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Christopher Bakken is the author of two books of poems: Goat Funeral (awarded the Helen C. Smith prize by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry in 2006) and After Greece (for which he won the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry). Bakken is also co-translator of The Lions' Gate, a selected poems of the contemporary Greek poet Titos Patrikios. His poems, essays and translations have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as The Paris Review, PN Review, Literary Imagination, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. He served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2008. He is Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
When William Blake came fashionably late
to parties he'd blame it on archangels,
prophecies broadcast between the leaves
of ordinary trees in the orchard:
those who restrain desire do so because
theirs is weak enough to be restrained…
As in Martinsville, Wisconsin, when we
allowed Mike Meinholz to get in the car,
surely a mistake, since the wheels would start
churning up the twelve-packs of Budweiser
he never restrained himself from drinking.
We all have our excuses for wanting
to avoid conversation with mortals,
to restrain ourselves from the fools we are
in the neon light that only darkens
with beer, fears we can never quite drown.
One hundred people trapped in one small town
with just one bar, one church, and one butcher.
Expect poison from standing water,
bewildering Blake would probably say,
if he'd been around to help drag the drunk
from my Impala, down our steep driveway,
to the back lawn where he would sleep, where we
stood that night without the assistance
of good sense, grass, or Romantic verse,
and heard, I swear, a voice come from below
where the woods dropped into the gulley:
a woman in pain, we thought at first,
which nearly made us run the other way,
but then it shrieked like a snared rabbit,
or was it some keening itch branches scratched,
or nothing but a dull thud in the chest,
nothing but what we wanted it to be, then,
some housecat that couldn't find its way down,
some worried awe that barely held us up,
some trembling thing in a tree we couldn't see.
When was this poem composed? How did it start?
According to my notebook, my first draft was written in the second week of October, 2007. I'd spent the morning reading Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, mining his ecstatic parables. And for some reason I'd just listened to the Dead Kennedy's "California Űber Alles" for the first time in about twenty years. So I gave myself the assignment of writing a poem containing lines from both Blake and Jello Biafra (has there ever been a stranger pair of prophets?).
Thinking about the Dead Kennedys got me thinking about my old friend Mike Meinholz, the drunk punk hero of this Wisconsin poem; then Jello departed from the poem forever, probably for the better.
How many revisions did this poem undergo? Did you consciously employ any principles of technique?
In the act of composition, I'm primarily a metrical writer. The poem's first line came out in ten syllables and it hasn't changed at all since that first draft. Once it was clear the poem was going to have a backbone of narrative, blank verse felt organically right (Wordsworthian nostalgia is a kind of foil here) and the lines filled out very quickly thanks to that self-imposed architecture. My first finished draft was almost the exact length of the poem printed here.
Since iambic pentameter felt too tidy and stately for this subject, however, I spent a good deal of time in later drafts ruffling the metrical surfaces, futzing with a lot of angular substitutions in the hope that the poem would proceed down the page with more anxious spontaneity.
Do you believe in inspiration? How much of this poem was "received" and how much was the result of sweat and tears?
Well, I should answer "yes," if only because this poem is about inspiration at some level, though the primary source of inspiration in Martinsville, Wisconsin was fear: the kind brought on by isolation, religious belief (or lack of it), alcohol, and the unknown.
There's no doubt William Blake "received" his poems, had them dictated by various daemonic sources, and he seemed to make sense of those voices. The "we" at the end of this poem is attempting to do something like that as well, with ambiguous success.
As for my own poems: beyond the occasional flash of backyard sublime, I pretty much depend on hard labor to carry the day.
How long after you finished this poem did it first appear in print? How long do you let a poem "sit" before you send it off into the world?
It went out about two weeks after it was written. It sent it to Ploughshares (along with a batch of two or three other Wisconsin poems) and B.H. Fairchild plucked it from the slush pile for an issue he was editing for the following spring.
Normally I let poems sit and marinate for a long time before sending them out, so that was an unusually short trip from draft to print. I don't have any rules about this—some poems just arrive at their "finished" form sooner than others.
Is this a narrative poem?
I confess: I think it is. Though with only a beginning and middle, it's more a meditation built upon the flimsy bones of anecdote.
At the heart of this poem is the specter of morality, the idea of right and wrong. Is all good poetry in some way ethical or just?
Terrence des Pres, distilling what many others had suggested before him, said that the poet has two duties: praise and dispraise. A certain kind of ethics is involved there, I suppose, and occasionally poets are qualified to guide others in the pursuit of what is sacred, and away from what isn't. I turn to Dante and Whitman and Milosz (to name a few obvious examples) if that's what I'm looking for.
But I'm not sure there is an ethics of the imagination—and I persist in the Romantic idea that the imagination (not theory, or morality, or autobiography) is the provenance of poetry.
Do you have any particular audience in mind when you write, an ideal reader?
Gertrude Stein said she wrote for "herself and strangers." That about sums it up. I certainly don't write to please anyone in particular, though I do keep in mind that my metaphysical family—comprised of the dead poets I love—is out there listening. I try not to make an ass of myself in front of them.
Did you let anyone see drafts of this poem before you finished it? Is there an individual or a group of individuals with whom you regularly share work?
I think of myself as a survivor of the workshop years. For a long time, workshop saved me time—others helped me see the mistakes I was making before those mistakes became too ingrained. Beyond that, however, I'm not sure how much it helped me to have a group of people try to come to some consensus about my drafts.
I always learned much more from individual readers I trusted, those who helped me learn to edit myself (that's ultimately what one should learn from workshop, though that's not usually what happens). Richard Howard helped show me how to do that early in my career.
Sometimes I share my work with other poets, especially if I'm feeling stuck. Alan Michael Parker saw a draft of this poem shortly after it was written, as did Corey Marks. Both of them have a somewhat different approach to poetry than I do, so their perspectives are often really helpful. I also show drafts to David Mason, whose ear for meter in particular I find invaluable.
How does this poem differ from other poems of yours? What is American about this poem?
I'm answering these two unrelated questions together since they are related in this case. My first book, After Greece, accounted a vision of my Promised Land, one very far from my birthplace. And my second book also emerged from some imagined Mediterranean place, though its adventures in psychedelic pastoral were leading me (I see now) back toward my Midwestern roots.
I never consciously avoided writing about Wisconsin, though I never had much inclination to do it either. "Drunk" was one of the first poems in which I openly engaged my rural American upbringing and about half of my new manuscript continues in that vein.
