Today's Topics:
Pace Einstein & Bose
Journey to the Planet of the Pinks
penile interface
Gave up alcohol and took up Christ
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 07:56:07 EDT
From: Eric Tiedemann <est@cs.nyu.edu>
Message-Id: <8908151156.AA10697@cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: Pace Einstein & Bose
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 13:06:23 EDT
From: Dale Worley <worley@compass.com>
Subject: Jolly news
South Boson woman dies from multiple stab wounds
Correction: This was actually a South Fermion woman.
Eric
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 14:05:42 EDT
From: Dale Worley <worley@compass.com>
Message-Id: <8908151805.AA00624@sn1987a.compass.com>
Subject: Journey to the Planet of the Pinks
I saw this little description on the Boston Globe, and I though you'd
find it interesting. Background info: Revere is a near suburb of
Boston; "gritty" is a good summary of it. Revere Beach is a long,
very nice beach on the bay, but it is also just downstream of
metropolitan Boston's slowly decomposing sewage treatment plant. And
"Rah-vee-yah" is a good approximation of how "Revere" is pronounced in
the stronger local accents.
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Spandex Central
REVERE (RAH-VEE-YAH) BEACH -- I was at Kelly's Roast Beef the other
day when I heard some guy in a souped-up 'Vette call to a bikini-clad
woman: "Nice yabos, babe!"
Somehow, I didn't think he was talking about her eyes, Or her arms,
elbows or ears. Not when her bathing suit resembled a few strands of
dental floss.
Ah Rahveeyah, the nation's oldest public beach. Suzanne Harrington
has been coming here for years. Guys have followed her with cameras,
even videos. You walk across the street and the cars full of muscle
heads will put it in reverse to let you pass -- and check you out.
"Can I interest you in a meaningful lifetime relationship?" one fellow
called to Harrington the other day.
"No, thank you," she replied.
"Then how about the next 10 minutes?"
Rahveeyah Beach, meat market extraordinaire, has more lines than Bette
Davis' face.
"Hey, I think I love you."
"Nice limbs!"
"you got a license for those?" asked one man, referring to a woman's
size 36-D yabos.
The less clever opt for the simple: "Yo!" often accompanied by
smacking noises, as if calling a dog. Subtlety ain't arrived here
yet.
A couple of middle-age men stopped at Harrington's chair. "They hang
that hostage yet?" one asked. "We got a thousand-dollar bet on it."
Rahveeyah Beach is a study in overactive glands at work. And talk
about fashion statements: Spandex is king, for men and women. Gold
chains, the thicker the better, the more the merrier. Bikinis and
heels. Day-glo colors. Hairspray. Makeup so thick it must be
applied with a trowel. Tank tops, to show off muscles and tattoos.
Rahveeyah Beach is Steroid Central.
I asked a couple of young men on lunch break what they were looking
for in a woman. "Something you'd see on the cover of Cosmo or
Playboy," said Rick, going into excruciating detail.
I pressed. Besides physical qualities, what?
"Phone numbers," buddy Peter promptly replied.
Next, I ran into Teresa, 29, who wore a black and red bikini, red
nailpolish (toes only), gold chain and earrings, a black bow in her
hair, lip gloss and eye makeup. "I like them tall, dark, good-looking
and rich," she said. "And he has to be able to carry on a
conversation, and not many of them here can."
Whaddya mean, Teresa? Just listen to Jim, 25, a bodybuilder and
attorney. He and Arnold Schwarzenegger were separated at bitrh,
judging from the veins popping out of his muscles.
"You don't even need a car to meet girls if you're a bodybuilder," Jim
boasted. "I can just lie here and not even try to meet girls. At a
club, you have to initiate a conversation." God forbid. But, Jim
added: "You don't have to settle for just good-looking girls. There
is plenty of smart people around."
Ah, Rahveeyah Beach. Just think if Thoreau had gotten stiff and taken
a right instead of a left at Concord and wound up in Rahveeyah insead
of Walden:
"I went to the beach because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, like deep tanning oil, Camaros and
Spandex. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow out of my
Riunite, here at the beach where there are no moose but lots of
mousse. Ah, Wal... Rahveeyah thou art heaven."
The sidewalk, the famous wall and the tops of cars bore more bodies
than the beach. Only the brave or nutty went into the foul-smelling
water where brown caps broke on shore, spewing algae, slimy seaweed,
tampons and even a condom or two onto the unfortunate beach. Bathers
emerged like creatures from the Black Lagoon, picking debris from
their torsos. If the Valdez had sunk off Rahveeyah Beach, property
values would've gone up.
Mike Donovan, 62, has been coming to the beach for six decades. After
he swims, he rushes to the bathhouse. "They got a high-power hose
there," he explained.
Andrea Ronchetti and Tracy Baxter were discussing their ideal man as
they sat in their car along the stip. "He's gotta be built," Andrea
said. "And he needs a car like that one." She pointed to a jacked-up
Corvette.
Personality?
"Who cares?" asked Andrea.
"He's gotta be funny," said Tracy.
Intelligence?
"No," said Andrea.
"I'm used to dumb people," Tracy said. "I'm not too smart myself."
As I was hurrying back to my most uncool van, an aging beach bod
slathered in oil called out, "Hey, babe, you fool around?" A fitting
epitaph, if ever there were one, for Rahveeyah Beach.
Honk if you love yabos.
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The $64,000 question is: Is the ultimate example of Pinkness, or have
these people achieved total Slack, having given up all of the
pretensions of our society and taken up living at the most concrete,
gonadal level?
