In the fight for dominance for the prison pecking order, sex is one of the best weapons.
Later in the show we'll take a look at just what goes on in men's prisons after lights out.
But first, time to get a little bit cheeky.
Chris Hill has gone behind the scenes of the rear of the year competition
to find out just what it is about men's butts that drive women absolutely crazy.
Bums abound in Victoria and tonight the best of them are in there.
Number one, number two, number three and number four.
Mark, Jake, Peter and Tony are finalists in what has to qualify as the politically incorrect competition of the year
and no one gets to rest on their laurels.
What makes a good bottom?
What makes a good bottom?
On second thoughts that question's probably best answered by the judges.
So let's try a different tack.
Rear of the year, it actually sounds quite sexist.
How do you feel about that?
Really, it's just the same as doing therapy.
I think the key is squats, going in the gym and squatting.
The key is squats.
If you're not looking after yourself well, then you can't expect to get a good reaction.
They want to see a good body, they want to see someone in good shape, an entertainer and that's the whole thing.
Is that what you see yourself as, an entertainer?
Certainly. I mean people say I'm a male stripper, I say no, I'm a male entertainer.
But you do strip?
Yes I do.
Now you could argue that this sort of entertainment is just the girls getting a little of their own back.
But be honest, if men were this touchy feely during a female strip show,
after they regained consciousness out on the footpath, they'd probably be charged.
You'll get the occasional, well, probably a few that let themselves really loose.
I mean look, they haven't got their other half next to them saying no, no, don't do that, don't do that.
But at the same time, the sleaziness of the industry is completely gone.
It's pure entertainment and fun.
Do you want them out of here?
Yes.
I want to hear you say yes.
Yes.
I say yes.
Yes.
Put your hands in the air.
Those are the judges I told you about.
And in roughly 50 beers time, they'll all do the democratic thing and pick the bum of their choice.
Ladies, you will receive a coloured ballot paper.
Will you please grab your ballot paper and hold it in your hand.
Please only vote once.
Please vote once, place an X in the box next to your favourite band.
Fortunately, it's not an IQ test and the judges are allowed to confer.
Ladies, do you like what you see?
Technically, the butts are judged on flexibility, texture, skin tone and definition.
And by now, I'll bet you're wondering who the girls are rooting for.
Believe me, I'd love to ask them, but you can't hear yourself think in here, let alone speak.
And everyone obviously takes their judging responsibilities very seriously,
because no one would leave the club long enough to tell me.
But the place is really starting to smoke, so we shouldn't have long to wait.
How long have you been doing this?
Roughly about six years now, off and on, because I mean, it's a part-time job.
Yeah, it is.
I mean, for most people, but I mean, for us guys, it's just...
Do you enjoy doing what you do?
Very much so, yes.
I've always wanted to be on stage.
I can get by singing in that and dancing.
Well, it's nice to know the boys have other options
just in case the arse falls out of this industry.
But enough of that, let's get on with the task at hand.
Ladies, please cast your votes.
The bucket of democracy is doing the rounds downstairs,
so it must be time to crown the biggest bum in the building.
And that is...
From sex life, Chris Hill. Ladies, put your hands together.
Chris Hill.
What?
Sex life.
Now, you'll have to forgive my tardiness.
It's just that this wasn't in the script, and I know because I wrote it.
Oh, prizes. Award the prizes.
Fine, that I can do. Get the bums out.
You have voted.
Our first place winner is Peter Hardbody from Maryland, Australia.
Now, there's a dark horse.
I was sure Tony had it lit.
But then again, I'm no expert,
and it is the rear-of-the-year competition.
So it's only fair that the winner come from behind.
Coming up, Australia's top bedroom practises.
And the power of sex in prison.
She's perfectly natural.
I'm just walking around in broad daylight with a little bit of bra.
I can't get that image out of my mind.
And she's stopping traffic.
Is that woman just wearing a bra?
It's guaranteed to give you a lift on Seinfeld at 7.30.
There today it's...
Yes, Dave and I are going to lunch together, okay?
The big secret's out.
The boy who's gonna quit first.
But is this just the beginning of the nightmare?
