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ZOEY ZANE
MULTIPLE SOURCES (2007) 12/1/07 (250,000 hits on the internet as of 12/1/ 2007)
Zoey Zane is Emily Sanders and she is from Kansas. She is a college student and to some who knew she was also a porn star. There were photos of her alone and with other women.
For some, Zoey was a bad human that did bad things that will torment her for an eternity. I ultimately don’t know the whole story so let me suggests what the other Zoey’s generally go through to become stars. At an early age, something breaks down their boundaries. It can be a father, family friend, boy friend, or big brother. After incredibly early exposure to sex in a forbidden way, questions are answered by their body. The female human form is used for almost everything to sell goods and services. Pornography is the largest seller on the internet at the time of this writing. Zoey is introduced to it and the money is very, very good. It gets spent and more is needed. She knows that much of the material that she is involved in is fake. The real part is an introduction to desensitization. She learns to compartmentalize and rationalize the rest. In the midst of all this is the male(s) who watch her. They do so in the secrecy of their own homes. Females watch porn, but not in the numbers as males. Further, there are male stars, but they appeal more to gay males than males or females. In other words, it is not an easy dichotomy.
For the female, the gothic Romance novel of words, and intrigue and actually description seem to do the job. They buy their porn at the supermarket or on line. It is the printed word. Further, women describing sex to women is more comforting.. Often romance novels have a very coy but sexually aggressive female.Chat lines are also handy.
For males, their search into the life of porn means being pretty for gay males and some females. For other males, it means being sort of ugly, but being able to remain excited during the taping or filming of the picture or movie. The males often remain in the business for a long time. The Zoeys come and go because there are new stars entering into the business all the time and they are younger.
Additionally, Zoey’s money is spent by her exploitive boy friend. So she turns to a girlfriend that she can trust and the two live out their lives together usually as sex workers. Most learn to strip, lap dance, and some go into prostitution.
What is hard for the Zoeys of this world in that they are introduced into a business that makes lots of money in a short time? Her job is to be fake for men. Most males live out lives of continuous sexual desire and thought. It is irritating and troubling. Their religion tells them not to feel and their culture tells them that more is always needed. And so the male struggles on. The female grows into confusion and loss trying to understand the male. They know that he is uncomfortable and they can learn how to exploit it it. What they do know is that they have similar feelings and must work out some arrangement to satisfy their needs and yet keep the male in check. She draws the line in a marriage and if the line is too taut, the marriage withers, if it is too lose, she may find numerous other women in her life as competitors or that she too has fallen intro a swirling jag of guilt and euphoria.
Zoey is our pinnacle of ambivalence. She is so young and innocent appearing that her image becomes the power that moves products and goods in a material world. For males, you can not get enough of her and yet she can be the downfall of some type of stable serenity. For the female, Zoey is the force that can not be beaten. The female sees the reaction of the male and other females. Zoey divides us more than unites us.
If Zoeys and her promoters divide us, then how do we divide ourselves? How do all those cute handsome men play into the fantasies of women? It is an addiction heading towards affliction. We become exhausted and pray for serenity.
Let’s give mercy a chance, pray for Zoey. In Kansas, at one time, there was a lion, a tin man and a cute little girl and others.. Zoey is really Emily Sanders and in her other life as a college student, she was carrying a heavy load. Emily is a person in real time and she was groping and stumbling into the illusion that she was in control.
BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 12/3
35-42/ American hospitals are moving toward getting their bills paid by hiring very aggressive bill collectors. Additionally, they are turning their debts over to credit card companies so that what was 7% becomes 21% for the patient. Medicine according to BUSINESS WEEK has hit a new low. They entitle their article FRESH PAIN FOR THE UNINSURED.
NEWSWEEK (2007) 12/3
BEGLEY/ 55 There is a new promise out there that GEO-ENGINEERING (temporarily muting the sun technologically) can reduce global warming. Much of the information is encouraging. However, it may be costly. It is uneven so some spots get better than others. If we stop doing it, we can have a quadrupling effect of making things worse. So, other strategies may work including the ones favored by environmentalists. Then again, we ultimately don’t know. What we do know is that humans adapt and if the worse comes about, a number may die and the rest of us may live very different lives.
NEW REPUBLIC (2007) 11/19
ZENGERLEE/ 24-27
Without wanting to, American medicine treats each patiently differently. If you have a quarrelsome, pushing patient, are the efforts the same as a friendly and cooperative patient? Do older, poorer, minorities get the same treatment as others? There is one more that is now surfacing. The obese don’t get the same treatment. We know there is a genetic component to being heavy, but isn’t there an environmental one of exercising and dieting? Is being obese like being an addicted smoker? Or, perhaps, just like a drug abuser? The saga continues.
THE ECONOMIST (2007) 11/23 13/
If America gets through these next years with a mild recession, it will be the first crucial test of globalism. Yanks have so many things that are wrong with their economy and those that are improving that the mixed signals trouble many.
The dollar is falling. The war no matter how it goes will need troops for years. Market fundamentalism needs some regulating. Emerging economies are souring on the dollar. Who will buy property in the states? At the moment, the more foreigners buy our goods and our means of production, the better. |
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