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Southern Belle


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Has anyone else seen the following Opinion in the Student Printz:


"Pillow Talk
College a time to experiment
Glory Fink
Issue date: 9/7/06 Section: Opinion

Experimentation is a common part of the college experience.

As college students, we experiment with exactly how many classes we can miss before it affects our grades (unfortunately not as many as we would like). We experiment with our budgets and with exactly how many different ways we can make ramen noodles into a meal. Who would like to try some ramen, tuna and peanut butter surprise?

The bedroom should also be part of your college experimentation, and continue to be so long after your college days are over.

Dessert is not just for after dinner anymore. Have you ever fully explored the erotic possibilities of warmed caramel sauce coupled with an eager partner? With all the sticky fun you're having, please remember sugar and women's genitals should never, ever mix. We have sugar-free flavored lubricants for those forays.

If this is your first food exploration in the sexual arena, consider foods that fall under the umbrella of nibbles. Take a chilled can of your favorite whipped cream and decorate the areas of your body that best enjoy being nibbled. Remind your partner he needs to nibble thoroughly but quickly because soon the whipped cream will start to melt, and he will find himself not nibbling but rather licking and slurping with abandon.

On second thought, maybe you shouldn't warn your partner at all, just let him discover this on his own.

If sweets don't thrill your partner, consider cheese spread in an aerosol can. With canned-cheese spread, you can even write little messages such as, "eat this" and "this way" with the appropriate arrows.

The more-aggressive nibbler will enjoy pre-sliced bits of fruits in your favorite cracks and crevices for her to devour and then savor the sweet nectar that remains on your juicy skin. Many men and women have grown to enjoy a luscious fruit salad before the main course.

To entice the sophisticated Japanese aficionado, arrange freshly prepared sushi on your body. Remind your partner that he must consume his thoughtfully prepared appetizers before he may have his favorite entrée - you. If your sophisticate is not as interested in raw fish and rice as Pocky snack sticks, strategically place Pocky sticks around your delicious body in a fashion reminiscent of tropical drink umbrellas in a piece of fruit and let the munching begin.

And now for a delectable activity you will find as fun as it is sexy - and is sure to titillate even the most jaded lover - the The Human Sundae.

Take your favorite ingredients for a sundae and layer them over your partner. If you want to do this in bed but can't find any rubber or vinyl sheets, I suggest you place the ice cream in a metal or ceramic bowl. This will transmit the chilling sensation to any soon-to-be-hot-and-eager areas of your lover that need relief while keeping your bed from becoming soaked with melted ice cream.

Feel free to liberally sprinkle your delectable human sundae with cherries and chocolate jimmies for your final touch.

I have only scratched the surface of the creative possibilities you can make with an adventurous partner and a fully stocked kitchen. Be safe, experiment, explore, but most of all, have fun.

Let me know what worked for you and anything new you've discovered.

This is a column of opinion written by Printz staff writer Glory Fink. Comments can be sent to printz@usm.edu"



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Curt Yeomans


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WOW


That's all I can really say about that. It's only been (nearly) a year and a half since I graduated and left the staff, and the content of the paper sure has changed. That said, whoever approved that should be ashamed of themselves. No professional paper would ever print something like that. It's smut, pure and simple.



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There is a new editor who wants to make a mark. Every year there is a new editor who wants to put his or her stamp on things. I am not saying that is bad or good, but this is a preview to the direction the Printz may take for the next few months.


The paper is targeted to college students, who I suspect will be far less outraged than others. Simply my opinion. Obviously many parents may not wish to see this in the student paper, but it will be interesting to see the students' reaction, if there is one. I don't suspect there will be a large uprising against this type of story by the student body, but I could be surprised! I will be eagerly watching to see what happens next.



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I couldn't help but think that these students must have much more grocery money than most students I've known. Has anyone priced all that stuff lately?

Actually, it was unbelievably silly and juvenile. If this editor wants to be taken seriously as a journalist, this isn't the direction to go.

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The writer's name is Glory Fink. Is this a for real article or a joke?

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This is not a big deal. USM is jsut catching up with the state of things. Read this:

Sex is casual in college newspapers


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Curt Yeomans wrote:


WOW


That's all I can really say about that. It's only been (nearly) a year and a half since I graduated and left the staff, and the content of the paper sure has changed. That said, whoever approved that should be ashamed of themselves. No professional paper would ever print something like that. It's smut, pure and simple.



I would not call that piece smut.

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BAD wrote:
I would not call that piece smut.


Stupid, yes. Smut, no.

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Invictus wrote:

BAD wrote:
I would not call that piece smut.


Stupid, yes. Smut, no.


