How the Porn Industry Is Getting People all Hot and Bothered About Cooling the Planet Back to Normal

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from AlterNet:




How the Porn Industry Is Getting People all Hot and Bothered About Cooling the Planet Back to Normal

By Liz Langley, AlterNet. Posted February 13, 2009.

From pedal-powered sex toy delivery services to recycling vibrators, the porn industry has actually made going green sexy.



On Friday the 13th of August 2004, Florida got the first of a series of hurricanes that would knock us even more senseless than we usually are. Crazy, dangerous days followed Hurricane Charley here in Orlando -- days with power lines littering the streets, Red Cross trucks bringing us ice and in the dark, sweltering nights without power. All news and light was dependent on batteries. I had batteries. Within 36 hours I used them all up in my vibrator.

I was not the only one. Nine months after the hurricanes, births in some central Florida hospitals shot up 21 to 26 percent according to USA Today.

Conservative Republicans who live in fear that someone, somewhere is having an orgasm, might do well to note this. People who don't have anything to do -- like work or spend money -- are free to have tons of wild, working-class sex. Sometimes the only optimistic thing in your life is an erection.

So it was a stroke of genius when Larry Flynt of Hustler and Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild, asked Congress for a $5 billion bailout for the porn industry. It was the first and only laugh anyone has provided in regard to the economy thus far, with two generations of porn kings pointing out that the emperor had no clothes. Some of us thought -- well I thought -- for the first time -- "Hey, yeah! WTF? Why do they get a bailout? Where's everyone else's bailout? Where's my bailout?"

Flynt has since owned up to the joke (remember, this is a guy whose use of satire got him sued -- unsuccessfully -- by Jerry Falwell in a landmark First Amendment case). He told the crowd at the XBiz State of the Industry conference that he's "anti-stimulus and anti-bailout," but also "I think we all need to support Obama," and. "There are people out there who are really hurting."

Dang! And we had the perfect plan to put the adult industry in the pink: having it go green. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/sex/126664/how_the_porn_industry_is_getting_people_all_hot_and_bothered_about_cooling_the_planet_back_to_normal/

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1. I forget who said it, but some comedian said

"You don't f*ck it when it's green ..."

He was talking about the "enhancement" of dying the hair, at the time ...

Might have been George Carlin ... he of "Frost my b*sh" ...

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2. Can people screw without breathing?

Because it seems to me that all that heavy breathing (expelling carbon dioxide) would only ADD to the global warming problem...




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