{"id":1261,"date":"2003-06-04T05:21:58","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/04\/well-hey-there-sailor\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:03:28","slug":"well-hey-there-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/04\/well-hey-there-sailor\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, hey there, sailor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14473,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/channels.netscape.com\\\/ns\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0002%2F20030604%2F102274037.htm&amp;sc=reodd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/channels.netscape.com\\\/ns\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In an unusual act of patriotism, a Nevada brothel is offering <a href=\"http:\/\/channels.netscape.com\/ns\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0002%2F20030604%2F102274037.htm&amp;sc=reodd\" title=\"Brothel Offers Free Sex to Returning Troops\">free sex to troops<\/a> returning from the U.S.-Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>  The first 50 servicemen and women through the door will receive a sexy knockoff of their military-issued &#8220;TA-50&#8221; kits of personal hygiene items. Instead of toothbrushes and soap, Hof&#8217;s kits contain condoms, lubricant, an adult magazine and a certificate for free sex.<\/p>\n<p>  Thirteen men and three women in uniform have shown up so far to claim their gifts. All told, the free and discounted sex will cost Hof about \\$50,000 &#8212; a worthy sacrifice, he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay&#8230;so maybe there are some benefits to joining the military! ;) Actually, in addition to the humor factor of the story, I was rather impressed that thirteen men <em>and three women<\/em> have taken advantage of the offer so far. Good for them! Most of the time in our culture, women don&#8217;t seem nearly as free to express their libido as men are &#8212; even in movies, those women that do are often portrayed as disturbed in some way (think <strong>Basic Instinct<\/strong> or <strong>Fatal Attraction<\/strong>) &#8212; it&#8217;s always nice to see that tendency being shaken up a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m all for women expressing their libido more often.<\/p>\n<p>And more obviously.<\/p>\n<p>Especially around me. ;)<\/p>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unusual act of patriotism, a Nevada brothel is offering free sex to troops returning from the U.S.-Iraq war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}