Friday, October 1st, 1999
Lynne L-patin Walks The Dog
Lynne L-patin stopped by Friday afternoon as I was preparing for the Holy Sabbath. We took her dog Toby with us as we walked around my Jewish neighborhood looking for Dave Hardman.
Lynne: Gene Ross wrote that Dave and I had a relationship.
Luke: That's just Gene. He's always jumping to conclusions before gathering the facts.
Lynne: What constitutes a relationship in porno? Letting someone come inside you without a condom?
Luke: Shhhh, this is a Jewish neighborhood. You can't talk that way.
Lynne: It's like you wanting to link my name to Eddie Nash.
Luke: For the folks at home, Eddie Nash is believed to be the man behind the John Holmes Four on the Floor murders. Eddie is still alive and well. His son Derek was a prospective partner in L-patin's Casino Productions.
Lynne: And two, picking up the person's HIV test results. I told my doctor that David could pick up mine. I haven't had intercourse with the great god Priapus for eight weeks. Wouldn't you think even a porn star would think that's a little too long to make a pussy wait? That at some point, I might be thinking about calling up Jeff Coldwater and asking to do a gang bang? I've lost 15 pounds in the last couple of months... I'm about ready.
Luke: Or a Bukkake.
Lynne: I think Bukkake is hysterically funny. If I could be covered in body makeup, I'd do one.
Lynne writes: So, after walking around the block with her, you felt better about the dog? She's really a very sweet animal, but also a beastly beast. The pictures are fabulous. Thanks! She's very photogenic, and I need new teeth...
I thought it was so adorable, the little orthodox girls walking their puppy and the neighborhood and all, I can see why you'd yearn for the normality of it. I don't think when you opted into porno, you opted out completely of the other. Maybe you will get bored with pornography and the rest of it will fall into place after you've moved on.
You have currently posited yourself as a "bad boy," so it would take a woman with a wicked sense of humor to think of you as the "right man" at this time. And religion breeds horror of sex, not wicked humor. A horror of the sexuality of your own body...
Meanwhile, I wonder what your lady friends think I should do about my sex life? They seem to know what you should do with yours. David's sister spent the night last night. She's hungry for family, so I minister to David by ministering to Cynthia, who has cared for him for a very long time and who didn't have much family after her daddy died when she was nine and Davey was a baby.
Is that tummy [Luke's] from too much High Holiday feasting? Nip it in the bud, or before you know it, you'll wake up Al Goldstein. No, you looked good in general. Didn't take your pulse or anything but your eyes were bright and even though I didn't feel it your nose looked the right temperature.
Well, I'll sign off and go get my nails done. Tobi send her gracious regards for letting me type for thirty-five minutes.
Danger Boy Needs Doc To Certify Squirting
Brad from Dangey Boy Video writes on RAME about his need for a doctor to certify Mila's squirting abilities: Hey Doc- Where are you? if you don't mind having your name used and exploited for the purpose of porn, we would love to make an appointment( in office0 so that Mila can hit a load of juice on your exam table for you to view and test. then, we would gladly pay you to write an explanatory letter that we will use on boxes, end credits, and also as a selling tool for countries that are against any type of urination. Please reply by email so that we can try to arrange this. As for the"bulls---" as you call it regarding our doctors letter....I guess Mila's doctor ( who actually is her Moms doc too) wants to keep a bit lower profile...he is in Beverly Hills and his clientel would probably frown on the fact that he treats porn stars....especially squirting ones.Bianca Trump says beware of www.nicisgirls.com: Beware of that company and the woman who runs it. I have posted about this before along time ago. They advertise people who don't work for them and then "bait and switch" you. I know because they where doing it to me. I have never denied that I escort, but not for her.... Also from what I hear their prices are out of this world......and considering she called me cheap (at $500.00) I am assuming that alone speaks for itself.
The Playgirl Forum
Luke F-rd Wire Services, Ltd.: Iconic black supermodel Tyson Beckford KO’d porn pasha Carl Ruderman’s Playgirl when a Manhattan judge yesterday upheld Beckford’s right not to appear in the September issue of Ruderman’s downscale beefcake monthly.
This decisive blow for freedom of the press comes a month after l-keford.com reported how general counsel and vice-president of Ruderman’s Universal Media, Caroline H. Landau, Esq., maintained that Playgirl “bought the right to use the photo.” What Playgirl did not buy, ruled the judge in Manhattan Supreme Court, was the right to manipulate said pic so that Beckford appeared nude on Playgirl’s cover.
According to today’s New York Post, Beckford’s attorney, Edward Hayes, argued that exposure in Playgirl could “damage [Beckford’s] success.”