I just keep wondering, did you guys ever do it on my desk?
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Sex is probably the most popular topic of conversation in the world.
So it's not unusual to occasionally wonder whether you're doing it the right way,
whether you're getting enough sex or whether you're getting too much.
Well, to put your mind at ease,
sex therapist Mark Hans has uncovered a few statistics
on just what the average person gets up to in the bedroom.
One of the things many people are curious about
is whether they're getting as much sex as everyone else.
Certainly, we know that when couples get together
in that limerence period or that lust, the passion,
people tend to have sex as much as possible whenever they can.
But when that period wears off
and we get to what the average or normal sex life is going to be for a couple,
then it's usually going to be between two and three times a week.
The average number of sexual partners a person has in a lifetime
isn't as high as you might expect.
If you're talking about heterosexuals,
the evidence that's available tends to indicate that for males,
the average number of partners in a lifetime is between about 13 and 15.
And for females, it's between about seven and 10.
So you can see that for the majority of people,
people are not promiscuous out there having a lot of sex.
The most popular sexual position couples use in the bedroom
is the missionary position.
However, when we start looking at what's the most enjoyable sexual activity
after the missionary position, we find an interesting result.
When a survey's asked,
what is the main sexually appealing sexual behaviour you can think of,
after vaginal intercourse,
for heterosexual couples, it was watching their partner undress.
After that, it was oral sexual behaviour.
But oral sex hasn't always been popular.
If we ask elderly females in particular about oral sex,
oral sex is not a favourite sexual activity.
Since about the 1940s, 1950s onwards,
we've seen a greater number of younger people,
particularly younger women,
finding oral sexual activity fairly appealing.
So now oral sexual activity is a very common sexual occurrence
amongst heterosexual couples.
About 26% of men and about 20% of females
will engage in anal sex at some point in their life.
And this is with somebody of the opposite sex.
When we look at how many people have had anal sex in the last 12 months,
it's about 10% of males and about 7% of females.
So we know that anal sex is practised by about one in five in the population.
When we look at how many people with orgasm each time they have sex,
only about 30% of females say that they always orgasm
and about 75% of males say that they always orgasm.
And when we actually ask people about sexual satisfaction,
we find that having orgasm and sexual satisfaction
are not one and the same thing,
that people can be sexually satisfied without having orgasm.
And we find that having orgasm and sexual satisfaction
are not one and the same thing,
that people can be sexually satisfied without having orgasm.
And indeed a lot of the clients that I see come in and say,
well, you know, she or he's not orgasming, you know,
they're obviously not enjoying it, they feel a sense of failure.
Well, really it's about sexual pleasure,
not about whether somebody comes in.
Although everybody is capable of having an orgasm, not all women do.
About 10% to 15% of women will most probably report
that they never achieve orgasm.
They say that they always achieve orgasm every time they have sex,
and most people are somewhere in between.
Although there's been no research into how often Australians masturbate,
a recent American survey on that subject had some surprising results.
60% of males have masturbated some time in the last 12 months,
and 25% have masturbated in the last week.
The figures for females were 40% at some time in the last 12 months
and 10% in the last week.
Researchers believe the actual numbers of people that masturbate
are much higher than surveys reveal.
They suspect that people lie about their habits out of embarrassment,
which supports the old joke that 98% of people say they masturbate and 2% lie.
One happy sexual statistic
is that most people are very satisfied with their sex lives.
When we look at sexual satisfaction,
we find that those people who are married
report a greater level of sexual satisfaction
than those people who are cohabitating,
and both groups who are in relationships
report a greater level of sexual satisfaction
than those people not in a regular relationship.
Sometimes knowing these sex averages
helps people feel better about what they do in the bedroom.
Remember, if you don't conform to the norm,
but what you're doing in bed still feels good,
then you're definitely doing it correctly.
The question to ask is,
am I satisfied with the sexual life
that I'm having with my partner or partners?
If I am, great.
If I'm not, then what can I do to change that situation?
Still to come on Sex Life,
the secret lives of men in prison
and how to play at work.
Like to look further at the proposal.
