Is It About Sex?

According to a police report on the Arizona State University student newspaper's web site, an 18-year-old student, arrested at Hayden Library for masturbating openly while watching Internet porn0, explained to police, "To be honest, the internet connection at my dorm isn't good enough." Stan and Stella Hagarty began an internet business recently as the Wholly Love shop from Bridgend, Wales, specializing in sex products for christians "to enhance your sex life with your spouse," including Pure Arousal Super Stretch Rings, Silver Clitoral Charms and the Snail Trail Vibrating Tickler (but no pornography or bondage or anal-use items). Convicted Iowa sex offender Scott Smith petitioned a judge not to make him wear the electronic ankle monitor as part of his five-year probation because his Brotherhood of Christ sect regards electricity as one causes of why people disobey God. In March, three men were arrested in rural North Carolina and charged with castrating several such needy men who had read about the unlicensed "surgeons" on the Internet and traveled from other states (and one foreign country) to get relief. (Under North Carolina law, the specific crime is "castration without malice.") Following a hung jury in England's Winchester Crown Court in April, Linda West faces retrial in the 2005 death of her husband, which she said was accidental, in that her gun slipped while she was energetically performing a Shania Twain number ("Man! I Feel Like a Woman") in what she described as the couple's sex game. Setmatch.