According to industry analyst Jack Archer, Tyson Beckford’s hourly modeling fee exceeds the entire editorial budget of Playgirl. Visiting a further indignity upon Ruderman and his Universal Media smutworks, the court’s cease-and-desist order also stipulated that “Playgirl ... pull copies off newsstands and destroy them.”
So whatever happened to Mr. September? He wuz shredded.
Kendra Jade Update
Kendra Jade flew into Washington D.C. Wednesday night. Thursday night she appeared on the nationally syndicated radio show The Sports Junkies.
Lying in bed at 1PM her time, Kendra phoned her sweetie Luke to say:
"Whatcha doing?"
LF: Thinking of you. Craig Vasiloff wants your address so he can send you stuff next week.
Kendra: I've got to know what day he's going to send it or I can't tell him.
LF: You should just call him.
Kendra: I can't call him Luke. He's in Canada. Have him call me on my cell phone. As of Monday, I will be in Atlantic City for the East Coast Video Show.
On the Sports Junkies, they quoted some stuff from your site which I did not know they were going to quote. From when I was fighting with John [Bone] a long time ago [December, 1998]. John is doing this and John is doing that. And I am, like, oh man, can we not go there. Where did you get that?
[Kendra and other porn chicks don't want to fight with Bone or Mike Albo or others who are verbally gifted at carving up people.]
Kendra: They said, off of Luke F-rd's site. I had a [white] football player from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers come see me. He left his card and he said if I ever wanted to watch a game, he'd get me passes.
I'm bored of sitting in this room. I did not bring anyone with me. Except for across the street there's a gym, but I'm too lazy to walk over there.
I've read two books. I read the first one [The Bone Collector, about a serial killer] on the airplane and the second one [Arranged to Kill by Ann Rule] yesterday. I'm going to have to go to a store.
Luke: Maybe there's a Bible in the room. You should read that.
Kendra: I've read that before.
Luke: You should read it again. I've read it many times and look where it got me.
Kendra: I like reading about serial killers.
Luke: Is it like reading my site?
Kendra: Knowing you is like knowing a serial killer.
Luke: Do you think I fit the description?
Kendra: You drive a van. I think about half the serial killers in the world drive old white vans. And you're just mental. I just woke up, at noon. I went to bed at three AM.
Luke: What are you wearing?
Kendra: Some blankets. And I'm watching MTV, the making of a video for Offsprey. I had a really cool signing last night. Most signings, they come in and have you sign stuff and then they go away. Last night they stayed for a long time and talked to me and asked me a lot of really deep questions, like how do I feel about love and the industry. And I was just spewing off my different views for an hour.
Luke: So what do you think about love and the industry?
Kendra: Oh God, don't get me started.
Luke: What's love got to do, got to do, with it? What's love, but a second hand emotion.
Kendra: Ok Tina [Turner], you're actually more like Ike. He used to beat her.
I'm boring today. I don't have much to say.
Luke: Do these signings make you feel like a sex object?
Kendra: Yeah Luke, they just wanted to see my breasts.
Luke: I hate men.
Kendra: I wish you were listening to the Sport Junkies. They said I was the best looking girl in the business. They didn't like me with my blonde hair. They saw the promo pictures and said yuck. Then they saw me in person last night with my red hair, and they were digging me. They interviewed Jenna Jameson and said she was nice, but they said they like me better. Do you think they meant that?"
Kendra: My boobs hurt. Nobody touched them. It's almost that time of the month, Luke, so my boobs get sore. Do Jews have sex when they're having their period?
Luke: No.
Kendra: Why?
Luke: It says not to in the Torah.
Kendra: It says don't f--- while you're on the rag?
Luke: Yes, that is it exactly.
Kendra: Do Jews believe in birth control?
Luke: Most are open to it, some of the most religious types don't use it. Catholics aren't supposed to use artificial means of birth control, such as condoms, the pill, etc...
Kendra: Do Jews believe in abortions?
Luke: Judaism considers most abortions immoral, but Judaism and Jews do not consider abortion equal to murder. More liberal Jews tend to be pro-choice and more traditional Jews are pro-life.
Kendra: Do they believe in sex before marriage?
Luke: Judaism holds that the place for sex is within heterosexual marriage.
Kendra: What other kinds of stuff do Jewish people think?
Luke: Judaism is more a way of life, a system of action to make a better world, than a set of theological dogmas. When you ask what defines a Christian, it is theology, belief in Jesus Christ as their personal savior, etc...
Kendra: What were you raised as?
Luke: Son of a Seventh Day Adventist theologian. I liked many Christians but Christianity never really spoke to me.
Kendra: Do Jewish people worship a Buddha?
Luke: No, there are very strong laws in Judaism against creating images of God. We believe in one God.
Kendra: What does he look like?
Luke: He has no physical form.