Love to discuss it with you on the golf course on Sunday.
Thursday.
A group of children.
A school walk in the bush.
There's an accident.
It wasn't that you were more concerned with the school's reputation
and with the safety of your students.
Or was there?
I told you they were pushing on the other night.
You think she's lying.
Kate Ferrari, state coroner, must now find the truth.
Now it means I'll never teach again.
Because sometimes guilty people have a lot to hide.
I'll give you one more chance, Mr Macquarie,
before I deliver my findings.
Wendy Hughes in State Coroner, 8.30 Thursday on 10.
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A lot of people meet their partners
in the workplace, which isn't really surprising
seeing as we spend most of our waking lives there.
But going out with a workmate
isn't as easy as it sounds.
Mark Stauffer has learnt the hard way
that mixing business and pleasure
can be fraught with danger.
So, it's your first day at the new job.
It opens up a whole lot of new opportunities
and we're not just talking career-wise,
we're talking chick-wise.
But mixing business with pleasure
can be a dangerous pastime.
If you screw your co-workers,
eventually they'll screw you.
Hi, Diane.
I'm Mark. I'm new here.
Hi, Mark.
I was just wondering if I could have a cab charge.
Oh, yeah, let me have a look for you.
Oh, look, why don't you just take the whole book?
Really?
Yeah, that's fine.
Oh, that's fantastic.
And look, what about some petty cash?
Oh, yeah, that'd be great.
The woman who pulls the company's financial strings
can be a very lucrative catch.
However, when things turn sour,
she'll hit you where it hurts.
Look, what's happening with my pay?
I'm only getting half as much as I should be.
Let me take a look at that.
You have deducted the cost of your
ciggy and toilet breaks,
personal phone calls and faxes,
outstanding petty cash,
fraudulent cab charge usage,
stealing office stationery and equipment,
and the emotional trauma caused by floating with a hussy
in the QuickSnacks van.
Officer Moore number two,
the receptionist.
Hello, good morning.
Hi, Mark. These are for you.
Hey.
Oh, they're beautiful.
Oh, I just need to fix your tie because it's so crooked.
Any messages?
Oh, yeah, I've just got a few tucked in here for you.
Thank you.
Well, I'll see you for lunch.
Okay.
Don't stay on the phones all day.
I won't.
Hello?
Who's calling?
Oh, Sophia.
I'm here with Naomi.
Then he's got a three o'clock appointment with Linda.
And then he's in a conference all afternoon with Claudia.
Then he's got a dinner meeting...
A jilted receptionist can easily make your office life
an organisational nightmare.
He's going to Brampton Island with his current fiancé.
Goodbye.
Um, any messages?
No.
Officer Moore number three,
the snack truck chick.
There's an old saying
involving a man's heart and his stomach.
Thank you.
Oh, I really like this.
Okay, thank you.
Really?
Oh, thank you very much.
Okay, thanks.
There's another old saying,
the snack truck chick giveth
and taketh away.
The snack truck chick giveth
and taketh away.
The snack truck chick will be
the first to get any food or drink.
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Oh Mark, I've got a letter I'd like
sent. Would you just grab that
Dictaphone of yours and join me on the
couch?
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Love the idea of the merger.
Like to look further at the proposal.
Love to discuss it with you on the...
Well, she may give you a leg up the
corporate ladder.
Good morning Mrs Farclis.
Would you like a cup of coffee?
Mark, yes, I did actually want to have
word to you. I'm afraid I'm going to have
to let you go. My coffee was absolutely
freezing yesterday.
Goodbye.
But, unfortunately, there are plenty
more toy boys snaking their way up the
ladder too. Who are you?
Hi, I'm Ali, Mrs Farclis' new
peer. Alastair, I'd like a letter sent.
Grab that Dictaphone of yours and join
me over here on the couch.
Well, I warned you not
to mix business with pleasure. But,
if you're really smart, you can come
out of the situation with something. For instance,
this entire book of
cap charges. Thank you.
Coming up on Sex Life.
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Welcome back to Sex Life.
When men are locked away in prison
for a long time, the way they see their world
changes dramatically.
