Tracy Clark-Flory explores the largely untapped market and the main problem therein: Physiologically, we respond strongly to videos of gay sex, lesbian sex, straight sex and even monkey sex, but our subjective arousal is a separate, though sometimes intersecting, issue. … Every woman has a different definition of "porn for women" based on her own … Continue reading The Endless Debate About Porn For Women
Tracy Clark-Flory interviews author Deborah Lutz about her new book on sex in the Victorian era: Amazingly enough, prostitution was legal during the Victorian period. There were tons of brothels all over the major cities of England, and of all different kinds. There were lots of flagellation brothels; these were places where primarily men would … Continue reading “Anonymous Sex, Flagellation Brothels And Spanking Porn”
by Zoe Pollock Tracy Clark-Flory collects stories of "friends with benefits" gone wrong: It isn't that every generation thinks it's invented sex so much as a better way of doing it — like you can remove the messiness from human intimacy. No strings, no attachment, no complications! "Friends with benefits" situations seem a solution to … Continue reading Non-Committal Commitment
Tracy Clark-Flory interviews Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of The Science of Kissing:
Certain parts of the female anatomy, especially with our primate ancestors, were enhanced with red, and it especially had to do with the female being ready to reproduce. As our ancestors began to walk upright, rather than males being attracted to the female's posterior, they began to focus on the breasts and the lips — they call this "genital echoes." In research on lip color, men consistently choose the women wearing the bright red lipstick as the most attractive — there's this power to making the lips slightly redder. There's a lot of evidence to back up the existence of the makeup industry.
Kirshenbaum also connects kissing to breastfeeding:
Kim Voss mourns the end of Salon's feminist blog, Broadsheet. Voss places its shuttering in context:
by Chris Bodenner Tracy Clark-Flory thinks through the National Organization for Women’s campaign against Hooters on behalf of children: Hooters is marketed as a family-friendly restaurant. It offers a kid’s menu, high chairs, booster seats and all sorts of merchandise for little tykes — like a Hooters” T-shirt, an “I’m a boob man” onesie and … Continue reading Horton Hears A Hooters
Tracy Clark-Flory reviews the first sex game for the Xbox Kinect (for a NSFW YouTube simulation, check after the jump):
[E]xciting! At least in theory. There's been a lot of hype around the potential for harnessing the device — which turns the human body into a remote control — for pornographic pursuits. However, the first glimpse of what that could mean is decidedly unsexy.
Today on the Dish, Michael Crowley shrugged over the Afghanistan presser, NRO rejoiced, Scoblete observed our vicious cycle in that country, Ackerman wrung his hands over drones, and Drum and Kaplan were at their wits' end. Mike Luckovich said a thousand words on DADT, a gay soldier spoke out against the injustice, and Senator Corker … Continue reading The Weekly Wrap
Switzerland is considering it. Tracy Clark-Flory takes up the issue:
Marriage between second-degree relatives (aunt/uncle, niece/nephew) is already legal in Switzerland, but the new measure would overturn the ban on consensual sexual relationships between siblings, and between parents and their adult children. (Sexual relationships with underage children would, of course, remain illegal.)
A reader writes: I’m a huge huge fan. But this: I guess if you live in a country where the government stakes out an interest in whether a condom breaks or not in consensual sex, you may never find out. Just disgusted me. Sweden’s law is not about “broken condoms”; it’s about withdrawal of consent. … Continue reading Dissent Of The Day