Kendra: Cool. So what do Jewish people think of Marilyn Manson?
Luke: I think most religious Jews would be absolutely appalled. The Torah says, I set before you this day a choice between life and death. Choose life. Marilyn Manson took his name from a serial murderer, as did each member of his band. Judaism opposes the glorification of murder.
Jewish law provides a sophisticated database of choices between life and death. And it pushes people to choose life. That's why you don't have sex when the woman is menstruating. The blood represents death and sex and sperm represent life. You don't mix the two. Just like you don't mix milk with meat. Meat represents death. Milk life. No cheeseburgers.
Kendra: Wow, that's kinda nifty. So, are you appalled by Marilyn Manson?
Luke: Yes. By anything that glorifies death.
Kendra: Are you genuinely appalled or are you appalled because it says you should be?
Luke: Genuinely. From my gut.
Kendra: Makes you want to vomit?
Luke: That may be a little strong.
Kendra: Don't you think he does it for reasons that you do. To be outrageous and to get attention.
Luke: I agree. I am appalled by many of the things I've done.
Kendra: Really? Like what?
Luke: Ever choosing to write about pornography.
Kendra: Why do you continue to do it?
Luke: I've made a name for myself and I have a great desire to be know. And I make my living from it, about $50,000 a year.
Kendra: Don't you think you could make that in more productive ways?
Luke: Yes, I am trying to figure that out.
Kendra: But the more productive ways don't make you money. Most people don't make what you make. They bust their ass over hot fries for $12,000 a year.
Luke: I talked to an old acting teacher last night so I am going back to acting class next week. I was just talking to a friend who's buying a home, buying a timeshare in Hawaii...
Kendra: I don't like those timeshare things. I had one before with my ex-boyfriend and I don't like them. They're a ripoff.
Luke: It just makes me think that my friends make more money than I do.
Kendra: I was talking to Shay the other day, and she was saying, I'm dying to know Nice Jewish Girl's name. NJG has a lot to say, and she's funny. She's right on most of the time. But this Cocksocket, I don't like.
Luke: She just made one stray remark and she didn't want me to post it.
Kendra: But one stupid remark can get you in trouble. You should know that. Do you like Jennifer Lopez? She's f---ing sexy, even with her big butt. She's getting married to Puff Daddy.
They were asking me cool questions last night. Like, what CDs I have in my car. I have the Beatles Greatest Hits, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Madame Butterfly and Poison's Greatest Hits and Lauren Hill, a rapper.
Luke: I like that too, when I am doing an interview, and they ask me interesting questions. It makes me feel important.
Kendra: I was having to think about what I was answering and I responded genuinely. It wasn't, are your tits real? But real cool stuff. I was happy. So what else are you going to do?
Luke: My health is a lot better. I went to a homeopathic doctor in June. She took me off all my other medications and gave me this natural homeopathic remedy.
Kendra: Have you ever tried acupuncture?
Luke: A few times. It helped temporarily. With homeopathy, you are not allowed to do any other remedies.
Kendra: Are you still going to your counselor?
Luke: I quit that in July.
Kendra: Why did you quit?
Luke: It was too expensive. I may go back but I'd rather use my money to get out of debt. I am still $8000 in debt.
Kendra: How are you $8000 in debt?
Luke: I lived off my credit cards while I was researching my book A History of X. Before I had my website and was making money.
Kendra: What's the limit on your credit cards?
Luke: About $16,000.
Kendra: I would like to have them. I want to go shopping. You're not sharing nicely.
Luke: I'll share something else with you.
Kendra: I'll pass.
Luke: My spiritual insights on life.
An LGI contract girl, Kendra will be signing at several of their D.C. sex stores.
Willie Brown Stands Up For Women
Bill Boyd wrote to the San Francisco Chronicle: My roommate is an erotic performer for the Mitchell Brother's Theater. She says before Willie Brown, the cops were always harassing them. Since Willie Brown has been frequenting the theater, they can do anything they want, even give blowjobs without fear of getting busted by the cops! Since the election campaign, however, Willie has been too busy to make it to the theater, but all the dancers enthusiastically support his reelection. Willie stands for women's rights. Go Willie!
Romance Rocco
French romance director Catherine Breillat told Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle:
Her most controversial casting decision was hiring Siffredi, who has made more than 1,000 hard-core films in Italy and bragged of having more than 4,000 sex partners.
Breillat said she chose him because ``he is a marvelous actor and he has the most beautiful charisma. When you see other porno actors, they are all ugly. Rocco is so different from all the others. He is like a beautiful engine.''
Sensing the other actors, particularly Caroline Ducey, who plays Marie, might have objections to appearing with a porn star, Breillat changed his name on the cast list and kept his identity a secret as long as she could. ``I did not want the other members of the cast to be seized with the fear that `Oh my God, we are all in a porno movie,' '' she said.
