More on Ms Laura Schlessinger's Photos & Lies
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The Rant
Exposures from the past
By DOUG THOMPSON
Jan 15, 2003, 06:56
Jennifer Snider was emptying the trash can from her teenage son’s room
the other day when she noticed the nude photos he apparently had printed
out from his computer.
“At first, I was just mad that he was downloading nude photos off the
Internet.”
Then anger turned to shock. The woman in the nude photos was her.
“I couldn’t believe it. Where in the hell had he found these pictures.”
The photos, taken more than 20 years ago, turned up on an Internet site
called Naked Girlfriends. Jennifer had forgotten about the pictures,
taken by a boyfriend who was also an amateur photographer.
“We were kids, just playing around. I pretended I was posing for Playboy
or something like that. It was the 70s. We were young, a little wild,
and having fun.”
Dr. Laura in wilder days
Jennifer isn’t the only one whose past fun has come back to haunt them
via the Internet. Even conservative goody-two-shoes Dr. Laura
Schlessinger, who preaches family values through her radio show, found
that being young and free-spirited can come back to bite you.
Bill Balance, Schlessinger’s mentor and ex-boyfriend, says she was not
quite so straight-laced in the early days and liked to walk around his
apartment naked. So he took some photos – some topless, some fully nude
and at least one downright raunchy – and later sold them to a porn site.
At first, Dr. Laura tried to do what all celebrities do when they get
caught with their pants (or panties) down. She lied and claimed the
young woman in the photos wasn’t her. But when she went to court and
tried to get the photos thrown off the Internet, she had to admit the
photos were, in fact, of her.
“At some point in their lives, a surprising number of women let
boyfriends or husbands take nude photos of them,” says behavioral
psychologist Donna Ketchum. “It usually happens in their late to mid 20s
when women start to become more comfortable with their bodies and
sexuality. It’s a little naughty.”
It’s also embarrassing, as Connie Wilson discovered when she ran for her
local school board, only to find some 25-year-old nude photos of her
posted on a web site by a political opponent.
“They were some topless shots a boyfriend took while we were in
college,” she said. “Nothing pornographic but it sure sank my
campaign.”
Dr. Ketchum says an ex-lover’s revenge can drive later exposure of
youthful indiscretions. Even people who should know better can fall
victim.
Cable TV mogul Ted Turner owns the film rights to an early Jane Fonda
film, Barbarella, a nudie flick made during her days with director Roger
Vadim. Fonda hates the movie. When she and Turner were married, Turner
would call up the program guys at Superstation WTBS and order them to
run the film whenever they had a fight.
“You could tell when their marriage really started going south,” says a
former CNN technician. “That was the week Barbarella ran four times and
it wasn’t on the schedule.”
The naked truth can come back to haunt men too. Lonnie Watkins joined
some other classmates at Southern Illinois University during the
streaking craze in the 1970s. Recently, a full frontal nude photo of him
showed up on a web site run by some SIU alumni.
“Sort of gives a new meaning to the term ‘big man on campus,’” Watkins
jokes. Although he found the posting funny, his partners at a
conservative law firm did not and ordered him to take whatever steps
necessary to have the photo removed.
“Some people prefer lawyers in their briefs, not out of them,” he adds.
New York photographer Mark Helfrich took lots of naked pictures of his
girlfriends during the freewheeling 1970s and 80s.
“It was no big deal photographing my girlfriends topless or nude, almost
all of them were thrilled to pose for me, because they knew I was so
into it,” Helfrich says. “It was fun. It was like playing a game. It was
like living Antonioni's Blow Up."
A couple of years ago, Helfrich gathered the photos up and published
them in a book, appropriately titled Naked Pictures of my
Ex-Girlfriends, along with a narrative that discussed how good they
were, or weren’t, in the sack.
Which means Helfrich is on the run from a bunch of angry ex-lovers who
want to give him the Lorena Bobbitt treatment, right?
Nope. They all gave permission.
“It just goes to show you,” Dr. Ketchum says. “Not everyone is
necessarily embarrassed by things they did when they were young.”
Scorpi...@attnospam.net
>At first, Dr. Laura tried to do what all celebrities do when they get
>caught with their pants (or panties) down. She lied and claimed the
>young woman in the photos wasn’t her. But when she went to court and
>tried to get the photos thrown off the Internet, she had to admit the
>photos were, in fact, of her.
So now Dr LAura is a liar too? This just gets better and better.
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>Cable TV mogul Ted Turner owns the film rights to an early Jane Fonda
>film, Barbarella, a nudie flick made during her days with director
Roger
>Vadim. Fonda hates the movie.
I wonder which she hates more the movie she made or the picture of her
sitting at an NVA Anit Aircraft gun
When she and Turner were married, Turner
>would call up the program guys at Superstation WTBS and order them to
>run the film whenever they had a fight.
>“You could tell when their marriage really started going south,” says
a
>former CNN technician. “That was the week Barbarella ran four times
and
>it wasn’t on the schedule.”
Good for him!
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