Yesterday, Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School principal Darryl Rascoe vowed to hand out condoms on prom night because it would be "practical and it’s the right thing to do.” But on second thought, maybe it wouldn't be that right: in the wake of controversy, Roscoe has backed down on his plan. "I don't want to do anything against DOE policy," he told ABC.
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On Second Thought, Brooklyn School Won't Give Out Condoms At Prom
Brooklyn High School Handing Out Condoms At Prom: "Right Thing To Do"
A Brooklyn high school is planning to distribute condoms at prom next month, which has sparked a classic debate: does giving condoms to kids mean you're encouraging them to have sex? The school's principal doesn't think so: “This is necessary,” Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School principal Darryl Rascoe told the Daily News. “It’s practical and it’s the right thing to do.”
Photos: Old Timey, Scary-Looking Vibrators That Cured "Hysteria"
It's often said that in 1917 there were more personal vibrators in American homes than there were toasters, but what did these vibrators look like? Scary, futurist pleasure robots. Babeland has an excellent gallery of vibrators of yore and their modern equivalents. Click on the photos and stroll BACK IN TIME when "hysteria" was still a disease.
"John School" Teaches Men Perils Of Prostitution
Men who've been charged for soliciting prostitutes in Brooklyn have an option: court and possible jail time, or a $350 fine and images of "diseased genitalia." The Post recently attended the Brooklyn DA's "john school" (actual name: Project Respect), which has only a 1% recidivism rate, in part thanks to its lectures from prosecuting attorneys and a former HIV-positive prostitute. “When I heard about the class, I was relieved. [A prostitution bust] is not something I want on my record,” 25-year-old Adrian Caesar said, seemingly fine with the Post reporting that he got busted soliciting an undercover officer "minutes after he dropped his girlfriend off" at her apartment.
Infidelity Popular In Park Slope These Days, Says Website For Cheaters
When it comes to cheating spouses in the United States, New York City doesn't even rank in the top ten (at least according to terrible website Ashley Madison). But that doesn't mean we don't have cheaters. Top hoods to find cuckolds in the city? As we learned from The Squid and the Whale, that would be Park Slope. But if you go beyond the five boroughs, the most cheaters are in Great Neck.
You Cannot Unsee This Safe Sex For Seniors Video PSA
Nobody wants to think about—let alone picture—their Grandma doing it. Except for NY-based advertising company DDB NY. They definitely do want you to think about that with their new sorta-graphic (but SFW) campaign promoting safe sex for seniors. It seems entirely appropriate that their motto is, "An idea can turn to dust or magic depending on the talent that RUBS against it" (our emphasis, not theirs).
Cardinal Dolan Insists Birth Control Policy Is A "Radical Intrusion"
Cardinal Timothy Dolan isn't taking this "separation of church and state" thing lying down. Yesterday His Eminence went on CBS's Face the Nation to insist that the President's requirement that insurance companies pay for birth control puts his church in a "very tough spot." "You've got a dramatic, radical intrusion of a government bureaucracy into the internal life of the Church," Dolan said. "Our problem is the government is intruding into the life of faith in the church that they shouldn't be doing." Or is the Church intruding on the lives of 98% of its sexually-active flock?
Photos: Art, Sex And Sunbathing On The West Side Piers
Once upon a time the piers on the West Side of Manhattan weren't filled with trees, kids, bicyclists and joggers. In the good old days they were a hotbed of homosexual activity—remember this video? Still, for further evidence the Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art this month is hosting an exhibit called THE PIERS: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront. It is, they say, the first show to "focus exclusively on the uses of the Hudson River docks by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture." Times have really, really changed.
Prospect Park Volunteers Create Passion Path For Park Sexing
Much has been written over the past few years about the copious amounts of sex being had in Prospect Park—it seems that if you haven't gotten a splinter from (ahem) chopping wood yet, you're in the minority at this point. For the Prospect Park Litter Mob, that translates into a wasteland of condom wrappers and lube packets that need cleaning—as well as trampled flowers and damaged soil. In response, they've now built a path to aid interested parties getting their park sex on while respecting the environment: “I don’t care if people have sex—but all the little trails they leave behind are really bad for the forest floor,” park advocate and photographer Marie Viljoen told Brooklyn Paper.
FBI Informant Encouraged To Have Sex In War On Terror
Sometimes Uncle Sam needs you to have coitus for your country, even if it turns out to be an utterly salacious waste of time. FBI informant Craig Monteilh AKA "Farouk Aziz" wondered if he was crossing the line when a woman he was monitoring wanted to have sex with him. "They said, if it would enhance the intelligence, go ahead and have sex. So I did," Monteilh told the Guardian. Is that the Patriot Act in your pocket or are you gonna wiretap that ass?
