I get some pretty irate emails from anonymous readers, but I have yet to be threatened with a lawsuit from someone who does not identify herself except by the return address: Nikol@MidwestTeenSexShow.com. This is what she wrote in entirety:
I will sue you for slander if you do not present factual information or remove your post. I may have seen a few unhappy posts in my day, but none that have screwed and intentionally given misinformation quite like yours.
This person, who rudely does not bother with a salutation or signature, apparently is unhappy with my last column criticizing the promotion of the Midwest Teen Sex Show on the web page of Jane Fonda’s latest charity, G-CAPP (Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention).
Well, to see for yourself if I misrepresented the show, you can’t go to the link to it on G-CAPP’s web page that I provided in my column because it’s been removed. I doubt that the link would have been pulled had the Midwest Teen Sex Show’s videos featured nothing more salacious than animations of eggs traveling down fallopian tubes. In fact, President and CEO of G-CAPP just sent me a letter informing me that the “offensive podcasts” have been removed because they were deemed “unsuitable and inappropriate for our work.” Ms. Ozumba states that the link was “inadvertently added” to the website and assures me that communication policies are being strengthened so that “an egregious oversight such as this will not occur again.”
According to a Wall Street Journal article published on November 8, 2007, the Midwest Teen Sex Show is the venture of Nikol Hasler and Guy Clark, “an aspiring filmmaker,” who wants to use the podcasts to “show off his cinematography skills to would-be employers.” I suspect money and careers are at stake: “More than 50,000 people subscribe to the podcast through i Tunes.” The program is listed under the “Health” category, where it regularly reaches the top 10.