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May 2012
April 2012
“There is no specific word in English for a “male mistress”, a man in the same relationship to a woman as a mistress is to a man, except for the more general term “lover”, which does not carry the same implications. “Paramour” is sometimes used, but this term can apply to either partner in an illicit relationship, so it is not exclusively male. In 18th- and 19th-century Venice, the terms cicisbeo and cavalier servente were used to describe a man who was the professed gallant and lover of a married woman. Another word that has been used for a male mistress is gigolo, though this carries connotations of payment and prostitution. Since the late 20th century, the terms “Pool boy,” “Fitness trainer” or “Tennis instructor,” were each used to designated males in the role, with the implication of lower social status, youth, and physical fitness leading to a financial relationship to the wealthier married woman.”
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Mistress (lover) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via negativepleasure)
I like cicisbeo the best.
2,000 Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike and Zero News Coverage →
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There are currently 2000 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, though judging by the lack of coverage of the story in the mainstream media you’d never know it. Two of the prisoners involved are now in a critical condition, having been on hunger strike for 60 days and counting. They are protesting prison conditions, including the widespread use of solitary confinement, lack of medical treatment, and most importantly the use by the Israelis of the prisoner category described as administrative detention.
Under this particular category prisoners can be held indefinitely at the behest of the military without any charges being brought, no trial, or even so much as a hearing to be made aware of the evidence against them. Currently, over 300 Palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons and detentions centers under administrative detention, including six women and six children.
According to the website of the Palestinian prisoner support organization Addameer, 19 of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike are being kept in solitary confinement. One of those, Ahmad Sa’adat, has been held in isolation for three years and is yet to be charged with a crime.
It is also claimed that the Israeli prison authorities are waging a campaign of punishment against the hunger strikers, which includes daily raids on their cells, the confiscation of personal belongings, cutting their electricity supply, and various other measures deemed illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Cosmos Sex Tip:
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Ladies — For a hot sexy sensation that will leave you both satisfied, you must first invent the universe.
kairosclerosis
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
I am a kairosclerosis victim day in and day out. I love this word so hard, this is my existence in a nutshell.
Romney Hopes to Bork the Courts →
bradblog.com
Nonetheless, in announcing Bork’s inclusion in his campaign, Romney has said that he “wish[ed] he was already on the Supreme Court.”
Bork’s views, as radical as they are, are hardly unique. They are the views held by Federalist Society-funding billionaire oligarchs, like the Koch brothers, who would mask their authoritarian corporate capitalism under an Orwellian concept of “liberty”, defined as a two-tiered system of “justice” assuring elite impunity by a “bought-and-paid-for” judiciary.
“In a traditional social order, the languages of the hunt, of harvesting, of various rituals, of the council room, of the kitchen or the harm, all form autonomous systems: to conjoin statements drawn from these various disparate fields, to probe for inconsistencies between them, to try to unify them all, this would be a social solecism or worse, probably blasphemy or impiety, and the very endeavour would be unintelligible. By contrast, in our society it is assumed that all referential uses of language ultimately refer to one coherent world, and can be reduced to a unitary idiom; and that it is legitimate to relate them to each other.”
—Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 2006, pg. 21