I don't usually delve in salaciousness.

[UTUSN]

With the news that Ms Marie Antoinette has been confirmed in adultery, didn't she suffer enough?!1 Whatever her extravagance and alleged callousness, she paid a pretty price at the end at least. And now it's said she really did care for her autistic spouse and was protective of him all along. So if she found full blown love and pleasure with a bloke, bully for her or anybody.

Back in the '90s at work there was this ex-nun co-employee and there was an Enquirer item about Wallis SIMPSON, about how she had learned tons of erotic skills in China when her second husband, US Navy pilot was stationed there. I said to the nun, "Well, that explains her hold on (the ex-king)." To which she replied, "Well, how good that they found each other!"

Which explains my salaciousness this A.M. when a commercial about "bent carrot" sort of freaked me out. Fitting that the "bent carrot" is on the chopping block like Ms Marie's head.

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http://usvinews.com/marie-antoinettes-adultery-unmasked-by-modern-science/

Marie An­toinet­te's Adul­tery Un­masked by Mod­ern Sci­ence

In a re­cent study em­ploy­ing a tech­nique called X-ray flu­o­res­cence spec­troscopy, sci­en­tists dis­cov­ered for­merly redacted phrases on eight let­ters be­tween Marie An­toinette and the Swedish count Axel Fersen, who was ru­mored to have been her lover. Fur­ther analy­sis re­vealed that the cor­re­spon­dence had been cen­sored by Count Fersen him­self. The al­tered words, which in­cluded “beloved,” “adore,” and “madly,” have now sparked some­thing of a con­tro­versy: Are these re­cov­ered phrases ad­di­tional ev­i­dence of an af­fair, or are they not?

The an­swer to this is a re­sound­ing yes. Just to set the record straight, no queen, Marie An­toinette in­cluded, used a word like “beloved” lightly to a man other than her hus­band. She could be pun­ished for adul­tery, and even pos­si­bly ex­e­cuted, for do­ing so. That’s a pretty big risk to take if you don’t mean it, and it is why Fersen, who kept copies of these let­ters and feared they might fall into the wrong hands, edited those par­tic­u­lar words. ....


https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2021/10/29/endo-xiaflex-malvern-peyronies-disease-carrot.html
Endo launches 'bent carrot' ad blitz to promote treatment for men's health condition

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[Goonch]

1. ;-{)🖖‍

[Kali]

2. bent carrot??!!!

is that a television commercial? OMG

so glad I am not exposed to such silliness.

[UTUSN]

3. You are now!1 - and now you know why I freaked!1

The question being, about the "Actor portrayals" disclaimer, are the actors the humans or the carrots?!1

[malthaussen]

4. One of the biggest "Who cares" stories I've seen recently.

So, a couple hundred years ago, some French queen had it off with some ambassador. BFD. First of all, Royal marriages are arranged affairs, and it is rare that the contracting parties don't have a little something on the side. Second, it's friggin' France, after all, where extramarital affairs are as common as baguettes. And third of all, don't we have enough salacious scandals now that we have to go back 200-odd years for more?

The only "news" about this is the forensic techniques employed to "prove" the relationship. And even there, calling someone "lover" in a letter is hardly iron-clad "proof" of liaison; pix or it didn't happen.

-- Mal

[UTUSN]

5. I hope the author of the Daily Beast item receives your input!1

About the " 'prove' the relationship," I'll side with the author's context of the weight the words carried in the historical moment, different from ours. ***ON EDIT: And apparently the dude felt the words were powerfully incriminating enough for him to scratch them out, also showing his protective caring for her. ***

My little philosophy is that if a topic is so totally worthless to me I skip on past it to some of the thousands others available for my pickings.