The New Scarlet Letter
          "S" For Sexual Educator

You think I am joking? Okay, I admit my sarcasm, but think about this...

The following are companies that won't do business with us or any sites that allow mature content regardless of whether it is for sexual education or entertainment-

~ PayPal
(It took almost 4 years, but PayPal came around and now lets some adult sites use them, (including us! They stopped in 2003 and re-started in late 2006).

~ Many web hosting companies- e.g. Hosting.com.

~ Many major online shopping cart companies.

~ Yahoo.com Auctions

. . . And many more!

Meanwhile, major networks air the like of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, etc. running around stripping and making sex as "in your face as possible," but God forbid someone try and educate you about it! Because if you try to go to a web site like ours to learn how to enjoy a good sex life... well that is downright wrong to many ultra conservatives and they are making it more and more difficult for companies like ours to survive!

We also have the same companies that ban mature content allowing people to buy weapons and airing major violence. As I have questioned many times before- Why is our Western culture allowing violence to be perfectly acceptable when it comes to airing it on our major networks. Also, it seems that they are much more willing to air violence when it isn't our own country that is suffering.

Remember 911 and the respect that the networks showed when they made the decision not to show the bodies of the victims? I thought that showed integrity. Yet, if someone bombs a building in another country... well, I guess because those people are not Americans, it is perfectly acceptable to not only show their dead body but their mother or wife screaming and crying as the kneel over it.

However please, whatever you do don't show Janet Jackson's nipple, because the human body is something we should all be repulsed by... especially a woman's. Men's nipples are fine, women's... well those just exude too much sexuality so make sure we cover those up pronto!

Good grief! Can anyone explain to me why a woman's nipple is immoral? Oh, perhaps on National Geographic where the natives of other countries are nude that's okay. Standing on U.S. soil I guess makes your breasts indecent.

PayPal

Many adult sites are asking their subscribers to boycott PayPal and send in complaints because as of June 12, 2003 PayPal instituted policies dictating that consensual adults can no longer purchase "adult" or "sexually oriented" material using their services.

When This PayPal Policy Was Enacted On June 12th, 2003-

You could purchase 4,427 gun related items, and 9,869 knives; while 40 people are dying from gunshot wounds in America every day and the knife is the most likely weapon used in domestic violence.

Impact On Your Sexual Rights-

You probably wonder how any of this impacts you. Well, if you want to order a sexual education book from our site or any sexual health site you won't be able to pay for it using PayPal. You also will have to view websites like ours from an adult friendly web host that costs more making your overall prices on adult items higher.

Oh, and that is not to mention that video makers charge companies like ours twice what we would have to pay for non-adult content to have our videos produced. That means we can't lower our prices too much or we won't be able to support our own families!

Or how about all the lawyers fees we have to pay just to make sure we are keeping within the law, or the fact that many states make their laws so vague that they can come after us when ever they feel like it because they feel our site is obscene and then shut down our business, possibly putting us in jail and fining us impossible amounts of money. Thus, leaving you to figure out sex by yourself and resort to cucumbers for your sex toys.

I mean try and figure out what obscene means in all 50 states not to mention the world while you are at it... because many consider a mere picture of a dildo obscene right here in the USA! Do you think anyone could be an effective sexual educator and not be able to show examples of what they are talking about? Or how about your right to buy a vibrator and be educated on how to use it?

With all this stress and controversy you may wonder why anyone in their right mind would do something like run a company like ours. Speaking as the founder and C.E.O. as well as the person who will take the brunt of all of the risks we take doing it... I will simply quote some of my greatest heroes-

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice."
Robert F. Kennedy, American Attorney General, Senator

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963