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Yes, the government is involved in a massive cover-up. It extends all of the way up to the Supreme Court, and down to local District Attorneys and law enforcement officers across the country. We experienced the effects of it at the recent Lifestyles Convention.

The edict came down from the Clark County District Attorney. While women have been able to go topless inside the private ballroom at previous dances when they were held at the Tropicana in year's past, this year the official word came that women would have to cover up. In fact, the edict from the D.A.'s office was very specific. The breasts must be completely covered from the top of the aureole down to the very bottom of the breast. This is inside a hotel that has a topless show. A note was delivered to the rooms of all Lifestyle attendees warning them of the new rule.

More rules came down. Women could not wear thongs or g-strings in the ballroom. Keep in mind that this is open only to adults and those who pay a fee to get in and are fully aware that it is a sexually themed adult event. Of course, you can wear a thong or even a g-string at the Tropicana pool, which is open to the public and where children are allowed free access. The Lifestyles couples had so many people wearing thongs at the pool that one person overheard a child exclaim to his mother, "Look, all those people have wedgies." Even so, officially thongs were barred from our private adults only dance.

There were other rules. The presenter doing an oral sex seminar was not even allowed to demonstrate on a dildo. Again, this is a private seminar open only to paying adults who have specifically come to learn about oral sex.

For some reason, if you wore something transparent covering the breast, which is more sexually alluring, that was okay, but a bare breast was not. We sort of broke the rules with Kris' body painting where her breasts were exposed, but since they were painted on and the nipples covered with paint, and there was some paint covering the bottom of her breasts, which I suppose is akin to transparency, then I guess that was okay. I don't think anyone understood the rules or why there were such rules. People from Europe were even more baffled than we were.

We've been to events in Los Angeles where you had to wear pasties, even at an adults only event. The entire breast can be exposed, but as long as the nipple itself is covered, that is okay. And seeing nipples would do what?

Even the Supreme Court is involved. They have ruled that nude dancing is not a form of expression. If the young ladies want to express themselves, they had damn well better cover-up their bodies.

No one in their right minds could come up with rules like these, which I suppose explains a lot. That rules like these can be made for private events with consenting adults says a lot about how far we have yet to go to achieve the original dream of our founding fathers of being a free people, free from control by the dictates of religion or the personal whims of the powerful. The dream of freedom, and the reality of freedom, have been taking quite awhile to merge.

We've dealt with the slavery issue. We've come a long with granting more equal rights to women and minorities. The remaining battle is with sex. We have to stand up and tell these insane people that they do not get to dictate to consenting adults how they can dress at private adult's only functions. They don't get to tell consenting adults how they can have sex or who they can have sex with. They don't get to tell us how we get to learn about sex. They don't get to tell us what we can read, or watch, or what sex toys we can buy.

If we do not own our own sexuality, then we own nothing. A government that controls the sex lives of its people exerts the worst form of repression there is besides slavery or murder. A free people tells its government to stay the hell out of their private sex lives. Are we free? Not yet. We need to start telling them, in a clear, unequivocal voice. Leave the fucking to us, and stay the hell out of it.

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