NYPD Eyes Sergeant Who May Have Protected "Millionaire Madam"
A 12-year NYPD veteran was summoned by the Internal Affairs Bureau today to determine whether or not he had a role in protecting "Manhattan Madam," mother of four and animal lover Anna Gristina's Upper East Side brothel from detection. According to DNAinfo, Sergeant Richard Wall turned in his memo book but was not questioned. "He comes in and out of there," a local resident who said he knew Wall by name and badge number. "He's got a regular routine. He's around here all the time."
Are People Still Paying $2,000 For High-End Hookers? (Probably)
After seeing the menu presented to Eliot Spitzer, it's easy to understand how Manhattan Madam Anna Gristina reportedly made millions by charging clients thousands of dollars for each encounter. According to the Daily News, "Dream Model" girls cost $1,000, and the "Ultimate Elite Model" experience could be more than $2,000. Friend of Gothamist and CNBC reporter John Carney's Wall Street sources don't buy it. "Maybe this was true in 2006. No one is paying $2000 these days. I'm not even sure anyone ever did. Not for one girl." But our own sources say this pricing is alive and well. "Those expensive women are the ones you actually want to be seen with," a source says.
Millionaire Madam Mommy Loves Pigs, Has Juicy Client List
The mother of four who allegedly made millions of dollars running a high-end brothel out of an Upper East Side apartment building apparently loves pigs—so much so that her Facebook profile picture is one. DNAinfo reports that Anna Gristina kept wild and rescue pigs, from pot-bellies to wild boars, on her two-story farmhouse in Monroe. When Gristina was arrested last month she was helping to coordinate a rescue of 59 pigs from Florida. "She's a real lover of animals," Lana Hollenback of the Forgotten Angels Rescue & Education Center, a group from Tennessee that worked with Gristina online. "We knew she was a very private person with her business, but this was really a shock to us."
Roommate's 'Disturbing' Sex Life Forced Student Into Intensive Therapy
This week, a former Stonehill College student from NY sued the school, claiming that her roommate's "disturbingly" open sex life drove her into a suicidal depression—and the college was derelict in helping her deal with it. Lindsay Blankmeyer, who is seeking $150,000 in damages in the suit, alleges that roommate Laura Sidla was having online and in-person sex when she was in the room. And it got so bad, it drove her to drop out of school to go into therapy: “[Blankmeyer’s] psychiatric condition deteriorated to the point that she had to leave school and seek intensive treatment with her psychiatrist back in New York,” attorney Eric Broutman said. “What should have been one of the happiest times in her life was turned into a tragedy.”
Student Sues College Over Roommate's 'Disturbing' Sex Life
A former Stonehill College student from NY is suing the school, claiming that her roommate's "disturbingly" open sex life drove her into a suicidal depression—and the college was derelict in helping her deal with it. Lindsay Blankmeyer alleges in the lawsuit that roommate “Laura,” was having online and in-person sex when she was in the room: “More disturbingly, Laura would have sex with her boyfriend while Lindsay was trying to sleep just a few feet away. Laura would also engage in sexually inappropriate video chatting when Lindsay was in the room,” the complain says. At least there were no roosters involved.
Doing It Wrong: Condoms Still Confusing To Many Americans
Sigh, do we all need remedial sex ed. classes? According to a new meta-report on condom usage in the journal Sexual Health a lot of people are still seriously struggling with the basics. For instance? 23.4 percent of men and 25.3 percent of women in one American study reported that they completely unroll a condom before putting it on. Meanwhile, a quirky company has gone and decided that what condoms really need are QR codes so you let the world know you got lucky. Because why not pause to check-in before sex?
All The Lin That's Fit To Print: Dr. Ruth's Jeremy Lin-Inspired Sex Advice
Since converting our URL to Linthamist.com nearly three weeks ago, we've found that sometimes there's just too much good Jeremy Lin news than can be fit into one day. Thus, we're proud to bring you our end-of-the-day Lin wrap-up linkstravaganza:
Daniel Radcliffe Talks About Harry Potter Groupie Sex
Daniel Radcliffe is letting it all out there today, guys. First up, the NY Post quotes the actor as saying, "I don't think the Oscars like commercial films, or kids' films, unless they're directed by Martin Scorsese. I was watching Hugo the other day and going, 'Why is this nominated and we're not?' I was slightly miffed."
Survey Says: Republicans Orgasm More Than Everyone Else
Time to switch parties? According to a new survey of single Americans, "Single Conservative Republicans are more likely to achieve orgasm during sex (53%) than individuals of any other political party, while Liberal Democrats were the least likely (40%)." On the other hand? "Single Conservative Republicans also had the least sex in the last 12 months." So: fewer fornicators, but more orgasms! Vote Republican, and you're voting for efficiency.
