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Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police arrested a Syrian man on charges of having affairs with 35 women, some of whom said they were victims of sorcery. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice caught the unnamed man red-handed as he met a girl at a café. The girl had informed the Commission that the man had tried to manipulate her and swindled large sums of money from her. She said that she had known the man via social networks and that he had posed as a Saudi seeking to marry. Newspapers said the Syrian...

A rake seduces women and murders their male relatives with impunity until the statue of one of his victims invites him to supper and drags him to hell. It sounds silly, but for two centuries it was the most-favored plot device in Western literature. Don Juan was the invention of Tirso de Molina, a Spanish monk from a family of converted Jews. Concealed in its puppet-theater plot is a Jewish joke: Don Juan exists to prove by construction that a devout Christian can be a sociopath, and by extension, that the Christian world can be ruled by sociopaths. The Enlightenment’s...

A Chinese official has been arrested after his wife discovered a diary containing hundreds of his sexual escapades, and the bribes he had allegedly taken to pay for them. The unnamed 47-year-old official, the head of a state-backed company in the Eastern city of Anqing, claimed in his diary to have slept with 500 women and was aiming to take the notches on his bedpost to "between 600 and 800". Almost all of the women were prostitutes, and in order to fund his proclivity, the official allegedly took huge bribes. "He was busy eight hours a day looking for bribes,...

A Brownsville man, who called himself Don Juan, and his girlfriend have pleaded guilty to smuggling undocumented immigrants into the United States to prostitute them. Juan Luis Coronado, 37, aka Juan Hernandez, and Lee Ann Zieger, aka as Lee Ann Motilla, 40, entered the guilty pleas Wednesday, the same day their trial was scheduled to begin. Coronado pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to import a minor for prostitution purposes. Zieger, also of Brownsville, pleaded guilty to two counts of harboring aliens for prostitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The two will be sentenced Dec. 8. Coronado remained in...

Vanity: Since I own a small theatre, it was necessary to read "Man and Superman" by George Bernard Shaw for a guest company. I came to the conclusion that the Ana character represents a feminine Don Juan. For this, I was soundly rebuked by my lettered friend. Of course I am not a philosopher, academic or intellectual, which gives me a clear advantage in reasoning. Ana was clever, mysterious, manipulative and a master at keeping men interested, in love and off balance. Even her mother was bewitched. She got her way without insulting a man. In fact, men willingly succummed...

WASHINGTON - Gennifer Flowers claims that during her affair with Bill Clinton, he once asked her to perform oral sex on him while he stood at a window in the Governor’s mansion and waved to his wife Hillary who was outside the house. Such stories are not be dismissed, a recently retired Arkansas State trooper says in More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill & Hillary Clinton revealed! - an audio tape set published by NewsMax.com - The trooper, Larry Patterson, has offered his story of backstairs with the Clintons during the six years he protected Bill and Hillary in...