Quote of the Day – March 19 2016
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
What I’m reading – Joy St James ‘Pour On The Pink!’
“A woman who tries to act like a man is a total waste of a woman.” So asserts Shelley Zalis, the founder of the “Girls’ Lounge” — as counterpoint to the traditional “boy’s club” dominating business culture. Hers is a place for serious businesswomen to express themselves as girlie girls. A dash — […]
Quote of the Day – March 18 2016
“My women are always victorious.”
Helmut Newton
Foam presents a major exhibition of work by Helmut Newton between 17 June to 4 September 2016
Amsterdam based Photography Museum Foam will present a wide-ranging exhibition of the work of supremely influential photographer Helmut Newton. Taking over the entire building on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht, the retrospective features […]
What I’m Watching – ‘Blow Up’ Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni 1966
From an article by Roger Ebert:
Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence. It was the opening salvo of the emerging “film generation,” which quickly lined up outside “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Weekend” […]
Quote of the Day – March 17 2016
“I’m convinced we all are voyeurs. It’s part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There’s an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: […]
From article: The vagina, it seems, is having a cultural resurgence…
Forget the Playboy “pussy”, the Grey’s Anatomy “vajajay”, or the Tony Abbott-style “precious flower.” These days, it’s all about the vagina-bomb: the casual, tongue-in-cheek referencing of the technical term for female genitalia at any time, place, or opportunity.
And if talking about your vagina is no longer as edgy as it once was, perhaps this latest […]
Article: An inversion of the “male gaze”?
“…. it’s not just corporations that misunderstand female desire. Probably since the first pixelated penis arrived in a poor, unsuspecting woman’s Inbox, we have suggested that men be a bit more thoughtful when it comes to dick pics. Men send what they think women want to see based on their own male-gazey appetites — not, […]
What I’m reading… ‘Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human’
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does “free will” really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?
In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning columnist Jesse […]
Quote of the Day – March 16 2015
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person’s sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.”
Ayn Rand
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The mainstreaming of radically honest sex scenes on television
Sex scenes used to be a decoration or a prize for the protagonist and little else. Now, they’re a potent storytelling device. “What’s great about the current era is that people’s vulnerabilities can be revealed,” Ryan says. “If you show a one-minute scene of people in bed having an issue, fight or finding that […]