ROSEANNE BARR - I'M DONE WITH THE U.S. ... I'm Moving to Israel

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39. Lol, the author of "Kosher Lust: Love Is Not the Answer"?

I went and grabbed this from back in 2014 because this attention-seeking creep is a hoot in a tiny dose from a large distance. I didn't realize Roseanne knew him.

From Haaretz: Could Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Please Get Out of Our Beds Already?
Jewish sex-pert's new book 'Kosher Lust: Love Is Not the Answer' is exploding in his face with charges ranging from closeted misogyny to promoting rape culture.

"...in which he makes the pitch that “it is not love, but lust that is the glue of a marriage.”

He promises that if we all follow his lead, we will “restore lust to its rightful place as the central pillar of marriage.”

It all sounds awfully familiar.

But this time, the reaction is different. 2014 is not 1999. These days, women - Jewish women in particular - have little tolerance for a male ultra-Orthodox rabbi telling them what they want - and they are giving him a piece of their minds online and across social media.

And make no mistake - Boteach is, quite literally, telling married women what they want. Specifically, in a column he penned in The Huffington Post titled, naturally, “What Women Really Want.”

And what do (presumably all) women want in Boteach-world? “Women are not looking just for love in a marriage; they are primarily looking for lust. A woman wants to be wanted, needs to be needed, desires to be desired. A woman does not go into marriage principally to be loved; she goes into marriage to be lusted after …. This is what a woman thirsts to hear more than anything: "I desire you. I want to be physical with you. Your beauty is overwhelming to me. I cannot control myself around you. I find myself thinking about you constantly and I have to have you - I don't care what the consequences are. I don't care if we don't go to sleep tonight and we have to get the kids to school in the morning; there are no physical considerations that can suppress my desire for you." That's what women want and need to hear; that's what will melt a woman, because it taps into her core desire.”

https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-rabbi-shmuley-botech-get-out-of-our-beds-1.5248672

Yuck! 1999 wasn't his 1999. I wish him and Roseanne each other, lots and lots of each other.