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"porn aid" – sex ed on board Qantas
Qantas says yes to mile-high film The Female Orgasm Explained
By Erin Michael via news.com.au
Learn the secrets of the female orgasm on your next trip abroad / AAP
- Qantas screening raunchy doco
- Program is the airline’s most popular
- Parents told to read listing guide
NOW that’s in-flight entertainment!
A cheeky documentary about the female orgasm is raising eyebrows among Qantas passengers. The SBS program The Female Orgasm Explained is available for viewing by all international travellers and features excerpts from old porn flicks, graphics and sound effects that would make conservative commuters squirm.
Originally shown on SBS, the French film aims to assist viewers “understand the intricacies of the female orgasm” – and it seems many people are keen to learn.
Qantas spokesman Luke Enright said the program is the most popular on its television channel The Edge and will continue to be screened until November.
Mr Enright said a program synopsis is provided in the in-flight entertainment guide and the channel carries a warning that some of the content is not suitable for children. It also carries an MA rating.
He said crew are able to block content to the seat of unaccompanied minors at the request of parents. However, to block the program cautious parents must read the guide to know it exists.
Sociologist at the University of Wollongong, Dr Michael Flood, said airing the documentary in a public domain was “fascinating but problematic”.
“I think it’s great if children and young people learn about sexual pleasure because most children and only taught about the biology of sex,” he said.
“But I don’t think this documentary is age appropriate and it’s not designed as a sexual education tool.
“There’s a growing sexuality in our culture and perhaps it reflects how sexual material is being made increasingly available.”
MORE ON: the female orgasm explained – the film
The sexual revolution of the ’70s has allowed women to claim their right to pleasure and to better know their body. However, 40 years later, the female orgasm remains mysterious to a lot of people – both men and women.
Most of us can recall that scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally and Meg Ryan is moaning and groaning having an alleged orgasm. In the movie she is obviously faking it. The movie endeavours to show that women have the ability to confuse or mislead their men into believing that they are actually having an orgasm.
Unfortunately for men, no matter how much they scream or moan, they cannot fake an orgasm – as well, let’s face it, a masculine orgasm is rather messy.
During the 1970s the sexual revolution enabled women the ability to lay claim to a right of pleasure in the bedroom; for the first time in public society, women were able to better understand their own bodies and discover what it actually is that enables/causes the orgasm. However, we are now 40 years since that revolution and for many men the onset and occurrence of feminine orgasm remains a total mystery.
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sense of humor = travel must
20 funniest travel quotes you’ve never heard
Travel can be stressful, so keep these quotes in mind next time you lose your luggage
By CNNGo.com
1. Travel pillows
“Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.” — Jim Gaffigan, comedian
2. Fame
“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” — Britney Spears, American pop star
3. American tourists
“There’s nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.” — Stephen Colbert, talk show host
4. Indians and terrorists
“It’s hard man ’cause the security in the airport, customs, immigration, they really need to learn the difference between a terrorist and an Indian.
“Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive.” — Russell Peters, comedian
5. Flight delays
“People say there’s delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there.
“Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you’re home.” — Louis C.K., comedian
6. Pre-boarding
“What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?” — George Carlin, comedian
7. Airport security
“Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left.
“Bingo, Asians. They pack light, travel efficiently, and they have a thing for slip-on shoes. Gotta love ’em.” — Ryan Bingham (played by George Clooney), from the movie “Up in the Air”
8. Fear
“My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I’m thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.” — Dennis Miller, talk show host
9. Africa
Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don’t give a damn. You tell them, ‘Hey, I just got back from the motherland.’
“They’re like, ‘Where’d you go — Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'” — Wanda Sykes, comedian
10. Passport photos
“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore, environmental activist
11. Long-haul flights
“You want to know what its like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.” — Lewis Black, comedian
12. Taking photos
“When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they’re like, ‘What do I do … I don’t really … ha-huh …’ Yeah, it’s the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!” — Dane Cook, comedian
13. Egyptian street vendors
“You can’t walk down here at all. It can’t be a short cut because you get stopped every few seconds.” [moves aside to let an elderly woman pass] “See? I bet she left the house when she was 10!” — Karl Pilkington, travel host of “An Idiot Abroad”
14. Whiners
“People come back from flights and tell you a story like it’s a horror story. They act like their flight was like a cattle car in the 1940s in Germany.
“That’s how bad they make it sound. They’re like, ‘It was the worst day of my life. We didn’t board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.’
Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?’” — Louis C.K, comedian
15. Similarities between the United States and Australia
“Imagine if American politics were a boomerang, and you threw that boomerang and it came back to you exactly like it was … except now it had a dark, leathery suntan and was wearing corduroy shorts and an orange Ocean Pacific tank top.” — from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents: America (the Book)”
16. New Zealand
“Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know — because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.” — Lewis Black, comedian
17. Rio Carnival
“I’m sure one day I’ll look back at this and go, ‘I was in Carnival!’ But it’s just not happening now. I’m sorta thinking, ‘I’m in the Carnival?’ Like, what am I doin’ here?” — Karl Pilkington, travel host of “An Idiot Abroad”
18. Airline food
“[Airline food] is the tiniest food I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get — chicken, steak, anything — has grill marks on each side, like somehow we’ll actually believe there’s an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.” — Ellen DeGeneres, talk show host
19. Airport sinks
“What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet.
“Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets.
“What is it they think we will do? Turn ’em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?” — Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
20. Backpacking Europe
I went backpacking through Europe and I met so many Australians and learned so much about Australian culture. — Anonymous
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know your geography part 2: what are the 5 smallest countries?
I’ve been to two!!
Visiting the 5 smallest countries in the world
By Yenni via Got Saga
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Vatican Total Area (sq km) 0.44
Vatican City (Citta del Vaticano), also incorrectly known as but popularly synonymous with the Holy See (Santa Sede), is the latest and only current Papal state in existence and the temporal seat of the Pope, head of the worldwide Catholic Church. Situated within the city of Rome in Italy, the Vatican is the world’s smallest state. Outside the Vatican City itself, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s summer residence, also enjoy extraterritorial rights. Although 1000 people live within Vatican City, many dignitaries, priests, nuns, guards, and 3,000 lay workers live outside the Vatican. Officially, there are about 800 citizens making it the smallest nation in demographic size on the globe. The Vatican even fields a soccer team composed of the Swiss Guard who hold dual citizenship. The Vatican sits on a low hill between 19 m and 75 m above sea level. With a boundary only 3.2 km around, the enclosed land area is smaller than some shopping malls. However the buildings are far more historic and architecturally interesting. When talking about terrian, most of the country’s area is the vatican gardens. Monaco Total Area (sq km) 1.95
This is the second smallest independent state in the world (after the Vatican) and is almost entirely urban. Monte Carlo is not the capital of Monaco but a government district. The country is divided into four areas: Monaco-Ville (the old city), the Condamine (port quarter), Monte-Carlo (business and recreation), and Fontvieille (recreation and light industry). With no natural resources to exploit other than its location and climate, the principality has become a resort for tourists and a tax haven for businesses. Monaco is six times the size of the Vatican and still remains the world’s most densely populated independent country. Nauru Total Area (sq km) 21
Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation, covering just 21 square kilometres. From December 2005 to September 2006, Nauru became partially isolated from the outside world when Air Nauru, the only airline with service to the island, ceased to operate. The only outside access to Nauru was then by ocean-going ships. The airline was able to restart operations under the name Our Airline with monetary aid from Taiwan. The island has one airport; Nauru International Airport. Tuvalu Total Area (sq km) 26
Tuvalu is an island group in the South Pacific that form the fourth smallest country in the world. In 1974, ethnic differences within the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands caused the Polynesians of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation from the Micronesians of the Gilbert Islands. The following year, the Ellice Islands became the separate British colony of Tuvalu. Independence was granted in 1978. In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name “.tv” for $50 million in royalties over the next dozen years. San Marino Total Area (sq km) 61.2
San Marino is the world’s oldest republic and Europe’s third smallest state. It lies 657m above sea level with spectacular views of the surrounding countryside and Adriatic coast, and is situated only 10km from Rimini. Legend has it that the founder of San Marino, a stonemason arrived from the island of Arbe in Dalmatia, climbed Mt. Titano to found a small community of Christians, persecuted for their faith by the Emperor Diocletian. San Marino is made up of a few towns dotted around the mountain sides. The capital of San Marino is itself called ‘San Marino’ and is situated high up on a mountain top. The capital is surrounded by a wall and three distinct towers overlook the rest of the country. The site “San Marino: Historic Centre and Mount Titano” has become part of the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008. The towns surrounding the capital are more industrial and generally not as attractive as the main city. San Marino is 20 times bigger than Monaco and half the size of Liechtenstein. |
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know your geography: what are the 5 ugliest US states?
The 5 ugliest states in the country
By Meg Nesterov via Gadling
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. San Francisco Examiner writer and occasional Gadling contributor Bob Ecker doesn’t behold much, at least for a few unlucky states. Ecker previously named the prettiest US states including coastalCalifornia, exotic Hawaii, diverse New York, historic Virginia, and verdant Washington. He’s now determined the unfortunate ugliest states, measured by landscape, not people:
- Connecticut: the Constitution State is called a “suburban hell”
- Delaware: small and boring
- Kansas: land-locked and a “throwback,” in a bad way
- Nevada: outside of Las Vegas, it’s a “desolate and forbidding wasteland” (what about Lake Tahoe, Bob?)
- Oklahoma: another flat, hot, and boring state (don’t tell Lonely Planet’s Robert Reid, an OK native)
Obviously the article is tongue in cheek — there are beautiful corners in every great state in this country — but Ecker’s skewering provides a good starting point for thinking about vacation destinations.
(Photo courtesy Flickr user Gage Skidmore)
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