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...therefore, I figured, must have great, sensible advice she doles out to struggling clients. I approached the subject gingerly. Mom did not. She apparently has a whole list of things she recommends: a book called 52 Invitations to Grrreat Sex, two Nancy Friday books (My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers), the movies 9 1/2 Weeks and Swept Away, and two "instructional" tapes from the Better Sex video series: Making Sex Fun and Advanced Sexual Techniques. Her final suggestion, "renting pornography or whatever works," was followed by the advice: "Women relate less to the hard porn, while men tend...
...remember when Playboy magazine was forbidden fruit - Eve and her apple in the Garden of Guilt. This was in the 50s, when everything priapic was prohibited, and when I was just grazing my teen years. Like a boy sidling up to the pharmacy counter to ask for, demand, his first condom, the 13-year-old Child Corliss sought out Playboy at distant drug stores, put my 50 cents in the palms of blind newsies. Before Playboy, the only magazines I had bought were comic books. Hugh M. Hefner had connived to introduced me both to the publishing industry...
...canvassers regrouped at campaign headquarters, which is located above a Chinese restaurant, across the street from a pawnshop and around the corner from Forbidden Fruits, an adult film store...
...Complaints filed last week by Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Gary Pilgrim and Harold Baxter with civil fraud. They are accused of allowing an outside hedge fund (in which Pilgrim held a major stake) to make rapid trades in Pilgrim Baxter funds, a practice forbidden by the company. Baxter is also accused of giving details about the firm's holdings to a friend, a broker whose clients traded on the information. Asked if the allegation could lead to insider-trading charges, Spitzer said, "It's an issue that has to be worked through." An attorney...
...before, TIME photographer Chris Usher was in Waco with members of the White House staff. "They said: 'the president is going to Baghdad in two hours,'" Usher said. "We all thought it was a joke." They were forbidden to tell anyone. "Not even my wife knows where I am," said Fox News soundman John Wallace, who had been bundled into a car by White House officials and driven with about 10 other journalists to the airfield. "Everyone thinks we're with Bush in Waco...