Tuesday, August 1st, 2000
Strictly Hosting
Porn web host StrictlyHosting was hit by lightning at 4AM and their sites are down. Al4a is down, snakesworld, thumbnailpost, global adult vision...
Some of the biggest sites on the web are down right now and they're scrambling because they're losing a ton of money.
Eric: According to Strictly Hosting who has been down for the count since 4am this morning, they expect to be up and running by 5pm...
StrictlyHosting, a superb hosting company, is owned by the son (John Henry Williams) of baseball slugger Ted Williams. Don Fowler used to be the president of Strictly but he recently signed on with SexTracker as their new VP.
Strictly's mainly porno but they're assembling software to peddle to mainstreamers.
Jon writes on Netpond: I just got off the phone from ibill client services. In response to a query about the extremely low level of rebills over the last few days they told me: All trial sales that should have been rebilled on the 29, 30, 31 of July have been lost for ever[!!] and are not able to be rebilled because they were marked as cancelled by mistake somehow. Apparently when this occurs the card numbers or some other information is encrypted so that it cannot be retrieved. For me this means about 700 sales or so will not be charged anything more than the trial amount - a fairly big amount of money. For some of you this is probably considerably more, I am not sure if this effects everybody or not. I was told however that the problem effected about 7000 signups in total - so I am guessing that there are many people effected.
Luke writes Scott Phillips: >Do you have a law background?
Scott: When I bang my finger with a hammer it hurts. Finger go OW!
Ron Levi Shapes Adult Net
Cybererotica.com's owner Ron Levi (Fantasy Man) has shaped the internet porn industry more than any other individual.
"He structured the industry we're in right now," says a internet porn source. "How can you bash a guy who created the livelihood a lot of these guys are making from his sites and his technologies?"
Ron's innovations include:
* Pay per click banner advertising (8/96). Levi's paid out millions of dollars through his FastCash program.
* Productivity clicks. Ron first began paying on unique hits rather than raw hits. A unique hit refers to a hit from a unique IP address (every computer has a unique IP number).
In the Spring of 1997, Ron developed High Rollers, which paid according to the productivity of the traffic you sent. If your traffic generation lots of signups, you made lots of money. If you generated no signups, you made no money. High Rollers was copied by many people, including Babenet, whose RockinRollers.com program credits Cybererotica for the innovation. At the bottom of Rockinrollers.com/straight.html, is this sentence: "The idea for this program was copied from High Rollers designed by Shai Shprung from CyberErotica."
* Double opt-in email programs. To sign up for Ron's email programs like Risky mail (which sends porno pictures to your email address), you had to first type in your email address. Then you got an email asking for a confirmation. You had to reply to this email, or click on the provided link, to activate your account. This way strangers could not type in your email address and flood you with porn.
"So when UU.net or someone complains that you are spamming," says Levi, "we can go back to our records to that particular guy's email and give the IP addresses and all the formal information that identifies that he did it. Our program has stood up to the scrutiny of UU.net, Real Time Blackhole, MSN Security. Someone played a joke on the head of MSN security once. The head started getting Risky mail. I said to him there's no way. We got down to phone calls. I said, humor me. Look in your out file for email. And sure enough, while he was out to lunch, somebody had submitted his email address, got the email back and confirmed it (but didn't erase the send file). So there's no way someone will get something from our email programs unless they've asked for it.
* Live feeds. "IGallery and Babenet took my idea of putting live feeds in members sections (5/97) which has become common. They feared that the bandwidth would kill them. I had to underwrite any potential loss from bandwidth. And the banner of course would be underneath for the upsell to chat with the girl. And that ended up to being a grand success. It's created a whole business of people creating live feeds and offering them to pay sites."
At one time, Levi helped market IGallery, Babenet and Python's live feeds. "Python wouldn't do it [have Levi underwrite any loss from bandwidth]. They were stuck in their ways and have been licking their wounds ever since."
Babenet principle Rob Gould said in the IA2000 convention right after that, in a workshop roundtable, in an answer to the question, when did Babenet turn around and start making money, Rob said it was when we started listening to Fantasy Man.
* Counter that pays. Cybererotica developed the first counter that people can put on their sites to rate traffic stats and earn income from signups. "They can get fantastic reporting stats," says Levi. "They will learn where their traffic is coming from, search terms, which search engines, what browsers surfers are using, what resolution so you can optimize your site... It is a very complex program that gives more information than any other counter out there."