One hundred people trapped in one small town
with just one bar, one church, and one butcher.
That pretty much sums up what it felt like to live out in the dark fields of the republic. They might be the most hard-headed "American" lines I've ever written.
Also, any poem with a Pontiac in it qualifies as an American poem, no?
Was this poem finished or abandoned?
Finished. At least for now.
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The Metro East Conference championship was a split title a year ago as North and Tartan tied for the top spot in the standings. Those two squads are again contending for the MEC crown, but there is a third team in the mix.
The playoffs have arrived for high school girls hockey in Minnesota and the teams from Hill-Murray and North/Tartan have a couple of more days to prepare for their first-round contests. The Section 4AA tournament kicks off on Feb. 11.
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As the high school girls hockey regular season winds down, a majority of teams have only a couple of weeks left. For teams like Hill-Murray, there's a good chance the season will last for three or four more weeks.
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Was President Barack Obama really joking at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues?
It's fashionable for critics — especially if they didn't get invited — to harrumph with outrage over the chummy, elbow-massaging, C-SPAN-covered spring "nerd prom" of politicians, media moguls, Hollywood stars and, here and there, actual White House journalists.
But sometimes actual news or, at least, useful insights break out, particularly if you listen for hidden messages in the president's traditionally humorous roast of himself and others.
Right off the bat, Obama drew contrasts between his first and second terms. "How do you like my new entrance music?" he asked the crowd after half-dancing his way to the podium to the pounding beat of a rap tune.
"Rush Limbaugh warned you about this," he quipped. "Second term, baby. We're changing things around here."
He also turned the paranoid right's Obama myths on their head: "I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be."
But some of his humor made one wonder whether he was actually joking.
"Some folks still don't think I spend enough time with Congress," the president said. "'Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?' they ask. Really?" The crowd laughed.
"Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?" he added. The crowd laughed even more. But the line had an edge to it that even Obama seemed to notice. "I'm sorry," he said, expressing mock regret. "I get frustrated sometimes."
Go for the pain, I have heard wise stand-up comedians advise rising comics. The day-to-day pain of life gives comedians some of their best material. Obama's day-to-day political pain seemed to produce his most memorable punch lines.
"Everybody has got plenty of advice," he sighed. "Maureen Dowd said I could solve all my problems if I were just more like Michael Douglas in 'The American President.' And I know Michael is here tonight. Michael, what's your secret, man? Could it be that you were an actor in an Aaron Sorkin liberal fantasy? Might that have something to do with it?"
Obama was responding to a column by Dowd, in full mean-girl mode, that praised his ability to connect emotionally with people but said "he still has not learned how to govern."
"No one on Capitol Hill is scared of him," she wrote. She cited his winning public opinion for a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases, yet the bill fell short of passage in the Senate — a "glaring example," she wrote, "of his weakness in using leverage to get what he wants."
Obama's response: You're living in a fantasy world, Maureen. Yet, she's also right. Obama's response was funny, partly because the truth hurts.
Days after appearing with other former presidents at the dedication ceremony for President George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas, Obama certainly doesn't want to experience the plunge in approval ratings that sunk Bush's legacy.
Yet, the day after this year's dinner, a Washington Post analysis sounded a lot like Dowd. After more than four years in the White House, it said, the president "still isn't very good at using his personal charm to achieve political success."
Yet charm is one of the few avenues he has left as he pushes such remaining priorities as a sweeping budget deal and comprehensive immigration reform.
Unlike President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress to help him push a record number of his bills to passage, Obama has one of the most hostile Congresses in history. Besides new issues, he still has to defend his past successes, such as the health care law and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill.
Arm-twisting has its place, but it doesn't do much good on core ideological issues like gun control, against which conservatives are remarkably resistant even to polls. Obama's headaches may well get worse after the 2014 midterms, which traditionally draw voters who are older, more conservative and more anti-incumbent, particularly toward whoever is sitting in the White House.
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Orange County Executive Ed Diana announced Wednesday that he's suffering from a liver disease that requires him to get a liver transplant and
Orange County Executive Ed Diana announced Wednesday that he's suffering from a liver disease that requires him to get a liver transplant and could take him out of office for up to 10 weeks while he recovers from surgery.
Flanked by his wife, his daughter and a doctor at a news conference in Goshen, Diana told reporters that his ailment, known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, has caused his liver to deteriorate, but that he feels fine and plans to continue working until he undergoes surgery. He said he's on a waiting list for an organ donation and doesn't know when a match is likely to be found.
Diana said he decided to reveal his condition to quell rumors about his health and avoid surprising the public with the news that he has been hospitalized for a liver transplant, whenever that day comes.
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Appearing at the news conference with Diana was Edward Croen, a gastroenterologist at Crystal Run Healthcare who said he has been treating Diana for his liver illness for several years. Dr. Croen said the disease itself is not uncommon, but is rarely serious enough to require a transplant.
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What Grails Automatically DoesGrails has a few built in safety mechanisms by default.
- All standard database access via GORM domain objects is automatically SQL escaped to prevent SQL injection attacks
- The default scaffolding templates HTML escape all data fields when displayed
- Grails link creating tags (link, form, createLink, createLinkTo and others) all use appropriate escaping mechanisms to prevent code injection
- Grails provides codecs to allow you to trivially escape data when rendered as HTML, JavaScript and URLs to prevent injection attacks here.
11.1 Securing Against Attacks
SQL injectionHibernate, which is the technology underlying GORM domain classes, automatically escapes data when committing to database so this is not an issue. However it is still possible to write bad dynamic HQL code that uses unchecked request parameters. For example doing the following is vulnerable to HQL injection attacks:
Do not do this. If you need to pass in parameters use named or positional parameters instead:
def vulnerable = { def books = Book.find("from Book as b where b.title ='" + params.title + "'") }
def safe = {
def books = Book.find("from Book as b where b.title =?", [params.title])
PhishingThis really a public relations issue in terms of avoiding hijacking of your branding and a declared communication policy with your customers. Customers need to know how to identify bonafide emails received.
