DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – A Durban High Court Judge has apologised to two brothers accused of killing four men in an argument sparked by the size of genitals for their trial taking too long.
Judge Guide Penzhorn said due to administrative reasons there was no court available.
“I apologise to the accused for waiting so long. We simply can’t get a court.”
The cased against the two former police inspectors, Brian and Leon Steven, was postponed to April 1.
They are accused of shooting dead Shawn Strydom, Nick Jansen van Rensburg, Rory Menzes and Bruce Edwards on September 10, 2008 at the Merseyside pub in Umbilo.
At the time of the shootings, police said the argument began when a man made a comment about another patron’s genitals at the pub’s urinals.
Prosecutor Gary Williams said the State had completed its case.
It emerged that shots fired on the night of the killings were from a service pistol belonging to one of the brothers.
On Tuesday, Dr Clive Moodley gave evidence on gunshot residue found during post-mortems performed on the bodies of the victims.
On Monday, a witness, Nithianandan Ganess told the court he was called a “coolie” just before the murders.
The Steven brothers are out on R5,000 bail each.
from The Times

Jonah Falcon

NEW YORK – The job market is so bad these days, even the man reputed to have the world’s largest penis can’t find work.
Jonah Falcon, a 39-year-old New Yorker, has what many men have wished for. But has it made him happy? Or rich?
A 1999 HBO documentary brought Falcon enduring notoriety, at least in some circles. His manly parts, in an aroused state, were measured at 13.5 inches — the longest ever recorded on film.
That’s the length of an average wine bottle, certainly something a lot of guys would brag about.
But now, a decade later, Falcon is between jobs, living temporarily in his mother’s Manhattan apartment and looking for work as an actor and writer.
“It’s a rough economy, and I’m between jobs,” he says. “I think it’s important if you’re in film or media to be in New York or L.A. I need to be focused, get a job and move on.”
One question Falcon always gets: Why not do a porn movie? If you’ve been blessed with a physical attribute, why not cash in on it?
It’s not like he’s shy or hasn’t shown off in public – multiple times.
The answer is simple: “I don’t do porn,” he says. “If I did porn nobody would take me seriously. Nobody.
“Besides, having sex on a crowded movie set really isn’t my idea of fun.”
Of course, as a guy looking for work, he does add this tidbit: “I wouldn’t be opposed to doing a nude scene if I got the right part. It would just have to be a legitimate movie, with a real part for me in it.”
At 5-foot-9, Falcon has an average build, with average-sized hands and a size-10.5 foot. He says his below-the-belt wonder is all natural and has been causing a commotion since junior high school, when he had to change for gym class.
“These days, nobody notices me,” he says. “Unless I decide to go out in bike shorts. Then I get some stares.”
Falcon has been freelancing for Game Stooge and some other sites, working on screenplays and taking small acting gigs when he can, mostly for uncredited parts.
Remember “The Sopranos” episode in which Tony is recovering after Uncle Junior shoots him? Falcon plays a hospital orderly.
If you were among the unlucky few who saw Lindsay Lohan’s “Just My Luck,” Jonah plays the best man at the wedding of one of Lindsay’s pals.
Perhaps it’s ironic that a man known for an extra-large body part has had to settle for work as a Hollywood extra. You could see him in the background on episodes of “Law & Order,” the original “Melrose Place,” and in such films as “A Beautiful Mind,” “Across the Universe” and “City by the Sea.”
After a 1999 documentary, many consider Jonah Falcon to be the man with the world’s largest penis.
His scene from “Sex and the City” was cut, but how could Samantha not have dated him?
In show business, those are paying-your-dues jobs, and for many would-be actors, the Hollywood ride ends there. Falcon, despite his notoriety, craves more and isn’t giving up.
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NEW YORK – This steamy soup could give you a real lift.
A chain of three Spanish-American restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens is selling “Viagra soup” to its friskiest patrons.
The seafood-packed stew is supposed to put customers of El Rey Restaurant I, II and III in a loving mood – without a pricey prescription.
“We named it Viagra soup because of the ingredients it has to make you feel stronger, energetic …and ready when the right time comes along,” said Euclides (Junior) Genao, manager of El Rey Restaurant II in Brooklyn. “There’s something in seafood that makes you horny.”
Or it could be the tequila.
The sexy stew is chock-full of fish, shrimp, lobster, crabs, clams and half a shot of tequila, Genao said. It is available only by special order and doesn’t contain any little blue pills.
The hot soup sells for a whopping $32 a pop – a bit more per dose than three Viagra pills advertised online for $79.
But unlike the pills, it comes with a side order of fried plantains.
“Our customers love it,” Genao said with a smirk. “They leave satisfied.”
Angelo Coleman, 42, of Brooklyn, was certainly excited.
“I feel a little exhilarated,” the married father of two boasted as he chowed down. “I’m going to go home to see if it works.”
Dante Turbin, 30, of Queens, was also a fan.
“This is the most expensive soup I’ve ever had,” said the single city worker, who planned to go out on the town that evening. But “it’s worth the price.”
Genao said he sells roughly 10 to 15 soups a day to a mix of loyal customers and curious first-timers who saw it advertised in the restaurant’s window.
“They ask if it’s going to get the same result as real Viagra,” he said. “I tell them it’s really good.”
El Rey II regular Mike Collado certainly agrees.
“It’s one of my ‘special’ dishes,” said Collado, 40, of Brooklyn. “I love seafood and it’s got a distinctive Latin taste to it.”
He tried the soup for the first time several months ago, he said, and “it’s been a romance ever since.”
The soup did enhance his stamina, he said.
“It’s like an energy booster,” Collado said. “It just feels good.”
from The New York Daily News

