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  When most people think Oprah, the image of S/M fantasy play doesn�t come to mind, and for this each and every one of us should thank whatever deity or atheist ideal we beseech.Nevertheless, this didn�t stop the publisher of a German fetish mag named O to sue the media magnate in a New York court in an attempt to force her to stop publishing her own periodical of the same name, which she personally oversees. But U.S. District Judge John Koeltl wasn�t having it, and recently threw out the lawsuit filed by Ronald Brockmeyer. Koeltl cited the fact that only four issues of Brockmeyer's magazine have appeared in the U.S. since 1995, and noted that its headlines make clear the fetish angle of the rag. The judge noted O's "whip-bearing, naked women engaged in sadomasochistic and lesbian acts" in his ruling. Yum. Sounds much more interesting than the hokum Oprah�s magazine dishes out. Unfortunately, this fact worked against Brockmeyer, as Koeltl said readers weren�t very likely to confuse his magazine with Oprah's. "It is virtually impossible to find even a single image or article from the plaintiff's magazine that would not be jarringly out of place in O, the Oprah magazine, and vice versa," he said in a decision. Koeltl further ruled that, "No ordinary prudent reader would view the contents of the magazines as similar, and no reasonable reader seeking the contents of one magazine would turn to the other." I guess it would be similar to Thurston Howell III picking up High Society and expecting to find tips on playing bridge. Of buttplugs and Bufferin  Looks like the mainstreaming of sex toys is continuing, as successful online retailer Drugstore.com announced last week the launch of a new commercial site dedicated to selling products associated with sexuality.According to company Chairman Peter Neupert, the new store grew out of already exceptionally strong sales of sexually-oriented items, such as condoms and lubricants, on the company's main site. "We do very well with privacy products," says Neupert, noting that sales of products such as hemorrhoid cream, ovulation timers and other items used to treat intimate medical problems are naturals for online sales, which afford an element of anonymity not found at the local sales counter. Drugstore�s new site, www.sexualwellbeing.com, also includes a sex advice column penned by clinical psychologist and sex therapist Sandra Scantling. Along with Viagra and other prescription drugs, consumers can find such popular items as the I Rub My Duckie and Hitachi Magic Wand vibrators, as well as stuff like Sportsheets� Beginner�s Bondage Fantasy Kit, complete with four faux-fur lined wrist and ankle restraints. "We don't expect [the site] to be 10 percent or 15 percent of our revenue," Neupert says. "It's a way to expand upon an area where we were seeing high volume already.� In other words, Neupert seems to be stressing that Drugstore isn�t so much expanding into a new frontier as it is making more money off of people it�s already making money off of. Squeals on wheels  I�ve probably driven the Highway 5 route between San Francisco and Los Angeles 100 times, but one of my favorite times was when me and my fellow travelers watched the entire original Star Wars trilogy on the built-in screen in our friend�s minivan.Well, evidently, in Tennessee commuters� minds aren�t as wholesome and family-oriented as my own, and now state legislators have had to step in to protect the eyes of the innocent. The state senate there last week voted unanimously to ban X-rated videos from cars and other vehicles if the television screens can be seen from the street. Senator Mark Norris filed the legislation after one of his constituents said his daughters could see a sex tape being played in a van stopped at a red light. But all is not lost for the travelin� yank tanks. Fans of adult entertainment may still view the dodgy content on the road as long as their windows are tinted or covered by shades. Which is great news for commuters, �cos everyone knows nothing makes rush hour fly by like a little knuckle shuffle behind the wheel. Yee haw!
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