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Arnold Schwarzenegger made the news again today. That's no surprise, he is our governor, after all. And he's a movie star and a multi-millionaire, so he's in the news quite often. But this time it seems the governor's activities have coined a new phrase... and it's a totally new one to me! Ever heard of "outercourse?" Well, now thanks to Arnold you have. Seems that what made the news is that while he was running for governor, Arnold paid one Gigi Goyette, an actress, $20,000 to keep quiet about the fact that the two of them were involved for several years and had "outercourse." Hmmmm.... not sex? They didn't "do the deed," but they did everything else, hence the term "outercourse." Now we have some further explaining to do with our children. When Bill Clinton publicly declared that oral sex is not sex, at least according to his definition of the word, debate has opened up in households everywhere. It's old news now that oral sex is a problem on middle school campuses - and the main reason is because the kids don't consider it to be "sex." So now we've got this new term to bandy about. Oh, my. Can't we just keep it simple? I say if sexual body parts are involved, body fluids are involved, it's sex! There's really no other way of looking at it that makes sense. Otherwise we'd have to say that any gay or lesbian relationship does not involve sex because there's no "intercourse" involved. Sex and semantics. Why do politicians have to make it so complicated for parents?  |
