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...Burlesque does revolve around the baring of flesh, which makes for delicious ironies in places like Manhattan, where stripping is more strictly regulated than theater. Local legislation forced Show World, a fort-size Times Square adult entertainment palace, to devote at least 60% of its space to nonlewd entertainment, and the venue posted a NO LIVE GIRLS sign outside the building. But the Va Va Voom Room held court on one of its floors for six months in 2000. "We were probably more nude than the nude shows they had there," says Valentine. "There were live girls...
DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of Mattel and creator of Barbie, the first mass-marketed American doll with adult curves; in Los Angeles. Male executives at Mattel were skeptical of an adult-looking doll's appeal to little girls, but Barbie, named for Handler's daughter, debuted in 1959 and has since sold 1 billion worldwide. After feminists denounced her as a symbol of objectification, Barbie took on such careers as doctor and astronaut. Handler, a breast-cancer survivor, later made artificial breasts for women who had had mastectomies...
...spend nine months of the year here. I’m an adult and I pay taxes in Massachusetts. I should be allowed to park here,” he said...
...have omitted mentioning what would embarrass me." That embarrassing part, according to Hoschouer, was that Hanssen had set up a video surveillance system in his bedroom and invited his friend to watch the Hanssens having sex. Hanssen's X-rated descriptions of these trysts can be found on an adult Internet site...
...past allegations that remain unpublicized)? Then there were these loopholes: the abuse also had to be "serial" and "predatory." Occasional or one-off child-abuse violations could perhaps be forgiven. And even serial abuse might be overlooked if it had not been "predatory." A simple question: How is an adult's exploitation of a minor ever anything but predatory...