War Reporter Turned Sex Reporter

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This is my new job: checking out sex in the Bay Area.

It's either the best reporting job or the worst, depending on your perspective. My son is embarrassed for me. My guy friends think I've died and gone to heaven. My wife says I can look but not touch, but she's European and you know how they are.

I get to hang out with strippers and porn stars. I've gone to sex clubs and bondage dungeons, gay bars and bookstores. I surf the online sex sites and chat with swingers. But sex is also about normal people, sometimes cautiously looking into the vast unknown, and sometimes just trying to cope with their own feelings and desires.

It can be unpleasant, too. I went out with the San Francisco police vice squad and saw the fear and shame of men busted for soliciting. That scene will put you off sex for a while.

The thing is, newspapers almost never write about sex. They write about brothel busts, or strippers joining a union. But they shy away from the sex scene, the real nitty-gritty of the sexual underworld. Aside from the occasional sex columnist, newspapers shy away from the topic of sex. They don't want to upset anyone with gory or salacious details. They don't want kids to read a story and then ask Mom, "What's a threesome?"

But by covering the news, newspapers miss sexual lifestyles of all kinds, and broad aspects of the culture.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/01/DDGFI5TT0P1.DTL

[mhr]

1. With All That Titillation You Might Just Lose Interest

Oops, this thread may be censored by the FCC for the use of proper dictionary words.

Too bad Janet Jackson's mammaries were not that titillating.

[ixion]

2. wow... sounds fun

There's alot of that out there in the Bay Area, too.

Enjoy. :-)

[fob]

3. Need a sidekick? I'll meet you at Broadway and

Montgomery. I'll be the one with a giant wad
of $1 dollar bills!