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Boystown is very obviously a gay ghetto (ghetto being used to describe a self-segregated community here, not to describe quality of living.) In addition to the normal facets of life that you find everywhere, Boystown also has gay bars, strip clubs, sex shops. Did the presence of these things affect you in any way?
If you mean, did they make me uncomfortable, the answer is no, not at all. Actually, I didn’t notice the strip clubs (hmm), and the sex shop window displays were interesting, not vulgar. We have made our way to a number of the bars, oh yes we have:), and at each and every one I have been greeted with warmth and friendship and made to feel included.  Oh so many life lessons are there to be learned in the Boystown community about affection and acceptance…

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Defendants Breathless 2000 (Breathless) and Christofis Kontos appeal from an order of the Law Division confirming an arbitration award in favor of plaintiff William Walters and denying their motion for leave to file a demand for trial de novo out of time. Additionally, defendant Kontos argues that the judgment against him must be set aside because plaintiff’s amended complaint adding him as a named defendant was barred by the statute of limitations and the arbitrator made no finding of his liability. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.
On September 4, 2007, plaintiff filed a complaint against Breathless, a gentlemen’s club in Rahway, ABC Corp. 1-10, and John Does 1-10, seeking recovery for injuries suffered from a slip and fall in the men’s restroom of the facility on December 18, 2005. Plaintiff alleged he slipped on a slick substance that smelled like cleaning fluid in the men’s restroom. The complaint alleged defendants

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But at 14, everything is still a discovery. Music, drugs, sex, conversation, words, movies, your parents, the world outside your suburban incubator—everything is a massive welling feeling that we don’t yet have a vocabulary to describe. This is a condition perfectly suited for predation; someone inexperienced enough to be lied to about something that triggers a deep human instinct that even adults have a hard time describing, to say nothing of understanding.
So much of the culture that caters to male sexuality still bears those traits of coercion, deception, and violation. So many of us continue to experience our sexuality through the lens of power, feeling the need to buy sex (strip clubs, pornography, always springing for the check) and consider it a sign of self-worth when we’re able to have sex. In Waldby’s “Destructive Boundary Erotics and Refigurations of the Heterosexual Male Body” she describes the “refusal of pleasure in order not to surrender power. To defend the sovereign ego the rest of the body is drained of erotic potential in favor of its localization in the penis, taken to be the phallus’ little representative.”

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AROUND TOWN – “America’s Fiscal Future: Making Difficult Choices” America is about $13 trillion in debt. And you thought you were living above your means? The committee that produced the non-partisan report Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future  appears at this MacArthur Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago discussion on the ins and outs on government spending. R.S.V.P. required. University Club of Chicago, 76 E Monroe St (312-516-1532, macfound.org). 5:30pm, free.
CLUBS – No Tell Motel: ElectriciTease
What better way to wash away your hump day blues than with cold PBR’s and No Tell Motels ladies of the night strutting their stuff from the main stage. Once a month, the girl in charge is Lady Jack and she puts her own spin on burlesque, enticing people through the door with a mix of performance, strip tease and modern tunes—mostly electronic. She keeps her line-ups well stocked with fellow dancers, circus acts and belly dancing. Debonair Social Club. 10pm. FREE.

See the full article from “Time Out Chicago (blog)”

I’m careful not to look closely at the tables, but signs above various booths advertise “Best adult entertainment,” and tables display body jewelry, sex toys, and DVDs. A lawyer’s booth encourages customers to “know the law when you set up your adult website,” and a techy booth sign reads, “How to set up your own adult website.” Obviously, the Internet plays a big role in this industry: In the U.S. alone, Internet porn generates $2.84 billion per year — and the worldwide industry is worth $4.9 billion. The whole industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix, and EarthLink.
The center looks relatively empty. I realize how much we, the only females who aren’t exhibitors, stand out. Women stand in front of display tables, a few already posing with customers who want a free photo op with porn stars. A few women are flanked by men, maybe bodyguards or boyfriends. In one corner we spot a van advertising a Chicago strip club named after a certain body part.

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So GM Stan Bowman took the rare step — OK, rare for an executive who’s said goodbye to more players this offseason than the bouncer at a Tampa strip club — in giving his versatile center a reassurance that he won’t be Byfuglien’d.
”I saw Sharpy in the office [Monday]; he stopped by,” Bowman said before the premiere of the Hawks’ Stanley Cup DVD at Navy Pier. ”I told him he can relax. He’s not going anywhere. He’s a big part of this. He means a lot to us on the ice and off the ice.”
No kidding. For all the afterglow of the Stanley Cup championship, the loss of Kris Versteeg(notes) and Dustin Byfuglien(notes) and Patrick Sharp would have been like a “Mortal Kombat” three-hit combo to the fan base’s jaw. Jettisoning all three players may have been an economic necessity, but there’s no way the fans wouldn’t have seen blood on the hands of Blackhawks management due to their own mismanagement.

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So I sort of like Scott Lee Cohen. I like him because he’s an honestly terrible candidate. Most politicians…you have this initial impression of their pristine qualifications, their dedication to public service and you don’t know the skeletons that hang in their closet – the gay lovers, the dead strippers, the cocaine parties with the Mineral Management Services – until it’s too late. With Scott Lee Cohen, it’s all out there for you to ingest and, if I know anything about the public, love. His chubby little nugget of a kid bawls on a Chicago public access television news conference and your heart melts. He’s a gift.
He’s also a gift to the Villa Park police department who, after hearing from the Trib that Scott’s hooker ex-girlfriend was giving happy endings at a Glenview tanning salon, were able to bust up a whole tanning salon prostitution operation:

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The new guy at work comes in bitching about the 0-2 curveball the closer hung the night before and you know he can’t be all bad. At the water cooler, on the subway, at the bar, the guys who really care about sports have always had a special bond.
Irrational? Yes. Dorky. At times. But it sure beat those dizzy broads waiting breathlessly for the latest dish on Sandy and that bad boy Jesse James.
Now? What’s the difference?
Lindsay Lohan is taking her talents to jail. LeBron James is taking his talents to South Beach.
Bristol and Levi got engaged without telling Sarah. LeBron and Miami eloped without telling Cleveland.
Tiger paramour Joslyn James works a stripper pole and it’s a bigger story than what’s-his-name winning the U.S. Open. (Graeme McDowell.)

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Strip Clubs, Booze and the First Amendment
Strip clubs in Virginia can sell beer and wine, but not mixed alcoholic beverages. Does that seem fair to you? It does to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which decided the law “passes constitutional muster” as a moderate, and permissible restriction of the club owners’ First Amendment free speech rights.
What do strip clubs have to do with freedom of speech? Well, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1981 case of Schad v. Borough of Mount Ephraim, that while not exactly a form of political speech, “nude dancing is not without its First Amendment protection from official regulation.”
But in the case of Virginia’s law, the 4th Circuit Court applied the “standard of intermediate scrutiny applicable to policies aimed at the harmful secondary effects of sexually oriented entertainment,” to find that, “The public interest served by the policy is substantial, the restriction on the clubs mild and the burden on First Amendment values slight.”

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ICONVince Young is primed to have a big year for offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger and the Titans.
Things I didn’t used to know
*Whatever happened in that nudie bar aside, Vince Young has had a really, really good offseason and is primed for a big year. In fact, Titans offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger tells me of Young’s hundreds of passes in OTAs and minicamp, he threw only two interceptions. That’s really impressive.

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