About three years ago, Levi financed Joe Holler's development of the XXX Counter. Holler had partnered with the guys from Websidestory.com, another counter service. Holler was paying for the development of Websidestory's adult counter. He got screwed out of the deal. So he took the code and put up XXX Counter.
"The code was garbage," says Levi. "So BobX rewrote XXXCounter while he (BobX) was working for me. It was supposedly me, BobX and Joe Holler involved in that. Then I went on vacation. And in those days, Internic was controlled by email. My email address Fantasyman controlled XXXCounter's domain. While I was on vacation, BobX walked in my office and sent back a confirming order to move XXXCounter out of my name. By the time I got back from vacation, it was out of my name and off my servers."
XXXCounter was since sold to Andy Edmond of SexTracker.com and Levi received nothing.
Serge Birbrair tells Luke: "You give him [Levi] credit for inventing the click-thru program. He tries to portray that but it is not true. The first click-thru program was invented in 1996, about three weeks before Levi, by Al Hadhazy from Amateur Hardcore.
"The way I know this story is that I was working with Al and Ron at the same time. I remember which program came first. I remember that Ron was going to sue somebody for circumventing their efforts to create the program. I remember Ron asking the Amateur Hardcore people if they [Cybererotica] could develop the same program for them.
"Ron loves to take the credit for them but I communicated with Al Hadhazy who says, 'The reason I let him do that is... I was the one who invented it but he was the one who was able to bring it to life.' Even though Hadhazy invented the program, Al closed his. Ron did not and did better than the inventor of it."
Ron Levi: "My pay-per-click advertising came out in August of 1996. Al Hadhazy came out in September in 1996 and he used to have something on his FAQs that said that we had come out with it before him."
Luke: "Why does Serge believe that Al came out first?"
Ron: "Because Serge believes what he wants to believe. If you go look at his Sergescash.com program, he's been paying people since 1995. Serge never even had a click program since 1998. He wants to make himself out like he was in there with all of us but all he was was a guy who sent traffic to all of us.
"I have old emails where I went back and forth with Al Hadhazy over it and he actually changed his FAQ because of it, saying that another good program was Cybererotica, who were actually out a few weeks before us.
"Serge's recollection probably is that he knew Al Hadhazy before he knew me..."
Scott Phillips of PinkBits wrote on Netpond yesterday: "In early 1996 I stole content, when virutally everyone did. I had a dispute with Steve Easton, he convinced me that he was right and I was wrong, so I bought content from then on. Just after that I met Ron Levi for the first time and he made me realise that doing things the *right* way was the only way."
Luke: Scott and his business partner Greg Lasrado met with Levi at the Cybererotica headquarters in Calabassas. Levi lectured them about using stolen content on PinkBits and not paying people for traffic.
Phillips returned home, made friends with Steve Easton at APIC, split from Lasrado, and Scott turned his business ethics around.
XXX: "Maybe Scott wanted to do things right and Greg did not want to?"
The General aka Dean of Playgal, the third most visited site on the adult web, entered porno late in 1997 and made no mistakes. A sharp savvy operator.
In 1997, Levi partnered with Richard from Ientertain and Dean. They split the Fastcash traffic. Then Dean and Richard became partners without even considering Levi, leaving him out in the cold. So Ron kicked Richard out of Fastcash.
XXX: These Australians like Scott Phillips are into macho. They're into drinking and fast cars and get along great with Americans like Levi.
Levi knows nothing about spammers (folks who sent unwanted commercial emails). Anytime someone would spam using his programs, Levi kicked them out and would never even respond to their emails or calls.
Voice Media (Levi's company) has over five million names in his Risky Mail program which sends out porn-filled email every day through its double opt-in email program.
VM has never had a problem with UU.net, which controls the internet backbone, because of its harsh anti-spam policies. Nothing beyond a level three escalation.
Dave Rand, who runs Above.net, at one time placed VM on his Real Time Black Hole list for spammers. But VM changed procedures so that people who signed up for programs would receive their code via email, instead of receiving it immediately upon signup. This made sure that those people signing up had entered a valid email address.