For them, sex is no longer a tool of intimacy
but a weapon of power.
And that's why some men who see themselves
as heterosexual can end up having sex
with other male prisoners.
But this sexual power play can cause
deep psychological scars.
For most of us, thankfully,
catching the old late night showing
of an old gangster flick is as close
as we'll ever come to experiencing life
on the wrong side of the big wall.
And though prison movies cover the spectrum
from the broadly comic to the graphically
realistic, one aspect
rarely broached by screenwriters
until recently is every
first time inmate's greatest
fear.
Will I be raped? It's that simple.
Well, it's one of the biggest fears because
people often like to tell stories
in the pub about their experiences in
jail and deliberately create
these type of images.
As a sex activist and independent
publisher, Eric McCormack
qualifies as something of an expert on
incarceration. Perhaps more
to the point, he's also spent more years
inside than he'd care to remember.
But as to whether raping prison
is as common an occurrence as most of us
would imagine, that all depends
on the venue.
Without naming the prison,
there's one prison in particular where it goes
on virtually daily, you know,
and horror stories,
absolute total horror stories.
Like, you can get
violence and get into a fight
or even be raped because
you walk past someone's cell door
and looked in, or entered someone's cell
without knocking. As with
sexual assault on women, the rape
of men by men is motivated
less by sex than aggression.
Men need to have a sense of power over
something, even if it's
over commanding their dog.
Sexual fulfillment still comes into
it, you know, and there's
a lot of people that
get off on the fact that, you know, they can
degrade someone and get their rocks
off at the same time.
Whatever the incidence of assault,
a far higher proportion of sexual
activity inside male prisons
is by mutual consent.
For many inmates,
a homosexual dalliance, however
casual, is almost inevitable.
The biggest factor in that
is how long you're doing.
Obviously, I mean, if you're only doing
a short sentence, you're not going to expect
to change it. I mean,
let's face it, masturbation goes on
in jail and after a while you get a bit,
you know, you get a bit tired
of it and, you know,
you start to find
sometimes looking at men and thinking
things about them that you would
not have thought about on the outside.
It's a situation
that comes down to basic human
biology. I mean, when you
pack rats into a small
area, a proportion
of the rats become homosexual and bisexual.
And it's the same with human beings.
I mean, where there's food and
bed and shelter provided,
the next thing on the agenda, of
course, is sex.
It was Christmas and
it was a dead old dry Christmas
and I'd just
broken up a relationship that had
been in for many years and
I was at my rock bottom.
I was a homosexual guy
and so he came into my cell
and I got a board in and I was
looking at that
and he was giving me
a head job, yeah, head jobs, and
I got halfway
through it and I couldn't get an erection
anyway. I got that
disgusted that I just told him to boot off,
you know. There are a lot
of homosexual people in jail
and if you really
want sexual fulfilment,
you can find it.
In the long term, those homosexual people
tend to fit in very well
with the prison population and
they can often become quite popular
and sought after, but
they're also often a
source of argument and fights because
two people like the same person.
It can be a big advantage
sometimes being gay
in prison. I mean, you know,
you can make a reasonable living
out of it, even in prison.
Strictly heterosexual prisoners
find it's pretty much a case of the devil
and the deep blue sea. For some,
the prospect of sex with another man
simply doesn't bear thinking about,
though abstinence isn't always much of an
alternative. There's a lot of positives
to people forming
firm relationships in jail.
A, it stops them thinking about
clamouring over the wall
and, you know, B, it gives
them an outlet for their normal
human needs and desires.
Being in jails is like being in a spaceship
orbiting and docking once a
week for your visit. And you
can imagine for those who don't get visits
they have no human contact
except for screws
smashing open the doors
at six and yelling get up
and slamming them in at four in the
afternoon. I've gone five
years at a time without sex and all
it did to me was send me celibate
and asexual. You know,
I wasn't a man, I wasn't a woman,
I was just a person in hell.
I've seen relationships
develop and I've even
been envious of them, you know, because
I mean, you're not getting
physical contact or feedback yourself
and it's, well, it can be
touching sometimes to see it.
I mean, everyone has
needs and desires and
I mean, no
man's an island, you know.