Calvin Klein Jeans

Size matters. But if you don’t have it, just trick people into thinking you do with a little cleverly constructed fabric. That’s the promise of the new Body by Calvin Klein Jeans—retail price, $79.50—with their “body-defining fit for an enhanced profile.” With some padded-fly trickery, Body Jeans presumably gives guys the optical illusion of more horsepower underneath their hood.
As a loyal wearer of androgynous skinny jeans for five years now, I’m almost insulted that Calvin Klein thinks I can’t handle this situation on my own. Yes, I saw the ads in Union Square with a greased-up Eva Mendes and Jamie Dornan rubbing up against each other and calling attention to their, um, respective centers of gravity. I even saw Mr. Dornan’s embarrassingly large package. But I was skeptical. Even after a source at Calvin Klein said the product was doing “really well.”
It was off to the Calvin Klein Collection for some clarity.
I stormed through the glass doors on Madison Avenue like a man possessed. (Well, actually, a very kind doorman opened them for me.) Calvin Klein has spearheaded the battle of the bulge in its underwear department for years. But jeans are something different altogether. I pulled a pair off the shelf and laid them out by the window to get a better view.
“It definitely boosts things,” said David Cook, who works at Calvin Klein Collection. We stared at the jeans together like two forensic scientists. Mr. Cook explained to me that the jeans are geared to a younger set.
This makes sense. During the summer of 2009, hipster fashion—of which the skinny jean is perhaps the greatest symbol—became the property of the mainstream media. The New York Times discussed hipsters’ beer bellies. Time ran a you’ve-gotta-be-kidding-me article about hipsters being “ripe for parody.” Even The Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy piece about the plight of fashion-conscious men wearing tight pants.
The Calvin Klein Body Jeans, with its emphasis on male enhancement, suggests that the entire point of wearing ultra-tight pants is not sartorial trendsetting, but really to show the world whatcha workin’ with—part of a counterculture ethos left over from Robert Plant’s spray-painted-on jeans in the late ’60s.
I inspected the pants more closely: A dark wash, with wrinkles around the pockets, leading right to the crotch, an extra layer of fabric around the fly, creating a kind of water bra for your little friend.
“Would you wear these?” I asked Mr. Cook.
“I lack a butt,” he said, and slapped his behind. “When I tried them on, it was like a cliff back there.”
He should have tried the women’s jeans, designed to enhance your tuchis instead of your schmeckel. But isn’t the entire point of the unisex skinny jean’s assimilation into mainstream fashion to assign the jeans a gender? No longer would men have to walk with great discretion through the women’s section to buy pants. They could just go to Calvin Klein, manhood intact.
Still skeptical, I headed to the cavernous halls of Macy’s. There was another picture of Mr. Dornan, greased up and giving me a hard time. I stared once again at the slogan: “An enhanced profile.”
“The first time I heard that, I thought it was a joke!” said Ray Lopez, a Macy’s sales attendee. “I was like, is that why they’re selling?”
Mr. Lopez confessed to buying a pair himself.
“When I first tried them on, it was like, ‘Whoa! Do other people notice this?’”
But that day, he was wearing some pretty baggy pants.
“You feel more confident,” Mr. Lopez said. “You have people who wear the skinny jean, and the only thing you see is the bulge. These work with the whole body.”
And then: “Would you like to try a pair?”
“Sure,” I said. An instrumental, smooth jazz version of the Beatles’ “Come Together” began playing on the speakers as I walked to the dressing room, clutching the Body Jeans like a secret.
They were a breakthrough! Such comfort, such support! And yes, my confidence was bigger! It looked bigger, at least.
from The New York Observer

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Men who reported a larger-than-average penis size had higher self-esteem, better general health and higher overall body satisfaction than those with an average or below-average penis size, says Annabel Chan, 29, a researcher with Victoria University.
When it comes to the penis, size does matter to men – but this has more to do with the locker room than the bedroom.
“Men are more concerned about how their overall body size compares to the perceived male ideal than they are about how their size might impact on their sexual relations,” said Chan, the study’s principal researcher.
She said the average flaccid penis size found in her study was 8.5cm (3.4 inches) and the average aroused penis size was 16cm (6.3 inches).
Chan is delving deep into the male psyche as part of the university’s study into penis size, body image and mental health.
And the investigation, one of the first of its kind, has revealed “locker room syndrome” is rife.
Chan studied at Singapore’s Tanjong Katong Girls’ School and Tampines Junior College before moving to the United Kingdom to study psychology and graphic design. Now she’s breaking new ground as she completes her PhD in clinical psychology at VU in Melbourne.
More than 700 men aged 18-76 from 43 countries were surveyed for the study, which found that men who reported a larger-than-average penis size had higher self esteem, better general health and higher overall body satisfaction than those with an average or below-average penis size.
Most respondents, 67.3 percent, said they believed they would feel better about themselves if they had a bigger penis.
The study also revealed that men who were happy with the size of their penis were less likely to engage in online dating or to use the erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra.
Chan said, because a large penis was considered a cultural ideal, the survey results were not a great surprise, but they provided fresh insight into male perceptions about their bodies.
Less than 6 percent of respondents were satisfied with their body size, with 89.7 percent wanting to be bigger.
Overweight men were found to have lower self esteem and higher body dissatisfaction, and to use the internet more for socialising.
“We have relatively little data about the body image of men because most of the research in this area concentrates on women,” Chan said.
“It means men don’t really get much help in terms of therapy, and options out there to get help.”
from Bernama