When Ducey found out who Siffredi was, her immediate reaction was to tense up in their scenes together. She visibly stiffened when he put his hand on her leg. ``Carolyn and Rocco were so different. Carolyn was very accustomed to showing her emotions, but she was not accustomed to flinging off her clothes, and she had some inhibitions in that part,'' Breillat recalled. ``On the other hand, Rocco had been in 1,000 scenes of lovemaking. I wasn't personally interested in making 1,001. What I wanted was for him to give something of himself.''
The big sex scene between the two was shot from 10 in the evening to 5 in the morning. Breillat had a reason to keep it going that long. ``This is a man who can go for hours in a state of erection. But by 5 a.m., he was sagging a little bit, which is what I wanted. I wanted the lovemaking to be more natural, not the porno style where you are all ready to go no matter what.''
Dangers of Porn
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizens for Community Values (CCV) of Memphis, a 3,000-member Mid-South-nonprofit organization seeking to have existing anti-pornography laws more strictly enforced, will begin airing three television commercials next week on Memphis-area TV stations urging adults to "warn your kids about the danger of pornography."
Two of the ads address pornography on the Internet, while a third features an interview with serial-killer Ted Bundy just before his execution. In the interview, Bundy says all of the violent offenders he met in prison were "deeply addicted to pornography."
Psycho
John Douglas of Talking Blue works at the Universal Lot. Thursday afternoon John took me to the set of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic film Psycho. A few weeks ago on Talking Blue, John compared me with Norman Bates, the crazed and deadly Psycho protagonist.
Pornography vs Erotica
David Austin writes on RAME:
1. VanDeVeer's proposal in the _Encyclopedia of Ethics_ (Garland, 1990), 986-989:
"Pornography is the sexually explicit depiction of persons, in words or images, created with the primary, proximate aim, and reasonable hope, of eliciting significant sexual arousal on the part of the consumer of such materials (987). [This characterization is population-relative:] Important in deciding whether material is likely to evoke significant sexual arousal [an admittedly somewhat vague term] is its probable effect on an average person in a certain population,.... The reactions of particular individuals are inconclusive (988)."
2. The MacKinnon/Dworkin proposal: excerpt from the Minneapolis Ordinance, 1983:
"Pornography is a form of discrimination on the basis of sex. Pornography is the sexually explicit subordination of women, graphically depicted, whether in pictures or in words, that also includes one or more of the following: (i) women are presented as dehumanized sexual objects, things or commodities; or (ii) women are presented as sexual objects, who enjoy pain or humiliation; or (iii) women are presented as sexual objects, who experience sexual pleasure in being raped; or (iv) women are presented as sexual objects tied up or cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or (v) women are presented in postures of sexual submission, or sexual servility, including by inviting penetration, or (vi) women's body parts - including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, and buttocks - are exhibited, such that women are reduced to those parts; or (vii) women are presented as whores by nature; or (viii) women are presented being penetrated by objects or animals; or (ix) women are presented in scenarios of degradation, injury, abasement, torture, shown as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised, or hurt in a context that makes these conditions sexual. The use of men, children, or transsexuals in the place of women ... is pornography for the purposes of ... this statute."
"EROTICA" VS. "PORNOGRAPHY" 3. Charlene Y. Senn, "The Research on Pornography: The Many Faces of Harm," in Diana E. H. Russell, ed., _Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography_ (New York: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993), 181:
"Erotica-Nonsexist and Nonviolent: These images have as their focus the depiction of 'mutually pleasurable, sexual expression between people who have enough power to be [involved] by positive choice' (Steinem, 1980). They have no sexist or violent connotations and are hinged on equal power dynamics between individuals as well as between the model(s) and the camera/photographer (Sontag, 1977)."
4. B. Ruby Rich, "Anti-Porn: Soft Issue, Hard World," in Patricia Erens, ed., _Issues in Feminist Film Criticism_ (Indiana University Press, 1990), 410:
"... what is pornography and what is eroticism? One is bad, the other is good (guess which). Fixing the dividing line is rather like redlining a neighborhood: the "bad" neighborhood is always the place where someone else lives. Porn is the same. If I like it, it's erotic; if you like it, it's pornographic."
The reference usually cited as the contemporary source of the distinction between erotica and pornography is Gloria Steinem, "Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference," in Laura Lederer, ed., _Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography_ (William Morrow, 1980) 35-39. [On one of the attempts to produce "women's pornography," see: Susan Keller, "Powerless to Please: Candida Royalle's Pornography for Women," _New England Law Review_ 26 (Summer 1992): 1297-1307. Keller faults Femme Productions films for failure to explore the tensions created by the unequal power relationships in many male-female sexual encounters.]