Agreed. I'm making some assumption here, but it seems as if "sex-related" pieces are being considered for a regular feature in the Printz. There's a thread about it on the online Printz forum board. I can easily avoid reading these pieces, just like I avoid reading things that otherwise bore or annoy me, but if someone's rerally bothered by the content, they should voice their opinion in Printz forum.

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Neither Mlle. de Guerre nor I reads the Printz, and this afternoon is my first visit to the board since vacation. Mlle. asked if anything interesting had been posted recently, so I shared the above column.

She is now lying on the chaise with a cool cloth on her head, laughing quite the hardest I have ever seen her laugh, and saying a number of things in French, which I am not quite catching. I do hear her saying "les enfants! les enfants!" and something which I think may translate roughly as "ignoramus" but that could be wrong.

In any case she has asked me to bring her a glass of champagne. I may have one myself.

My stars!

Sincerely,

Hermione Angleterre, Social Secretary to Monique de Guerre

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Dat article say, "To entice the sophisticated Japanese aficionado, arrange freshly prepared sushi on your body."
H*ll, ...Marie', Thibodeaux's wife, say Thibodeaux smell like dat when he come back from de fishin trip. Dat when she make him take der monthly bath, yea, or he gotta sleep wit T-Fred.

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What is sad, to me, is that while one deplores the execrable "cheese" substance found in cans, some of my very young friends enjoy it. Now I shall not be able to purchase it ever again, particularly as Mlle has been swooping about the house shouting, "Fromage! bon dieu! Fromage!" and then making a little noise like, "shhhhhhhhhh" and collapsing into gales of laughter.

Good afternoon to you all.

HA

PS the champagne did not help at all; perhaps I should make a cup of tea after all, even this late. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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We'll kick this up near the thread about SFT's anxious letter.


Me, I thought the column was a pale reflection of The Sensual Woman, et al.  Whipped cream always puts me in mind of an early Herb Alpert album cover.


Should we acquaint the president with that quotation often attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."


Correction:


Oops. My memory's not so good.  I got the book title wrong:


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_ss_hs/002-7824277-1758411?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dblended&keywords=sensuous+woman&Go.x=7&Go.y=11


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-7824277-1758411?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sensuous+man&Go.x=7&Go.y=11


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-7824277-1758411?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sensuous+dirty+old+man&Go.x=9&Go.y=12


BTW, the third is far and away the funniest.



-- Edited by ram at 13:32, 2006-09-20

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I remember that cover ram! I believe it was green with a huge pile of whipped cream (in a cup?) and a raven haired femme (obviously nude underneath the whipped cream)  in 3/4 pose right to left looking at the camera and licking her finger. Pretty racy for the time . . .


Someone check my memory . . . .


 


 



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stephen judd wrote:

Someone check my memory . . . .


 


 



That old album cover (40th anniversary reissue):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0007MRXUQ/ref=dp_image_0/102-8554443-2696168?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music


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Not too bad -- I had her facing the wrong way and in my memory the cover wasn't quite so dark . . . glad to know there are a few intact brain cells . . . thanks!

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I have to agree with Curt on one point; the content of The Printz has changed since I was involved with the paper almost two years ago. But, I have to disagree that this is smut. Editor David McRaney is right; most other university newspapers print sex-based columns. Furthermore, it is, in my opinion, important to educate college students on safe sex practices.

That being said, Glory Fink's column does not do that; yes, it is not smut; however, it could be more on point with the purpose of the column. No one cares that Mrs. Fink and her husband have sex, and no one cares how many condoms they tried before they found the right one. However, for those that might not know, it might be helpful to educate on how to put on a condom or how to choose which is best for you--male or female, etc....

Now, I realize that this is highly liberal to allow such print, but let's face it, college kids have sex, and they have sex a lot. Would we rather educate or have pregnant college women infected with STDs running around.

On a more personal note, I worked with this year's editor, David McRaney, and I don't think that he has reason to "make his mark," so to speak. David is extremely down to earth, and even two years ago when I was opinions editor, he was winning awards for his journalistic excellence. Basically, he has made his mark; he does not need the printing of a sex column to bolster his reputation as a student journalist.

Finally, in terms of President Thames, he has consistently attacked The Printz since he became President. Nobody really cared or listened in the beginning to what he said; I seriously doubt anyone cares about what he thinks now. The world is changing, and unfortunatley for Shelby, it's leaving him behind, playing with his polymers, exactly where he belongs.

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Glad to see you here George. I remember when you edited the Printz. I believe you were the editor who started the ball rolling in terms of increasing the quality of articles and the general tone of the paper in terms of hard news reporting, writing, and strong editorials.

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