Around 1996, AOL gave VM hassle over email spam. VM responded aggressively through its attorney, outlining its anti-spam policies. VM offered to help AOL with its security because the way that email addresses can be harvested off the AOL chatrooms, promotes spamming. AOL never replied.
AOL is preparing to massively sue many net porners over spam. Several big net porners have been deposed by AOL.
XXX: The minute you get out of this country, ISPs get funny. It is hard to use them to crack down on people using stolen content, spamming, etc... If someone is based in Australia, the only way for you to go after them is to hire an Australian barrister.
Levi keeps his blinders on. He doesn't follow his competitors. Because they always end up following him and do the things he innovates. Ron doesn't need to look at what they're doing. He's gotten no new ideas from watching other people do things.
Levi's latest new thing is Blowmelive.com which combines "beautiful ladies, WWF-style wrestling and lesbian sex..." Five days a week, girls come in, get massaged and a gynecological exam, then they relax in the jacuzzi, hang out in their chatroom and then get into the ring and wrestle. It's a unique produced piece. VM has recorded lots of digital footage which may get edited and sold to cable TV. It's R-rated Playboy level content.
Levi's FF5 program won lots of awards from AVN but did not convert because its tour was all in flash animation. Now it's been redeveloped with a regular HTML tour.
Miss Nude World Pageant Rigged?
Kevin writes: I just heard the Vanessa Sttele won $2.5 million in her lawsuit against Jack Galardi and his club for the rigging of the Miss Nude World Pageant. I'm sure that the case will probably be appealed. They always pick local girls who do them favors to win the contests, and yes, they are rigged.
COPA Commission Invites BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa to Share Technology Expertise Designed to Combat Child Pornography
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- BayTSP's CEO, Mark Ishikawa, will testify Friday before the Commission on Child Online Protection Act (COPA) www.copacommission.org -- a committee tasked by the federal government to find viable technology options that will help reduce access by minors to online materials that are "harmful to minors."
[Andy Edmond and Danni Ashe will testify Thursday.]
In addition to fielding a "Q & A" from the commission members and general public, Mr. Ishikawa will also provide an oral presentation in which he will outline the various advances in BayTSP's technology available to law enforcement, parents, libraries, corporations, web hosts, and ISP's as well as future implications for the protection of children.
Mr. Ishikawa will also appear on KGO 810 Newstalk's "The Pete Wilson Show," www.kgoam810.com Wednesday, August 2, 2000, between 3 - 4 p.m., to discuss the topics he will be addressing in his testimony to the COPA Commission.
COPA has already hosted two hearings throughout the country on topics that included "Filtering" and "Online Age Verification." This hearing, entitled "Other Technologies and Methods," includes, among others, representatives from the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, Disney, AOL, Yahoo! and various university and security professionals. Committee members will present to Congress in November 2000 a report which identifies "technological or other methods that will help reduce access" to material on the Internet that is considered harmful to minors.
BayTSP, whose patent-pending technology extracts the electronic DNA -- equivalent to the DNA in a human -- from any file, then spiders the Web to search for matches, was developed originally to fight the ongoing problem of copyright piracy on the Internet. In much the same way BayTSP can identify any type of illegally used copyrighted material -- photographs, MP3 files, audio, video -- the spiders can also locate child pornography on the Internet: once BayTSP has extracted the DNA from "known" child pornographic images, its fleet of spiders scan the Internet on a 24-hour, 7-day a week basis and identify web sites and news groups hosting child pornography. The offender's contact information -- including email and ISP -- is then reported to the authorities. BayTSP has made its technology, which can also spider a suspect's seized hard drive, available to law enforcement; tedious manual searches by investigators that lasted for weeks, even months, can now be completed in a matter of hours.
Mr. Ishikawa believes, "The proliferation of copyright piracy and child pornography are the two greatest threats to the legitimacy of the Internet. This group of IT and government professionals, gathered together to share technology and expertise, has taken the first step at delivering a major setback to child pornographers and copyright thieves. All that remains to win this battle is for strict enforcement of existing laws, making it easier for us to prosecute and win against those who'd exploit children."