One needs ultimately to employ a person-relative version of 1., above, where the "population" is exactly one consumer. Even then, finer distinctions are usually necessary, e.g., the consumer at a time, in a given mental and physical state, in a particular context of consumption. After all, such factors matter greatly to whether or not the material in question is likely to be sexually arousing even for the person being considered.
(What helps to make Patrick Riley's _X-Rated Video Guides_ useful is that he is open about and consistent in his biases and preferences - so if one does not share them, it's feasible to adapt his descriptions and judgments for other purposes.)
I summarize from the book "Why the Jews? The Reason For Antisemitism":
The ultimate cause of Jew hatred is that which makes Jews Jewish - Judaism.
For thousands of years Judaism has consisted of three components: God, Torah, and Israel; that is, the Jewish (conception of) God, Jewish law, and Jewish nationhood. Jews' allegiance to any of these components has been a major source of antisemitism because it has rendered the Jew an outsider, and most important, it has been regarded by non-Jews (often correctly) as challenging the validity of the non-Jews god(s), law(s), and/or national allegiance.
By affirming the one and only God of all mankind, thereby denying legitimacy to everyone else's gods, the Jews entered history at war with other people's most cherished values. The Jews compounded this hostility by living by their own all-eoncompassing laws in addition to or even instead of the laws of their non-Jewish neighbors. And by continually asserting their own national identity in addition to or instead of the national identity of the non-Jews among whom they lived, Jews have created hatred of Jews.
From its earliest days Judaism's reason for being has been to change the world for the better, (in the words of the ancient prayer Aleinu) "to perfect the world under the rule of God." This attempt to change the world, and to challenge the gods, religious or secular, of the societies around them, and to make moral demands upon others (be it through Judaism, communism, feminism, etc) has constantly pissed off non-Jews.
Judaism also holds that the Jews were specially chosen by God to improve the world.
As a result of Jews living Judaism, they have led higher quality lives than their non-Jewish neighbors. Jews have nearly always been better educated; Jewish family life has usually been far more stable; Jews aided one another more than their non-Jewish neighbors helped each other; and Jews have been far less likely to become drunk, beat their wives, abandon their children...
Chaim Amalek writes about anti-Semitism: Well, to quote Al Goldstein associate Steve Gruber (who was, probably unknowingly, quoting a mayor of Vienna from Hitler's time there - Karl something or another), its "Hating the jews more than they deserve to be hated."
But why hate them at all? One explanation may simply be racial/tribal. Jews are a race, which immediately places them in the minority wherever they go (outside of Israel, Manhattan, and Hollywood). Human beings being tribal, he who is not of my tribe is a potential competitor/enemy. Add to this the fact that despite the fondest wishes of Hollywood jews, we are not all alike - jews are different.
It is an empirical fact that jews have higher I.Q.s than other racial groupings (e.g., negroes, central American indians, the Aboriginal people of Australia). And this is itself a source of trouble. You see, as a highly intelligent race, Jews inevitably come to become a disproportionate presence in every field of interest to them that is open to them, be it banking, porn, media, law, financial crime, etc.
Jews also become a disproportionate presence in the great intellectual movements of the day, left or right, and sometimes (as in Russia during the Trotsky years - ask your communist jewish friend Nina Hartley about it) with horrific results. All of this is certainly going to piss off lots of gentiles on the outside looking in. This is the sort of anger that Patrick Buchanan is playing off of when he suggests affirmative action for white christians at Harvard. Jews and Asians, although together making up only 5% of the total population of the U.S.A., make up about 60% of the undergraduate enrollment at Harvard. Add to that the slots reserved for favored racial minorites, and it is simple arithmetic that white gentiles MUST be severely under-represented at Harvard.
At this time in history, Jews have enough power in the media to prevent an honest discussion of these issues, but that power won't last forever, given high jewish rates of assimilation and the very low birth rates of secular jews. At some point in the 21st century, the demographic map of America will have tipped to the point that sufficient numbers of people who do not give a damn about jews or the lessons of the holocaust will come to dominate once again, and we will be in for a new bout of antisemitism, directed against a much smaller jewish population.
PS You are dead right about the almost comical reaction of many jews to Christian prosletyzers, a reaction I do not see from the rank and file of the really relgious (except regarding "Jews for Jesus", who are engaged in a bit of intellectual fraud via their very name). I think what scares these people so is that having failed to make the case for being jewish, they are terrified at the sight of competitive theologies making the case for not being jewish. And a loss of adherents translates directly into a loss of power, which is what this is really about.
