SEX, SEX EVERYWHERE
While driving to and from the barbershop, I pass a different kind of bar. It's billed as a place where the waitresses dress in bikinis. As if that's not enticing enough, a hand written sign on the street disgustingly announces that the place offers "eye candy."One day, as we passed by, I commented to Sherry that I was puzzled by the bar's apparent success. I couldn't understand why those who would go there for a limited amount of "candy" wouldn't simply go to a strip joint instead. After all, considering the intent, why waste money on a sample when one can glut on "eye candy"? Knowing the appeal of both places, I began to see a possible correlation between those who frequent them and certain youths in our neighborhood.
They have repeatedly written a certain four-letter word on a guardrail on our street. I guess it's their "candy." It, too, feeds an immature sex appetite. Both are part of a serious social ill ? an obsession with sex.We see convincing evidence of a serious problem, in the growing number of adult (infantile) video stores; and in the proliferation of sexually oriented movies, magazines and books. And then there's the Internet. Thankfully, I was reared in a generation that thought you had to have a pornograph to view pornography.
If a kid asked his parents where he came from, they likely told him, "From Philadelphia" (or some other city). A parent who fully explained the birds and the bees to his teenager was about as rare as one who sided with his/her child against a teacher. Parents who now educate their children regarding sex represent change long overdue. Yet, why must so many adults act as if the present generation invented sex? And, why is there so little shame and such gross immaturity in otherwise grown people? More important, how are these attitudes affecting individuals and society? I'm not smart enough to answer the first two questions. Norman Cousins, in the Saturday Review gave a very troubling answer to the third one: "The trouble with this wide open pornography?is not that it corrupts, but that it desensitizes; not that it unleashes the passions, but that it cripples the emotions; not that it encourages a mature attitude, but that it is a reversion to infantile obsessions; not that it removes the blinders, but that it distorts the view.
Prowess is proclaimed, but love is denied. What we have is not liberation, but dehumanization."BARBER-OSOPHY: Freedom without restraint is the most insidious form of slavery. Copyright 2004, Sumerlin EnterprisesPermission is granted to reprint this article as long as a link to www.barber-osophy.com is included..
What Halloween Candy Ranks #1 This Year?
In a shock to chocolate lovers everywhere, candy corn tops this year's list as the most popular Halloween candy.Hundreds of people from all walks of life have responded to ExtremeChocolate.com's new Halloween candy survey, which asks: "What Halloween candy is your favorite?" Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is currently in the #2 position.Previous studies from other sources have found Snickers to be #1 -- but Snickers ranks third this year."I'm stunned," says Dr. Audri G. Lanford, head chocoholic researcher and author of a new ebook called "Chocolate, Chocolate, and More Chocolate: The Ultimate Chocolate Lover's Guide For Enjoying, Cooking and Making Chocolate!" "The idea that candy corn is more appealing than chocolate amounts to sacrilege to real chocolate lovers. It's true that we didn't distinguish between plain and chocolate candy corn in the survey, but still..."This study provides three kinds of important data:1) Suggestions (based on real data) for what to buy for the trick-or-treaters'...
What Halloween Candy Ranks #1 This Year?
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Give a Chocolate Box Gift with a Twist
Okay, so you've waited until the last minute. Or you'vetried really hard but have drawn a blank and can't seem tothink of any good anniversary gifts. It's time to pull out that bag of traditional romanticgift ideas. And this time you've decided to go withchocolate candy gifts, probably a box of chocolates. Butthat doesn't have to be the end of it.
You can still makean impression, big time. Spice up those chocolate candy gifts easily. You can getromantic gifts online that present a unique, creative spinto the old standby of chocolate. Or you could come up withyour own idea. For example, you could make a chocolate box of yoursweetie's favorite treats.
If they like milk chocolate morethan dark chocolate, give them milk chocolate pieces. Or ifthey like Twix and Almond Joy bars, then make a box fromthe mini-Twix and mini-Almond Joy bars you picked up fromthe local grocery store. Or, combining two traditional anniversary gifts (flowersand chocolate), you could even get them a...
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Free Summer Fun For Children Ages 4-14
Gilbert, AZ (ContentDesk) July 16, 2006 -- Candy Bouquet and Unique Gifts is hosting a Word Power workshop for children from 9am to noon on Saturday, July 22, and Tuesday, July 25. Register for this event at www.candybouquet3345.com, select events and register, or call 480-545-4438.Children will play word games, use fountain pens, quill pens, stickers and wax seals. They will learn how to write a thank you note to their favorite person (bring name and address) to be mailed at the event. Experts will be on-hand to guide, teach and have fun.Each child will leave with free stationery. Goodies provided as well.Join us at Candy Bouquet and Unique Gifts, 894 E.
Warner Road, Suite 102, Gilbert AZ 85296. Phone 480-545-4438..
Free Summer Fun For Children Ages 4-14
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