Danger: BayTSP's whole gig is about $$$, not about protecting kiddies having access to naughty pictures - that's just a convinient facade which is so much more easier sell. It's just about trying to direct traffick back from the binary newsgroups and free webhosts back to sites that hold a copyright licence. Potentially big money in it (especially if you get something like an industry association or something bigger, like a goverment (now that would be ironic) to sponsor it), sure, but it may be just as doomed as trying to fight filetype specific sharing utilities a la Napster, but even more abysmally so. Have fun trying to harness the Net - and I mean the Net on international level, not just North America. Basically it's about a flawed business model really... BayTSP is a about traffic control, just like the click-throughs are. Protect the kids my ass - the industry doesn't give a f--- the kids because kids don't have credit cards. Business-to-business lawsuits filed by any of this will be much more interesting to watch than BayTSP vs. Joe Surfer sillyness.
Azlea
From Rame, Thrak writes: I don't know if she is insecure about her abiliies and looks especially her belly. In many movies, she wears ridiculous stockings that make her legs look short (she sometimes looks like Brigette the Midget and this is a major turn-off). Also in Panty world 12, after getting warmed up for sex, the scene stops half-way so she can put on a corset to cover her belly.
What's wrong with her belly? I've seen her in a number of scenes without it covered, and never noticed anything in particular about it, such as baby stretching or any kind of scars. Or do you just mean that dragon tattoo around her navel?
Pat Riley: Maybe you need to visit the optician? Or maybe you've just seen her in movies with superior makeup? In Freshman Fantasies #17 she has a C-section scar and considerable flab on her belly. It's possible that through exercise she's firmed up the belly but it's hard to get rid of a C-section scar.
In a 1974 documentary, Confessions Of A Blue Movie Star, about the suicide of a German porn star called Claudia Fielers, there's an interview with the mother of a girl named Christine von Stratowa and the mother was complaining that the regulations had recently (presumably in 1974) changed to forbid the nude use of under 18 year olds in sex films. Apparently up until this time under-18's simply had to have the consent of a parent which mom in this case was quite happy to give even though Christine was only 12, a well-developed 12 however.
The documentary went on to say that Christine was the reason the law
was changed. It appears that in her last movie Christine was having
an affair with the director and he was convicted under something similar
to the US statutory rape laws and sent to jail for two years.
Free Speech Coalition
I thumbed through the Free Speech Coalition's Night of the Stars 13 program and found these highlights.
First off, this backpage advertisement from Vivid Video:
A Message To The Choir
This November, an election will decide much more than the presidency.
It will decide the next Supreme Court. The Supreme Court that will define the cultural landscape of America for the next twenty years.
Will abortion remain legal in all states? Will prescriptions for the elderly take a back seat to tax breaks for the rich? Will there be another free speech witch hunt like the one that put many of the people in this room in jail?
Will hate crime legislation die before it's born? Will the progress of minorities be halted in its tracks? Will gays be shunned again, as they were before Clinton?
Axle writes: "Luke. Do I even HAVE to point out the irony of that Vivid Video drivel lamenting the possible death of Orwellian hate crime legislation, printed in a program for an event sponsored by an organization that bills itself The Free Speech Coalition?
"Vivid Video drivel. It's no wonder their smut is so unimaginative and uninspired."
Luke: Axle, please help stop white racism now!
Gloria Leonard writes in her "Message From The President": "My, my - don't you all look fabulous tonight! And why shouldn't you...life has, for the most part, been pretty darned good to us. However, complacency can be a dangerous thing. The government, on the cusp of significant change, is likely to turn on a dime, particularly that segment shored up by the powerfully fueled religious right. And hwile federal efforts to undermine our industry have not been terribly threatening as of late..."
Rumdar writes: "Luke. I saw this vile woman Gloria Leonard on a television talk show several years ago. She was screaming at a feminist who had the nerve to suggest that women were being exploited by porn. From reading your column I see the old hag is still at it. Jeeeez!, she was a human wreck back then. Eye pollution at it's worst. Isn't there a job old porno crones can do to just fade away instead of hanging around embarrassing themselves and annoying the rest of us? How about swabbing out toilets at some whorehouse in Nevada? Gloria, check out the local retraining center in your area."
Luke: As I read through the program, I found Hustler magazine and its ilk described as "sophisticate".
Swedish Erotica takes out this full page ad: "We salute the dedicated membership of this esteemed body of professionals in their pursuit of the rights and freedom of the expression that the Free Speech Coalition is so committed to preserving."
