March may be cold, but it's hot and heavy here at OnMilwaukee.com as we celebrate our first-ever Sex Week. We're taking a mature look at local video and sex toy shops, area strip clubs, sexy Milwaukee events -- and even some connections between Brew City and Playboy magazine. It's serious, responsible, adult-themed content -- but don't worry, parents, we'll keep it PG-13 in case junior stumbles upon these stories as OnMilwaukee.com turns a pale shade of blue for seven days.

THE MAYOR, THE AIDE AND THE APPLE
Just when it seemed that John Norquist was settling into his role as "Mayor for Life," his world was rocked when former staff assistant Marilyn Figueroa accused him of sexual harassment and filed a complaint with the state Equal Rights Division.

Part of Figueora's harassment charge centered on an apple that appeared on her desk, which she claims triggered a nervous breakdown. Figueroa alleged that Norquist had once told her to place an apple between her legs and bring it to him.

Norquist admitted to a five-year consensual affair and eventually announced that he would not seek a fifth term as mayor. He ended up paying Figueroa a $375,000 settlement from his campaign and personal coffers.

FALL FROM GRACE
Archbishop Rembert Weakland, a beloved figure in Milwaukee and nationally for his reformed-minded views of the Catholic Church, hastened his retirement in 2002 when it was revealed that he had a sexual relationship with graduate student Paul Marcoux, who received $450,000 in "hush money" from Milwaukee Archdiocese coffers.

Weakland would later confess to transferring priests with a history of sexual misconduct back into churches without alerting parishioners, destroying incriminating mental health records and other offenses that have led to numerous lawsuits and payouts, including a $16 million settlement for 10 California residents who were victimized by a transferred priest.

FOOTBALL STAR, BABYSITTER, HOT TUB
This story contained all the elements of a lousy made-for-TV movie. Packers all-pro tight end Mark Chmura was charged with child enticement and third-degree sexual assault after a 17-year-old Catholic Memorial student accused him of assaulting her at a post-prom party that included underage alcohol consumption, beer pong and elements of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."

Chmura was acquitted after a nine-day trial that received gavel-to-gavel coverage on CourtTV, which pointed out inconsistencies in the story of Chmura's accuser, played up the litigating styles of defense attorney Gerald Boyle and prosecutor Paul Bucher and imprinted the phrase "sexy bitches" into the local lexicon because that's how a group of female Memorial students referred to themselves.

Chmura, whose Packers career ended due to a neck injury, later admitted that his behavior "wasn't something a married man should do."

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Posted by LouManske on March 14, 2009 at 5:16 p.m. (report)

You forgot Mike Bartley!