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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British tabloid newspaper, but People Page editor Belinda Luscombe says she's refused plenty of offers stateside. "She does seem to be showing a modicum of taste, doesn't she? I get the impression she doesn't want to dwell among the ranks of the notorious like John Wayne Bobbitt or Joey Buttafuoco. Still, she is the world's luckiest hooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO FORGO IS DIVINE | 9/6/1995 | See Source »

...numbers and direct mail. There are costumes (men's black leather harness with silver studs) and condoms, leather and rubber goods, the full catalog of kink -- if, of course, you are a consenting adult with some room left on your credit card. The price of ordering the John Wayne Bobbitt video, Uncut: $49.95. Many people like to have this electronic sex in real time and become fixated on ``chat'' -- a kind of phone sex pecked onto a keyboard. Chat on the major online systems has been a dependable cash cow for nearly a decade, and, at rates from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE ID | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hurricane Camille Blows Again | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...Dartboard can't help but picture the scene. On a hot, sticky night in a dark Puerto-Rican club, a new dance emerges: "La Bobbitt." Women gyrate down to their partners' waists, mimicking a pair of scissors with their fingers. They begin to mime a "snip-snip" action as the male recoils in terror. Better than Voguing! Banda Gorda makes a killing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTURAL ATTRACTION | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

...United States, of course, the timeless Bobbitt morals have been adapted to suit tastes of the native culture. John Wayne has spun himself a new career in the adult entertainment business. His new porno video, "John Wayne Bobbitt--Uncut," is less about female liberation than it is about the nearly unstoppable bonkability of the American male. You'd have sworn that John Wayne got an enhancement, not an amputation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTURAL ATTRACTION | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

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