course is who would pay that kind of money for sex? Even Eliot Spitzer didn't pay that kind of rate.

Amazon has banned a Japanese game called Rapelay, from its marketplace.

In Rapelay, gamers direct a character to sexually assault a mother and her two young daughters at an underground station, before raping any of a selection female characters. ...

Rapelay, which was released in 2006, encourages players to force the virtual woman they rape to have an abortion. If they are allowed to give birth the woman throws the player's character under a train, according to reviews of the game. It also has a feature allowing several players to team up against individual women.

Lots of things are coming back I though were gone for even--casual anti-semitism, communism, big-spending Democrats...so it stands to reason that rape is going to become socially-acceptable again, perhaps even politically correct.

You think I'm kidding dontcha?

You know society is in a weird place when you can be made to feel strange for not doing something.

When I was an adolescent, I didn't smoke. Lots of grief for that, although I've never really understood why. I took a puff, found nothing remotely appealing about it, and had no need to do it again. Turns out I was a trendsetter. The friends I do have that smoke are all trying to quit. Yippee! I own the moral high ground!

Drinking has been far more of an issue. I constantly have to explain that I'm not a Muslim, Mormon, or Quaker and no, I don't think you're going to hell because you are drinking that Heineken. For a while there I found it easier just to tell people I'm a recovering alcoholic. Look, I just don't want to drink alcohol and I'm not a big fan of orange soda either.

Porn at least, isn't something openly discussed in social situation, so I've never had to explain my ambivalence about it, and thanks to David Paterson, maybe I won't have to.

Gov. Paterson recently suggested the so-called iPod tax to help close a $15 billion budget deficit, but few realized the levy would also apply to XXX-rated material.

The skin industry denounced the move as a cheap political stunt.

"The last thing any of us need isan additional tax," said Steven Hirsch, the CEO of Vivid Entertainment Group and self-proclaimed King of Porn. "These are very difficult times and nobody can afford to lose even one customer."

The new tax technically isn't a sin tax, since it applies to all "digitally delivered entertainment services."

It would also apply only to businesses located in New York State, leaving some to wonder if companies would relocate to avoid the tax.

A manager at DVD Video in Times Square said porn lures tourists to New York and helps boost the economy.

Whether you think porn is a good idea, harmless or a sign of the last days, there is little question that taxing it is going to hurt sales. Its not that porn lacks consumers, its that it lacks paying consumers, and increasing the prices is probably going to achieve what all the feminists and Sunday sermons could never do--put a serious dent into the porn industry.

A little more than a year ago, two young men entered the family home of a girl friend, shot her father ten times, slashed her mother's throat, nearly decapitating her, and killed her siblings as well.

Rod Dreher was appalled, but what really shocked him was this.

Penny home-schooled the children soon after the family moved from Celeste, population 800, to Emory, population 1,200, about three years ago.

The transition to a larger school district was bumpy.

"I guess you'd call it culture shock," Caffey said. "Emory has a lot of bisexual kids; it's like it was almost cool to be bisexual. One of the first things that happened was some girl wanted to be Erin's little girlfriend. And I was like, 'That ain't happenin'.' "

The slaughter of an entire family by crazy mixed up kids, we, well it happens, but a bi-sexual culture?

Charlie Wilkinson became one of the murderers, but the killings aren't what shocked me about this story. What got me was this: This is a tiny East Texas town -- and there's a bisexual culture in one of them, among the teenagers? WTF? What do I not get about teenage life these days? What do I not get about the cultural air kids breathe?

Either his kids are still pre-adolescent, or they aren't being frank with Dad about what's going on at school. Dreher appears to be suffering from the common delusion that his personal experience reflects the order of the universe. Every generation redefines its sexuality and sexual relationships and somehow society manages to survive it. I'm frankly far more appalled at the attitudes of my parents generation than with those of my children. Robert Wagner's embarrassing sexual objectification of women was only slightly less appalling than the previous generations casual racism.

Who knows what my grandchildren will roll their eyes at when contemplating the attitudes of my generation?

The brutal slaughter of an entire family is the fashion described in this article is truly horrifying.

