Tim Worstall

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has taken some great (and, to be honest, not so great) paintings of nudes from the past and reimagined what they would look like if their bodies conformed to what the 21st-century thinks of as an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing – and quite shocking in what they [...]

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Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter stands to be paid thousands of pounds in royalties after the BBC aired a repeat of him performing on Top of the Pops in 1977. What sort of tosspot phones up the BBC to complain about this? Should we tear down Prospero and Ariel because Eric Gill was a kiddie [...]

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And without any of this damn nonsense about legal for women to sell but not legal for men to buy. Just straight consenting adults conducting a voluntary transaction: Miss Suarez told Caracol News in Cartegena that she called the police after the Secret Service agent with whom she spent the night refused to pay her [...]

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Others felt it was more like a wholesome nightclub where everyone was focused on the music and on dancing instead of getting drunk or finding someone to hook up with. There was a distinct lack of sexual energy at the Stockholm Lunch Beat, which, coupled with the ban on alcohol and drugs, If you take [...]

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This is news isn’t it? The Princess Royal’s 63-year-old former husband has left his second wife, Sandy, to set up home with fellow equestrian Lauren Hough, 35. Sufficiently unusual to make the papers?

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Why do women vote for Boris Johnson? He is an infamous philanderer, promotes few senior women and female colleagues at City Hall complain about him bitterly. Yet the London mayor is a hit with women voters. Why? In order to be a successful philanderer it is necessary to be liked by women.

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What’s important is that Jessie J is happy with the way she is – lesbian or bisexual – and that girls see that it’s OK to fancy girls Pretty young thing with legs up to here likes shagging both men and women. I’ve checked among that vital market segment of portly middle aged men and [...]

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South Africa’s polygamous President Jacob Zuma married his fourth current wife on Friday, the sixth time the 70-year-old has tied the knot. It is, of course, complete nonsense that women ever marry for economic advantage. That’s just the sort of evolutionary psychology nonsense put forward by the phallocrats.

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Since 2006, patronizing prostitution is a crime when committed by service members under article 134 of the US military’s criminal law (the uniform code of military justice). Sirsly? A law to stop squaddies shagging tarts?

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As we were told in the comments here, the Colombia tarts thing is actually about someone trying not to pay: “One did not leave, police came and she refused to leave until she was paid for her services. So that is what started all this,” he added. Further evidence about why prostitution should be legal [...]

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In a major embarrassment for Washington at the Summit of the Americas attended by more than 30 heads of state, 11 U.S. Secret Service agents were sent home and five military servicemen grounded over “misconduct” allegations in a hotel. Prostitutes were taken to the hotel, according to a Colombian police source. But, umm, why is [...]

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Best Buy is investigating whether former chief executive Brian Dunn misused company assets during an alleged relationship with a female employee, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night. Shagging a bird in the training department isn’t really the sort of crime that gets UK CEOs fired. No one seemed all that worried about Fred [...]

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Yet I’ve noticed, of late, that the business of acquiring a status symbol has got more complex. Partly, of course, it is because in these times of economic austerity, it behoves the rich and successful to appear slightly less rich and successful in order to make the rest of us feel better. But instead of [...]

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And you also ignore the fact that people were not just punished for having Gay sex. They were punished for knowingly violating the law by having Gay sex. That knowing violation is still a criminal state of mind and is still wrong. But I’m not quite sure how to make that joke…

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Over at Liberal Conspiracy we have a Catholic trying to make a religious argument in favour of gay marriage. I think there are excellent arguments in favour of gay marriage (not least they should be allowed to be as miserable as all us heteros). I think there are even better arguments in favour of a [...]

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Anna Gristina, 44, was in jail on the notorious Rikers Island last night after failing to come up with $3 million (£1.9 million) in bail money. A court heard she was accused of managing a prostitution racket with well-known figures and leading businessmen on her books. Her lawyers claimed the Scottish-born mother of four had [...]

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Edna Milton Chadwell, who has died aged 84, was the last madam of the Chicken Ranch, the bordello that inspired the musical and film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. That I did know, that the show and movie were based on a true story. This part I didn’t: The Chicken Ranch also inspired a [...]

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Makes me feel very odd indeed but I do agree: I would outlaw marriage for everyone, including heterosexuals, and grant access to a civil partnership union across the board. This is the situation in, just as an example, Portugal. In a legal sense there is no such thing as marriage. There is just the single [...]

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Sounds odd but it does make sense in the end. The only puzzle is why no one’s thought of using society’s historical answer to not being very interested in sex. Marriage.

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