“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements.
Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its […]
“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
From the article :
“Imagine a world where photography is a slow process that is impossible to master without years of study or apprenticeship. A world without iPhones or Instagram, where one company reigned supreme. Such a world existed in 1973, when Steven Sasson, a young engineer, went to work for Eastman Kodak.
Two years later he […]
“When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex […]
It might seem that the subjectivity of beauty (its effect on libido) is much more emphasized in the USA.
French actors and actresses don’t wish to be called sex symbols. To be “attractive”, “sexy”, or “hot” is not a compliment in France – traduce it and it might well be received as an insult.
Especially “hot.” If […]
“I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.”
Nicole Kidman
Casual sex can lead to higher self-esteem and lower depression and anxiety. However, if you don’t get those things out of casual sex — if, in fact, it just stresses you out more — that’s totally fine too. You do you. Just don’t chastise anyone who gets out of it what you get out of, […]
Compared with the population as a whole, voyeurs and exhibitionists are more sexually active.
According to the study, they are more easily aroused, masturbate more often, and have partner sex more frequently. They’re more sexual in general, so they’re apparently more interested in exploring the fringes of sexual expression.
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“What’s the difference between art and pornography? . . . a government grant!
Peter Griffin
A recent French survey revealed 82 percent of women said they watched at least one X-rated film before (compared to 99 percent of men). Of those women, 2 out of 3 indicated they watched it with their partner to spice up their sex life, while 1 in 2 said they simply watched it on their […]