XSS - cross-site scripting injectionIt is important that your application verifies as much as possible that incoming requests were originated from your application and not from another site. Ticketing and page flow systems can help this and Grails' support for Spring Web Flow includes security like this by default.It is also important to ensure that all data values rendered into views are escaped correctly. For example when rendering to HTML or XHTML you must call encodeAsHTML on every object to ensure that people cannot maliciously inject JavaScript or other HTML into data or tags viewed by others. Grails supplies several Dynamic Encoding Methods for this purpose and if your output escaping format is not supported you can easily write your own codec.You must also avoid the use of request parameters or data fields for determining the next URL to redirect the user to. If you use a
successURL parameter for example to determine where to redirect a user to after a successful login, attackers can imitate your login procedure using your own site, and then redirect the user back to their own site once logged in, potentially allowing JS code to then exploit the logged-in account on the site.
HTML/URL injectionThis is where bad data is supplied such that when it is later used to create a link in a page, clicking it will not cause the expected behaviour, and may redirect to another site or alter request parameters.HTML/URL injection is easily handled with the codecs supplied by Grails, and the tag libraries supplied by Grails all use encodeAsURL where appropriate. If you create your own tags that generate URLs you will need to be mindful of doing this too.
Denial of serviceLoad balancers and other appliances are more likely to be useful here, but there are also issues relating to excessive queries for example where a link is created by an attacker to set the maximum value of a result set so that a query could exceed the memory limits of the server or slow the system down. The solution here is to always sanitize request parameters before passing them to dynamic finders or other GORM query methods:
def safeMax = Math.max(params.max?.toInteger(), 100) // limit to 100 results return Book.list(max:safeMax)
Guessable IDsMany applications use the last part of the URL as an "id" of some object to retrieve from GORM or elsewhere. Especially in the case of GORM these are easily guessable as they are typically sequential integers.Therefore you must assert that the requesting user is allowed to view the object with the requested id before returning the response to the user.Not doing this is "security through obscurity" which is inevitably breached, just like having a default password of "letmein" and so on.You must assume that every unprotected URL is publicly accessible one way or another.
11.2 Encoding and Decoding ObjectsGrails supports the concept of dynamic encode/decode methods. A set of standard codecs are bundled with Grails. Grails also supports a simple mechanism for developers to contribute their own codecs that will be recognized at runtime.
Codec ClassesA Grails codec class is a class that may contain an encode closure, a decode closure or both. When a Grails application starts up the Grails framework will dynamically load codecs from the
grails-app/utils/ directory.The framework will look under
grails-app/utils/ for class names that end with the convention
Codec. For example one of the standard codecs that ship with Grails is
HTMLCodec.If a codec contains an
encode property assigned a block of code Grails will create a dynamic
encode method and add that method to the Object class with a name representing the codec that defined the encode closure. For example, the
HTMLCodec class defines an
encode block so Grails will attach that closure to the
Object class with the name
HTMLCodec and
URLCodec classes also define a
decode block so Grails will attach those with the names
decodeHTML and
decodeURL. Dynamic codec methods may be invoked from anywhere in a Grails application. For example, consider a case where a report contains a property called 'description' and that description may contain special characters that need to be escaped to be presented in an HTML document. One way to deal with that in a GSP is to encode the description property using the dynamic encode method as shown below:
Decoding is performed using
value.decodeHTML() syntax.
Standard CodecsHTMLCodecThis codec perfoms HTML escaping and unescaping, so that values you provide can be rendered safely in an HTML page without creating any HTML tags or damaging the page layout. For example, given a value "Don't you know that 2 > 1?" you wouldn't be able to show this safely within an HTML page because the > will look like it closes a tag, which is especially bad if you render this data within an attribute, such as the value attribute of an input field.Example of usage:
<input name="comment.message" value="${comment.message.encodeAsHTML()}"/>
Note that the HTML encoding does not re-encode apostrophe/single quote so you must use double quotes on attribute values to avoid text with apostrophes messing up your page.URLCodecURL encoding is required when creating URLs in links or form actions, or any time data may be used to create a URL. It prevents illegal characters getting into the URL to change its meaning, for example a "Apple & Blackberry" is not going to work well as a parameter in a GET request as the ampersand will break the parsing of parameters.Example of usage:
Base64CodecPerforms Base64 encode/decode functions. Example of usage:
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HexCodecWill encode byte arrays or lists of integers to lowercase hexadecimal strings, and can decode hexadecimal strings into byte arrays. Example of usage:
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MD5CodecWill use the MD5 algorithm to digest byte arrays or lists of integers, or the bytes of a string (in default system encoding), as a lowercase hexadecimal string. Example of usage:
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byte[] passwordHash = params.password.encodeAsMD5Bytes()
SHA1BytesCodecWill use the SHA1 algorithm to digest byte arrays or lists of integers, or the bytes of a string (in default system encoding), as a byte array. Example of usage:
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SHA256CodecWill use the SHA256 algorithm to digest byte arrays or lists of integers, or the bytes of a string (in default system encoding), as a lowercase hexadecimal string. Example of usage:
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Custom CodecsApplications may define their own codecs and Grails will load them along with the standard codecs. A custom codec class must be defined in the
grails-app/utils/ directory and the class name must end with
Codec. The codec may contain a
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decode block or both. The block should expect a single argument which will be the object that the dynamic method was invoked on. For Example:
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class PigLatinCodec { static encode = { str -> // convert the string to piglatin and return the result } }
11.3 AuthenticationAlthough there is no current default mechanism for authentication as it is possible to implement authentication in literally thousands of different ways. It is however, trivial to implement a simple authentication mechanism using either interceptors or filters.Filters allow you to apply authentication across all controllers or across a URI space. For example you can create a new set of filters in a class called
Here the
class SecurityFilters { def filters = { loginCheck(controller:'*', action:'*') { before = { if(!session.user && actionName != "login") { redirect(controller:"user",action:"login") return false } } } } }
loginCheck filter will intercept execution before an action executed and if their is no user in the session and the action being executed is not the
login action then redirect to the
login action.The
login action itself is trivial too:
def login = { if(request.get) render(view:"login") else { def u = User.findByLogin(params.login) if(u) { if(u.password == params.password) { session.user = u redirect(action:"home") } else { render(view:"login", model:[message:"Password incorrect"]) } } else { render(view:"login", model:[message:"User not found"]) } } }
11.4 Security Plug-insIf you need more advanced functionality beyond simple authentication such as authorization, roles etc. then you may want to consider using one of the available security plug-ins.
11.4.1 Spring SecurityThe Spring Security plugins are built on the Spring Security project which provides a flexible, extensible framework for building all sorts of authentication and authorization schemes. The plugins are modular so you can install just the functionality that you need for your application. There is a Core plugin which supports form-based authentication, encrypted/salted passwords, HTTP Basic authentication, etc. and secondary dependent plugins provide alternate functionality such as OpenID authentication, ACL support, etc.See the plugin page for basic information and the user guide for detailed information.
