DiCicco, Kenney Aim For Crucial Swing Vote

Over at Amen, Wook — This is why I love blogging. “Wook” on first reference. — noticed a few campaign signs for Jim Kenney and Frank DiCicco at a formerly-empty building at 714 South Street.

Yes. 714 South Street. Former Home of Club Kama Sutra.

This city is a wonderful place sometimes.

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Swingers ‘Invade’ Lehigh Valley

Not content to let Christine Flowers be the only one moralizing about Club Kama Sutra, NBC 10 recently reported on the swingers’ club’s new location in the Lehigh Valley.

Club Kama Sutra, of course, used to hold swingers — or, as NBC 10 reports it, “swingers” (perhaps with finger quotes!) — parties in Philadelphia until CBS 3 did a scare report acting like they were the first ones to discover the well-known sex club. While NBC 10 doesn’t pull a CBS 3 and act like the world is ending because people like to have kinky sex, they do quote all the neighbors who are upset in the sleepy town of Coopersburg.

The Silhouette Showbar, a strip club, will be holding weekly sex parties for Club Kama Sutra members on Saturday nights. And the residents are opposed to it because:

“That’s disgusting,” said one resident. “It’s wrong, it’s immoral,” said another.

“It’s just not something you want in this quaint town of Coopersburg,” said Kathy Meinhart.

“Why do they need a club, why not go to their houses,” said Glen Rowe. “We got a daycare across the street, I have a 16 year old daughter.”

“The people who frequent those places have problems so it would be harmful to the families that live around there,” said Jeanette Alosi.

“I think we ought to get our video cameras and just camp out in the parking lot,” said a resident.

Ahh, yes, because the clientele of your normal swingers club — who walk in, pair off, have sex (well, I assume) — is definitely way worse than the people normally in the strip joint.

However, the Coopersburg residents should probably take a shot at that video camera idea. Because people who swap wives and husbands will definitely be worried if the residents of Coopersburg have a videotape of them! Hell, they’d probably get off on it.

Swingers’ Club Invades Small Local Town [NBC 10]

Sex is not to be enjoyed!

When I got an e-mail yesterday with a .pdf attached saying “This is the worst thing I’ve ever read,” I was intrigued. I was more intrigued when I got another e-mail saying, “Hey, check out Christine Flowers’ column in the Legal Intelligencer today. It’s really awful.”

Flowers, as you may know, is the breastfeeding hating, intelligent design loving, conservative Daily News columnist who we all last visited when some blogger sent her a nasty email a letter to the editor and she replied before the letter was published and the blogger then complained to the DN editorial page editor.

Her latest column is quite a head scratcher. It concerns Club Kama Sutra. As you may know, the South Street sex club was raided late last year and shut down after CBS 3 did a big piece on it acting all shocked, even though everyone in the damned city knew what was going on there and it was very private.

And then, earlier this month, the Zoning Board seemingly shut down CKS for good. (This meant that Jan. 24 was even more depressing.)

Ms. Flowers’ column, of course, is praising the club’s shutdown because it, you know, the club made her angry. (You can read a scan of the column here.) After the jump, some analysis and some rare meanness and condescension from Philadelphia Will Do.

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