The politician told newspaper Aftonbladet that his trip in early January was sponsored by around ten different companies, including budget airline Norwegian.

Pressed by the newspaper on why he had accepted the paid trip, despite claims that he generally refused offers from the airline industry, Federley replied:

“Well, this was pretty much tied to my drag personality, Ursula. It’s not me as a member of parliament doing this; it’s more a case of me travelling as my drag personality,” he said.

Federley has not made any secret of his predilection for cross-dressing, recently arriving as Ursula at the Swedish Mr Gay competition.

Dismayed by the newspaper’s line of questioning, Federley dismissed what he felt was an insinuation that he had only taken on the job for the sake of a free holiday in the sun at a newly built four-star hotel.

“Sometimes I get asked if I want to do something extra that has nothing at all to do with my parliamentary work. If it doesn’t clash with the job, I’ll take on a commission. And like anybody else I’ll ask to be paid for it,” he writes on his personal website.

Federley explained that the purpose of the trip was to prepare travel tips for people intending to travel to the Spanish island’s annual drag queen carnival. The invitation had come from gay community website Hanky.se where the politician maintains a blog, the title of which translates as “The Other Side of Federley”.

Though apparently baffled by media interest in his extra-curricular activities, the MP was sure to maintain his keen business instinct.

“Maybe this will mean more publicity for Ursula, which in turn will lead to more work,” he writes.

Courtesy TheLocal.se: Sweden

Jolie — who is openly bisexual — and GaGa — a rumored hermaphrodite — had a secret rendez vous at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel that lasted all night, Halperin alleges.

“Angie is obsessed with Lady Gaga,” a source said.

It’s not the first time Jolie has been accused of cheating on Pitt.

Earlier this week, In Touch Weekly magazine spoke to Anna Kowalski — a housekeeper who worked extensively with the family on their numerous visits to the Waldorf-Astoria in New York — who claimed Angelina had a series of steamy sex sessions with one of the dialect coaches she worked with on the set of her movie Salt.

Kowalski claimed she walked into Jolie’s room and saw Jolie’s bed strewn with sex toys.

“The room was a disaster,” Anna revealed. “There was water all over the bathroom and empty vodka bottles everywhere. Every towel had been used. And over five dozen cattleya orchids were scattered around the room, and there were the tops of the flowers in the tub, with candles.

“The bed was covered with black rubber sheets, and there were sex toys on it.”

Anna said that what she saw left her with little doubt that the actress and the tutor were having an affair.

Jolie has previously spoken of her desire to have an open relationship.

Courtesy ShowBizSpy.com

Nicolas Sarkozy, right, appears eager not to take actions that offend his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

She had suggested appointing Frédéric Mitterrand, a friend, as culture minister and the government’s support for him, despite his confession to having paid boys for sex, is partly a sign of Sarkozy’s eagerness not to offend his first lady.

“She has great power and influence,” said Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, a senator in Sarkozy’s centre-right party, referring to the Italian-born singer and former model. “It’s obvious she is defending Mitterrand. But it puts the president in a difficult situation. He is offending many of his supporters.”

L’affaire Mitterrand began when the nephew of the last Socialist president flew to the defence of Roman Polanski, the Polish film director, over child sex charges, only to face such accusations himself in connection with a memoir published in 2005.

Yesterday it emerged that he had also offered to help rehabilitate two teenage brothers convicted earlier this year of raping a 16-year-old girl on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion. One was the son of his make-up artist when he worked as a television presenter. He may bitterly regret having written “I got into the habit of paying for boys” in his book, The Bad Life.

The reaction when passages were read out on television last week not only laid bare Bruni-Sarkozy’s clout in the court of “King Sarko”; it also highlighted the chasm between the French and the Anglo-Saxons.

Frédéric Mitterrand admitted paying Thai boys for sex in his book, The Bad Life

From Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher who strangled his wife in 1980 but avoided prison, to Cesare Battisti, the Italian writer who was convicted in Italy on terrorism charges but who went on to become a literary star in Paris, the French have often applied different criteria to intellectuals and artists.

The public’s patience may be wearing thin, however, and there are signs that Sarkozy may end up paying dearly.