An ad for lifequotation.com reads: "Life Insurance. No Medical Exam * Must Be Hiv Free... Other programs available... Smokers, Diabetics & Drug Use History..."
Greg Zeboray of Zeboray.com writes: "Luke, I've already been asked if "Lifequotation.com" is affiliated with me - they are not. I've never even heard of them. I found it interesting (and maybe even offensive to the industry) that they are promoting high-risk life policies. With Greg Zeboray Insurance Services, talent and everyone associated with the adult industry are offered the same quality insurance (and pricing) as any other member of society."
Concorde takes out this full page ad in the FSC program: "Have you heard about the new special offer from Air France? Fly fast with the Concorde. Departure at 5:00 AM from Paris. Arrive at your hotel at 5:02 AM."
Anti-Semitism Robs Mr Marcus Of Positive Image Award
Uncle Tom Byron writes on MrMarcus.com: Did Orthodox Jew Mr. Marcus attend the whack Night of Stars benefit? I read that Sean Michaels won the Positive Image award. He's cool and all, but Marcus is the man with the Positive Image. I think he didn't win because of straight up anti-semitism!! What's up with that? What other awards do you think Marcus should've won?
Reverend Al Sharpton writes: Mr. Marcus, How do you relax after a hard day on a porn set. Drink a beer? Play some Nintendo? Kick it with your homies? Study the Torah? I'd like to know.
Mr Marcus replies: I didnt make it to the Night of the Stars. Busy
being dad. Those of you that know, know. Congrats' to Sean. I dont think
my image is positive. It's middle of the road, exactly. Neither good
or bad. We'll determine that at a later date. Yep Rene is on the Casting
Couch. That was good time, we worked together again for a Vivid movie,
but I can't think of the title. "Watchers" was very cool to work on.
I got to f--- around with being...evil. Michael
Ghost of Sammy Davis Jr: You are too humble! Of course your image is POSITIVE! What is the Positive Image award though? Is it for black image or just industry member image? If it's for black image then there really is only you, Sean, and Lex. BTW having XXX present was kind of lame! Couldn't they have gotten Jesse Jackson? FSC please wake up and respect Mr. Marcus!
Spinster Days
Chaim Amalek writes: Young Marc, what you are doomed to witness, first hand, should you not marry at a suitably young age is the moral and physical decline in the population of single women as they age. Two trends, each lethal to carnality, are present:
1. the fact that the more desireable the woman, the more likely she is to opt out of the pool by marrying sooner rather than later, leaving behind the increasingly less appealing of her sisters; and
2. the effect (entirely negative) that Father Time and Mother Nature have on the sexual appeal of ALL women. Lots of so-called "smart" women think they are immune to the laws of nature, and fail to make the necessary compromises early enough for it to do them some good. And the worst of them comport themselves as though they still were 22 year old hotties with lots of sexual power, and not spinsters.
You know, jewish day schools have all sorts of career days, in which surgeons, lawyers, and surgeon-lawyers discuss what their days are like. Shouldn't they also have spinster days, in which single women (and men) discuss what it is like to go to a jewish singles event once you are over 30?
Marc: i have never participated in a jewish meet market (known around these parts as a "jew-do"), perhaps for risk of becoming incapable of articulating the experience afterward--as our friend luke has surely experienced. but, any account i've heard or read focuses on one of two factors (a) the craving of the women in attendance for a gent in a secure profession (a strike against me more than LF--although the online porn gold rush is over so maybe he's is a worse position) and (b) the deja vu related to social events dating all the way back to the bar/bat mitzvah circuit ... often with many of the same people.
indeed, the idea of running into the same girls (or, at the very least, the same type of girls) who i "danced" with--rarely touching, yet alone looking, at them--during those pre-pubescent socials in the basement of comfy suburban homes, only to discover nothing has changed 20-ought years after the fact ... ugh. no matter, my bohemian-ism would scare 'em away. but my own need for a flowing income relates to my determination to be married before a 35 year old willing to compromise and hook up with someone 5 years younger becomes a realistic option.
you may want to note the current relationship between kim campbell, age 53--who was prime minister of canada for about 6 months in 1993--and one hershey felder, age 32, composer and performer of a gershwin tribute show headed for the great white way. how long before young hershey bails for someone with active ovaries or is "harold and maude" still a pervasive influence on those flighty suicidal artist types?
