Thursday, November 30, 2006

Marin Activists Plan Global Orgasm For World Peace


Marin, CA--A pair of California peace activists are calling for a different kind of protest this Solstice season.

Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell want everyone on the planet to have an orgasm on Dec. 22 while focusing all that feel good energy on world peace.

"The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during and after it," Reffell said on Sunday. "Your mind is like a blank. It's like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change."

(See the study done in 1993, where mass meditations were linked to a dramatic drop in violent crime in Washington, D.C.)

The event, The Global Orgasm for Peace, is attracting world-wide attention. The couple claim their website is receiving more than 25,000 visitors a day.

"Religion, science, art, medicine-you name any great accomplishment that the human race has made and none of it has stopped war and aggression," Sheehan said. "We thought, 'What's the next unbelievable, untested biological gift that we've all been given?' The orgasm."

Sounds good to me.

The truth is, we choose our beliefs; rarely are they based upon facts. If people can choose to believe that their pastors are heterosexual, or that George Bush and the stock market are real, then why can't we believe that a whole bunch of earth shattering orgasms can change the world?

"The dream is to have everyone in the world (take part)," Reffell said. "And if that means laying down your gun for a few minutes, then hey, all the better."

Monday, November 20, 2006

Extreme Associates To Launch Publishing Venture


Extreme Associates owner Rob Black is joining forces with iconoclast publisher Shane Bugbee to release The Extreme Times, a free periodical focusing on the adult industry, extreme art, music and entertainment.

"The Extreme Times will basically have everything, with a focus on Extreme and all the whacky bullshit that goes on with us," Black said in a report from AVN.

"This is just another step for us to expand and get back out into the world, as well as get back to basics."

Bugbee, a twenty year veteran in the war against censorship, said he jumped at the chance to work with Extreme "because the company's owners Rob Black and Lizzy Borden facing 10 charges of obscenity for their films."

Bugbee has been promoting extreme free speech since he was a teenager, and has worked with such artists as Jello Biafra, cartoonist Mike Diana, filmmaker Ryan McPherson and author Jim Goad.

Black plans to rollout the premier issue at this year's Adult Entertainment Expo in January. The magazine will be published 4-6 times per year and will be distributed through events, tattoo shops, independent music and bookstores, and anywhere Extreme Associates' films are sold.