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Ouch.

Robert Ambrogi writes:

If the conversation recorded on this YouTube video is real, then it is shocking. In it, a male lawyer seeks to convince his female client to give him oral sex — urging, "30 seconds of pleasure, big deal!" This appears to be the same recording described in these 2006 New York Post and New York Press stories. According to these reports, when she first visited the lawyer’s Wall Street office about a traffic case, he asked her for sex. On a subsequent visit, she wore a recording device. When the Manhattan DA declined to prosecute the lawyer, she brought a civil suit against him seeking $70 million in damages. No word on the status of the case.

My favorite part of this, I think, are the misunderstandings of their respective positions.

The lawyer says early in the tape "You think I couldn’t pick up the phone and have 20 beautiful women in here?" Correct answer: No, you’re a traffic lawyer getting me out of a ticket and begging me for a blow job.

Ah, But she’s a gem, too. She’s suing the dude for $70 million dollars. Is she likely to get even a significant fraction of that? Correct answer: No, you’re suing a traffic lawyer! These ain’t the richest lawyers. Even if he has malpractice insurance, 1) his malpractice premiums and limits are probably very low because not much is at stake in traffic cases, and 2) this isn’t really a malpractice case anyway. It’s a tort case, that might not be covered by this lawyer’s insurance.

You could always try sex on a bridge.

Head over here to see some PG-13 closeups. Zoom in a little closer, and you’ll see this idiotic couple actually brought rum and Coke to the party. And it looks like they drank significant amounts of it.

Ah, well. Looks like they had fun. Here’s hoping they don’t reproduce.

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WBKO-TV/ABC Weatherman in Bowling Green, Kentucky simulates drinking breast milk

WHAT is shocking about Senator Larry Craig’s bathroom arrest is not what he may have been doing tapping his shoe in that stall, but that Minnesotans are still paying policemen to tap back. For almost 40 years most police departments have been aware of something that still escapes the general public: men who troll for sex in public places, gay or “not gay,” are, for the most part, upstanding citizens. Arresting them costs a lot and accomplishes little.

America’s Toe-Tapping Menace - New York Times

[T]here’s actually a chance—a 38 percent chance, to be more precise—that the senator can cop a plea on the charge of hypocrisy. In his study of men who frequent public restrooms in search of sex, Laud Humphreys discovered that 54 percent were married and living with their wives, 38 percent did not consider themselves homosexual or bisexual, and only 14 percent identified themselves as openly gay. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Personal Places, a doctoral thesis which was published in 1970, detailed exactly the pattern—of foot-tapping in code, hand-gestures, and other tactics—which has lately been garishly publicized at a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport men’s room. The word tearoom seems to have become archaic, but in all other respects the fidelity to tradition is impressive.

So Many Men’s Rooms, So Little Time - Slate