Female Bushwick Teacher Fired For Frisky Behavior With Students
A Bushwick high school art teacher was fired for allegedly sleeping with a student and plying multiple students with pot and booze off campus. According to the Post, Bushwick Community HS art teacher Giovanna Vasconez was found to have had sex with one student, and "fooled around" with another. She also gave the two students, along with a third, pot and booze.
Mythical G-Spot Is Just Like NYC, Says Science
George Costanza called it nearly two decades ago: science still can't find any proof that there is a G-spot. But just because it doesn't exist doesn't mean that it isn't JUST LIKE NYC: "The G-spot is more of a thing like New York City is a thing. It's a region, it's a convergence of many different structures," said Barry Komisaruk, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University who advocates calling it the G-area, or G-region.
Drunk People Are More Likely To Have Unsafe Sex, Says Science
The holidays are coming up, and with them come holiday parties, and with holiday parties comes booze, and with booze comes all sorts of studies about how booze is scary. Just last week, we learned that drunk people like to hook up at the aforementioned holiday parties, and today, we are told that drunk people, when hooking up, might have unsafe sex due to being drunk. Thanks, science!
Sex Story In Orthodox Jewish College Paper Divides Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Jewish college in Manhattan with the transgendered professor, is in another uproar because the school's online newspaper, The Beacon, published a personal essay about an unmarried woman's hotel tryst.
Study: Teenagers Don't Sext So Much, After All
Despite reports that all teenagers are technologically overzealous horndogs, like, 24/7, a new study says to slow down just a minute—apparently teenagers aren't so into sexting, after all.
Drunk People Like To Have Sex At Holiday Parties, Says Science
Normally, we don't spend that much time perusing South African newspapers, but every once in a while, something pops up that's worthy of international attention: several doctors report that people like to get drunk at office holiday parties and have casual sex. Especially women, who apparently don't know how to deal with getting drunk and hooking up.
Lawsuit: Oscar De La Hoya Threw Kinky Sex And Coke Party At Fancy Hotel
Hotels were created so people had a place to do all the weird stuff they couldn't do at home: world leaders can canoodle, impromptu "best-ass contests" can be held, and of course, celebrities can have "booze-and-blow" binges. And to that end, a new lawsuit contends that boxing legend and noted women's neglige aficionado Oscar De La Hoya threw just such a booze-and-blow fueled sex party at The Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South, complete with cross-dressing, veiled threats, and unnamable sexual positions. “It was beyond kinky. Things that I don’t even know how to explain were done with him,” model Angelica Marie Cecora told the Post.
OWS Comfort Station Pulls Out Of Condom Distribution
The Comfort Station has become an integral part of life for those living at Zuccotti Park, distributing clothing, blankets, tampons, shaving needs, and body wash to overnight occupiers. However, one item you'll have trouble finding there is condoms. "We don't have any on hand." said Victoria Tran-Trainh, a Pace University student from Boston who helps keep the operation running smoothly. "I guess the General Assembly decided that we shouldn't hand out condoms any more, that people shouldn't be having sex in the park. But a lot of people seem to be to giving them out anyway. If we had condoms here and someone wanted them, I wouldn't say no because that's stupid," she added.
Parental Griping Successfully Waters Down Required Sex-Ed
Last week we learned that students in city schools would be taught about sexual intercourse and its implications as the DOE set one semester of required cirriculum for sixth or seventh graders and students in their first two years of high school. Thankfully, parents who prefer to keep their children ignorant of the crucial details surrounding humanity's most primal and consequential activities have prevailed: some of the course work has been cut. Specifically, the "risk cards" that were to be used by middle schoolers to explain different types of sex acts and their health implications. Thankfully, a dusty VHS copy of Showgirls is willing to fill in the gaps.
Protesters Having Sex, Losing Virginity At Occupy Wall Street
As the Occupy Wall Street movement faces internal rifts about how to handle money, there's another issue that has been cropping up: Doing the nasty.
Parent Freak Out: Sex Ed To Be Taught In City Schools Next Year
Brace yourselves: sex ed arrives at the city's middle and high schools next year, and it. Will. Be. SEXY. According to the Post, high school students will note the cost of condoms and "research a route from a school to a clinic that provides birth control and STD tests." Middle schoolers will use "risk cards" to sort activities likes mutual masturbation and oral sex. "I didn't know how much detail they would get," one SoHo mother says, quaintly assuming that students don't already think and talk about sex all the time.
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