You know Luke, you are fast approaching a cross-roads in your life with this Jewish stuff. Either you will come to see that Jews are responsible for much that is bad in the world and flee the faith and its people in a vain attempt to rid your soul of what you will come to regard as their moral stink, or you will abandon porn, go to rabbinical school, and become a fire-breathing reformer (not a "reform" rabbi!), a jewish Martin Luther (so sorely needed by this moribund, ossified faith).
PPS - If you feel the urge to post this stuff on the web, then you really should set up a web site more suitable to the discussion than one that often seems centered on very weird pet stories.
Johnathan responds: Two problems. First, the concept of "racial grouping" is silly. An "indian" tribe is highly related genetically. While one - I repeat, one - test links Cohanim over centuries, that link is a tiny portion of DNA. Personally, I have yet to be convinced of the truth of the Cohanim link, since the study lacked sufficient comparisons of the studied DNA section, which is passed through the male line, in various populations, which means the corellation could be meaningless.
While many people hold to the idea that a small amount of "negro" blood labels a person "black", there is no hard line between racial groups. Tiger Woods, for example, is at least 3/4 Thai (or maybe 1/2 Thai and 1/4 Chinese - I forget) and there is a reasonable probability that the 1/4 negro part is diluted further by causcasion and other DNA. A person with 1/4 Jewish blood, which may be further diluted back into history, can be considered Jewish under all the usual definitions if his mother's mother was Jewish. If the other 3/4 are pure Thai, then what race is he? What if he's 3/4 Thai and 1/4 "Jewish", which here must mean causcasian Jewish?
To lump Jews and "negroes" with Aborigines is pure stupidity. The very fact that a child's mother's religion is the traditional determinant for Judaism bespeaks the reality that Jewish women were often subject to rape and oppression. In the Venetian Republic, for example, Jewish women were required to wear yellow, the color that prostitutes were also required to wear under the sumptuary laws. I won't even go into the way that speaking of a Jewish race mimics the racist rhetoric of anti-semitism.
If Jews are a race, then the religion doesn't matter and the Jews can be separated. If Judaism is a religion, then its adherents can be anyone. Only stupid European Jews ignore the reality that a large percentage of world Jewry is sephardic and clearly of a different ethnic stock than the German-Polish-Russian stock of the ashekenazi.
Moving back to science, some people have argued that Jews are racially related by comparing fingerprint whorl patterns of different groups. This is the only other potentially reputable evidence I've ever seen offered - because fingerprint patterns do differ by area and ethnicity. This evidence is not even minimal in quality and amount.
Second, information on IQ testing is readily available and is summarized, for example, in The Bell Curve. Some Jewish groups have been tested and a group of European Jews did test 2 standard deviations higher than average. Other than a few small tests like this, there is very little data showing IQ by group, by region, etc. Add in the way that IQ tests are often unreliably administered and you see a big problem.
> At this time in history, Jews have enough power in the media to prevent an > honest discussion of these issues, but that power won't last forever, given > high jewish rates of assimilation and the very low birth rates of secular > jews.
I often wonder where people come up with statements like this. I've actually read analyses of the ownership of news sources. Jewish ownership is tiny. A lot of people point at the NY Times, but they should read the history of the Times and its owning family. The Times has a poor record of representing Jewish interests, to be mild. The family is non-religious and has intermarried extensively. It is now less than one-half Jewish. People confuse the high profile activities of a few Jews with the larger reality. That is like assuming that blacks are better athletes or that they are inherently criminals without looking at the social circumstances that lead people to pursue sports and to fall into crime. Another statement that mimics the racists.
Now for my point: If there is a reason that Jews are more successful, it is because of the religion which they sustain and which sustains them. Wherever Jews have lived, they have found the strength to find value in life. They have valued education and investment, meaning that they value the long-term over the short. They try to be righteous because Judaism places so much value on what you do with and in your life. Jews are always to some extent outsiders. People who are outsiders have two choices; they can lie down and accept their lot or they can make something out of it. Jews choose the latter because Judaism demands that they act.
Many groups of outsiders do not have this force to bind and elevate them. We lift ourselves by our bootstraps because God commands us. I know that the comments quoted above come from a Jew, but they truly repel me because they slander the religion. Judaism is not an accident of birth, transmitted through the centuries as a special form of blood. It is a series of teachings, rules, lessons and truths that a people have adopted and follow. That is why we have to learn Torah and study Torah, why we have Seders, why we are commanded to carry the commandments with us, etc. We don't know Torah just because we're born of a Jewish mother. If that were so, we could dispense with the Four Questions. If a Jew can't keep that straight, then I pity him and I pity what his family learns.
Stiffkugel Baise "Romance"
Rabbi Stiffkugel writes on RAME: If you know any French, you'll get the joke in the title*
The Rabbi Stiffkugel, holding high hopes, pedaled his pais across the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend to catch an early screening of the French alleged erotic thriller, "Romance". After all, the NYT *did* say it had scandalized its native France.