11.4.2 ShiroShiro is a Java POJO oriented security framework that provides a default domain model that models realms, users, roles and permissions. With Shiro you have to extends a controller base called called
JsecAuthBase in each controller you want secured and then provide an
accessControl block to setup the roles. An example below:
For more information on the Shiro plugin refer to the documentation.
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Will an orgasm a day really keep the doctor away?
Several years ago, men began showing up in my website's forum struggling to end compulsive porn use. Gradually, they worked out that a period of abstinence often helps reboot their brains. (Initially, their sexual arousal is so tightly wired to porn images and flashbacks that foregoing orgasm for a time can speed re-wiring and stave off binges.)
Discussions naturally arose about whether frequent ejaculation is needed for health reasons. Surprisingly, there is no consensus on the answer. There is, however, a wide gap between popular lore and the views of most reproductive health experts.
Interestingly, men who cut back often remark on changes: more energy, better concentration, interacting with potential mates more easily, greater gains from workouts, stronger erections, healthy dietary changes, return to earlier sexual tastes, more optimism, seeing women differently—even deeper voices. As with other aspects of life, it seems that finding a middle ground pays. Yet when it comes to ejaculation, few people are talking about what might constitute a healthy middle ground.
In his book on American campus life, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe remarked that, "Many boys spoke openly about how they masturbated at least once every day, as if this were some sort of prudent maintenance of the psychosexual system." More recently, British authorities campaigned to encourage kids to masturbate daily: "An Orgasm A Day Keeps the Doctor Away." They offered no evidence that daily masturbation is beneficial apart from a claim that it improves cardiovascular health. (So does walking up stairs.)
The absence of a reliable consensus could be a problem. Having heard that frequent ejaculation is vital to good health, many men now fear to cut back—even for a time, even when they have sound reasons. They may resort to risky sexual enhancement drugs or more intense sexual stimuli to increase/maintain ejaculation frequency. Some also mistake withdrawal discomfort (when rebooting) as evidence that avoiding ejaculation is harmful, rather than recognizing withdrawal discomfort as an unavoidable phase in the return to balance.
Intercourse is good for us, but the belief that the benefits are coming from ejaculation may also be changing the focus of some men's sex lives away from real partners. After all, today's extreme sexual stimuli can certainly produce more intense (and frequent, though not more satisfying) ejaculations than most partnered sex (because partners aren't always cooperative). For example, scientists have learned that masturbating to a novel porn star increases ejaculate volume and motile sperm. Also, the time it takes to ejaculate decreases significantly. In short, sexual novelty (many porn users report constantly seeking novel erotica) translates into expenditure of more fertile semen and faster ejaculation. Research also shows greater reward circuit activity in the brain when exposed to a novel sexual partner, increasing the risk of developing an addiction.
Today's stimuli also spare users the bother of mastering interpersonal skills. This may not be such a good thing. Primates are a funny bunch. Even the sexy bonobos and their cousins the macaque monkeys frequently don't ejaculate when they engage in sexual activity. It seems primates need sex for the social bonds that soothe their brains—rather than mere ejaculation. In fact, comforting contact may be even more vital for pair-bonding brains like ours. In any case, too much sexual stimulation can actually leave people less contented.
One thing is certain: It takes a lot of effort to uncover objective information about ejaculation and health. Said one young man,
On the men's sites that I frequent, the number one rationalization for masturbation is that it is good for the prostate. All you have to do is tell a guy that jerking off is good for his health and he's a lifer. Does frequent masturbation really prevent prostate cancer?
Curious, my husband and I began digging around for the answer. Results were, not surprisingly, inconsistent. As the researchers of a study frequently cited in support of the men's site statement said, "Nine studies observed a statistically significant or nonsignificant positive association; 3 studies reported no association; 7 studies found a statistically significant or nonsignificant inverse relationship; and 1 study found a U-shaped relationship."
In one study, frequent masturbation alone was a marker for increased risk of prostate cancer in the 20s, 30s and 40s when researchers finally thought to distinguish masturbation activity from penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI). PVI proved to be protective of prostate health in older men and neutral in effect in younger men. A more recent study found 19% less non-lethal prostate cancer in more frequent ejaculators (lethal rates were unaffected). However, many questions remain unanswered, such as what else the researchers controlled for. For example, communicable disease may be a more likely prostate-cancer culprit than ejaculation frequency. Said one guy,
There are so many contradictory beliefs regarding masturbation (orgasm) out there. Such as, 'Masturbation creates more testosterone;' 'If you masturbate, you won't act so desperate (Something About Mary):' and 'If you don't masturbate you will build up excess testosterone, and lose your hair.'
Upon investigation, we learned that ejaculation is not, in fact, an important influence on testosterone levels (although normal testosterone levels support sexual performance). Testosterone is generally slightly higher when abstaining from orgasm. And it does rise slightly during sexual activity—before dropping back down to normal. (Orgasmic frequency and plasma testosterone levels in normal human males) It also spikes and then drops back around day 7 after ejaculation, indicating that orgasm triggers a subtle hormonal cycle that lasts at least a week.
That said, men often notice very real changes in libido and energy over the days and weeks following ejaculation. These shifts probably have more to do with changes in key neurochemicals and nerve cell receptors in the brain's reward circuitry than they do with serum testosterone levels.
What happens to sperm that aren't ejaculated?
According to Cambridge University's "NakedScientist" forum,
Sperm that have reached their sell-by-date get broken down in the same way that, let's say, blood cells get broken down. And basically any of the nutrients and goodies in the sperm just get recycled back inside the body.
What is the ideal ejaculation frequency?
A forum member recently asked his urologist this very question. The doctor said that, in the absence of the "irritation of frequent masturbation," a man's wet dream interval would be a good guide. He advised his patient to wait until he had two wet dreams, without disrupting the cycle by climax. The resulting interval was suggested as a good guide for the sake of reproductive health, whatever one's age.
The doctor explained that glands are not muscles, and do not need exercise. Glands secrete fluids all on their own (e.g., wet dreams), and manual intervention is simply not needed. Therefore, if a man cares to take a time-out, he can rest assured that his body will meet his ejaculation needs without his intervention. The forum member added:
Since I have not had a wet dream for a decade or more (always masturbated) I asked the doctor, "What if I don't have a wet dream?" His reply was, "Well then, you no longer need to ejaculate."