Dale
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 18:06:54 EDT
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <8908152206.AA10049@media-lab>
If I read one more Woodstock retrospective article I'm going to get a
"Kill a Hippy for Jesus" bumpersticker. However, this nugget was more
interesting than most:
``I had no objection to young people listening to all the music
they wanted,'' Heidtman [the local sheriff at the time] says.
``I was against a three-day concert
where unsupervised young people would be sleeping on the ground
with each other. I objected to the permissive sex.''
Today he admits he tried to keep people away or make them leave
using some unorthodox tactics.
``I wouldn't have said this 20 years ago but I guess I can say
it today: I had my guys go out and dig up red ants and plant them
at the concert site. We put a lot of them in there. We tried to
encourage alligators into the canals where people were peeing and
swimming. I had to do what I had to do get them to know they
weren't going to run the show -- we were.''
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 18:13:45 EDT
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <8908152213.AA10149@media-lab>
Subject: penile interface
title: ARIZONA COURTS USE MACHINE TO TRY TO MEASURE MALE SUSPECTS' SEXUAL
AROUSAL
author: BEVERLY MEDLYN
MESA, Ariz. -- What turns a suspected sex offender on?
Ladies' undergarments on a clothesline? The horrified expression
of a woman accosted by an exhibitionist? A 6-year-old boy standing
fully clothed by a tree? A nude woman in bondage?
To measure suspected deviants' sexual responses to photographs
of those scenes, the Arizona court system recently has begun using
a controversial machine called the penile plethysmograph. A ring is
placed around the man's penis so changes in its circumference can
be charted by a computer.
In general, prosecutors and probation officers regard it as a
useful gauge in helping to determine how much risk sex offenders
pose to the community.
The plethysmograph helps narrow the area of sexual deviancy so
it is easier to treat. It also can be used to monitor the
effectiveness of therapy, said Steve Coe, a probation officer who
works exclusively with sex offenders.
But some defense lawyers and civil libertarians question whether
the test has any place at all in the criminal justice system.
``We don't like the idea,'' said Louis Rhodes, executive
director of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union. ``We think it's
abusive, intrusive and dangerous. . . . It is just a very offensive
process if you are not a completely willing victim.''
Added Larry Debus, a Phoenix defense lawyer who successfully
fought a court battle to prevent a probation officer from forcing
his client to undergo the procedure: ``It's not technology. It's
witchcraft.''
Robert Emerick, director of sexuality and addiction programs at
Phoenix Memorial Hospital, is the only therapist in the Phoenix
area who uses the plethysmograph in court evaluations. He said the
machine is misunderstood.
``By itself, it means very little. But if you start applying it
to all the various pieces of the puzzle related to paraphilia
(sexual deviance), it's invaluable,'' Emerick said.
``Unfortunately, people who don't understand how it's used think
that if their client shows any arousal at all, then they are in big
trouble. That's not true at all.''
Emerick said that although the plethysmograph is useful for
pre-and post-trial assessments, it cannot measure guilt or
innocence and shouldn't be admitted as evidence at trial.
Biofeedback
The plethysmograph is only part of a complex, thorough risk
assessment evaluation. The evaluation consists of the defendant
giving an autobiographical statement, a sexual history, and a
ranking of his treatment goals. He also is asked to make a
tape-recording of the sexually deviant act that got him in trouble,
followed by a description of what he regards as an appropriate
sexual encounter.
Emerick reviews police reports and victim statements about the
crime and administers two psychological tests and the
plethysmograph to the defendant.
The defendant then is given a lie-detector test -- partly to
determine whether he did anything to thwart the plethysmograph,
such as having sex before undergoing the test or repressing sexual
thoughts while looking at the pictures.
The plethysmograph is administered in a 12-by-12 room. The
defendant measures the circumference of his flaccid penis and
selects the appropriate size of a metal ring.
He dons a hospital gown, sits in a brown recliner, and puts on
the ring, which has wires that feed into a computer that measures
minute changes in electrical resistance. He also wears earphones so
he can listen to the examiner in the next room, who watches through
a one-way mirror. The defendant is shown a series of 20 slides for
eight seconds each. He is asked to describe the age, gender, and
activity of the person depicted, as well as say whether he is
sexually aroused.
The slides are shown in a three-stage process. In one segment, a
prepubescent girl is shown clothed, partly nude and nude. Those
slides are followed by a picture of a flower, or of a landscape
scene -- a ``recovery'' picture that remains on the screen until the
man's penis returns to its flaccid state.
Segments include prepubescent and adolescent boys and girls,
none of whom are engaged in sexual activity. Other slides depict
adults engaging in explicit heterosexual and homosexual sex.
One of the primary goals of the test is to determine how aware
the offender is of his sexual interests. Many offenders deny
deviant sexual interests, and they are the hardest to treat, said
Emerick.
``For instance, a person who denies a sexual attraction to
prepubescent females but physiologically demonstrates very
significant arousal tends to be an offender type who frequently
gets into inappropriate situations, makes inappropriate contact
with children, and denies that it ever had a sexual basis to it,''
Emerick said.
[for more on this stuff, see _Overexposed_ by Sylvere Lotringer.]
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 23:26:42 EDT
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <8908160326.AA07818@schubert.mit.edu>
Subject: Gave up alcohol and took up Christ
"I finally realized that I would do anything while drnk." What's he
complaining about? Many people pay for hundreds of hours of
AccuBeating to reach this level of enlightenment. To be able to
achieve it with just a little intoxicant is a rare achievement!
Dale
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