Our lucky friends on the far side of the Atlantic are being treated to a new dramatic television series called “Tipping the Velvet”, featuring explicit lesbian romps on BBC2. Says one of the actresses:

“We did all our love scenes in a bedroom in one afternoon, although I do admit I had to fortify myself.

“We had a couple of glasses of wine and a bar of Galaxy and off we went. It was quite nice actually.

“There’s a bit of oral sex but I’m under the covers so you don’t see a lot. But there is a lot of girl-on-girl action.

On a much more serious note, an American expat in Moscow rants in The Exile about the sexual torture prevalent in U.S. prisons. It’s a hateful rant in many ways, anti-American and arguably racist, but the horrifying phenomenon of prison rape is not often described so starkly:

Recently a British paper printed the story of a man in Illinois who is suing the state prison system. At the whim of a sadistic functionary in the prison system, this man, who is white, was placed in a cellblock which was all black and controlled by a very tight, military-style prison gang. He was, of course, gangraped, taught to suck cock on demand, used as a urinal and toilet, and otherwise made to entertain his fellow inmates.

There is more, some of it even uglier. (It would be more convincing if the author had backed up his anecdotes with links.)

Someday we may have to face up to the fact that prison, the way we do it, violates this constitutional prohibition, found in the Eighth Amendment: “nor [shall] cruel and unusual punishments [be] inflicted.”

Anil Dash has been thinking in the shower again, and thinking like a man at that:

“Why don’t they just drop the facade and make a dildo-shaped attachment for those hand-held shower nozzles? I mean, we’re all kind of in a wink-wink understanding that those things exist solely for women’s masturbatory needs, right? Well, I say any job worth doing is worth doing right. And that means getting the right tools for the job.”

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Thanks Instapundit for the link!