Street
walkers, ladies of the night, hookers
call them what you will, but the job description
stays the same. Now
a lot of people wonder how on earth
these women do what they do night
after night. Whether it ruins their chances
of having a normal relationship,
whether they have families. So we've
taken a walk on the wild side to find
out what goes on inside the mind
of a prostitute.
If everybody
minded their own business, there's a character
from Alice in Wonderland, the world
would go round the deal faster than it does.
Well, Lewis Carroll was probably right
and human nature hasn't changed one
jot since that trip through the Looking Glass.
Most of us have a healthy and sometimes
not so healthy interest in other people
and the more exotic they seem,
well, to paraphrase Alice, we
just get curiouser and
curiouser.
The simple truth, of course, is that
astronauts, bullfighters and even prostitutes
lead domestic lives that aren't
so far removed from yours or mine.
It's what they do for a crust that sets them apart
and perhaps the burning question
is how these often ordinary people
first got started in their extraordinary
occupations.
I was standing in the post office and
there was a guy standing
in front of me and he'd obviously been in the
post office regularly. The lady behind the counter
was trying to find out what it
was that he did and he said, well actually
I run an escort agency and she asked him,
oh, how much money do
girls earn who work for you?
And he said, oh, some of them up to a thousand
two thousand dollars a night and my ears just went
bing, oh, that sounds okay.
Well,
this seems like it's a bit of a luxury.
Not many people have their hair done at home.
Yeah, it's kind of, well I have to get
it done every day before I go out
if I'm going out to work that day.
I guess people know that when you're working
you're earning quite a bit of money but they're probably not thinking of...
Well, it is very expensive, you know.
There's like, I mean, with hair and
then nails and
it's unsafe to drive from place
to place when you're working so you have to catch
taxis and
you know, there's, I think my overheads
would probably be about two hundred dollars a day.
Where do you work
out of if you're freelance?
I choose not to work out of my own home.
Some girls choose to do that
but I personally think it's unsafe.
So generally I go to, well,
major city five-star hotels.
My first job
I got sent out to look
after a bikey gang.
I was really lucky I went to the job and
basically spent the whole night having
a good time with these guys, just partying
with them. Nothing really happened
between us. I didn't have to have sex with any
of them. I said, oh, by the way
guys, you know, it's my first job and we had a
great time and they really looked after me.
I had a wonderful time. The next few months
proved somewhat less wonderful as Nadia
discovered that working for a house provides
a girl with considerably less than a
full-figure daily paycheck.
She also learned that a steady,
even casual outside relationship
was next to impossible.
I know a lot of girls who work that have
boyfriends and out of that I don't know any
of them where the boyfriend actually knows
what it is that they do because
you can't have an honest relationship
on that level. It's
pretty much almost impossible
to do. It would be a one in a million
situation for it to be any different.
Thanks to the mobile phone, Nadia's
business hours are flexible. When it's
turned on, she's available. When it's not,
she's not. The cutting edge of technology
meets the world's oldest profession.
Speaking of professions, it's high time we got the
lowdown on what goes on behind those
five-star hotel doors.
Either they'll offer me a drink
or they won't. If they don't, then
I know that they're watching the
clock. They've got a certain amount of time
they want to use every second of that time.
I generally give them a massage for about
20 minutes, then roll them over,
pop a condom on and oral sex
and that's how I start things off.
That's pretty much how most girls do.
Then we'll have sex, I'll have
a shower and leave.
If a client has a partner and a
lot of clients do have partners,
they
are coming to see you to get what it is that
they don't get at home. Whatever it is that they
don't get, they want from a prostitute.
So when they come and see me, generally
I have to find that out within the first space of
time that we spend together and then
as far as the sex goes, yeah,
I have to make sure that they think that I had a wonderful
time and that it was the
best thing that's ever happened, the best sex I've ever
had. Sounds easy in theory, but
I'm not so sure about the practice.
They say in the old days, women with no
real emotional attachment to their paramours
would lay back and think of England.
Nadia's version was to lay back and count the money
she was earning, but no more.
