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February
28, 2002
James
T. Phillips
Baghdad,
Spring 1992
Gideon
Samet
Sharon
Must Go
Rep. Ron
Paul
Before
We Bomb Iraq
M. Shahid
Alam
Samuel
Huntington:
Peddling Civilizational Wars
St. Clair
/ Cockburn
Rumble
from the Jungle:
Ecaudorian Farmers Fight
DynCorp's ChemWar
February
27, 2002
Eric Hobsbawm
The
Future of War and Peace
John Troyer
About
that WTC Memorial
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Wired
for Democracy
or Business?
Alexander
Cockburn
Daniel
Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?
February
26, 2002
Jonathan
Steele
Kabul's
Loss
Vasily
Streltsov
The
Pentagon in
the Transcaucusas
CounterPunch
Wire
How
Corporations Use Shadowy "527" Groups to Influence
Politicians
Lt. Col.
Robert Bowman
ABM
Treaty: Alive or Dead?
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
A
Prayer for America
February
25, 2002
John Clarke
Interrogated
at US Border
Blankfort,
Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL
Blinks, Settles Spying Case
Alex Lynch
Naked
from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian
John Chuckman
Ashcroft
Speaks in Tongues
February
24, 2002
David
Vest
Skate
Date
February
23, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Axis
of Evil and
Media Monopolies
Bahour/Dahan
Cracks
in the Occupation
February
22, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Axel
of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution
February
21, 2002
Gary Leupp
The
Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War
David
Vest
Reagan
Clone Project?
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Chicago
School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core
February
20, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
The
Shallow Throat Document
Kay Lee
The
Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes
February
19, 2002
David
Orr
Waylon
Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo
John Chuckman
The
Devil and Georgie Bush
Prudence
Crowther
Giblet
Gravitas
Ramzi
Kysia
Caught
in the Iraq DMZ
February
18, 2002
Ron Jacobs
The
US and Iran
George
Lewandowski
Empire
in Declline
Lenni
Brenner
Life
and Death of a Folk Hero
February
17, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Lost
in a Pit of Desperation
February
16, 2002
Phillip
Cryan
Colombia
in War Time
February
15, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
From
New York to Porto Alegre
Robert
O'Brien
The
View from Porto Alegre
Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting
the Assassins
February
14, 2002
Levy and
Easton
Ante
Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans
Joan Claybrook
Dear
Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron
John Chuckman
Time
for a Woman Prez
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
February
13, 2002
Sen. Russ
Feingold
War
Powers and
the War on Terror
Tom Turnipseed
Bush's
Folly
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
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in an Afghan Refugee Camp
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March 1, 2002
American
Journal
Sex, Sweat , Feet
and the Working Class
By Alexander Cockburn
Chalk up another milestone for sex ed. The University
of California at Berkeley has put a "male sexuality "
class on ice after the campus newspaper, The Daily Californian,
published allegations that as part of their course students were
taken to a strip club where they watched their instructor have
sex and also participated in an "orgy" at an party.
A female sexuality course is also under review.
It seems these courses have been available
under the university's "democratic education" or "de-cal"
program, which are sponsored but not funded by the university.
They are organized and run by student instructors and can be
taken for credit toward graduation. Other courses include Blackjack,
useful for those set on careers as croupiers east of the Sierras,
in Las Vegas, and (for dissidents) Copwatch, which instructs
students "how to safely and effectively assert their rights
when interacting with police."
Christy Kovacs, a Berkeley freshman who
was enrolled in the
male sexuality course last semester for two units told the Sacramento
Bee newspaper that some students in the class were involved
in an orgy at a party where some partygoers also took Polaroid
pictures of their genitalia, to show that their bodies were not
disgusting. Kovacs said the shots were viewed at the party in
a "respectful way". Another student, Jessica McMahon,
disclosed to the Daily Californian
that students in the male sexuality class chose
as their final project a trip to a gay strip club. Students apparently
watched instructors strip and have sex.
Kovacs says her class also had an instructive
excursion to the Garden of Eden strip club. There, a member of
the group who was not a student or instructor stripped on stage.
"They didn't even take off all their clothes, and there
was no sex," the earnest Kovacs continued to the Bee reporter.
"It was a class bonding experience," not to mention
"positive".
This business of introducing yourself
at a party by proffering a Polaroid of your genitals has distinct
possibilities, particularly for fetishists. As news of the Berkeley
ban came in I happened to be leafing through the analysis of
a man code-named "Beta," the foot fetishist in Sexual
Aberrations, written by Freud's sometime pal, Wilhelm
Stekel. "I must mention," Stekel writes with perhaps
excessive enthusiasm, "Beta wasn't in the least animated
by women's ankles, legs or lovely shoes." No, the dirty
beast "wanted to see the shoe fit tightly" and "is
promptly enlivened by the sight of corns and envies every chiropodist
he sees. He likes only male feet: red, swollen, dirty, sweaty
and inflamed feet".
Beta craved to view and smell only the
feet of the poor, not out of class solidarity but because their
economic condition meant they had badly fitting shoes in which
they worked hard all day: "On warm days, he goes to the
Danube where poor working men may be found in droves, bathing
their sweaty, swollen feet. It is the sight of these large, red
feet which then gives him a thrill. He rushes home to masturbate."
One can imagine Beta politely introducing
himself with a Polaroid of those feet. Ms Kovacs, following in
Beta's wake as she witnessed his activities, would presumably
have commented that it was all uplifting and entirely respectful
of feet which, after all, have feelings too.
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