• Odd news item on Yahoo, of the sort that this site lives for.  Some schoolgirl, age 17, is walking around Santiago, Chile, stark naked.  Other than shoes, socks, and huge, ugly sunglasses. Yes, that's her to the right. Click the image to see it without the black bars.

Chile is apparently the most conservative country in the Americas; divorce is still illegal there.  This woman would would appear to have the country in an uproar.

I wonder why they don't just arrest her as soon as she leaves the house?  I mean someone in the government who is uptight about this sort of thing.  It must be illegal to be nude in public, if they are so conservative as to not allow divorce. The photo of her I found with Google, and it was from here, on Brazilian Yahoo.  The article was on US Yahoo, and the similar article was on UK and Canadian and Italian and German, but none of them had any pictures, not even censored ones.  So chew on that before you start thinking how uptight about nudity South American countries are, compared to the Western industrial nations.

• Anti-virus news, of a new virus that can come infected in .jpg files.  It's not as bad as it sounds, you don't have any worry looking at images, since you'd have to have the virus on your system first.

PC users should note that they can't be infected by opening a JPEG image. rather, a virus on an infected computer copies code into a digital image and waits for the JPEG to get passed along to other infected systems. The virus on those systems will read the code fragment in the JPEG image and follow the instructions. Users who haven't been infected by the extractor virus can open an infected digital image and nothing will happen.

The virus isn't actually loose, yet.  The creator just sent it to various security sources so they could have a look at it, as it's the first of its kind.

Given that I still get probably 50 Klez mails a day, I don't see the fact that users must first be infected with the initial virus before the jpg's are a problem as a big stumbling block.  Most internet users seem to be blissfully ignorant of any security measures, don't get MS critical updates, don't use anti-viruses, don't use firewalls, and DL just about anything they see that sounds good, without a thought to their own machine's security.  You add that with the security holes in Outlook Express that allow for easy virus spreading, and you get 10% of the PCs on earth infected with Klez.

• A British paper wrote an amusingly-insulting editorial about Germany last week, and now a German paper has replied.  This article covers both of them in some detail, and has some pretty funny quotes:

"Great Britain is a degenerate country, riddled with complexes because of its loss of power, inhabited by fox-hunters in ludicrous costumes and hypocritical lefties who send their spoiled children to private schools," the German paper said in a column.

"The British have bad healthcare, bad teeth and bad skin, which they regularly burn on southern beaches because they find suntan lotion unsporty. Their food is inedible, and their beer tepid and tasteless."

• An article that's a lot less funny than it could be is here.  It's about the most amusing (not really) ways that laptop computers are destroyed, according to an insurance agency.  The part I found interesting was at the end:

While laptop thefts get more publicity, 60 percent of insurance claims are for accidental damage, according to Complete. With roughly 5 million laptops in circulation in the UK, about 100,000 are damaged and nearly 67,000 stolen every year, Complete said.

That works out to 3.34% of all laptops in the UK being stolen or accidentally damaged each year. That seems rather high to me; the insurance on them must be a ton.  I guess people carting around delicate, portable, $1500+ value electronic items everywhere leads to a lot of losses.

• A car sale, but one that will likely get a bit more attention than most.  The car is a Porsche Boxster, one that was one of the prizes for the Playboy Playmate of the Year.  She's selling it off now, and you get the car, but the novel portion of the auction is that she'll present it to you at the Playboy mansion in LA, and you get a tour of the grounds, plus a hand job from one randomly-selected Playmate, or else oral from a girl from Nebraska who didn't make the final cut for their last Girls of the Big Ten issue.  The auction has more pictures of "Brande", the playmate, than of the car, perhaps unsurprisingly.  She does nothing for me, and is in fact sort of the ultimate stereotype of a Playmate.  Fake stripper name, big hair/implants, bottle blonde, big, vacant eyes, make up applied with a trowel.  Give me a sultry brunette any day.  Preferably one with her own Boxster.

ou might want to skip this part today, especially if you have male genitals and are attached to them.  So to speak.

I don't quote any of the really weird stuff I found on the Internet, but I do link to some of it.  So you can probably read on in horrified fascination, but you might not want to click much on the pretty golden letters.  Other than the part about Clitoris piercing, anyway.