Is there such thing as too frequent ejaculation? The classic view of sexologists is that climax is self-regulating: No one can ever ejaculate too much, because he'll simply stop when his body has had enough.
Unfortunately, it looks like not all men automatically stop at that point; ejaculation becomes compulsive. (Just as one third of Americans don't automatically stop eating, and become obese.) For example, the online Onania support group is primarily made up of men who describe their masturbation as compulsive, and acknowledge its negative effects. The group even coined the term "copulatory impotence" for their resulting inability to ejaculate with real partners. Clearly, their bodies did not self-regulate with regard to ejaculation. The good news is that this phenomenon is likely reversible.
As we investigated, we discovered research showing that too much ejaculation can cause lingering physiological changes. When men engaged in a "ten-day depletion experience," ejaculating an average of 2.4 times per day, their sperm output remained below pre-depletion levels for more than five months. It's quite possible that there are other effects occurring in the brain, which haven't been uncovered yet. The research hasn't been done.
The absence of comprehensive information may be causing unnecessary suffering. For example, hundreds of men are now recording severe symptoms after ejaculation in the Post-orgasmic Illness Syndrome forum. Not long ago, a psychiatrist noted that the neurochemical changes after orgasm are sometimes associated with depression and anxiety in otherwise emotionally healthy patients. Might today's emphasis on frequent ejaculation be dysregulating brains?
Where can men find sound advice? What would a healthy middle ground look like?
Although their is nothing wrong with masturbation, it may not be the health panacea touted by the popular press. This article from The Archives of Sexual Behavior, was produced after the above post - Masturbation is Related to Psychopathology and Prostate Dysfunction: Comment on Quinsey (2012)
In the following post we disucuss the above journal article, and many others.
Rethinking the Wonders of Adult Masturbation - Reconsider these five popular myths about solo sex
Growing scientific evidence of a lingering post-orgasm cycle (studies)
Studies on the overlap between sex and drugs in the brain
To explore the available science, organized into easily readable sections, check out Prostate cancer risk factors by Cancer Research UK.
Perhaps a good guide
I plan on trying the cycle suggested in Marnia's post. I plan to abstain from orgasm (but not bonding sexual activity) until the first wet dream, then continue this way until the next. I will TRY to keep the group updated as to the results, but since it could take a very long time, I freely admit to the potential of trailing off....
Anyone else feel this is a good idea? (Hint: I see this as a pretty ambitious undertaking and I would be very grateful for support of the group....thanks in advance.)
VERY ambitious!
You're a better man than I. Have wet dreams been a part of your life prior to this? I don't know how this would be quantified equivalently for a woman.
What constitutes a female wet dream?
*if I were that one guy I'd get a different urologist*
another friend in another part of the country asked *his* urologist this question years ago...and got the same answer.
Go for it!
Since I've never had a wet dream, I'd be afraid my body would tell me I never need them again.
But it would be interesting to see what you discover.
Thanks for input
I appreciate the input and encouragement. To answer the question from Lolita: I have had a wet dream before, but long ago. The wet dream occured during a period of recovery from a serious athletic injury. However, for the last ten years or so I have not had one--I have always masturbated or had sex at least once a week.
Therefore, I truly have no idea how long this interval is going to be. So as Cole points out, it IS possible that my body will indicate that I don't really need to ejaculate again. I am not afraid of that possibility, it sort of intrigues me.
The link from Lolita was a good one. It fascinates me that we humans deep down know some things that contemporary science wishes we ignore.
Like Marnia says, consistency will be key. Perhaps I may go six months without ejaculation and I will lose patience with the wet dream interval experiment. At least I will then know that I would need NO MORE than two ejaculations a year.
I remember reading that the effects from male ejaculation can be thought of as a two week long "estrangement" period--or "vacation"--from a spouse. As such, a good guide might be how much "vacation time" from loving your spouse would she be willing to grant? If someone looks at this like working for a company, then 2-4 weeks of vacation usually suffice. As such, this method yields a recommendation of one or two ejaculations per year.
For sure, I am going to go as far as I can with the wet dream intervals and see what that does.
Please stay tuned!
From another forum member
We did have some discussion on another forum concerning ejaculation frequency for prostate health, etc. as my wife and I had some concerns about this as her dad had prostate cancer - and most of what you read leads one to believe that regularly "emptying the tank" could be beneficial in reducing cancer risk. I conducted as much research as I could find on the subject and there is no definitive answer either way. I believe there is a lack of sufficient numbers of non - ejaculatory men to perform a viable test. Not bragging here but I have always been a prodigious (high volume) ejaculator and what initially put me on the path to become non - ejaculatory was the fact my semen upset the delicate environmental balance of my wife's vagina and triggered seemingly endless yeast infections. So when life deals you a lemon you find a way to make lemonaid out of it - and I stopped ejaculating inside her - which eventually led to not ejaculating at all once we began to see the benefits. I relate this to illustrate that I have literally been from one extreme to the other - and currently approaching three years without ejaculation. From my own meandering experience my take is this is much like any other bodily function and the body reacts to meet the demand - what ever the demand might be - and we are all highly individualistic as far as what works for us and what our needs are. If one ejaculates frequently the body ramps up production, and if one goes for extended periods without then the lymphatic system removes waste. Automatically. For me at least I do not think any "drying up" occurs as I do "leak" the clear pre-ejaculatory fluid during play and since we play at the edge sometimes I do get that very "full" congested feeling if play is extended for long periods of time. But the body quickly processes out the "excess" to restore equilibrium. So all the "plumbing" appears to be working just fine in spite of a long period without ejaculating. I have found that my arousal cycle is very much in harmony with my lovely wife and when she is out of commission during menstruation my libido slows down to match hers where as during peak ovulation I "rise" to the occasion and take full advantage of her increase in "demand" so we just naturally flow together in the most delicious way. (http://www.reuniting.info/node/3772#comment-25679)
No need to clean out the pipes
Shortly before I found this site, I asked my urologist if ejaculation helped prevent prostate cancer. He stated unequivocally that he knew of no medical reason for a man to ejaculate. This was actually a bit of a relief to me, for I was "cleaning out the pipes" 3 or 4 times a week, partially because I thought it promoted good health. Since I have always slow to ejaculate, this was sometimes a lot of work, especially for my wife. So one less thing on the to-do list. A week or two later, I happened on Marnia's site which extolls the benefits of avoiding ejaculation. It was a one-two whammy for me than really changed my life and freed up a lot of time to pursue other pleasures - such as bonding and karezza :)
Ha ha!
