"Slippery, Sensual, and Fun"

A prominent Louisiana district attorney, who served from 1979 to 2012, faces jail time after the FBI discovered that he'd been using his power to have sex with vulnerable women from his cases. Federal and state authorities suspect that Harry Morel, who served as a judge for St. Charles Perish just outside New Orleans, had offered sex to more than 20 women in exchange for pardoning their crimes. As ABC News wrote, "As the patriarch of one of a handful of families with deep connections in politics and law enforcement, he was long considered untouchable in the swampy Louisiana parish." The locals believe that he was untouchable because of his swampy Louisiana penis.

Researchers at New York University have been working on a 25-year research project about sex under the influence of drugs versus alcohol. In a recent part of their research, they've discovered that the club drug MDMA (aka "molly") is used more for sensuality than sexuality, and is on the rise with younger generations. One participant of the study said, "[On MDMA] I feel like I'm making love." Another participant said they felt like they "Hold the person even more; the kisses are more conducive; the warmth is there. It doesn't have to be penetration necessarily or any type of copulation." This participant continued, "And it doesn't have to be a person, either. It can be a toaster strudel or a Swiffer Jet Clean." 

DC area man Jay Franzone is taking a year off from sex, to prove a point about the FDA's prejudice rule for homosexual men donating blood. The FDA made a rule over 30 years ago, saying that any man who had had sex with another man since 1977 couldn't legally donate blood. This rule was only updated in December, just to say that gay men can donate blood, but only if they haven't had any sexual contact with another man in the past year. Franzone turned 21 in April, and as he'd already started his sexual fast, he couldn't have sex with his then-boyfriend. "That came and went," said Franzone. Responded his ex-boyfriend, "It maybe 'went,' but it certainly didn't come."

A New Jersey Catholic high school teacher is suing her employers for terminating her for being married to another woman. The plaintiff, Kate Drumgoole, says that the school violated the state's discrimination laws. The attorney for Paramus Catholic High School refuted this, saying she was terminated for "violating the Ministerial Policies and the Code of Ethics- in failing to abide by the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith, i.e. by entering into a same-sex marriage." He continued, "Also, if she wants to work here, she must only have anal sex on Tuesdays, and must use oil-based lube."

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