Happy Valentines Day!

The last blog entry featured an ad unlikely to ever appear in this country. Here's another, suggesting the gift of wood for Valentines Day. Would "wood" work for the censors in the States?

Also of interest is an article from the New York Times called "I Love You, but You Love Meat" (registration likely required, but you should get registered for the NYT anyway, right?). Negotiation is an important part of a relationship, but for those who live to eat instead of eat to live, food can offer quite a challenge.

Finally, it's now legal to mess around in Texas, as a federal appeals court overturned a ban on sex toys there. Still awaiting word on what that means for neighboring Mississippi, while in Alabama it's still down with toys, but up with Viagra.

My favorite part of The J-Spot sex lecture (and the part I'm excited to develop further) is a cross-cultural look at how backward the United States is compared to Europe in terms of sex. Audiences are loving the chance to see a small slice of a Scandinavian sex education video I discovered in Denmark many years ago. It's a real highlight of the presentation!

The recent Super Bowl reminded me of the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" incident four years ago, cause of much controversy. Meanwhile, few complained about the endless erectile dysfunction ads that ran during the game. We have such hypocrisy and idiocy in our culture when it comes to sex. Violence is condoned (by the way, anyone else alarmed by the incredible number of school and office shootings of late?) while sexual expression is condemned. And even when sex is implied or inferred (hello, Fox), protection from pregnancy or disease is difficult or illegal to portray (hello, many fans of the Fox "News" Network).

It's no wonder we live in a sexually unhealthy, sexually dysfunctional society. So imagine how refreshing it was for me to see this advertisement from France - advertising fruit from the Alsace region. How eye-opening... and mouth-watering!