Already the scandal has prompted grumbling among his allies over Bruni-Sarkozy’s role and what had, until now, been regarded as a brilliant presidential strategy to undermine the Socialist opposition by offering top jobs to its heroes and to openly gay politicians or members of racial minorities.

The pursuit of diversity appeared to founder this year when Sarkozy sacked Rachida Dati, the first Arab minister and icon of diversity, after complaints of incompetence.

Appointing a Mitterrand to such a high-profile job was just as courageous for a president who had promised “rupture” with the bad old ways of the past. Mitterrand, 62, claimed he had asked Sarkozy if he thought the book would be “an obstacle”. The president had replied: “Not at all. I’ve read it. It’s a very good book.”

He may not think quite so highly of it today. According to a poll conducted last week his approval rating has dropped by five points to 41% in a month. The largest fall (16%) was among the over 65-year-olds, the conservative voters Sarkozy relied on to win power in 2007.

He hopes, no doubt, that the fuss will soon fade but this seems unlikely. Inaugurating an art exhibition in Bordeaux yesterday, Mitterrand was jeered by protesters with prams and posters saying, “Don’t touch our children.” Only a quarter of viewers found Mitterrand convincing as he responded with indignation and anger to a grilling by a female interviewer on television on Thursday about his activities in the brothels of Thailand.

When asked how he was sure he had never paid for sex with a minor, the minister prompted scepticism by replying that he could distinguish between a youth and a “40-year-old boxer”.

Calling for his resignation, Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Front, quoted a paragraph in which he wrote: “The abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire.”

The book was critically acclaimed in its day and Mitterrand, a gentle soul who often rides a scooter to work and has never hidden his homosexuality, was praised for his honesty.

It exploded in his face only because he had stirred anger by rushing to the defence of Polanski, who is fighting extradition from Switzerland to the United States, from where he fled after admitting a sex offence with a girl of 13 in 1977.

Mitterrand was not the only French minister to express outrage at the arrest of Polanski. Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister, said the director had committed nothing more than a “youthful error”. Various pillars of the cultural elite signed a petition calling for his release.

“Being an artist or intellectual is considered a privilege in France,” explained Christian Viviani, a French film professor, suggesting that prominent French artists and intellectuals believe their work allows them some moral leeway. Politicians seem more than happy to indulge that belief: Jack Lang, a culture minister appointed by President François Mitterrand, was one of the most outspoken supporters of Bertrand Cantat, a French rock star who bludgeoned his girlfriend, the actress Marie Trintignant, to death in a hotel room in Lithuania in 2003. He was released from jail in 2007 after serving only half his eight-year sentence.

Bruni-Sarkozy, for her part, managed to persuade her husband last year not to send Marina Petrella back to Italy where she is wanted on murder and terrorism charges.

The public appears to have little sympathy for Polanski: in one poll more than 70% said the film maker should face justice. Many letter writers have also condemned his defenders, especially after reminders of the contents of Mitterrand’s book.

From André Gide’s accounts of sex with young boys in Algeria in the 1920s to Michel Houellebecq’s novels, the subject of sexual tourism has often stirred controversy in France and is decried by the government. Except, it seems, when a minister is involved.

It emerged that Sarkozy himself was co-ordinating the defence of “Frédo”, as he is known to friends, advising him to “defend his honour” before the French people.

The government’s decision to rally around Mitterrand seemed to be based partly on the idea that his private life was being intruded upon, even if he had invited such scrutiny with his book.

The right to a private life has long been regarded as sacred by French politicians. A compliant press has seldom dared to puncture the taboo but in an age of instant communication and internet competition the ramparts are crumbling.

The French press showed little appetite for the Mitterrand story until film of Le Pen reading extracts from the book on various internet websites made it impossible to ignore.

For the Establishment it is a frightening revolution. “Do we really want a totally transparent society?” asked Laurent Joffrin, editor of Libération, the left-wing newspaper. “Do we really want a society of inquisition?”

For Garriaud-Maylam, a more basic principle is at stake. “I feel that ministers should set a good example,” she said. “Unfortunately, that is not the case here — far from it.”

Rise of Bruni’ s left-leaning friends

The embattled French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, is one of several left-leaning friends of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady, to have been drafted into the service of Nicolas Sarkozy.

