Euthanasia, Babies, Dolls and Real Hearts

The Netherlands scores a first again. After being the first nation on earth to legalise euthanasia, the country has revealed that it has proposed guidelines for terminating the lives of fatally ill newborns - and has been secretly carrying the procedure out at a certain hospital (Link).

As Yahoo! says:

"The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital's guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities."

Creepy. Of course, it's difficult to write this without giving in to preconceived notions and values, but for some reason this all vaguely smacks of something pre- post-apocalyptic (am thinking films like Equilibrium) future, before characters who look like Van Damme prowl the wasted streets and highways, looking for damsels to save and special chosen children with maps on their backs.

Hmm.

Anyway, on another note, I found something that actually surprised me today. It's dolls, it's retro, and it's definitely NSFW. Who knew that in the early days before the internets and bittorrent and direct downloads and power rangers kids (or perhaps their elder brothers and sisters) could make their own pr0n?

Here, have a looksie (Link). It seems that in the good old 70s (I have a feeling the 70s were the single coolest time in the history of mankind) dolls had a far wilder time than just cruising picnic Barbie! I'm not talking about hints of fig leaves here, folks. We're looking at adult-pr0n star proportions, and apparently some creative minds back in the day decided to stage reenactments of their favourite er, activities by adding genitalia to commercially available dolls and then photographing them.

Creepy, also, but kinda kinky. I'm gonna give this a +1 on my personal scale just for the sheer....wackiness of it all (besides, I remember a time when I too got a bit creative with some er - oh no you don't- ed.). But then again, if semi-pr0n links don't float your boat, then maybe this will.

Something for the inner conservative in all of us (Link). May true love, and real values triumph over all! Er, I think I should be taking my meds now, and CSI's on.

Night, folks.