Risque Wednesday

If you're easily offended, you might want to skip this post, but Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg captured oh-so-wrong in a bottle again and made it hilarious this past weekend.  The title of the Hulu clip alone should tell you if you want to stay away...I will say it's incredibly catchy, which is what I love the most about it.

Upgrade Your Marriage

The story I came across this morning on Fox News is a bit off the wall. At the same time, I can see something like this and it being put forth as a panacea for all that ails you. So that I'm not viewed as a total Big-Brotheresque prude, let me first say that what you want to do is your own business. I don't care who or what you have sex with. In that sense, I would see these robot sexbots as a natural extension of the sex toys industry and it's latest invention, the Serbian knob on a stick.
At the same time, David Levy's idea that human-robot marriages will be legal and performed in 2050 is a bit out there. I suppose that it's possible, but I think before people can go about marrying inanimate objects, there are all kinds of animate objects to marry. I would think that in order for human/robot marriages to happen, polygamy, reverse polygamy (polyandry), human-animal marriage, and probably some other stuff would have to happen first. The big question for me here is why? What's the point of it? I suppose you might want to get your robot's tune-ups on your health plan, but other than that it just seems silly. I wouldn't be surprised for people to say they fall in love with their robots because as Levy says, you can program that sucker to be the perfect companion. You want to sit around and have it wait on you? It'll do that. You want it to sit around while you wait on it? It'll do that too. There's really nothing that a robot can't do...except love you back. Isn't that really part of the equation? I don't care how good looking a robot is or how perfect it is. Part of marriage and part of love is that you have two flawed people, each with different thoughts and feelings putting those aside and working together on a relationship. If it was just one-sided, what kind of relationship would it be? Sure, that robot could look like a circa 1999 Britney Spears or George Clooney and it would look like that, unchanging, forever. You'd always have arm candy for your parties or whatever, but the problem with having a Clooneybot and going to a party is that you're going to be made fun of for the rest of your life. Beyond that, no matter how good looking it is and how "loving" it is, it wouldn't love you. You'd be just as empty as before, except perhaps moreso because your Britneybot set you back $100,000. You'd have wild crazy relations and you'd be at least as sad and depressed as before.
Again, I don't care if people choose to have sex with these things. I just don't see the point of marriage because there's no relationship there. It's like marrying my Dimension XPS 410, only in woman form. It can update my blog, check my email, and surf the web, but it cares just as much about me as the pen on my desk.
(Feel free to insert your own "What if this runs on Windows/Blue Screen of Death joke here.)

Sex Ed Through The Ages

Does anyone else remember their Sex Ed class? I don't remember this video (I found it through Slate when I was looking some things up for my next post), but it is absolutely a marvel of old-timey education (it's also 20 min long and is possibly not safe for work due to the anatomical language):
As always, if you aren't comfortable with sex ed, I probably wouldn't watch it. You have been warned!


A few questions/comments. 1) How about that kid asking his gym class about sex? That was awesome. 2) I love the dad's sex talk. I've never seen it quite so awkward. 3) The zookeeper (around 15:12 if you just want to skip straight to it) is quite frankly the coolest guy in the world. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode - "Zookeeper! Zookeeper! Those monkeys are killing each other!"

Here's Planned Parenthood's new version of it:

Flight of the Conchords

Ryan over at Grades Matter told me about these guys and they're hilarious. Warning though...the first video is TV clean (it was on Letterman), and the second one is pretty much the same, however it does discuss, in somewhat broad terms, sex. It's one of the most amazing things ever though. Take a look!

I Don't Wanna See A Knob At Night

There's two types of people in this world. People who are discreet about things, and those who flaunt their junk about for all the world to see. Of course, in general you don't see that kind of nakidity on a day to day basis, unless you live in a nudist colony. It's most noticable in gym locker rooms. I look back at my days in high school and nobody ever got any degree of naked. In the Gold's Gym locker room, on the other hand, you have people who have no business ever being without clothing (and I mean even in the shower) who walk about as though they are some sort of adonis. The following story is the most disturbing example that I've come across in all my years of going to the gym. It has scarred me in a deep and profound way for the rest of my life.
So I went in to the bathroom area to talk to a man about a horse and there was this guy, his rod and tackle out for all the world to see, blow drying his hair under the hand dryer. I could see the drying the hair bit, you know, you want to have dry hair and all that, but not the naked bit. Although, in his hand he did have a hair dryer as well. The only thing that I can think of is that the guy used the hand dryer for his hair and the hair dryer for his knob. I don't know why you'd need to blow dry your knob, but that's the only reason I can see it. Add that the guy didn't even have shoes on, so you know he was standing in urine or something like that, and it was a scene that I won't soon forget, as hard as I may try.

Christmas with Justin

Every so often, SNL comes up with something that's pretty darn funny. If you can't think of what to get your loved one this Christmas, they have an idea for you. For the love of Pete, if you're offended by the mention of male anatomy, specifically a term that is also a nickname for people named Richard, I'd probably move to the next post.

Japan: The Fetish Industry's Best Friend

File this one under "Only In Japan." Apparently Akihabara isn't just the garishly festooned epicenter of Japan's Geek Culture anymore. Well, maybe it is. Whichever, it is an area where you can get your cosplay freak on. There are two rival cafes, Cure Maid Cafe and Cafe & Kitchen Cos-Cha, that make everybody who's wanted to be served by a French Maid's dreams come true. This story's been out a while in the Mainichi Daily News, but I just stumbled upon it during one of my random "what's up in Japan" searches. I can't imagine this working anywhere else. It's truly one of those things that makes Japan so uniquely Japanese. I'm just surprised that I hadn't heard about it, either from one of my sojourns in Tokyo or from Derek's blog.
While we do have Hooters here in the US, I don't think this would go well, unless it was just outside of UC Berkeley. Nevertheless, take a gander, and if you happen to be a woman between the ages of 18-27 and can speak Japanese and (and this is the big one here) don't mind being oogled by this guy, then feel free to apply here.

Take a look at this!

I was reading BusinessWeek about the XBox 360 launch and they mentioned a commercial that was too hot for television. Well, thanks to the wonder of the internet, you can take a look at that spot right here. I can see why it was banned, but I have to say that it is one of the best spots I've seen in a while. Enjoy!