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"We will continue to look into the matter," said Dana McClintock, a spokesman for Infinity Broadcasting, adding that "Opie and Anthony" reruns would air indefinitely.
NEW YORK — In the almost-anything-goes world of radio, home to Howard Stern and Don Imus, a pair of New York shock jocks discovered what goes too far: sex inside St. Patrick's Cathedral.
The show is nationally syndicated in 17 markets outside New York City, including Cleveland,
Opie and Anthony, co-hosts of WNEW-FM's popular afternoon drive-time program, remained off the air for a second day Tuesday while a 350,000-member Catholic group pushed for their station to get its license revoked. The pair allegedly broadcast a live, eyewitness account of a couple having sex in the landmark Manhattan church.
"Nothing would make us happier than for WNEW's license to be revoked," said William Donohue, head of the Catholic League, which has also demanded a hefty fine for WNEW's parent company.
Infinity, after allowing its DJs back on the air Friday afternoon decided to remove Greg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia beginning Monday.
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, saying he had received hundreds of outraged phone calls and e-mails, promised that the complaints were "on the fast track" for consideration by his agency.
The station is one of 180 owned nationwide by Infinity Broadcasting.
If they prove true,he said."this commission should consider the strongest enforcement action possible against this station, up to and including revocation."
The incident occurred last Thursday, when a Virginia couple was arrested after allegedly having sex in a vestibule just a few feet from worshippers in the church.
The encounter was described as it happened during the "Opie and Anthony" show.
The Virginia pair was due back in court Wednesday. Their attorney, Miranda Fritz, has said they were only simulating sex.
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It was part of a regular feature where couples can win prizes for having sex in risky places.
And two months ago, the FCC imposed a $21,000 fine on Infinity after citing three "indecent" bits that appeared on the show between November 2000 and January 2001, one involving incest.
Brian Florence, 37, of Quantico, Va., and Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, of Alexandria, Va., were arrested on charges of public lewdness. Show producer Paul Mercurio, 42, who called via cell phone and described their actions, was charged with acting in concert.
Last year, ads for their program were yanked from 40 Westchester County buses after officials discovered that their "WOW" logo was a code encouraging women to doff their tops.
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Over the past decade, the standards for broadcasting have coarsened, led by the envelope-pushing antics of Stern, Imus and a legion of imitators.
But Opie and Anthony went beyond most. In 1998, they were fired from a Massachusetts station after announcing on April Fool's Day that Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino had died in a car crash.
Sex columnists spark discussions on college campuses nationwide
The Associated Press
Natalie Krinsky dares to go public on a topic most of her college classmates keep between friends—sex in the Elm City, otherwise known as New Haven, Conn.
The 19-yearold junior is the resident "sexpert" at Yale University's student newspaper, one of a small but growing number of college publications with
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writers who detail the trials and tribulations of a favorite college pastime.
Their columns have campuses buzzing.
"And that's all right because we're 20 years old and just starting to talk about this stuff," says Krinsky, who detailed her experiments with oral sex in some of her most popular and controversial columns last year. Now she's back for more this semester.
As her fellow columnists often do, Krinsky uses a mix of wise cracks, raw language and unvarnished advice to make her points.
“Nudity is inherently humorous. The body is beautiful, of course, but the things we do with our bodies in the sack are plain weird,” she observed in one her column's tamer moments. “Have
you ever heard your roommate having sex? It's embarrassing. You are embarrassed to be human."
A column about fettalo triggered hundreds of hits on the Yale Daily News Web site. Some students were aghast, and threatened to transfer. "Is this journalism?" one gripped.
At least a few student editors seem to think so. College papers from New York University to the University of Kansas to the University of California, Berkeley, have started their own sex columns.
Editors say they're taking a cue from oft-read Internet-based columns that openly address the topic.
Some also note they're simply giving their readers information they needed but never got from home or each other.
A recent survey of 15- to 17 year-olds by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Seventeen magazine illustrated how taboo talk about sex is.
Among teens who had engaged in sexual intercourse, only one in 10 discussed their plans with a parent ahead of time, the survey said.
About 40 percent of sexually active respondents also said they'd never talked to their sex partners about the AIDS virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.
"While it would be nice to
think that kids don't have hormones and aren't ready to be sexual until they're married and in their 20s, that's not reality," says Meghan Bainum, sex columnist at the University of Kansas' student newspaper.
Her columns have dealt with everything from the awkwardness of sex to suggestions for how to release sexual tension during spring break.
It was a column about anal sex that caused the biggest stir, mostly among alumni and people in Lawrence, Kan, where The University Daily Kansan circulates.
"I knew I was going to raise some eyebrows," the 21-year-old writer says. "But I didn't know people were going to flip out."
Kansan editors voluntarily stopped mailing Thursday editions, when Bainum's column runs, to area high schools. They refused to pull the popular fixture.
"Even with the negative feedback, we've never really wanted to censor her," says Kyle Ramsey, one of the paper's student editors. "We only encourage her to write a stronger column."
Others see their columns as a way to boost circulation. This fall, students at NYU's Washington Square News are publicizing their new sex column with placards on newspaper boxes and postcards.
Yvonne K. Fulbright is that paper's sexpert, one who takes a more clinical approach when
addressing everything from painful intercourse to sexual technique.
"I definitely deal with racy issues, but I balance it with matters of sexual health," says Fulbright, a 26-year-old doctoral student in health studies with a master's degree in human sexuality.
The concerns are even more basic from young readers who send questions to experts at SEX, ETC., a newsletter and Web site for teens.
"The level of ignorance is incredibly sad," says Susan N. Wilson, executive coordinator of the Network for Family Life Education at Rutgers University, which produces SEX, ETC, and commissions most of its first-person columns from young writers. Kids "don't even know the basics."
From a personal standpoint, writing about sex isn't always easy. Krinsky says students make assumptions about her and pelt her with more than her share of insults. The most common: "You're a slut."
"It is difficult to put yourself out there," she says.
Bainum says she lost a freelance contract at a newspaper because of her "reputation."
Both of them hope to continue as sex columnists after college. So does Fulbright.
does I attempt to "it's just one step," she says, "in trying to be the next Dr. Ruth."
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