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.”
Chicago Strip Clubs: Sexual Violation in Suburbia: 4 Boys Getting Laid or Being Assaulted?
July 23rd, 2010 — Chicago strip clubs
Chicago Adult Entertainment: Fear that ‘couples’ hotel may bring crime
July 22nd, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
MIDLOTHIAN, Ill., July 15 (UPI) — Groundbreaking is scheduled this month for a Chicago-area getaway hotel for couples, despite residents’ concerns it would attract prostitution, officials said.
Ambiance Inn and Suites, marketed as a romantic place for couples, will be built in Midlothian, the SouthtownStar reported Thursday.
The hotel’s developer, Frank Sottrel, said a hotel with the same theme in another suburb owned by him and his family has seen no crime problems.
Last year, nearby residents responded to Midlothian officials’ announcement about the upcoming hotel, saying they thought the hotel would attract drug dealing as well as prostitution.
Sottrel said any criminal activity would be thwarted by membership requirements, gated security, video surveillance, and a limit of two people to a room.
Chicago Adult Entertainment: Roseland strangling suspect charged in 4th murder
July 22nd, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
Michael Johnson, 24, is accused in the strangling of Lutelda Hudson, 29. Hudson’s naked body was found by a real estate agent in the stairwell of an abandoned building at 11920 S. Harvard.
Cook County State’s Attorney Yolanda Lippert said Hudson had visible bruises on her neck, and pieces of duct tape were found near her body. Lippert also said DNA taken from Hudson’s body matched Johnson’s DNA profile.
Johnson’s DNA was also matched to a woman who was attacked on August 2008 in the Roseland neighborhood. He’s also charged in that case.
Johnson was charged last May with the murders of Eureka Jackson, Leslie Brown, and 30-year-old Siobhan Hampton. The murders all happened over the last two years. Lippert says Hudson was killed in the same manner as the three other women. Court records show each of the victims had a history of prostitution arrests.
See the full article from “WGNtv.com”
Chicago Adult Entertainment: ‘He knew how it was going to end’
July 22nd, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
January 1934: The Dillinger gang killed East Chicago police officer William O’Malley during the robbery of the First National Bank of East Chicago.
March 3, 1934: Dillinger was sequestered at the county jail in Crown Point. Authorities boasted that the jail was “escape proof,” but Dillinger escaped using a wooden gun he had whittled. He then stole the sheriff’s car and drove across the Illinois state line, heading for Chicago. He violated the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, making it a federal offense to transport a stolen motor vehicle across a state line. The FBI became actively involved in the nationwide search for Dillinger. In Chicago, Dillinger and his gang continued robbing banks. When one of the gang members was apprehended, Dillinger was shot and then fled to Mooresville.
July 21, 1934: A madam of a brothel in Gary contacted police officers with information about Dillinger’s whereabouts.
See the full article from “nwitimes.com”
Chicago Adult Entertainment: Aon Faulted by Insurance Buyers Over Once-Banned Fees
July 22nd, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
… Aon’s overdue and muted announcement, floated in mid- summer, should come as a wake-up call to all risk managers and buyers of insurance to re-evaluate whether their broker really works for them, or the insurance carrier,” Willis said in a statement.
Marsh & McLennan said on March 24 it will take contingent commissions on business done by its unit serving mid-sized U.S. clients. The firm won’t take contingent commissions on business for U.S. clients in its “core broking operations,” according to a statement.
“The contingent commissions created inherent conflicts and tensions that led to improper practices that we were trying to eliminate,” Spitzer said in an interview in February after the New York Insurance Department repealed the ban.
Spitzer left his post without extending the fee ban to smaller agents. He went on to become governor of New York, a position he resigned in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal. In the last two years, Aon, Marsh & McLennan and Willis called for common rules to be applied to all middlemen.
See the full article from “BusinessWeek”
Chicago Strip Clubs: Five things to do today: July 21
July 21st, 2010 — Chicago strip clubs
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.
Chicago Adult Entertainment: ‘Salt’ premiere spices up LA
July 21st, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
In this gallery
Pitt is looking much improved these days, so I am going to overlook the open-collar shirt with vest, which feels Eurotrashy to me. Jolie is a stunner in a sequined mini-dress.
A close-up shot reveals he still has some stubble, but he is looking more and more like the Brad of yore, so I am happy.
She has 18 kids and still has time to look this great. So unfair.
“The Hills” star is ready to show us her hills. She looks like a high-priced Klingon call girl in this over-the-top getup.
I have never heard (hah!) of her, but imdb.com tells me she was in “Zombieland.” She looks great in this dress and her hair and makeup are lovely.
The “24″ star is cute in this charming, low-key dress, but he looks as though he thought it was burgers-and-beer date night with the missus.
Chicago Adult Entertainment: Cops: Naperville man solicited sex with child
July 21st, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
A Naperville man is accused of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer who posed online as a 15-year-old girl, authorities said Tuesday.
Enzo DiSapia, 39, of the 1100 block of Greensfield Drive, was arrested Monday after traveling to St. Charles for what he believed would be a sexual encounter with the teen, police said. He was charged with one count of indecent solicitation of a child, a Class 4 felony, according to court records.
St. Charles police spokesman Paul McCurtain said DiSapia began chatting with the officer, who works in computer crimes, online in May and eventually requested a sexual encounter.
Shortly before 2 p.m. Monday, he arrived at the agreed location – an apartment complex on St. Charles’ east side – where he was taken into custody without incident, McCurtain said.
Chicago Adult Entertainment: The Politics of Prostitution
July 21st, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
After the undercover sting on Paradise Spray Tan, a tanning salon in Chicago’s west suburban Villa Park, Illinois, the cries for legalization of prostitution are heard loud and clear by some citizens. Naturally, the moral oppositions remain as they have through the ages.
After police received complaints from local business owners that it appeared men were patronizing the tanning salon with getting tanning services about two weeks ago , the tanning business in a strip mall-styled office building at 51 E. Park Boulevard in Villa Park, about 25 miles west-northwest of Chicago’s downtown, was subject to a sting by detectives. The complaints resulted in a surveillance of the business and an interview with a patron. The details the patron gave the authorities were not divulged.
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The results of the police activity were the misdemeanor arrest of Jessica Minatelli, 44, for keeping a house of prostitution and violating the massage licensing act, as well as the arrest of two of her employees, Yvette Cager and Shanna Abear, for similar charges which are punishable by a maximum of a year in jail and fines not to exceed $2,500.
See the full article from “Examiner.com”
Chicago Adult Entertainment: Chicago tales from a hobo’s view
July 21st, 2010 — Chicago adult entertainment
I have no idea if that’s true, but once you’ve met the gruff Fitzpatrick — an artist, writer, poet, performer and, most fundamentally, a raconteur — in his little milieu, it’s certainly credible. When he says he is just one paycheck away — or one drink away — from the life of the street characters that haunt his Damen Avenue door, you believe him. Fitzpatrick, who is in his early 50s, sports two tattoos on his arms, both drawn from the hobo alphabet. One means “Get Out Fast.” One means “Don’t Give Up.”
“Every morning,” Fitzpatrick says from the stage, “I decide on the most prudent course of action.”
Some of us are familiar with the conundrum, but less certain in the decision-making process.
Even when he’s waxing nostalgic — which he does for most of those 90 minutes — he does so with an edge, in a little mock-up of his creative streetside cave in Ukrainian Village. “This used to be,” he says, recalling the not-so-distant past when call girls roamed trendy Damen Avenue, “a perfectly good, bad neighborhood.”