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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

MUSIC AND SEX: Dolly Parton denies gay rumours on ‘Nightline’


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The Queen of Country Music would like you to know that rumours about her being gay are all a bunch of hooey. In an interview with "Nightline" on Monday to promote her new memoir, "Dream More," Dolly Parton finally addressed long-circulating rumours that she is gay and is involved in a relationship with childhood friend Judy Ogle.
"Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade," Parton said. "We still just have a great friendship and relationship and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved."
The 66-year-old "Jolene" singer added that she and Oprah Winfrey, who has also been linked to her best friend, Gayle King, had bonded over the charges.
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Parton is not only straight, she has been married to the same man since 1966. She and Carl Thomas Dean, a businessman, reportedly met at a Nashville laundromat in 1964. Her relationship with her 67-year-old hubby has raised eyebrows, since Dean is not often spotted at public events with her and has reportedly seen his wife perform only once.
But in her 1994 book, "Dolly -- My Life and Other Unfinished Business," Parton claimed they spend a lot of time together, it's just that he rarely makes public appearances. In fact, her hit 1973 song "Jolene," about a woman who threatens to steal a housewife's man, was inspired by a redheaded bank teller who charmed Parton's husband.
"She got this terrible crush on my husband. And he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention," Parton told NPR in 2008. "It was kind of like a running joke between us when I was saying, hell, you're spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't believe we've got that kind of money. So it's really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one."
The couple celebrated their 45th anniversary in May 2011, and two months later, Parton  told QMI Agency,  "We're really proud of our marriage. It's the first for both of us. And the last."
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But Dean wasn't the only man in Parton's life. In 1974, she released one of her most celebrated songs, "I Will Always Love You," which was famously covered by Whitney Houston in 1992. The track was reportedly about Parton's professional split from Porter Wagoner, the country music singer known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, with whom she sang numerous duets in the '60s and '70s.
Parton with Porter Wagoner in 2007. (Tony R. Phipps/WireImage)
"I've ... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with," Parton told "Nightline." "Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have. But you know people always saying that."
Though she denies being gay, Parton is a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage. She told QMI last year that Christians who oppose gay unions need to study up.
"They've forgotten that the Bible preaches acceptance, tolerance, and forgiveness," she said.
Parton even hosts a Gay Day at her theme park, Dollywood.

SEX AND VIRGINITY: Brazilian woman auctions off virginity for $780,000


Catarina Migliorini's virginity has been sold to a Japanese man for $780,000. (virginswanted.com)Catarina Migliorini's virginity has been sold to a Japanese man for $780,000. (virginswanted.com)Sold! A young woman's virginity. The price? A staggering $780,000.
That's the sum a Japanese bidder was willing to pay in order to initiate 20-year-old Brazilian student Catarina Migliorini into the world of coital relations.
Migliorini had submitted herself — along with sexy photos — to an online auction site called Virgins Wanted. As you can probably imagine, all items on the block involve one very specific thing.
As the New York Daily News reports, the auction is actually more of a publicity stunt to promote a documentary by the same name. Virgins Wanted is the brainchild of Australian filmmaker Justin Sisley, who will film Migliorini before and after the deed.
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And though his stunt efforts are impressive, the Brazilian woman upped the ante by claiming she would donate 90 per cent of her earnings to build homes for impoverished families in her home state.
"The auction is just business, I'm a romantic girl at heart and believe in love. But this will make a big difference to my area," Migliorini tells Brazil's Folha newspaper.
"If you only do it once in your life then you are not a prostitute, just like if you take one amazing photograph it does not automatically make you a photographer," she adds.
The physical education student will fly to meet her "date"  — a man who only identifies himself as "Natsu."
Natsu will have to submit to a series of STD tests before the encounter can proceed. Other stipulations include the compulsory use of condoms and a ban on sex toys.
In the name of equal opportunity, Virgins Wanted also features a male virgin up for sale — although the $3,000 offered to Alexander seems rather paltry in comparison.
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The outrage expressed in forums over this story suggests that many consider the commodification of virginity to be a disturbing trend.
And a trend it unfortunately is: The Frisky compiled a list of other young women who have tried to peddle their untouched ladywares for cash. Reasons given include everything from paying off college tuition to angling for celebrity status.
Others argue that we all have the right to do whatever we like with our bodies, and point to the fact that Migliorini will be employing hers for the greater good of her community.
Yet Sisley suggests she may have a different motive.
"I was surprised she said that because in all my dealings with her, she made it clear that it was a business decision for her," he tells the Huffington Post.
"Now, given how big this story is in Brazil, she's trapped. If she doesn't give any money to charity, she's going to look bad."
Ouch.  
Watch the video below for a discussion with at 40-year-old virgin.