Quote of the Day – July 31 2015
“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
Glamour magazine retracts embarrassing listicle: 13 Little Things That Can Make Men Fall Hard for you
From the article:
“You sometimes have to wonder whether relationship/sex advice from magazines is designed to help or humiliate.
Or, in the case of Glamour magazine’s latest efforts, hinder.
“The 1950s called; they want their advice back,” wrote one Twitter user, echoing the sentiment of hundreds of social media users, shocked at the suggestions to make him “a […]
Quote of the Day – July 30 2015
“I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.”
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Quote of the Day – July 29 2015
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed.”
Michelangelo
Norway debuts explicit sex ed show for 8-year-olds
Puberty, a new program on the Norwegian state-funded channel NRK, in which the presenter penetrates a latex vagina with a plastic penis, draws diagrams on naked people, and shows children how to French-kiss, has provoked a mixed reaction.
While the Norwegian establishment, which prides itself on being able to talk openly about sex to children who […]
Quote of the Day – July 28 2015
“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
Portraits of sex cam girls, captured through Skype
From the article :
“Kate Peters’ Cam Girls is a startling and unusual portrait series. Her pixelated images are photographs of a computer screen, and the women on them make their living offering online sexual performances. She collaborates with these women to make art at a distance, offering a contemporary picture of a long-taboo subject…
The photographer […]
Quote of the Day – July 27 2015
“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”
T. S. Eliot
The Digital Aura: Selfie & Renaissance Gaze Shift
Portraits confront us on the most fundamental level of the self. Self-portraits, even more so. Nowhere is this more evident than in the current obsession with social media self-portraits via the selfie.
Is this a trend of collective narcissism peaking in our increasingly mediated, digitized […]