{"id":1532,"date":"2006-07-27T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2006-07-27T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T04:18:00","slug":"sex-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Sex In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Item The First: Be a Boob. Be a Boob. All the World, Loves a Boob.<\/b> CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/07\/27\/nursing.cover.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">is reporting<\/a>  on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parenting.com\/parenting\/babytalk\/channel\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Baby Talk<\/i> magazine<\/a> created a scandel when they (are you ready) showed <a href=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2006\/US\/07\/27\/nursing.cover.ap\/vert.breast.feeding.ap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a nursing baby on the cover of the free publication<\/a>. &#8220;I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,&#8221; one person wrote. &#8220;I immediately turned the magazine face down,&#8221; wrote another. &#8220;Gross,&#8221; said a third.  Note: This is a magazine <i>whose audience is mothers of babys!<\/i> Sigh. One mother said she was worried about her 13 year old son seeing the magazine, saying &#8220;I shredded it. A breast is a breast &#8212; it&#8217;s a sexual thing. He didn&#8217;t need to see that. I&#8217;m totally supportive of [breastfeeding] &#8212; I just don&#8217;t like the flashing. I don&#8217;t want my son or husband to accidentally see a breast they didn&#8217;t want to see.&#8221; Double-sigh. And we wonder why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywompus.com\/macadamia\/2006\/06\/storm_in_a_d_cup_the_great_bre.html\" target=\"_blank\">LiveJournal was so cautious on the default icon<\/a>? It is precisely because of these, excuse the term, boobs out there, that would likely file lawsuit after lawsuit they would have to defend. I wish I could slap them upside the head and say that the primary purpose of a breast is not sexual, it&#8217;s food.<\/p>\n<p><b>Item the Second: Perhaps They Should Move to Fresno.<\/b> CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/07\/27\/christian.sexradio.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">is also reporting<\/a> on how KFYE-FM in Kingsburg CA has changed its format from Christian music, sermons, and Bible stories to &#8220;Porn Radio&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;all sex radio, all the time&#8221;.  The station is playing sons such as &#8220;Why Don&#8217;t We Do It in the Road&#8221; by The Beatles, &#8220;Sexual Healing&#8221; by Marvin Gaye and &#8220;Nasty&#8221; by Janet Jackson&#8230; and heating up tamer songs by adding recorded moans and groans. I wonder if they read <i>Baby Talk<\/i> magazine in Kingsburg.  But then again, perhaps this is just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/tips\/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==165\" target=\"_blank\">tempest in a tea pot<\/a> (locals will understand that reference).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Item The First: Be a Boob. Be a Boob. All the World, Loves a Boob. CNN is reporting on how Baby Talk magazine created a scandel when they (are you ready) showed a nursing baby on the cover of the free publication. &#8220;I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1532\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-blushing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}