Thanks for sharing. I'm always glad to hear doctors say this, because I love men and wouldn't want to contribute to harming them in any way.
I'll post the key insight on another thread or two, too.
Readers may also find this information interesting:
"Masturbation is Related to Psychopathology and Prostate Dysfunction"
Just learned of this published letter to a journal editor, which might be of interest: http://www.reuniting.info/download/pdf/Costa.Masturbation.PDF
The author points out that the standard claims that masturbation is healthy contrast sharply with the best available empirical evidence.
It is difficult to reconcile the view that masturbation improves mood with the findings in both sexes that greater masturbation frequency is associated with more depressive symptoms (Cyranowski et al., 2004; Frohlich&Meston, 2002;Husted&Edwards, 1976), less happiness (Das, 2007), and several other indicators of poorer physical and mental health, which include anxious attachment (Costa&Brody, 2011),immature psychological defense mechanisms, greater blood pressure reactivity to stress, and dissatisfaction with one's mental health and life in general (for a review, see Brody, 2010). It is equally difficult to see how masturbation develops sexual interests,when greater masturbation frequency is so often associated with impaired sexual function in men(Brody&Costa, 2009; Das, Parish,&Laumann, 2009; Gerressu, Mercer,Graham, Wellings,&Johnson, 2008; Lau,Wang, Cheng, & Yang, 2005; Nutter & Condron, 1985) and women (Brody &Costa, 2009; Das et al., 2009;Gerressu et al., 2008;Lau,Cheng, Wang, & Yang, 2006; Shaeer, Shaeer, & Shaeer, 2012;Weiss& Brody, 2009). Greater masturbation frequency is also associated with more dissatisfaction with relationships and less love for partners (Brody, 2010; Brody&Costa, 2009). In contrast, PVI is very consistently related to better health (Brody, 2010; Brody&Costa, 2009; Brody &Weiss, 2011; Costa & Brody, 2011, 2012), better sexual function (Brody & Costa, 2009; Brody & Weiss, 2011; Nutter&Condron, 1983, 1985;Weiss&Brody, 2009), and better intimate relationship quality (Brody, 2010; Brody&Costa, 2009; Brody &Weiss, 2011).
Moreover, although less risk of prostate cancer was associated with greater number of ejaculations (without specification of the sexual behavior) (Giles et al., 2003), it is PVI frequency that is specifically associated with reduced risk, whereas masturbation frequency is more often related to increased risk (for a review on the subject, see Brody,2010). In this regard, it is interesting to note that masturbation is also associated with other problems of the prostate (higher prostate specific antigen levels and swollen or tender prostate) and,compared with the ejaculate obtained from PVI, the ejaculate obtained from masturbation has markers of poorer prostatic function and lesser elimination of waste products (Brody, 2010). The only sexual behavior consistently related to better psychological and physical health is PVI. In contrast, masturbation is frequently associated with indices of poorer health (Brody, 2010; Brody&Costa, 2009; Brody&Weiss, 2011; Costa& Brody, 2011, 2012). There are several possible psychological and physiological mechanisms, which are a likely consequence of natural selection favoring health processes as cause and/or effect of motivation to search for, and capacity to obtain and enjoy, PVI. In contrast, selection of psychobiological mechanisms rewarding motivation to masturbate is unlikely due to the severe fitness costs that would occur if it deterred one from PVI by making it irrelevant for well-being (Brody, 2010). More plausibly, masturbation represents some failure of the mechanisms of sexual drive and intimate relatedness, however common it may be, and even if not uncommonly it coexists with access to PVI. In this regard, it is noteworthy that greater masturbation frequency is associated with dissatisfaction with several aspects of life independently of PVI frequency (Brody& Costa,2009) and seems to diminish some benefits ofPVI(Brody, 2010).
I'm experiencing a moral/religious dilemma with this subject. I'll be 52 Sept. 26th, been divorced since 2003, haven't had intercourse in nearly 5 years, do not remember ever having a wet dream and usually masturbate more to get it (the sex act) out of my mind, which I accomplish quite quickly by the way. I'm relatively healthy, excercise regularly. I haven't found religion, it found me!!! Anywho, my religious/spiritual beliefs are contrary, against "self-abuse" (lusting/masturbating). I experience real pain, a bloating feeling, when I do not masturbate for some time. The relief is instantaneous after orgasm. I went to "Ask.com" where I found this forum. Very interesting. Anyone else experiencing same or similar predicament? Thanx.
reply to Capt. Timmy
I am 33 not married and not having intercourse for several years....I had the same dilemma with masturbation and for me the side effects were depression, self-hatred, anger, and suicidal thoughts. I was browsing the internet looking for answers and found http://www.HowtoStopMasturbation.com it has unique perspective with not eating meat and animal products. It has helped me a lot to get self control.


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The New Science of Email Subject Lines – At Work – WSJ
In the cutthroat world of corporate email, where attention spans are measured in fractions of a second, a well-crafted subject line can make all the difference. Just don't try too hard.
Dan Moskovitz, a rabbi based in Vancouver, used simple flattery to grab the notice of Amazon Inc. chief Jeff Bezos with the subject line, "Thank You! You're Awesome." Though the note was unsolicited and of relatively small concern to Bezos—some praise for a little-heralded Kindle feature—Rabbi Moskowitz received a personal reply, according to a recent account of their correspondence in Marketwatch.
Second-person subject lines often do the trick, especially for busy and high-profile recipients, and they need not be complicated.
"I always find the content line YOU makes people open up fast," says Tina Brown, the former magazine editor and founder of next month's Women in the World Summit, for which she wrangled notables like IMF chief Christine Lagarde, former President Jimmy Carter and actress Meryl Streep.
"Nothing is more fascinating to people than themselves," Brown added in an email sent via a spokesperson. (Subject line: "from Tina.")
But appeals to ego only get you so far. The next-best advice for subject lines, according to people who regularly snag VIP replies, is to be as plain-spoken as possible. When everyone worth talking to is dealing with a daily torrent of messages, clarity trumps cleverness.
"What you're trying to do is stop the scroll," says Anne Lewis, the CEO of digital marketing agency Anne Lewis Strategies, who has worked on campaigns for Hillary Clinton, the National MS Society and others. "Odds are very good that whoever's looking is looking on a mobile device, just scrolling through, much like a Facebook feed."