An informal “kitchen cabinet” of left-wing advisers around the French president includes Raphaël Enthoven, one of her former lovers, and Marin Karmitz, a film producer and former Maoist who works with Mitterrand as a “cultural adviser”.

Enthoven, a philosophy professor, is the father of Aurélien, Bruni-Sarkozy’s eight-year-old son. In spite of their separation the two have remained friends and talk on the telephone most days. He is a regular guest at the Sakozys’ dining table.

Bruni-Sarkozy’s ability to attract such figures to the camp of Sarkozy, who was once reviled by the Parisian elite as uncultured, is a result of fratricidal bickering in the moribund Socialist party. Enthoven has torn up his membership card in disgust.

Karmitz, who often joins the first couple for cocktails, likes to say: “It is not me that has changed. It’s the left.”

The French media have christened these champagne Socialist deserters la gauche Carla – a variation of the “caviar left”. They are united in their disenchantment with the Socialists, who are unlikely to return to power, and admiration for the dynamic Sarkozy.

Bruni-Sarkozy’s influence extends well beyond the choice of advisers and ministers. Sarkozy has also taken to reading books and has shed weight under a strict regime of dieting and exercise, which was blamed for an illness he suffered while jogging in the summer.

Courtesy Times: United Kingdom

We reported this morning that the legal docs describe Anna Nicole and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich naked in a bathtub together. Authorities claim the two women had a personal relationship “that crossed the boundaries of professionalism.”

The documents are very specific: “One photo showed both naked women embracing while looking at the camera. In another photo, Dr. Eroshevich is sitting between Anna Nicole Smith’s legs while Anna…was in a more reclined position.

In the third photo, Anna Nicole Smith has her ankles on each of Dr. Eroshevich’s shoulders while they are holding hands and their clasped hands are resting in the area of Anna Nicole Smith’s vagina posing for the camera.”

Courtesy TMZ.com

By using only his friends list, according to Valleywag (via Boston Globe), they can determine his sexual orientation. “In the students’ test, which examined 947 profiles, the program identified all 10 of 10 men the students knew to be gay, but who had not declared so on Facebook.”

This software, which has yet to be released, will come in handy — especially in the Bay Area where most men, specifically, tend to look/act gay. (Or so we hear. Or… who knows. We have terrible gaydar.)

Courtesy SFist.com

Coburn

Schwartz, a longtime conservative activist who has been with Oklahoma Republican for 15 years, first claimed that homosexuality is wrong because most 10-year-old boys have an innate hatred for it.

Then he began discoursing on the evils of pornography, echoing a friend who once told him that all porn was gay porn because it turned men “inwards.”

His conclusion: If you told 10-year-old boys that looking at naked pictures of women would make them gay, then they wouldn’t be buying Playboy.

“Pornography is a blight… It is a disaster. It is one of those silent diseases in our society that we haven’t been able to overcome very well. Now, I may be getting politically incorrect here. And it’s been a few years, but not that many, since I was closely associated with pre-adolescent boys, boys around 10 years of age. But it is my observation that boys of that age have less tolerance for homosexuality than just about any other class of people. They speak badly about homosexuality. And that’s because they don’t want to be that way. They don’t want to fall into it.”

Schwartz told the crowd about Jim Johnson, a friend of his who turned an old hotel into a hospice for gay men dying of AIDS. “One of the things he said to me,” said Schwartz, “that I think is an astonishingly insightful remark… he said ‘All pornography is homosexual pornography, because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.”

There were murmurs and gasps from the crowd. “Now, think about that,” said Schwartz. “And if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he’s going to want to get a copy of Playboy? I’m pretty sure he’ll lose interest. That’s the last thing he wants! You know, that’s a good comment, it’s a good point, and it’s a good thing to teach young people.”

h/t Josh Marshall

Courtesy Politico.com

Naked Circus Classic

Soy Beans Make you Gay

A man stood up and stated he was gay and proclaimed his love for George. If that wasn’t enough he proceeded to strip down to his underwear and tie and asked the actor for a kiss. George was surprised to say the least but he took the incident in good humor. He also let the guy down easy when he told him it really is bad when you put yourself out there and it fails.

Dating today is scary for many people. It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there and know that rejection is a part of the dating activity. George and the unidentified man took the situation and good humor which made the rejection easier.

