From The It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses A Soul Department:

BELOW: Gratuitous shots of Eva Longoria, the only good looking woman on Desperate Housewives. Unfortunately, she's about five feet tall.











BTW, I'm a Catholic, not a puritan. It's not that I'm shocked by any of this foolishness, it's the fact that it is so public.

1) From Ananova via Yahoo!News:

Eva Longoria's Saucy Chat Trouble
or, Tony Parker, call your office.

The sexy Desperate Housewives star has revealed that mentioning her liking for female sex aids was evidently one step too far...

After telling a magazine journalist of her penchant for vibrators, she was inundated with stacks of them from well-wishing fans.

The Daily Mail reports her as saying: "I was sent hundreds by fans.

"People sent them by the truckload. Boxes and boxes and boxes."
But she confirms that they didn't go to waste:

"I gave them all to my girlfriends. Now ABC has told me to stop mentioning it."

2) Sorry, kiddies. I'm not posting a photo of this one. From the Houston Chronicle via Drudge:

Designers' latest jeans campaign has some asking, 'How far is too far?'

The daring duo at Dolce & Gabbana has dropped the boundaries several inches. Their fall 2005 menswear line, which debuted on the Milan runway in January and now appears in print ads and stores near you, includes jeans that plunge so low that they've been dubbed "pubic pants."

Runway models had spent time with a bottle of Nair. But the guys in print ads — debuting in Esquire — without cracking a smile, play peekaboo with their hair down there.

It's no secret that sex sells, said Jill M. Sundie who teaches marketing at the University of Houston.

"I think that this particular one is something that we haven't seen all that often," she said. "(Let's say) you ask women what's your favorite part of a man's body? They will not name the part below their waistline and right above their penis."

That's bad news for all the guys with a heart-shaped trim job down there.

Those Calvin Klein ads in the '80s were effective because they were dripping with sex appeal. When a 15-year-old Brooke Shields, under the direction of Richard Avedon, said, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing," we squirmed.

"Typically you use attractive, young, healthy-looking people and this is kind of an aberration of that, in my mind," said Sundie.

The Calvin Klein ads of the '80s pushed the envelope of how much skin we were used to seeing in the media, especially on someone so young.

When the happy-go-lucky days of sugary pop were gone and grunge had arrived, the campaigns turned to waifish models who looked like heroin addicts. Beauty had taken a decidedly ugly turn.

This Dolce & Gabbana ad, said Sundie, does that same thing: It asks us to take a new look at sex appeal.

We tried to ask Dolce or Gabbana if that's their intention, but, like many Europeans right now, they're on vacation.

Peter Wood is the creative director for the Hucksters, a Houston-based advertising firm, which was criticized for its Vegas ad placing Queen Elizabeth in a casino hustle.

"My first thought when I saw (the D&G ad) was, 'Man those look uncomfortable.' But really, what I would say in terms of ad standards is that you couldn't get much lower."

Except, perhaps, in pornography.


3) Another Eva Longoria story. Either she's a pervert or her agent thinks the gravy train is slowing. Or both. (Thanks to the New York Post via Yahoo!News.)

BALD IS BETTER

Eva Longoria says she only discovered her sexual self after she got some pruning done in an intimate area. "It was when I was 25 or 26," the star, 30, told the Mirror in London. "I never waxed or really paid attention to that area. It opened the door to a whole new sexual side of me. Getting in touch with your inner sex goddess would begin with the Brazilian wax."

4) From KBCI in Boise comes this gem:

BSU Women's Center Distributes Vagina-Shaped Candy

They might (Sexist! - F.G.) taste good, but some BSU students think the vagina-shaped, white chocolate candy that the school's women's center is distributing is in poor taste. "That's almost to the point of being degrading to a woman's body in my opinion," says business student Vicki Johnson.

Representatives from the women's center distributed the candy this week during a meeting for freshman honors students. But the center has actually been distributing the candy for six years now, and during that time the center says it's received plenty of criticism.

The center's interim coordinator Autumn Haynes thinks that criticism is okay because it gets people talking. "We want to dispel that myth that it's not okay to talk about 'down there.' Many times young girls, particularly in our society, are raised with the belief that they have to fit a certain kind of body type and that it's not okay to feel comfortable about their sexuality, and our mission is really to dispel that myth so that women can feel comfortable about their bodies," Haynes says.

Of course, kiddies, it's a self-esteem issue. Someday I'm gonna market Self-Esteem Revolvers. I'll make millions and save The Second Amendment.

The center says it distributes the candy to promote the annual production of a play called, "The Vagina Monologues." It's based on the stories of hundreds of women and billed as giving "an honest account of their lives." The center says ticket revenue pays for the candy and no taxpayer funds or student fees are used.

That figures. Hasn't that piece of crap run its course yet?

Other students say they're not offended by the candy. "But I wouldn't eat one," says Jennifer Gillmore.

Good girl.

"(They're) just trying to get attention more than anything. That's what I honestly think it's all about, get publicity," said Tad Dunavan.

Give that boy an "A". And some chocolate.

On that point the women's center would probably agree. They want publicity for their message - a message about women's sexuality delivered without any sugar coating.

Har-dee-har-har. They sure do grow 'em clever up in Boise.