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To: Savant who wrote (4136)	1/26/2001 8:23:05 AM
From: Apex	Respond to of 4201

i bet that Willie is not going to stay in NY state very long, he is going to Italy after reading this article ===== Thursday January 25 12:54 PM ET Little Pat on the Bottom OK, Court Rules ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Supreme Court has decided that a little unexpected pat on the bottom at work does not amount to sexual harassment -- as long as it's only occasional. The country's highest court of appeal Wednesday overturned a man's conviction for patting a female colleague's behind saying there was no evidence that he had behaved ''lasciviously.'' Instead, the court ruled that any pat that is ``isolated and impulsive'' should be OK. The woman had alleged that the man had also threatened her, saying he would block her career if she denounced him. The man was last year found guilty of sexual harassment, sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined nearly $4,000. But the conviction was later quashed. The same appeals court sparked widespread outrage in 1999 when it upheld a verdict declaring that a woman could not have been raped because she was wearing skin-tight jeans. The court stated that tight jeans could not even be partly removed without the help of the person wearing them and therefore the woman must have consented to sex.

To: Savant who wrote (4136)	1/26/2001 8:34:47 AM
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if you fill out this form you may be eligible for a private stay at the outback adventure ranch ===== Wednesday January 24 12:52 PM ET Sex Survey Gets Men Hot Under Collar SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - An Australian magazine has apologized after sending out a sex survey to 12,000 men, asking them if they had had sex with prostitutes, animals or even food, without a cover letter explaining why they were being asked. ``B'' Magazine editor Christina Larmer told Reuters older men in particular had been offended by the unexplained explicit questions and the magazine had even received a few calls from outraged wives. But the Sydney-based women's publication stood by its survey, because those were the sort of things about men that its 18-24-year-old female audience really wanted to know. ``Our apologies to those people. We had intended to include a cover letter,'' Larmer said. ``It is a bit of fun but it is also legitimate. We stand by the survey. These are things that my readers are constantly asking us about.'' The survey, due to be published in ``B'' Magazine's May issue, asked men whether they had ever had sex with another man, a prostitute, an animal or a food substance. It asked how often they masturbated and the most unusual place they had had sex. Larmer said the question that had aroused the most curiosity was the one about sex with food. ``In fact, I'm asking my research department to do a quick calculation to see what we did find out about that one,'' she said. ``You only get the weird and wonderful statistics if you ask the weird and wonderful questions.''