Truth: The R S dunno what happens in France, where the girls haven't worn no underpants since WW I. But even with enough T&A and real sex to get an X rating, the movie fails to be very erotic at all. No Last Tango this, c'est le cinema d' ennui.
The flick is about a pretty but masochistic school teacher who enjoys being raped at times (once in the movie) and has long analytic discussions with herself during her various assignations. She has a pencil-dicked husband qui n' elle baise pas. (Get it now?) She expresses her frustration at his marble-balled frigidity in a number of sub-plots, the principal of which is an extended bondage tryst with her principal. He claims to have previously had 10,000 women, including "Princess Grace Delly." (Ranier must have objected to something here. )
"Mr. Conklin Ties Up Our Miss Brooks - and Makes her Like It" might have been a better title. The plot of course omits the pimple faced Dexter Boyington character (she teaches third grade, not high school) , but the zitty gyno interns who prod her in the hospital after she gets pregnant make up for that. The only time the movie starts to sizzle is in the few early scenes with our beloved Rocco Siffridi. Rocco speaks excellent French (wants to try Greek, too) and gets picked up in a bar. She dumps him after a few schtupps because he was too good.
The ending is a bit of a laugh. In extremis, madame turns on the stove gas before hitching a ride to the hospital to deliver with Mr. Conklin. Drunken dad is left behind in the apartment passed out across the bed, symbolically dressed in blue pajamas. (Before, he always slept vertical in his Fruit of the Loom, using it as armor against sexual advances.) The baby crowns just as hubby stirs, reaches for a match to light up a Gitane, and ka-va-boom! As the screen fades to black after the funeral - attended by no one but our smiling, barefoot heroine and the baby - the R S was left wondering whether the mainstream film industry in any western nation will *ever* make an actually erotic film that has explicit sex in it. He has in mind "8mm" and the even more insipid "Show Girls" of a few years ago, another flick with sex that wasn't sexy at all. Some current films like American Beauty get pretty hot without being very explicit. Some explicit pornos - are you listening, Ed? - are even more boring than Romance, but that's another whole topic.
Bottom line here is if you want erotic, spend the twelve bucks (each) to rent a couple of Shane's World tapes. You can have a better time at home without the over-priced popcorn, cab fare or parking.
*If you don't get the joke, send five dollars and a SASE to the Rabbi Stiffkugel , Temple Beth Porno, PO Box 6900, Brooklyn NY, and the R S will kindly explain for you. Cash only; no stamps, PowerBall coupons or Pesos, please. The Rabbi Stiffkugel (Opherian@aol.com)
George Will Flays Luke F-rd
In his 9/29 column, George Will takes apart Luke F-rd's new self-centered direction:
Ford has enveloped himself in melodrama that seems designed to divert attention from the site's subject to the author -- indeed, to make, in the postmodern manner, the author into the subject...
Down from the academy has trickled the poison of postmodernism, defined by a non sequitur: Knowledge is conditioned in complex ways by the contexts in which facts are encountered. Therefore facts hardly matter, only interpretations are real. Regarding literature, postmodernism elevates the critic over the author, whose meaning the critic does not merely discover, he creates it. Regarding history, postmodernism invests the historian with the heroism of an artist, creating reality rather than fulfilling the mundane role of describer and interpreter of reality. Facts are dissolved by the radical indeterminacy of our relationship to reality. Thus a biographer can sever the tether that ties him -- how tiresome -- to his subject, and can strut to center stage.
Ford enjoyed, to a degree unprecedented in the annals of porn journalism, the cooperation -- access to the subject and his papers -- implicit in an agreement to write an authorized biography, meaning not an uncritical study but one given every opportunity for an accurate rendering of reality. What he produced is an act of bad faith.
Nice Jewish Girl Calls
NJG: It's really unusual for me to like a normal guy like that. What do you see in a normal chick?
Luke: Stability, responsibility, ethics, decency, family, connection, community, family...
NJG: You couldn't handle any of those things. You'd be those things if you could. You're trying to look for that outside of yourself because you don't have that inside yourself. You couldn't really hang with someone like that.
Luke: Yes I could.
NJG: Have you ever?
Luke: Ahhh... But I'm ready now.
NJG: Whatever, you can be delusional. I don't understand why you would even like somebody normal. I don't find normal people attractive.
Luke: I'm normal, I just took a wrong turn. I fell into porn journalism.
NJG: Wrong Luke.
Luke: Cocksocket emailed me today...
NJG: You think these normal chicks are more easily dominated?
Luke: Oh no, they're stronger than I am. These are tough chicks.
NJG: And what am I? Weak?
Luke: Like me, a mixed bag. A case.
NJG: I am.
Luke: If we got together, we'd slash our wrists and jump off a building.
