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.

I haven't felt like blogging much lately, not because nothing is happening, but because how many times can I say that the Obama administration are lamentably arrogant, incompetent and unethical.

Thirty-six days oil is leaking in the Gulf and Obama has done nothing but complain about the people actually trying to do something about it. Bush got three days before people were outraged that he hadn't rebuilt New Orleans. There is just not much to say about that state of affairs except wait for it to be over.

On the other hand, stupid-funny bears comment.

The problem is that those guys often don't see beyond their beauty and they don't like it when they wake up one day and see a real person, who has a real problem one day, whether it's a cold or emotional needs. This type of man looked for a woman to make up for his own ego deficiencies, and when he can't get enough of that, he looks elsewhere.

"Beautiful women may doom themselves to becoming cheating victims because they themselves have want a "charismatic and attractive love mate." They're often attracted to "narcissistic men." Think Tiger, Jesse, K-Fed for Britney, Tony Romo for Jessica Simpson.

"These men are very charismatic. They know how to get women interested in themselves. but because they are so attractive and charismatic themselves, they have other women throwing themselves at them, especially in high profile worlds," says Rhonda Findling, psychologist and author or The Commitment Cure: What To do If You Fall For An Ambivalent Man.

Get it? Charismatic men with the confidence to woo beautiful, unattainable women, suffer from insecurity.

Morons.

Nobody wants to say whats really going on, but I'll tell you, if you keep it to yourself.

Men cheat because they can--end of that part of the story. What is far more interesting is the secret war between women.

If you watched even just a couple of westerns, you understand that if you can beat the fastest gun in the west, then you're the fastest gun in the west. Women have a similar dynamic, but they compete for the attention of men, and there are few situations more dangerous than a man targeted for romance by a woman, interested in the roommate instead. Its best to put some distance between yourself and that particular dynamic.

Most women eventually come to terms with their place in the female pecking order, but there are always a substantial percentage of psychos who never do, and like babies, they confuse their envy of the other kid's enjoyment of a toy, with possession of the toy itself.

I don't know if beautiful women are cheated on more, but I suspect they are. Consider the dynamics.

1. Beautiful women are naturally intimidating, repelling beta males and increasing the chances that they will marry alpha males, who, by virtue of their looks, charisma and/or financial success, will have opportunity to engage in sexual adventures with other women. Remember the rule--"because they can..."

2. If you can get a beautiful woman to be frank with you, they will admit that they had life-long problems with other envious girls and women. The plea to "don't hate me because I'm beautiful" isn't just a clever advertisement for makeup, but a glimpse into the reality of the female universe.

The combination of a higher-than-average likelihood of having an attractive mate, and a higher-than-average incidence of female resentment would seem to doom the pretty girls to eventual misery.

On the other hand, this is all just theoretical. Nevertheless, I have observed several female friends, after their husbands have achieved business success, go through some extraordinary efforts (i.e. breast implants...) to make themselves more attractive. Is it worry about rivals for their husband's affections? At least in some cases that was clearly the truth of the matter.

Abortion 'triples breast cancer risk': Fourth study finds terminations linked to disease.

[In the UK] There has been an 80 per cent increase in the rate of breast cancer since 1971, when in the wake of the Abortion Act, the number of abortions rose from 18,000 to nearly 200,000 a year.

It's notable how often cultural marxism leads to health catastrophes. Abortion is a health catastrophe for the unborn baby, but also, quite possibly, for the mother who killed her baby. Homosexual libertinism is a health catastrophe for AIDS victims. Soft drugs are a health catastrophe for those rendered schizophrenic. Rampant vaccination through semi-coercion is a health catastrophe for attenuated immune systems. The sedation of disruptive boys through semi-coercion in a feminised and riskophobic public school system in America is a health catastrophe. God knows I'd have been Ritalined from an early age were I at school now.

As Margaret Thatcher said, the facts of life are conservative.

AC Chickadee comments:

I've never heard that abortions can cause breast cancer. I wonder if it has something to do with hormones? I believe Ritalin is oftentimes prescribed just to make it easier for teachers to handle unruly students, who are really just normal. Parents can refuse to do it, but they probably go along with it just to make it easier for them too. Sad.

Mark comments:

I recently spoke to a parent from New Hampshire whose school is threatening to bar his son unless he's medicated. His dad believes the boy, with whom I've vacationed, is normally disruptive in a setting which stigmatizes that and messes with the boy's mind, rather than discipline it. Principals are litigation averse social workers, who use non-fiction versions of 'soma'.

Whether or not our children are barred in NJ for not being 'adequately' vaccinated is essentially at the whim of a bureaucrat who decides whether I've used the correct form of lie in claiming a religious exemption.

Brave New World is here in America. How ironic, since Shakespeare used the phrase in The Tempest with a different Americas in mind. 'Oh brave new world that has such people in't' - coercive socialists who govern our children with drugs and pc brainwashing.

Think I'm exaggerating? Here's today's outrage:

The striking thing to me is the smug confidence with which the statist professionals commit these atrocities. They've captured the levers of social control while honest citizens are busy making money and raising families.

Fascinating Camille Paglia riff...

In the 1950s, female “frigidity” was attributed to social conformism and religious puritanism. But since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, American society has become increasingly secular, with a media environment drenched in sex.

The real culprit, originating in the 19th century, is bourgeois propriety. As respectability became the central middle-class value, censorship and repression became the norm. Victorian prudery ended the humorous sexual candor of both men and women during the agrarian era, a ribaldry chronicled from Shakespeare’s plays to the 18th-century novel. The priggish 1950s, which erased the liberated flappers of the Jazz Age from cultural memory, were simply a return to the norm.

Only the diffuse New Age movement, inspired by nature-keyed Asian practices, has preserved the radical vision of the modern sexual revolution. But concrete power resides in America’s careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.

Read the whole thing.

I've been fascinated to watch the transformation of my youngest son from notorious layabout to gung ho striver--willing to embrace the discipline of personal sacrifice for the goals of a reliable mid-sized sedan, a four bedroom house and a yearly vacation in Matzalan. Whereas our ancestors risked life and limb for a chance to mate, sex in the modern world made by effective birth control and feminism, is merely a fringe benefit of a decent job and an hour of daily exercise.

Its not a middle-class thing, its a western civilization thing. The agrarian ideal Paglia cites is alive and well in many parts of the world, where the measure of a man, and by extension, a woman--are the number of children he's produced. Yes, its a sexy society in Afghanistan, but I doubt to many young Europeans and Americans are going to be tempted to embrace the lifestyle of ignorance, brutality and short lives for a little more sexual obsession.

Female Viagra will succeed in the market, contrary to Paglia's conclusion, because of one of our middle-class dynamics illustrated best by Madonna. The poor woman--her body tortured into a hyper-athletic tauntness, is over fifty and faced with competition from women less than half her age. Madonna must stay sexually relevant or disappear into oblivion, and that is why female Viagra will be huge money for the pharmaceuticals. Every fifty year old woman, having raised her children, contributed financially to the household and supported her husband's career, faces the very real prospect that her mate can be stolen out from under her by some women 15-20 years her junior. There is no respected Elder status for the modern woman of a certain age--the best that can be hoped for is a hefty divorce settlement.

Betcha they didn't tell you that in your feminist studies classes, now did they?