Now it's much more a case of
some of the clients
I feel like I have
some kind of relationship with, so I know
them, so it's not that I don't
have to be in another place, I don't have to
think about anything else because whatever is
happening is just happening between the two of us
as friends because that's more what I
consider it to be with the clients that are regulars.
With people that I don't know
or when it's a client that I really feel uncomfortable
about, most of the time I just sing in my head.
The freedom of freelance work also has its
drawbacks, though the empty hours between
clients are sometimes relieved by a strong
coffee and a good friend with some spare time.
Yeah, I saw Sam yesterday
and I had to
tell him that I didn't want to see him anymore and for him
not to call me.
He's the younger guy, but he comes and he spends
over half his week's wage
on the every week,
you know, and it's just getting out of hand.
This is a fairly general statement I guess
but we are all, everyone
prostitutes themselves in some way or another.
Everyone in some way
sells their sexuality
for something, you know.
Whether it be you're
out in a club and you're not going to go home with a
guy until you've seen him spend a certain
amount of money on you, it's the same kind
of thing. You're in your office at work
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I guess just to, you know, be totally
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time, most of the time it is, but
I mean, it still happens where
like I'll be standing at the bar and a guy will come
over and do the lines routine
and try and drop a few lines and
pick me up and all that kind of thing and I can't
stand that when I've been at work.
You know, the last thing I want to do is go and have
sex with someone that I don't
know when I can do that for money.
So, you know, I kind of just come here
to relax and get away from that.
Still to come on Sex Life,
the type of men
women love best.
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Ten years ago, being a sensitive
new age guy was the in thing.
But in the 90s, women are starting
to wonder whether snags
really are all they're cracked up to be.
Sure, they can usually cook and clean
but it can be pretty embarrassing
going out with a guy who believes in crying in public.
Well, to solve this conundrum
Jodie Young has set out to discover
whether snags are superior
or whether blokes really are better.
Good evening, welcome to Sport Life, I'm Jodie Young.
In tonight's show, we have special
live coverage of the national title fight
between the bloke and the snag.
This long awaited bout will be the decider
in the quest to find out what women prefer.
Is it blokes or snags? Let's cross to the ring.
And in the red corner, we have
your average Aussie bloke, weighing in
as rough, unemotional, sports mad
and a VB drinker.
In the blue corner, we have the snag.
Sensitive, new age, intellectual and more of a chardonnay man.
Gentlemen, touch gloves.
Let the fight begin.
Round 1
Do women prefer a bloke who drinks beer
or a chardonnay kind of chap?
It'd be beer.
Chardonnay. Probably a chardonnay or a red.
Beer. Beer.
Beer. Both.
Beer, I guess.
Chardonnay's just so pooncy.
Round 1 goes easily to the bloke.
With us in the studio tonight,
we have Ruth Ostro to give us a blow-by-blow
account of the bloke snag debate.
Ruth, what are the advantages of the bloke?
I think, Jodie, that they put out the rubbish.
I think they help you renovate your house.
Excellent.
They muster cattle for you if you happen to have any.
And I think they're excellent at bashing people up
if they offend you.
The bloke is totally comfortable with his masculinity
and likes the role of the protector.
It's the whole knight in shining armour thing.
Two, three, four, five.
Round 2
Is a steak and chips man a turn-on
or do women prefer the stir-fry veggies and rice snag?
Ah, stir-fry veggies and rice.
I'd say steak and chips.
I'd have to go vegetable and rice.
Stir-fry and rice, I'd say.
Stir-fry vegetables and rice.
Stir-fry vegetables and rice.
Stir-fry veggies, honey.
Oh, I'm a steak and chips girl, so I'd go a steak and chips guy.
Looks like the snag has bounced back on the food front.
The scoreboard shows that's one round apiece.
What's the advantage for the snag?
I think snags are generally very helpful.
They'll help you clean up the house.
They might even breastfeed the children.
They're good at cooking, washing,
and they'll do the cleaning if you're really nice to them.
The snag is totally in touch with his feminine side
and is able to use wit and charm to get out of tricky situations.
One, two, three, four.
