Conservative talk radio host Dan Yorke invited Megan Andelloux on his WPRO program on Monday show to talk about her battles opening the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health in downtown Pawtucket, which we covered here before. Yorke was sympathetic to Andelloux, arguing that the market (and not the mayor) should decide whether or not Pawtucket is ready for an adult sex education center.
After the interview, Yorke got on the phone with Donna Hughes, the URI professor who’s had a major thing against Andelloux since at least June but who’s gotten a little more personal in her recent attacks. You can listen to the whole program here (it’s an mp3), but just to warn you it’s over an hour long.
Rather than answering Yorke’s questions, Hughes chooses instead to start talking about bondage and a major problem that is killing our young people. Like, you know, David Carradine.
Selected Hughes quotes after the jump:
On her choice of words:
“I would call these people, actually by the name they call themselves, and that is…sex radicals, and Megan Andelloux is one of them.” (37:35)
On who sex radicals are:
“They really want to remove all laws on all sexual activity, and that includes things like whipping, bondage, sadomasochism…” (37:55)
On how whipping and bondage aren’t actually illegal:
“I think there are a lot of people that don’t think that beating people up and tying people up is cool.” (39:00)
On an epidemic that is affecting our young people:
“[Andelloux] has one particular presentation online in which she talks about what is called breath play. What that is, is choking and asphyxiation during sex. And we know that there are a lot of young people that are dying from erotic asphyxiation.” (39:40)
On her interaction with the City of Pawtucket:
“I have not expressed any opinions whatsoever about the Center to anyone in Pawtucket.” (42:24)
On her interaction with the City of Pawtucket, four minutes later:
“I sent one e-mail saying ‘did they know this center was opening?’ That was it.” (46:35)
On that e-mail, again:
“I have expressed no opinion to anyone about it.” (46:37)
On why she would send an e-mail to the city if she had no opinion about it:
“You keep trying to put me into this box that I don’t exist in.” (47:28)
On her anti-trafficking newsletters:
“I’ve written that [Andelloux] is a prostitute.” (42:43)
On her strong personal feelings about Andelloux:
“I have a strong opinion about all the sex radicals and those who want to justify prostitution.” (44:15)
On…something? Actually this sort of came out of the blue:
“There’s fallout from this [legal prostitution?] in counseling centers all over the country. You may talk about this as a first amendment right and freedom of expression…but that doesn’t mean that a lot of people aren’t being hurt, and families are being hurt, and children are being hurt, and yeah, I care about that.” (44:50)
Well, then.
The phone call ended with Hughes yelling a lot and accusing Yorke of trying to put her in a box.
In other news, Bob Kerr has a column about Andelloux up at the ProJo today. He mentions that one of the City’s arguments against the Center–that it might offend the elderly–would come as a shock to all the elderly people he knows.
Donna Hughes has proven herself to be nothing more than a complete wackjob. I find it amusing that she’s a professor of women’s studies, which is generally a field of people who believe in women’s rights, yet she is dead set against the sexual freedom of women.
It must be really interesting to be in one of her classes. Surely, she is a complete embarrassment to the University of Rhode Island and Departments of Women’s Studies around the nation.
Do we share the idea that the thing that Hughes thinks makes her a prostitute is that she sometimes lets people look at her feet? And would feet-looking/feet-displaying be banned by the loophole legislation?