Years ago, a successful subject line was "clever, oblique, evocative," says Lewis, citing a 2007 email from Clinton's presidential campaign that simply read, "Let's do Lunch." The message, which registered an open rate 25% higher than the campaign average, announced a lottery in which supporters could win a chance to eat with the then-senator at her DC home. It raised $600,000 in the 72 hours after it was sent out, according to a campaign spokesman at the time.
But time is more precious now, and so subject lines must explicitly spell out why the recipient should open the email. In her own inbox, the subjects that best grab Lewis's attention are the least complicated: "I need you to review this now," for example, or "I need your feedback."
Choire Sicha, a co-founder of the website The Awl and a former editor at Gawker and the New York Observer, says he has already begun to treat his inbox like a Twitter stream: catch what you can.
Subject lines styled as coy headlines—"Will the ACA spur most employers to drop health coverage?"—can be easy to ignore, Sicha says.
"'Do I need to click that? Mmm, maybe later.' Oh it's gone, scrolling down the page, oh well," Sicha wrote in an email, describing his inbox maintenance routine. (Subject line: "re: for WSJ: email subject lines".)
For his own outgoing emails, Sicha says he often keeps his subjects short and direct: "Reporter request."
Entrepreneur Rob Biederman took a similar tack in July, when he sent an unsolicited email to Texas billionaire Mark Cuban seeking an investment in HourlyNerd, a business Biederman founded that connects M.B.A.s with small companies for freelance assignments.
Biederman found Cuban's email address on the investor's website and tapped out a note on his iPhone. The subject line was unambiguous — "HourlyNerd – Investment Opportunity". Cuban responded within 15 minutes, Biederman recalls, and the two immediately outlined out a financing agreement similar to the one that was sealed in writing a few months later.
The subject field was "not the catchiest," Biederman says, "but I just wanted to quickly communicate the name of the company and why I was emailing."
The typical corporate email user sends and receives about 105 emails per day, according to a 2011 study by California-based researchers at The Radicati Group, a number that is growing by double-digit percentages each year.
"Anything that even hints of spam gets thrown away immediately," reads an online guide to subject lines by the staff of MailChimp, the maker of an email newsletter tool. Based on research culled from 200 million emails with open rates ranging from 93% to .5%, the company recommends subjects lines that are "pretty straightforward…Heck, some people might even say they're boring."
MailChimp found that somewhat banal-sounding subject lines like "Preliminary Floor Plans for Southern Village Neighborhood Circle Members" and "Idlewild Camp – Important Travel Information" were opened by more than 90% of recipients, who likely knew exactly what they were going to get upon reading. On the other hand, more ostentatious subjects such as "Tempting August NUSA Specials!" were opened by less than one percent of recipients. (Names were changed in each example.)
But accuracy doesn't have to come at the expense of liveliness. Michael Musto, a journalist and gossip columnist formerly of the Village Voice, says he typically doesn't use a subject line at all. "If they're going to read it, they'll read it," he says.
But when he does fill in the field, he tries to make it exciting. Recent examples: "Job opportunity for you!" and "Great new Miley dish!"
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TerryGroup8 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 83 Designs von 39 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Need a graffiti style logo for a new Skateboard Company. Company is named Party Skateboards. The logo will have two primary applications:
Partyskateboards.com needs a masthead for site.
And we need an application of the logo for skateboard screen print. Design area is 7.5 to 7.75 inches wide by 14 inches long. Orientation can be horizontal or vertical.
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I want the word 'Party' to be the dominant design element
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design. (Nike used SB for their
Skateboard branded merchandise as well.)
I like the feel of the masthead at the website
Attached is a photo of the Party Skateboard team and me. You may be able to use a
posterized photo graphic with the masthead. I am the one holding the skateboard with the white shirt. (OOPS, I did not realize I could not attach a photo.)
I am a 15 year old student and have created quite a lot of buzz with my skateboards. We are ready to start a new website and put our skateboards and videos on it. First I need some logos. All finished artwork needs to be in vector graphics from Photoshop or Illustrator.
- Item 1... For the most part skateboarding is a guy's sport, so I want the logo to look readable yet very contemporary. I like the graffiti style or broken type style that is popular now. The colors should be masculine and cool.
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Raspberry Custard Pie
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 55 min. + cooling
Makes8 servings
- Pastry for single-crust pie (9 inches)
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup evaporated milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Dash salt
- 5-1/2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup cold butter
- Line a 9-in. pie plate with pastry; trim to 1/2 in. beyond edge of plate. Flute edges; set aside. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add the sugar, flour, milk, vanilla and salt; mix well. Gently fold in raspberries. Pour into crust.
- For topping, combine flour and brown sugar in a small bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over filling. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°; bake 45-50 minutes longer or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 588 calories, 20g fat (12g saturated fat), 118mg cholesterol, 259mg sodium, 95g carbohydrate (62g sugars, 6g fiber), 8g protein.
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Mar 14, 2017
This was a complete disaster. First of all, the custard never set, and I do mean never. I cooked that pie for well over an hour. Nope, still soupy. In addition, I didn't need that many raspberries - not even close. It ended up being a raspberry mush with a too-done crust by the time I finally took it out. What a disappointment. Don't try this at home, boys and girls.
Nov 20, 2016
My favorite pie recipe so far! Had made this on many occasions. Have also used, mangoes, Apple's, strawberries, etc, is a very versatile recipe
Sep 2, 2013
This pie is delicious! However, I had a lot of leftover filling and really could have made a second one; which is what I will plan to do next time. Also, the cooking time was at least 10-15 mins longer than the recipe said as others have mentioned.
Jun 28, 2012
The filling did not have the texture, flavor or look of a true custard pie. It was to sweet, and looked more like a pecan pie filling, not custard. With only a 1/3 cup of evaporated milk it was very noticeable in the taste. The berries and custard were in layers, berries on top and custard (if you want to call it custard) on the bottom. A true custard pie has the berries throughout the custard, and the custard is light and wiggles. I will not make this recipe again.
Sep 29, 2011
Should 'set' without a problem. With 3 eggs & less that one cup of liquid, this custard should 'set' w/o a problem. The Martha Stewart recipe calls for 1 egg & once cup of cream.
Sep 8, 2011
I have made this recipe twice and couldn't get the filling to thicken. The last time I burnt the crust and still the custard didn't set in the middle. I was using frozen berrys. Was that my problem?
