political life NEEDS more urine

Excerpts again.

--David

 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/sanfran-party.html
      May 10, 1997
Entertainment, San Francisco-Style
      By TIM GOLDEN
      
     SAN FRANCISCO -- There is no shocking the citizens of San
     Francisco, it has been argued; it takes some doing just to
     entertain them.
     
     Or so they apparently thought at a party last weekend where the
     mayor, the district attorney, the president of the board of
     supervisors and dozens of other local notables gathered to
     celebrate the 50th birthday of the city's most powerful political
     consultant, Jack Davis.
     
     Then the "entertainment" got under way: dancers from a local strip
     club, male and female, gyrated in the smoke of a fog machine. A
     topless, mustachioed woman clad in parts of a cowboy outfit
     wandered merrily through the crowd. Inflatable plastic penises
     bobbed here and there.
     
     Yet almost since the sadomasochistic finale (something about a
     dominatrix with a razor blade and a whisky bottle urinating on the
     prostrate body of a satanic priest), San Franciscans have been
     asking all kinds of new questions about what is appropriate private
     behavior for their public officials.
[...]
     Whitehurst referred back to the scene at the party that merely
     began with the dominatrix carving a pentagram into the back of the
     satanic priest. "Less than a quarter of a percent of San Francisco
     voters are satanic followers," he said, "no matter what the
     national press says."