Courtesy TheExaminer.com

The New County Hotel was built in 1840 but is currently empty

Developers hoped to make it into a club for “people with alternative sexual lifestyles”.

Councillors said the idea “does not reinforce Gloucester’s special character and sense of place”.

‘Moral’ objections

The councillors had been instructed they had no right to veto the scheme on moral grounds.

But the committee was told that more than half of the Gloucester City Centre Community Partnership objected.

Martyn White, of Gloucester Civic Trust, wrote: “I personally have strong moral objections to such a place existing at all.

“To site it in the historic city centre, opposite one Christian church and next door but one to another would make a mockery of our heritage and rob Gloucester of all credibility to visitors.”

Plans included a “fetish room for adult enjoyment”.

The planning application states: “The private members’ club would comprise an exclusive venue for people with alternative sexual lifestyles such as gay men and women, bisexual men and women, transvestites, cross-dressers, cross-genders, variables and swingers.”

Formerly known as The Ram Inn, the New County Hotel was built in 1840 and extended in 1890.

Until the 1980s it was regarded as Gloucester’s premier hotel.

Courtesy BBC.co.uk

Caster Semenya is blurring sexual identity definitions

That’s what the IAAF running officials are wondering about the fantastic South African runner Caster Semenya.

(The Endurance Sports Examiner, Roman Mica, did a top-notch job of capturing the controversy, and you may want to follow more about this issue and the world of racing through the column. And, New York Celebrity Fitness and Health Examiner Samantha Chang is following what is going on with the issue, too!)

The issue is befuddling the sports world (and it’s about time!) Man? Woman?

Well guess what? What if she is neither—or all of the above?

Finally, people may start realizing that the definition of sex is perhaps as fluid as the definition of one’s sexuality. Yeah, just like people aren’t homosexual or heterosexual, they aren’t just simply male or female either. It’s really not confusing at all. It’s about learning a few more definitions, and realizing that world isn’t made up of just black or white, but many shades of gray.

I have known a handful of beautiful people who are considered “intersex.” (Sometimes, they are lumped into the “trans” category, which includes transsexual, trans-gendered and transvestite people, but that’s whole different column!)

The intersex people have (or had) genitals resembling both a male and a female. Sometimes, tragically, their parents have made a decision for them when they were babies to have one side forced upon them over the other side. Inevitably, the parents get the choice wrong. The child is pumped up with drugs or mentally pushed to live all the stereotypes of the chosen gender, but inside they may feel very different.

Alas, one of my intersex friends committed suicide because the overwhelming pressure of being different was too much. He/she (how he/she preferred to be called) couldn’t cope with the feeling that he/she was part of a freak show. Someday, I’ll go into more details about it, but it’s still a raw subject. But yes, these people do exist.

Also, they almost universally consider themselves bisexual. They have attractions, or recognize their attractions, to both males and females (and the wonderful, but forgotten, range of sexual identities in between.

See a wonderful explanation of an intersexed person by 37-year-old Misha Kailana below. Maybe it will open up your mind about the dual definitions of sex and how mainstream society defines it.

As far as the runner’s association, they’ve got a lot of mind-expanding issues to deal with themselves!

Courtesy Examiner.com

Guess what I got in my drawers?

Word game

There’s a lot of different terms meaning “a chick with a dick” – shemale, lady boy, tranny. What is the difference between them if all these websites look the same?

• Shemale (sometimes called she male, she-male or she-man) is a partially-feminized male. They typically have breasts (either grown through hormone therapy or breast augmentation surgery) and other female secondary sex characteristics, but they have not undergone male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. The majority of shemales are from Thailand and Brazil. You can also find hot girls from Argentina, USA, Philippines and Colombia.
• Tranny is a derogatory abbreviation of transvestite. This term means cross dressers – men wearing female clothes. However, nowadays tranny niche can also include transgenders and transsexuals.
• Ladyboy is a term that describes a “chick with a dick” from Thailand and South East Asia.
Another problem is the difference between a transsexual, transgender and transvestite. It is often unclear to the majority of porn surfers. Here are some basic differences between the “trans”:
• Transgender is an umbrella term for individuals who may have the genitals of one sex, but they associate themselves with another gender. For example, a person who has a penis but feels female may be called a transgender.
• Transvestite, or cross dresser, is a man who enjoys wearing women’s clothes. He may be fully dressed as a woman or wear certain articles of women’s clothes such as lingerie or stockings. Transvestites and shemales are two different niches, but a lot of people (and webmasters) confuse them.
• Transsexual is a person who doesn’t only dress as the opposite sex but also fundamentally feels that he/she was born in the wrong body. They could have a male body with a female mind (it is called Male to Female Transsexual, or MtoF). There is also the reverse situation when a person is born with a female body and a male mind (Female to Male Transsexual, or FtoM). Not all shemales are transsexuals – some of them prefer being both sexes just to make money.

