“There have been many guesses as to what makes a woman ‘easy’,” writes Dr. Marcus McBroom, at the beginning of his 1963 article “A Clinical Appraisal of Some Sexually Promiscuous Females.” Published in the Journal of the National Medical Association, his musings—like many of the other variably absurd, frightening, hilarious, and offensive antiquated […]
Carl Djerassi, one of the chemists who enabled ladies to have more control over their bodies by creating “the pill” has died.
Djerassi was known as “the father of the pill,” but actually that’s not totally accurate. He did not invent the commercial birth-control pill, and was only one of many scientists working over decades […]
“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
Jean Dubuffet
“Most men don’t mind if another woman watches. It’s the women who are watching who don’t want to be seen.”
John Irving, A Widow for One Year
And, sex therapist Amber Madison has had enough.
“In the fall, I was at a conference with a bunch of different sex educators, and they were all talking about it,” Madison told R29.
“Of these major organizations, almost every single one had a story about Twitter, Facebook, YouTube — any social-media giant that you could think of — censoring their […]
“Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”
John Berger
From the article:
“Further proof that the sole goal of mankind is now to take selfies absolutely everywhere possible, a vibrator that can video capture an orgasm from its epicentre has been invented.
The nightmarish love child of an endoscopy and a vibrator, the ‘Svakom Gaga Camera Vibrator’ allows for a new level of explicitness in amateur […]
“There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one’s character, one’s […]
From the article:
“The popular smartphone application Instagram has drastically changed the way we look at photography, and further, our world. The photo-worthy moments we share with our followers serve as an important function in cultivating the photographic artistic eye. The Instagram photos we choose to share can be seen as our own personal documentation of […]
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
