Was reading…
“Dopamine. It’s at the core of our sexual drives and survival needs, and it motivates us to do just about everything. This mechanism within the reward center of the primitive brain has been around for millions of years and has not changed. Rats, humans — indeed, all mammals — are very similar in this […]
“Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable”
Gertrude Stein
From the article :
“In a development that will surprise absolutely no one, Oculus VR’s virtual reality headsets will be used for immersive, 3-D pornography.
What is a bit surprising is that Facebook-owned Oculus is totally OK with that use of its upcoming platform for VR. At least, one Oculus exec is…..
It’s a surprising attitude for Facebook […]
“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
Søren Kierkegaard
From the article:
“Feminism has been defined by its struggle for progressive freedoms. But any cage is also a potential protection. So as debate rages – this week around women’s right to the nude selfie, whether public twerking (waggling your semi-naked bottom at an audience) is a feminist act or its primate opposite, and why young […]
“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law
Something to think about given today’s events in Tunisia, France and Kuwait.
For centuries women experienced the ordinary act of washing in less than complete solitude. Women of a certain class were rarely alone, even when attending to the most intimate parts of their bodies. Their lives were, in a sense, communal property, especially those of wealthier women who until the mid-19th century […]
“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
Robert Bresson
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket […]
“Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air”
Ian McEwan From his novel Saturday
