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‘Revenge Porn Bill’ Passes in CA

Remember when sending some friends a saucy photo snapped at a drunken party, a photo that might embarrass those depicted, all for a bit of fun? Well, shutterbug, keep doing that and it could land you in what the French call “le slammer”!

Concerned that Senate Bill 255, known as “the revenge porn bill”, “could interfere with free speech rights,” San Francisco senator Leland Yee voted no on the bill and claims the American Civil Liberties Union is in his and his constituents’ corner. Passing in the California Senate on August 15th, the bill makes a misdemeanor any distribution of explicit private material that causes undue distress to the depicted, whether they were photographed or filmed under consent or not. The bill also includes an emergency clause and will immediately take effect once signed into law. First offenders will face up to 6 months’ jail time and a $1000 fine if convicted.

Senate Bill 255 specifically states “any person who photographs or records by any means the image of another, identifiable person without his or her consent who is in a state of full or partial undress in any area in which the person being photographed or recorded has a reasonable expectation of privacy, and subsequently distributes the image taken, where the distribution of the image would cause a reasonable person to suffer serious emotional distress would constitute disorderly conduct subject to that same punishment.”

Well, that sure puts Is Anyone Up? out of commission in California for a while.

Alicia Tyler RIP

Adult performer Alicia Tyler was found dead at the Victorville, California home she lived in with her mother. While the cause of death remains as yet undetermined, Trevor Wilson, CEO of CST Management (which represented Tyler) released a statement last week suggesting that, contrary to wildly circulating rumors, Tyler did not die from a drug overdose. In his statement, Wilson told the 27-year-old “has been in and out of hospital over the past few months with severe stomach issues and breathing problems. Those who knew Alicia personally are aware that she has long suffered from bad asthma, which coupled with her more recent medical issues are the likely cause of her untimely passing.”

Tyler’s unresponsive body was found on Sunday August 11th by her mother, who tried unsuccessfully to revive her with CPR. Emergency workers pronounced her dead at the scene. Wilson, who rightly called his client’s passing “untimely”, noted that Tyler was “in the midst of a career revival with the release of her upcoming biography as well as her new adult web-based drama series due out in January 2014.”

CST Management is in the process of setting up a trust fund to care for Tyler’s daughter and has promised to match all contributions to the fund. Funeral and memorial services are planned for this week and the family have asked for their privacy to be respect in this time of mourning.

American Boobs Reach New 34DD Heights

Conjure in your mind’s eye the chest of a notably busty celebrity, be she an actress, singer, model, or newscaster. Perhaps it’s Tyra Banks or Sofia Veragara (both of whom are reportedly 34DDs, by the way), but whoever it is they’re causing a wave of tingling, tightening sensations through your body, aren’t they? That, my friend, is the power of the female bosom. It sustains new life while promoting its creation through everyone’s favorite physical activity. Truly, the bosom is integral to the survival of the species, but at what cost?

Climate change, violent revolution, oppression of races, genders, sexualities, and spiritual beliefs, poverty, natural disasters, mass shootings… Where are the breasts of the world when these things are wreaking havoc on our lives? Why aren’t they swooping in to save the day, their undulating soothing the enraged and encouraging the hopeless. If recent reports from one of the female breast’s comrades in cups, the lingerie industry, are as well grounded as they appear, we’ve reason to believe there’s an army of increasingly powerful boobage in the making, an army that could be the salvation of this great nation and its people.

Bra sizes are increasing, says lingerie retailer and “bra fit stylists” Intimacy, with the average US woman now fitting herself with a 34DD bra, a significant leap from 1992’s average size of 34B. But is this size increase due to larger breasts throughout the population (due perhaps to better diets and more exercise) or are women simply fitting themselves with more comfortable undergarments? The latter, Intimacy says, is the most likely cause, with spokesperson Kate Terhune noting “Women are more educated about bra fit.” This theory is echoed by Cosabella, an Italian label that recently added 38C, D, and DD sizes, whose spokesperson Guido Campello believes the industry is now “focusing on larger cup sizes more in terms of offering, where they had never offered luxury or fashionable product before.”

Whether or not supernaturally giant breasts will rush to humanity’s aid in our time of greatest need remains to be seen, but we can at least rest assured that whatever they’re doing and whoever they belong to, many such breasts, now blossoming in comfortably fitted brasseries, they’ll be more attractive and better supported, in turn supporting us all.

Local Artist Fists Bankrupt Detroit

Artist and provocateur Jerry Vile, known to his parents as Jerry Peterson, was born and raised in the Motor City. With news of Detroit’s bankruptcy causing a swell of concern, derision, and support from all corners of the country, Vile decided to take action. While Detroit residents buckle down for what will likely be an even tighter and less forgiving financial state from here on out, Vile rode up to a local Hart Plaza landmark, a suspended statue of Joe Louis’s clenched fist, and installed an object he believes will make Detroit’s bankruptcy filing move along more easily and less painfully.

Called “Vessel of Hope” and intended to “grease the wheels of justice” as Detroit attempt to reestablish itself as a viable economy and community, Vile’s creation keeps his public persona firmly ensconced in the kinkier side of art. Also the creator of the annual Dirty Show, a celebration of erotic art, Vile responded to city officials’ announced intention to remove the giant Crisco can by refusing to participate in said hauling away: “I should go pick it up. But it might be a trap.”

The fist, known officially as ‘Monument to Joe Louis’, may have been created by sculptor Robert Graham in honor of the power held in the former heavyweight champ’s fist, power that led to his success in the ring and his contributions to the destruction of Jim Crow laws, but now thanks to Vile’s temporary addition – it was removed mere hours after installation – it’ll forever be seen as the royal fisting given to the people of Detroit by its government and the hopefully smoother ride ahead of one of America’s great cities.