Round 3
Do women prefer their guys to have mechanical ability
or massage ability?
Give me a massage.
Definitely the massage.
I'm going with the massage, aren't I?
I think so.
I don't have a cast.
I'd have to say I'd prefer him to give me a massage any day.
I think I'd like a massage, but I'd say massage.
Definitely massage.
Well, that's another round for the snag.
The score so far, 2-1.
Round 4
Do women prefer a rugged rugby player
or a sensitive poet?
That'd be rugby, actually.
Writing poetry, romantic type.
Definitely a poet.
Definitely writes poetry.
Rugby.
That's a tough one.
Rugby.
I have to pick one.
I play rugby, so I'd definitely prefer a guy that played rugby.
You're almost the perfect man yourself.
Well, a clear victory to the bloke in that round.
Back to the studio for a breakdown of the contenders' form.
Ruth, the snag was definitely the undefeated champion of the late 80s.
Why is it now he's taking a back seat to the bloke?
I think he would probably prefer to write poetry
rather than take you off to the boudoir.
The bloke is reluctant to get emotional about things
and believes strongly in just taking it on the chin.
This can be very annoying.
The snag, however, is totally in touch with his emotions
and uses every opportunity to express them.
This can also be annoying.
Round 5
Do women want a bloke with a tattoo
or a snag with an expensive hairdo?
Tattoos that they have designed themselves.
Expensive haircut, I think, yeah.
Expensive haircut.
Tattoos.
Oh, tattoos.
Hmm, it depends what tattoos are.
If it's a little sweet one, yeah, sure.
Well, it seems women like tattoos,
but only if they're small, snaggy ones,
not big and blokey.
That round is definitely a tie,
leaving the scores at 2 all.
Which do you think women fantasise about?
Oh, the bloke. Definitely the bloke.
Hands down, my vote is to the bloke.
Women fantasise about them, women want them.
Their armpits smell fabulous,
especially after they've been mustering cattle.
Round 6
The decider.
Do women want a bloke who punches the wall
or a snag who discusses the problem?
Usually they punch the wall, but discussing the problem
would be a better way of dealing with it, I'd say.
Punch the wall.
A bit of both can make it exciting.
Discuss, definitely.
I'm volatile, so I like a bit of punching the wall.
I'm punching the wall, yeah.
Australia are undecided,
so what is it that we want from our men?
Ruth?
Well, Jodie, I think women really want
someone who's fabulous in the kitchen,
cooks, looks after the children,
and is just like a bloke in the bedroom.
And they're still at it.
Mmm, close fight there.
After the break, naked jelly wrestling.
Stay tuned.
Next on Sex Life
big-busted women
getting it off their chest.
Good evening.
Coming up in the late news, worker anger
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Thousands of miners and builders
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Could smoking be banned in pubs
and clubs?
A landmark decision awards compensation
to an asthmatic for passive smoking
in a nightclub.
We have a reporter who bashed football
and media personality Sam Newman
sent to jail.
And in sports tonight, the Perth Reds
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A lot of women wish they had larger breasts
and some even resort to
surgical procedures to enhance their brass eyes.
But on the flip side of that coin,
there are some women who say
that a big bust is a curse.
Dr Cindy Pan reports that having
a breast reduction operation can change
all of that.
If you can imagine carrying around
a two and a half kilo sack of potatoes
on your chest, that's what I was doing.
I felt that my whole body
was disgusting because all I felt
I was was a pair of breasts
rather than a whole person.
They say that teenage years are supposed to be
the best of your life.
Not so for Emma Jackson.
Being 18 with a 140 cm
chest was no fun at all.
I went through about a four year period
where I just wouldn't see anyone
and I didn't go out very much.
If I did, it was more with female friends
and I felt quite lonely
and very depressed.
When a girl reaches puberty, one of the first changes
to her body is breast development.
For most, this is a welcome change
and growth is in proportion to the rest
of the body.
A few women, however, develop extremely
large breasts which can cause physical
and mental discomfort.
Some find relief in breast reduction surgery
which involves the removal of
excess breast, fatty tissue and skin.
The newly formed
smaller breasts are not only more manageable
but bring an end to emotional suffering.