And quit your bitching, I put in a naked girl photo up above, with visible mumblers, for god's sake.

Most men have at one time of another wanted to cut off their dicks; usually after doing/saying something really stupid with it (the dick) providing the irresistible motivation.  However cutting off your balls is a different story.  There are guys out there who want to though, and who actually do it.  This news story is about an amateur doctor who was arrested after performing his particular surgical specialty, and has apparently done it nearly 50 other times.

A Taiwanese man who claims to have castrated about 50 people and was caught over the weekend with human testicles in the refrigerator of his suburban Detroit home may not have committed any crime, police said on Wednesday.

Lt. Bruce Smith of the Oak Park police department said the 29-year-old man was arrested early on Saturday after he surgically removed the testicles of a Michigan man who was later rushed to a local hospital with severe bleeding.

The would-be doctor was released shortly afterwards, however, because his "patient" had asked to be castrated and was a consenting adult, Smith said.

I like that first line, "people".  Uh, I'd think they were all males, eh?

This one is weird on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin.  They were sitting around afterwards, eating pie?  Why pie?  I mean why not, but why?  The guy must have pretty good technique if the recovery time is that quick.

He added that the Birmingham man apparently contacted the unlicensed surgeon through one of at least two sites on the Internet promoting voluntary castration.

To the Google-mobile!

Not much luck on Google, at least at first look.  It's all about punishment for sex offenders, or else the same news story linked to above.  One thing I'd forgotten, that most of those Heaven's Gate cult guys had done the chop chop to themselves, before they flew to the UFO with the help of tranquilizer Jello shots.

Next site that looks to have any mention of castration is this one.  And I don't see anything on that, and it looks to have icky piercing photos, though it does have plenty of piercing porn.  Clits and labia and about cocks, oh my. (There are about a dozen different penis piercings, but I find the whole concept so unpleasant I can't even begin to read about it in any detail.)  Tons of user stories also, if you are into that sort of thing.  This one is funny.

About 3 months after my piercing, we were having a romp in the hay when suddenly I felt a sharp tug and a white hot pain shoot through my belly. I looked down to see her stuck face first in my vagina. Somehow the top ball of her tongue ring had slid it's way into my hoop, but it was such a snug fit that she couldn't slid it back out. Her face was such that she couldn't get her fingers close enough to the tongue ring without painfully pulling on my clit.

That site has tons of stuff on castration, far more than I want to read about. A story here from/about a guy who was castrated, sort of against his will.  I don't really enjoy reading it, but it's fascinating, in an abnormal psychology sort of way. He goes into various ways of self-castration, all of which will potentially make you vomit.  I won't even quote them here, other than this one, which is by far the least offensive to the sensibilities.

There are several methods of castration, some of which can be done by relatively inexperienced people. One in particular can be self-inflicted, the Burdizzo bloodless castrator. It is a clamping device that crushes the testicle cords of bulls and rams, resulting in a bloodless atrophy of the testicles. It is available easily from ranch and veterinary supply companies that advertise on the internet.

This is the sort of thing Senators see and then decide that the Internet is nothing but smut and filth that needs to be regulated.  An obvious enough site for information about castration is Eunuch.org.  It's about what you'd expect.

Castration is the actual removal of the balls.  It's not a vasectomy, it's a neutering.  Since testicles are needed for testosterone, not just semen, you're literally un-manning yourself.

About 4 weeks after I was castrated, I lost the ability to have erections. I also found myself experiencing hot flashes. A couple of times while at work, people would notice I was flushing in the face. I lost all sexual interest in males. A friend noticed this when he pointed out a particularly studly specimen at the beach and I failed to respond in my usual slutty manner. My complete lack of response of any kind was noted.

Apparently testosterone shots can get you back to normal functioning though.

If you see a point in cutting off your balls, then taking shots to enable you to do what you could do back when you had them, feel free to point it out.

Anyway, this does seem to prove that there are lots of sites with this sort of info, and that lots of guys have the thoughts.  Just in case you were wondering if there were anything imaginable that some guy wasn't into sexually...  The answer is, of course, "no".