Dreher's lack of a response is no doubt due to heavy consumption of films like "The Watchmen" where extreme brutality is characterized as casual behavior. In reality, the ability to kill is rare, and rarer still when it involves personal violence like that displayed by O.J. in the slaughter of his wife and Ron Goldstein.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, in his book, "On Killing", noted several statistical studies going back to the civil war that identified the problem of soldiers unwilling and even unable to kill. Much of modern infantry practice is focused on desensitizing the soldier to the killing process--fire teams use the psychological relaxers of group action and distance to make killing less psychically traumatic. Yet Grossman's observation that the modern media uses identical techniques with civilians that really gives one pause.

I've mentioned "The Watchmen" as a prime example of this, but it extends to video games as well. We are in fact desensitizing an entire generation to mass murder.

Sexual experimentation--normal. Mass murder--horrifying result of a cynical society psychically damaging its children for fun and profit.

...is to have sex with your teenaged daughters.

Not the first time I've said this, and perhaps unsurprisingly, some people feel its an outrageous statement, but the evidence just keeps getting stronger.

Hollywood spins the seduction, rape and sodomization of a 13 year old girl by one of their own as not "rape-rape". I guess I just don't really know what "rape-rape" is. Must be pretty horrible though.

David Letterman gets a pass from the liberal media for breaking one of the cardinal rules of feminist dogma--the sexual exploitation of subordinates. Patriarchy wins again!

We don't know the details of course, but are we safe in assuming that Letterman's in-house peccadilos were say, around Monica Lewinsky's age?

Powerful and wealthy men having sex with whom ever they wanted is a tradition that goes back to pre-history, which perhaps gives you an idea of how evolved liberal men are.

This just in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American squeamishness about talking about sex has helped keep common sexually transmitted infections far too common, especially among vulnerable teens, U.S. researchers reported Monday.

Latest statistics on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis show the three highly treatable infections continue to spread in the United States.

"Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated," said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We have among the highest rates of STDs of any developed country in the world," Douglas added in a telephone interview.

This kind of article is routine propaganda and is almost totally false in every respect--from the data analysis to the conclusions. Squeamishness about talking about sex doesn't figure into the problem in the least. Two groups represent overwhelming proportions of U.S. STI incidence--male homosexuals and blacks--neither of which have any obvious reticence to discussing sex.

Its also untrue that we have the highest incidence of STIs in the developed world. An analysis of the WHO data reveals that many large European countries don't report entire categories of STIs, and its unclear of how accurate that reporting is in the first place. In the countries where Chlamydia is reported, its remarkable to see that Denmark and Sweden have incidence rates equal to Washington D.C.--the highest in the U.S. by a considerable margin.

Are those Danes and Swedes squeamish about sex and ignorant about the value of condoms?

An analysis of incidence levels by county also completely destroys the notion that this is a sex education problem. In Utah for example, only Salt Lake County has an incidence level more than 300 per 100,000, which is entirely counter-intuitive if you buy the sex-education argument. The allegedly sexually-repressed rural counties of Mormon Utah have negligible incidence of STIs, while the the urban hipsters in Salt Lake are walking disease vectors.

STI incidence is a matter of culture--and its a highly sexualized culture that fosters STIs.

Its also counter-intuitive to promote condom-use; a planned and responsible choice, to sub-cultures that glorify and foster risky sexual behavior. No doubt a lot of people, particularly politicians, would love there to be some quick and easy answer to the problem, but there isn't. Changing a culture is enormously hard, and maybe impossible, but individuals can make their own choices.

For reasons I can't fathom, Meredith Baxter-Birney, best known as Elyse Keaton on the 1980 sitcom "Family Ties", had to go on the Today Show and announce her lesbianism. Is being a lesbian require an announcement, like running for President?

Baxter has been married three times and has five children. How do you manage to only realize you're a lesbian after 60 years? Perhaps more confusing is the example of Anne Heche, who is still publicly known as a Lesbian in spite of the fact that she dated men exclusively until she met Ellen Degeneres, and then returned to heterosexual relationships thereafter, marrying her cameraman, and then leaving him for a fellow actor.

Seems that lesbianism is more of a hobby that a career choice.

Strange, but apparently true.