Chaim: gerantophilia is much rarer among men than homosexuality, and just as contrary to natural law. Luke, don't you think that you would do even better if you went straight for the liberal minded 18 - 22 year olds out there who not only are porn tolerant, but pose on all them web sites you write about? I think you may be selling yourself short.
Marc: you're right about the porn-tolerant 18-22 crowd, though. on sunday, the celeb-spotting column in the toronto star wrote of both lauren holly and the backstreet boys frequenting a local (jew-owned) strip club where clams are on full display from varying distances. and this is seen as perfectly normal, that both a teenybop band and a woman attempting a dignified acting career would be partying in a place where lap dances are dispensed. the last time i was there, the waitress was actually the owner's mid-20ish daughter, who had quite the condescending attitude toward a couple of jewish doofuses who could have found something better to do on a saturday afternoon. (like, say, a pirkei avos [Talmud] lecture.) i'm sure we fueled her intermarriage ambitions.
Luke's J-Date Profile
I placed this profile of myself on JDate.com, the premier Jewish singles website. Its official matchmaker is none other than Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
My Screen Name is Luke , my member ID is 80117 and I am a 34 year old Male from Beverly Hills, CA , United States. My hair is brown, my eyes are hazel brown and I am 6'0" (182 Cm.) tall. My body style is lean/thin , I am physically active, I never smoke and I drink occasionally. I am single(never married) and I have no children .
I am from another religious stream, I go to Synagogue every Shabbat and I keep Kosher at home and out.
I am a mixed ethnic, and I grew up in Sydney, Australia. I have completed some college and the emphasis of my studies was in Economics. My occupation is: - journalist and my annual income is between $50,000 and $100,000.
As for politics, my views are Unspecified. Though I do support, with reservations, the National Alliance.
I wish to get married My astrological sign is Gemini. My personality traits are: adventurous, argumentative, artistic, clean cut, compulsive, conservative, earthy, easygoing, eccentric, flexible, highly energized, humorous, intellectual, low maintenance, nurturing, romantic, sensitive, serious, spiritual, spontaneous, talkative, unconventional, wild, witty, worldly.
The Languages I speak are: English.
The activities I enjoy are: intimate conversations, listening to music, traveling, writing.
I like these kinds of music: Classical.
I usually read: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazines, newspapers, trade journals.
I go out to: art galleries, the theater, the beach, restaurants, the movies, comedy clubs, museums, concerts, bookstores, libraries, parks.
My favorite cuisine: Vegetarian. Cheap.
I like these physical activities: walking.
I like the following pets:
More about me: I am a writer and moody. Sometimes talkative and sometimes withdrawn. I like to walk, talk and laugh. I love intimate conversation. Words mean a great deal to me. It usually seems that the women I want don't want me and the women that want me, I don't want. I'd like to meet someone who is between the ages of 18 and 40.
His/her marital status may be single, divorced, separated, widowed he/she can be a smoker, a non-smoker, an occasional smoker and a non-drinker, a social drinker, an occasional drinker, a frequent drinker.
His/her religion can be: OrthodoxBaalTeshuva, OrthodoxFrum, OrthodoxModern, Conservadox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform, Unaffiliated, Other.
More about my perfect date: My checklist is very small. A Jewish woman with whom I share Jewish values and with whom I have chemistry. I want a simple life devoted to my writing, my friends, my family and my Judaism. [Goddess: Is that *really* what you want, Luke? 'Cause don't cha have *that* already????]
In my mind, our first date should be as following: Going to a movie is fine for a first date. Yes, you don't necessarily learn a great deal about the person, but it is a way to ease into things to see if you enjoy each other's company. Or go to a coffee shop and schmooze, or go for a walk. Or attend a lecture or go to shul. So long as I don't have to spend too much money.
My perception of an ideal relationship: I like being around the person. She gives me good energy. She inspires me in the right directions. And I am good for her. We fill gaps in the other.
This is what I've learned from my past relationships: I have very few demands aside from a basic sharing of values and a commitment to leading a Jewish life.
Rumdar: My favorite section was your choice of food: Vegetarian/Cheap. Excellent. Let them know right off the bat that you are not paying for "Catch of the Day." Also my advice is to stay away from places that serve booze. It runs up the tab if she is a drinker (which Jewish women usually aren't) ...Snapple and green tea is best.
