Discreet Encounters: Friday Fishscales
RED ARE the faces in high places at UC Davis, reports Prof. Randy Siverson. The distinguished Genta Hawkins Holmes, first U. S. Ambassador to Namibia and a top-level State Dept. official, is the Diplomat in Residence at the Davis campus for a year and will be welcomed at a University Club reception Nov. 30. That is, she'll be there if she's not put off by this unfortunate line about her credentials, included in the invitation: ``She received a B. A. in International...
Discreet Encounters: Personal ads are getting a bit too
personal for some tastes
Years ago, a friend played a queen-sized prank on me, placing a personal ad in The Detroit News that supposedly spelled out my assets. The ad was as plain as a broom handle: It wore no lipstick, no perfume, no sexy, strappy shoes. It simply said, "Intelligent Woman seeks Intelligent Man."Naturally, no one called.You won't find plain-faced ads like that in today's personal ads.You'll...
Discreet Encounters: Marriage: Hollywood style
The world has been riveted by the meltdown of the perfect couple. It's all down to Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Zeta-Douglas now. The news that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman have gone the way of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Rin-Tin-Tin and Lassie has shaken Hollywood to its core. To most industry insiders, Tom and Nicole seemed as perfectly matched as Rock Hudson and Doris Day. "This is really the end of an...
Discreet Encounters: LETTERS
Sex and the Single Man As a certified and practicing sex therapist and relationship counselor, I am deeply disturbed about all the finger-pointing directed at Hugh Grant for his recent indiscretion with a prostitute.Sexual promiscuity and deviation are rampant (despite AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases). Almost every local newspaper is filled with advertisements for 900 numbers, "sensuous" massages, singles ads from men and women wanting...
Discreet Encounters: PHONE BOOK SWAPS NUMBERS OF LAW FIRMS, ESCORT SERVICES
Law firms perform many services. Providing a date for an evening on the town, bachelor party, or "discreet encounters with beautiful young ladies" is not their usual practice. Yet, several law firms in Morris County are now getting calls from people looking for escort services. And some escort services are getting calls from people looking for a lawyer.Both lawyers and escort operators agree it's hurting business.Some lawyers think somebody...