I'd say the psychological problems
are worse than the physical problems
because I felt I had no self-confidence
or self-esteem
and I was terrified of going out
because of the harassment I experienced.
At the age of 20,
Emma decided to have
seven and a half kilos taken off her breasts.
The biggest weight of all, though,
was off her mind.
The operation was, without a doubt,
the best thing I've ever done in my life
for me personally.
Dr Tom Williams performed
Emma's breast reduction
but his job started way before the operating table.
Well, the first thing you do is assess
what the patient wants the surgery
for, what they know about the surgery
and what physically is the problem
that they're complaining of.
It's very obvious
at the moment that you examine the woman
but in some other cases
there are other factors, psychological factors.
I think people think when you're going to have a breast reduction
you get in and your surgeon says,
well, here's the volume of breasts, A to Z and PIC
and you don't.
You have to sit down and if they're a really good surgeon
and I had probably the best
they will say to you, this is your shape
this is your body shape and size
and I'm only going to reduce you
so that the discomfort will be gone
and you'll be in proportion to the rest of your body.
Any surgery involves
risks, from anaesthetic reactions
to post-operative bleeding
or infections.
With breast reduction, possible problems include
loss of sensation to the nipples
or severe scarring.
In addition, the ability to breast feed
may be threatened.
Although most breast reduction surgery
by competent plastic surgeons is uncomplicated
the potential risks
must be considered before making a decision.
The operation itself takes about three hours
and careful planning
beforehand is important to achieve
a symmetrical result.
A series of lines mark the area
to be cut and where the nipple
will be moved up to.
The procedure that we've seen
is a very traditional one.
It involves leaving the nipple
attached to what's called a pedicle
of breast tissue underneath.
This allows us to move it up into the new position
and as long as we protect that now
we can go ahead and remove as much
of the breast tissue as we want
to obtain the correct size and shape.
Commonly these days
we'll use the liposuction machine as well
to obtain extra sculpting
of usually the sides
the inner and the outer sides of the breast
to obtain the optimal shape.
You can see the way the liposuction machine
sucks out the fat globules
and leaves the nerves
and vessels substantially intact.
You can see the fat coming down the tube now.
Throughout the process
the material removed is weighed
to make sure the right amount
is being taken away.
Tacking stitches make sure
the two breasts look similar
then it's a case of standing back
and assessing the situation.
From here the size and contour
look pretty close to even.
Both breasts are then stitched
and checked again for evenness.
In this operation
600 grams of tissue and fat
were taken away from each breast.
When I had the operation
afterwards I had 220
staples in my chest
and I really had to stay
quite static for about six weeks
I wasn't allowed to do any exercise.
For Emma a few weeks of minor
discomfort was worth it.
After the operation so much about me changed
I didn't think it would affect me that profoundly.
The clothes I wore
consisted of really baggy sacks
shapeless and I looked
like a tent because they were so big.
As you can see from this photograph
that's a far cry from the Emma of today.
I'm a different person now
I have confidence that I never had before.
The way I dress now
I wear very form fitting
clothes I'd say. I'm not saying I wear
skin tight lycra all the time
but when I go to parties, dance parties
I'm very happy to wear a bra top
and PVC outfits
and I don't feel at all self conscious
about doing that.
For the first time Emma also felt
comfortable enough to have relationships
with men. Two years ago
she married Ant, the wedding photos
showing none of the shy teenage
Emma. Emma would be
one of the most confident ladies that I know
she's very outgoing and
friendly and just basically
an all around confident woman.
Most women who had breast reduction surgery
feel the same way as Emma
I'm a new person with a new life
but it's important to remember that
smaller breasts won't solve other
personal problems so it's crucial
to clarify expectations
and make sure they're realistic.
Important too is careful selection
of the surgeon. I think it's terribly
important that you go to a fully qualified
and trained cosmetic plastic surgeon
but if you have complications
you can finish up with all sorts of deformities
up to and including even losing substantial
amounts of the breast.
I feel in perfect proportion
now and I'm very happy with my body
it is the greatest thing I've ever done
and it has changed my life.