NJG: Ohmigod, that would be so cool.
Luke: Shut up, that is against the Torah.
NJG: You're talking to real born Jew. We'd be like that for an hour, we'd be so f---ing depressed, but we recover quickly.
Luke: I was so depressed this evening. After talking to Chris Mann, he seemed like such a decent guy. I felt awful in comparison.
NJG: We're like Sid and Nancy. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We're interesting. You don't know any chicks like me, the slash-your-wrists type who would take you to the edge.
Luke: True, and I don't want to know any more of you.
NJG: Let's say you hook up with a straight type, you will be so bored.
Luke: No, I will be resonsible. Home, family, community.
NJG: No one can make you responsible. You're looking for her to make you in a way that you are not. And you will never be that way because you're like me...
Luke: Hang on, I have to take this call. It's XXX.
Jews Should Own Guns
Luke views the Granada Hills shooting as a wake up calls to Jews to own guns. Dennis Prager writes in his journal The Prager Perspective:
However, American Jews who do feel less secure might want to reconsider their visceral loathing of gun ownership. The only type of state that truly protects its citizens against crime is a police state. In free societies, crime is prevented by people having good values and therefore not committing crimes and/or by citizens protecting themselves against criminals. The role of hte police in free countries is overwhelmingly to apprehend criminals and solve crimes. They can rarely prevent crimes.
Given the cowardice inherent in racist violence, Nazi-types would think twice about attacking Jews if Jews were known to be as proficient with arms as they are with words. While the latter are useless against antisemites, guns are quite useful.
Teresa Strasser
One of Luke's favorite columnists writes for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. In the latest issue:
...the reality of being female is not the glossy, perfectly waxed, problem-free genitalia of a centerfold. The female reproductive system is a complex one, rife with the possibility of malfunctions. There will be bladder and yeast infections, quite possibly warts or ovarian cysts, everything that goes with pregnancy and childbirth, not to mention menopause with its accompanying constellation of symptoms.
...In Natalie Angier's book, "Woman: An Intimate Geography," she writes that male seminal fluids change the pH balance of the vagina, making women much more susceptible to various infections and diseases. You guys are alkaline, we're acidic, and the two just don't mix sometimes.
According to my religious tutor, no one knows her body better than an Orthodox Jew. Family purity laws require women to know exactly when their periods begin and end so that they can refrain from physical contact with their husbands during that time and for seven days after. According to her, this time of separation sanctifies the sexual act, elevating sexual pleasure and the chance of procreation to remind us that these are God-given gifts that should be cherished.
God@yahoo.com writes Luke: Luke, your comments surprise me. You criticize Mr. Foxman for decrying Baptist efforts to proselytize Jews. Luke, in the Jewish tradition, if a member of the faith converts, his/her family goes into mourning, just as if he/she had died. As you can see, this constitutes enormous pain inflicted upon the family of the proselyte. Would you not agree that this infliction of pain is wrong? Other western religions view conversions with similar disdain.
During the dark ages, in the West, if a Christian converted out of Christianity, he/she would run the risk of being killed. The same is/was true of a convert out of Islam in a Moslem country. These acts of killing, although inexcusable and contrary to my commandments, illustrate the pain felt by all people who are targeted by proselytizers. Thus, Jews are not alone in this feeling of pain.
In short, Abe Foxman is not out of line in complaining about the Baptists trying to convert Jews. I agree that this effort, by the Baptists, is not anti-semitism. But it is a source of pain inflicted on a people. And as such, it is wrong. I might also add that proselytizing is arrogant--it is a statement by the proselytizer that the target convert's beliefs are worthless, and only the proselytizer is in possession of the ultimate religious truth. Luke, only I am in possession of the ultimate religious truth, and only I have the right to proselytize.
The second thing I wanted to comment upon was this: What the hell is wrong with you about ragging on the Jews in pornography all the time. You keep this up, and I'm gonna whip out my terrible swift sword. I did smite others for lesser offenses, punk. So go, thou, and sin no more, got that?
Rick: Luke on your website today you said that "Jews are a race". If we use the classical definition of race, the Jews of are the Caucasoid race and not a race upon themselves. This is evident from blond haired Jews from Russia and olive skinned, curly haired Jews from North Africa. The 3 races are caucasoid, negroid and mongoloid. Many people say "race" when the mean ethnicity. Sure their might be a "jewish look". I for the record have a straight nose, blue eyes, staright light brown hair. So when you talk about Jews with other people, you need to make sure we are not seen as a 4th race along with the other 3. You and I are both jews. I was born into it, and you converted to it.
The people whom i directed to your website said they though it was great. Although one was heartbroken at Trinity Loren dying. I have " Ready To Drop" which was her prego film. She was awesome.