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 […]
Quote of the Day – July 26 2015
“On Stanley Kubrick: It was common knowledge that Stanley always knew something you didn’t.”
Warren Beatty
Stanley Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove 1964
Virtual reality is the new hope of the porn industry with headsets like Oculus Rift set to go mainstream
From the article:
“By 2025, virtual reality porn is forecast to be a AU$1.4 billion business in the US alone according to estimates by Piper Jaffray, MarketWatch reports. This is good news for an industry which has seen sluggish revenue growth as a direct result of web piracy and free porn sites, which nine in 10 […]
Quote of the Day – July 25 2015
“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”
Katherine Mansfield