“Photography concentrates one’s eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can’t catch that even with the sharpest lens.”
Franz Kafka
France’s reputation as a hotbed of European libertinism dates back to the 16th century and a philosophical backlash against the moral constraints of the church, spawning debaucherous figureheads such as aristocratic novelist Marquis de Sade.
Hundreds of years later it is all about the erotic, and it is at libertine establishments — ranging from seedy saunas […]
Mainstream internet porn, made by men for men, often alienates women. Rebecca Reid reports on a growing trend
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“The sexiest thing you can see on the internet right now involves no seeing at all.
Just like hipsters who eschew the technology of iPods for record players, Audible Porn skips the graphic, high definition money […]
Francois Truffaut with Julie Christie
“But the cinephile is … a neurotic! The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the […]
The selfie.
It’s become an act that is so ingrained in our culture that people even carry around sticks to help them do it.
Unashamedly taking photos of oneself has even turned some people into internet celebrities.
But well before it was popular, one man’s “selfie game” reached unprecedented heights.
Buzz Aldrin was the second man […]
In Santa Clarita, California, just an hour north of Los Angeles, there’s a surfeit of sprawling, beautiful homes. But one in particular takes the cake for seeing the most bare butts, and it’s the home of Greg Thornhill, a 51-year-old, non-porn-making grading and excavation contractor, who’s been renting his house to adult studios for around […]
“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
From the Back Cover
When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening and courageous collection, Erica Jong reveals that every woman has her own answer.
Susan Cheever talks about the “excruciating hazards of casual sex,” while Gail Collins recounts her Catholic upbringing in Cincinnati and the nuns who passionately forbade her from having […]
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
