As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see.
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“As the polar ice caps melt and the earth churns through the Sixth Extinction, another unprecedented phenomenon is taking place, in the realm of sex. Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with […]
“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.”
H.L. Mencken
Scandalous sleaze or erotic art? The carvings of India’s Khajuraho Temples are nothing if not controversial, writes Alison Stewart.
Puritans viewing the erotic carvings on the Khajuraho Temples in central India’s Madhya Pradesh have been quick to pronounce them “offensive pornographic scenes to excite savage passions”.
Even Mahatma Gandhi found the temples deeply distressing, and encouraged his […]
“I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.”
Helmut Newton (1920 – 2004)
How does the human memory work? Twenty years ago you might have found your answer in a book, or by asking a friend. But today, you’ll Google it. There were 3.5 million searches in 1998, now, there are 4.7 trillion search queries everyday.
When something changes our lifestyle so monumentally, you can bet it’s changing us […]
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”
Emile Zola
Type “What is a normal vagina?” in Google and unlike the never-ending search for the clitoris, you’ll quickly find commentary on the root of the problem: women are comparing their tunnels of love to pornography.
And there is something fishy about where this insecurity is coming from.
Women don’t need to be watching adult films or flicking […]
“One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
Harold Pinter
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
Roberto Bolaño