Aug 8, 2009
I had this pie at my sister Kathy's made with fresh raspberries from her garden. My husband loved it too. It is to die for. I added it to my recipe box.


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Another sellout with the Yankees in Clearwater today. Tomorrow, the Rays are here and yet another sellout is expected.
Phillies fans are also in great numbers on road games. Can't miss the red colors or pinstripe jerseys.
Alumni battery today was John Kruk throwing to Darren Daulton. Both remain crowd favorites. Kruk is here for the ESPN telecast. He's in the ESPN booth again when we play the Braves on Wednesday in Orlando.
Notes: Ryan Madson and Brad Lidge threw in minor league games at Carpenter Complex this afternoon . . . Going into today's game, starters have a 1.96 ERA; overall 3.30 team ERA is lowest of all MLB teams this month . . . Mike Missanelli of 97.5 The Fanatic Philly radio station is live from the Tiki Bar, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow.
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Ricky Bottalico (RHP, 1994-98; 2001-02)
"My first spring was 1992 with the Phillies minor leaguers. Lived in a small apartment near the bay with another pitcher, Dan Brown. I remember walking in the clubhouse at Carpenter Complex and seeing a #9 with my name on it hanging in a locker. I felt strange that first day because I really didn't know most of the minor leaguers and there were a lot of them. Really loved spring training every year because I was getting out of cold weather and playing baseball. It was work but it was fun work. Enjoyed the rare chances we had to play some golf. What didn't I like? My performance. I was a terrible, terrible spring training pitcher. I couldn't get anyone out."
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Yesterday, I wrote the most surprisingly and immediately successful blog post of my life over at Broadsheet, "Reminder: Roman Polanski Raped a Child."
I first realized I'd hit a nerve when I linked to it on Twitter, and the retweets started pouring in, continuously and (as of this writing) endlessly. (There have been hundreds involving "@kateharding" at this point; no clue how many links to it altogether, but I just realized bit.ly tracks clicks on your shortened links, and that one's had 6,883 so far.) I figured something was really up when I was invited to be on a right-wing talk radio show, and I saw the article tweeted by a high-profile conservative blogger. (Who knew being disgusted with Roman Polanski would turn out to be the ever-elusive common ground between right-wing dudes and liberal feminists?) Then more media requests came in, including one from France. (I've been turning them all down, mostly because they all want me to do it live during work hours.) Also, an unprecedented amount of fan mail, coming via my published address, Facebook, and the general Broadsheet addy. Plus an appreciative tweet from Cheryl Strayed, a writer I've adored for years and certainly never expected to "meet" via her saying my work was awesome. And then a couple of letters from journalists not looking to interview me, just telling me I'd nailed it.
The post went to number one on Salon, and is still there at this writing. This morning, I found out that in less than 24 hours, it got over 100,000 page views. (I hope I'm not revealing site secrets here, but let's just say that's awfully rare for Broadsheet.) Then a friend e-mailed to tell me Amy Sullivan at Time called it "the best, most comprehensive rebuttal" to Polanski supporters. Another friend pointed out the Salon post was cited on the Wikipedia entry for Polanski. Later, over at Newsweek, our new pal Kate Dailey wrote, "There have been a lot of smart and convincing rebuttals to these objections, most notably Kate Harding's forceful, powerful essay on Salon." Around which time, my editor wrote and said, "OMG HOW BIG IS YOUR HEAD NOW? I am putting an end to this well-deserved praise pile-on by telling you that there is something funny on your nose." Because she is awesome like that.
Today, I wrote a follow-up rant for Jezebel, focusing on the ridiculous amount of celebrity support Polanski is getting. Neither my editor there nor I expected it to get anything like the traffic of the Salon piece — the news is a day older, I've already said plenty — and who knows if it ultimately will, but 45 minutes after it went up, she IMed me and said, "It's already gotten 5,000 page views." Just checked, and about 6 hours later, it's gotten 24,000.
Yes, my head is enormous right now, but that's not the point of this post. Well, not completely.
Here's the interesting thing about all this: All I've done is say that Roman Polanski raped a child, fled before he could be sentenced for it, and thus, by any reasonable standard, deserves to be punished — all of which is a matter of public record, except the opinion on punishment, which is common sense. I didn't break any ground here. I didn't uncover any news. I didn't turn a phrase so exquisite it will be studied in lit classes in 100 years. I just called a fugitive child rapist a fugitive child rapist.
And it turns out a whole lot of people were waiting to hear someone say just that, straight-up, unencumbered by a bunch of bullshit about the importance of his work, his artistic genius, his age, whether his victim looked 13 or not, the judicial misconduct that marred his case or, most gallingly, the "punishment" he's already "suffered" by spending more than 30 years in "exile." (If being wealthy, successful and almost completely free to roam Europe counts as exile, sign me up.) A whole lot of people really just wanted to hear someone in the media say, "He raped a child. He fled the country. He damn well should have been arrested, he should be extradited, and it really shouldn't have taken three fucking decades to make that happen. The end." But very few people in the media did.
Why is that? Why have so few journalists stated the obvious? Why have I only heard about three people in the film industry (Kevin Smith, Luc Besson and Greg Grunberg) saying, in essence, "He fucking drugged and raped a kid, and he's not above the law," while hundreds of celebrities are signing petitions demanding his release, wearing "Free Polanski" buttons and trying to spin his arrest as an attack on artistic freedom? Why am I suddenly a freakin' darling of the right, while a bunch of liberals argue it's been such a long time, he's suffered so much, he's so old, he survived the Holocaust, his wife was murdered, and oh yeah, did you see Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired? JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT! JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT! (Let me be clear: Judicial misconduct sucks, and there does seem to have been some here. Polanski and his lawyers have every right to vigorously protest that. But whether he raped a child was never at issue — only his sentencing for it — and also, HE FLED THE FUCKING COUNTRY instead of pursuing his concerns through the legal system.) As Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffery tweeted earlier today, "Seriously, all it takes for smart lefties to believe Polanski [should] not be punished for child rape is agitprop documentary? Pathetic."
Pathetic indeed. And yet.
The overwhelming response to my posts is as heartening as it is head-embiggening. Far more people than I could have imagined were thrilled that someone came along and stated the obvious. But still, "Roman Polanski raped a child, end of fucking story" is far from the dominant media narrative about the case right now. Still, people are endlessly debating whether it was appropriate to arrest a fugitive child rapist.


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