Who likes shemale niche?

Who becomes a member of shemale paysites? Gays? Girls? Actually, the majority of customers for this niche are straight men. The reason is simple: even though shemales have a penis, they look and act like women.

For this reason shemale niche is not popular in the gay market. Gay guys want to see guys, not girls. There may be a demand for effeminate looking guys in the gay niche, but the models still have to be guys.

People who like shemale niche often call themselves ‘Straight with a twist’. Many of them are over 30, probably married, or in a relationship with a woman. They have seen a lot of stuff, and they are just looking for something more exotic.
Shemale niche has a lot in common with strap-on dildo fetish and anal sex. There are hundreds of websites that feature women with strap-on dildos having sex with men, and they are quite popular. That’s close to shemale having sex with a man.

Most of the straight audience considers sex with a shemale as an erotic fantasy – almost like forbidden fruit. They don’t want to be caught with a transsexual. So they just look at hot pictures and videos, but don’t try to meet them in real life.

Shemale websites

There are many sub-niches in the shemale market, just like in the gay or straight genres. You can find websites with European, Afro-American or Asian shemails; live webcams; dating sites; solo model sites; cartoons and comics; and various provocative combinations like shemale/shemale, shemale/female, and shemale/male.

Here are some websites you may consider to learn more about shemale niche:

• www.shemalescenes.com. Shemale Scenes offers downloadable hardcore movies and photos of gorgeous girls with penises between their legs. At the present moment there are 117 models. The membership fee is $35 for 30 days (recurring), $75 for 90 days (non-recurring), and $99 for 150 days (non-recurring)
• www.shemale-club.com. Shemale-club features hundreds of hot shemale models. Besides standard content, they also offer pictures and videos made my members’ request. The membership fee is $35 for 30 days (recurring), $75 for 90 days (non-recurring), and $99 for 150 days (non-recurring).
• www.shemaleseduction.com. Welcome to tranny town! Shemale Seduction offers porn movies and hi-resolution photos with horny models. The membership fee is $4.87 for 3 days trial (recurring), $39.73 for 30 days membership (recurring). You can pay with a credit card or a check.
• http://www.shemalereality.com. Would you like to pick up a hot transsexual and take her home? At ShemaleReality sexy models with penises seduce straight guys and live out their fantasies. The membership fee is $29.95 for 30 day access and $56.95 for 90 day access.
• www.shemalenova.com. Shemale Nova is variety, quantity, and innovation. They do their best to cover the whole market – from hardcore to reality, from vanilla sex to kinky fetishes like group sex, sharing partners, domination, double penetration, etc. The membership fee is $1.00 for 1 day trial period; and $29.95 for 1 month (then $29.95 every 1 month until cancelled).
• www.blackbrazilianshemales.com. Black Brazilian Shemales offers high quality exclusive videos, photos and screenshots. You can meet brand new, carefully selected black shemales models every week. The membership fee is $1.00 for 1 day trial period; and $29.95 for 1 month (then $29.95 every month until cancelled).
• www.lb-69.com. Lb-69 offers a mix of solo and hardcore scenes of over 200 ladyboy models. There are 100% original high-quality pictures and full-screen videos, a big forum for transsexual admirers, direct email and phone numbers of the girls. The membership fee is $39.95 for 1 month (then $29.95 every 1 month until cancelled), or $99.95 for 6 months.

Shemale niche used to very small, but now, thanks to the Internet, it has become a major player in the adult entertainment industry. Affiliates will enjoy the benefits of the curiosity that surrounds this genre in addition to the shemale admirers that spend a lot on their adult entertainment. However, it also means that you will have to work hard as more and more people are going to promote this niche.

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