Marc: re: jdate. if you hear from any women who are baalteshuva or frum, let us all know because that'll be the end for LF.com. because being withdrawn seems to be a prerequisite for most observant fellas, at least it gets mitigated by your alleged profession as a writer (one who makes over $50K yet!). it all seems quite romantic, 'til you get around to your cheapness (hey, those wigs and long sleeves cost lotsa money.)
Curious: Descriptors used: "moody ... cheap ... augmentative ... eccentric" You would never make it in advertising. f---!
Luke: I went to a great lecture by a great Charedi Orthodox rabbi Monday night on the Eight Commandment - against stealing. The rabbi emphasized that intellectual property (like the contents of GeneRoss.com) is property, and to take it without permission is theft. The rabbi opposed Napster.
The rabbi says that secular Israelis are the worst. That when an Israeli leaves the Torah, he has no moral foundation. The whole point of Israel is to do the Torah and without it, Jews descend lower than the goyim (non-Jews). That's why Israelis dominate the porn and sex industries in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, etc...
Afterwards, I schmoozed with a right wing Jewish friend who like me enjoys cruising to anti-Semitic websites. We both get perverse pornographic thrills from Dr William Pierce and other Nazis.
A New Theory on the Sex Industry
Dudley Moore writes: The concept of "captive breeder lesbians" provides a way to unify all the disparate branches of the sex industry, that is, porn, dancing, and prostitution. My own personal revelation that the women are all actually bisexual and lesbians came from the women of the sex industry themselves, who told me heterosexual women don't last because they are unable to partake of the communal sense of lesbian support, which is what invisibly enables bisexual women and lesbians to continue working in the sex industry.
Indeed, the new theory I offer is that THE SEX INDUSTRY IS A SUPPORTING COMMUNITY AND NETWORK OF BISEXUAL AND LESBIAN WOMEN. I would ask you to evaluate my theory of CAPTIVE BREEDER LESBIANS on the following basis:
1. Does it explain why so many female sex industry workers were sexually abused(often by a father or stepfather), and left home to escape sexual slavery and bond and work alongside other women on the streets? (Yes.)
2. Does it explain the practice of modern-day sexual slavery, where foreign women are transported to exotic locations, and must bond with each other emotionally to survive the traumas of indiscriminate sex with enormous numbers of anonymous semen donors? (Yes.)
3. Does it explain the role of flashy exhibitionistic display, common to all branches of the sex industry, to attract large numbers of anonymous male semen donors at a distance(on the Internet, in porn films, in strip bars, on the street, and even in migrant pools and across racial lines)? (Yes.) The operative rule is that DISPLAY REPLACES MONOGAMY.
4. Does it explain why the sex industry's blatant, raw exchange of indiscriminate "sex only" from females in return for "resources only" from the males is the basis for the entire sex trade, since this arrangement enables females to succeed in childrearing without depending on any emotional monogamous relationship with a supportive male for childrearing? (Yes.)
5. Does the evolutionary adaptation created by lesbian breeding thereby provide an alternative arrangement to family, and subsequently to society itself, which is universally derived from exclusive monogamous relationships? (Yes.)
6. Does it explain the role of male pimps for "protection" from a herd of anonymous males in lieu of a monogamous relationship for stability and childrearing? (Yes.)
7. Does it explain why so many porn actresses, dancers, and prostitutes choose to "come out" by going into the sex profession? (This is the motivation offered by Ethel Person in The Sexual Century.)(Yes.)
8. Does it explain why the men of porn see lesbian sex as an immediate and compelling invitation to join in, and why lesbian sex is the focal event of so much the indiscriminate sex seen in porn and throughout the sex industry?(Yes.)
9. Does it explain the very high value placed on cum shots, where the emphasis is on size of the load, which, in nature, is the sole basis for advantage(i.e., chance for fatherhood) when competing against large numbers of anonymous semen donors? I ask you, the reader, what would happen, both inside the sex industry, and in larger society, if every man, woman, and child were educated that the sex industry is in reality a supporting community and network of bisexual and lesbian women? See www.walnet.org/csis/papers/ishida_morals.html for a confirming point of view from a lesbian prostitute.