Savage Lovecast Episode 931
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I try not to hate. Really I do. But every once in a while, I hate so hard. And I think the people I may hate most, the people I hate hardest, are the people out there who tell the New York Post how outraged and disgusted they are. It's always sex they're outraged and disgusted by, which, of course, none of the vestal virgins who own, edit, write for, or read the New York Post has ever had. The New York Post, a paper that covers a city that's famously licentious, what do they think people are doing when they're not sleeping in the city that never sleeps? The New York Post has such a problem with sex. Oh, man, I have... long hated the Post for the way it attacks and sometimes outs pro-doms. And I'm going to crawl out on a limb here and guess that someone in the C-suite at News Corp, the Murdoch company that owns Post and Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, someone at News Corp has patronized a pro-dom at least once this week in New York City. Anyway, here's the headline from the New York Post this weekend that has me all exercised.
Homeless couple filmed having sex in parking lot under NYC's FDR Drive. The paper anonymously quotes the aghast 34-year-old local who witnessed the shocking sight, saying, "...a couple having sexual intercourse on the sidewalk was a new low for the city." That quote made it into the headline. Two people fucking outside. A new low for the city. You know what I think is a new low? The new high reported earlier this summer. The new high in the number of people living on the streets in New York City. So about this shocked and aghast local, he wasn't so shocked, he wasn't so aghast that he was paralyzed. He was able to pull out his cell phone and start recording a video from his window. Three videos, in fact, that he sent to the New York Post, which published them on their website. Now, I'm not a lawyer, but what this guy did, who I'm guessing actually isn't a local, not a born and bred New Yorker, I'm guessing what he did... violates New York's revenge porn law, which prohibits the distribution of intimate images without the consent of the people in them.
Now, people fucking in public don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, a legal standard that allows news organizations and individuals to take pictures of people in public. But it would be an interesting test case. Revenge porn statutes punish people who distribute sexual images with the intent to do harm. They want to get their ex fired or ruin their ex's relationship with their parents. And this guy, Mr. Aghast, he sicked the New York Post on this pair. He wanted the police to do something. And the police aren't exactly a benign presence in the lives of homeless people. They could have been harmed. Back to the post, locals, they went and found some more of them, locals bemoaned the daylight debauchery as a symptom of the area's decay, particularly given how close it is, where those two people were fucking, how close it is to the waterfront pathway, which is regularly used by bikers and joggers, as well as families out for a stroll. I watched the videos.
They're behind a barricade under a freeway. Anyone walking down the path would not be able to see them. Only someone peering down from the window of an apartment above could see them. Anyone walking by who managed to maybe hear them over the roar of the traffic on the FDR above them and then decided to climb over the barricade to check out where that wet slapping sound was coming from would only have themselves to blame for what they saw. Look, we're in the middle of a housing crisis that is helping to drive the homelessness crisis. We talked about it on our last Sex and Politics with California State Senator Scott Weiner. It's been great as a Yimby to see Democrats at the top of the ticket, Kamala Harris, and Democrats who topped previous winning tickets like Barack Obama get on the Yimby bandwagon. Here is Obama at the DNC. In his speech, endorsing the construction of new housing.
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