Two-
part video of interviews with residents of a home for elderly prostitutes in Mexico's senior-citizen sex-worker capital. (
via)
posted by prefpara
on Mar 22, 2010 -
4 comments
It may increase schadenfreude.
It's an assistant to abortifacients and it's produced by stimulating the nipples. Got a clogged lizard? Your mom used it to turn off your brain for your own good. In women, it peaks at orgasm,
but in men, it might be elevated throughout sex without peaking.
And what do you mean "social" monogamy!? Is it the love 'em and leave 'em hormone??
Well, it's NOT Vasopressin For Her, contrary to what some people think.
Is it an impedance to feminism?
Could it be the key to treating Autism? Ism... ism... jism? YEP.
It's in the jism! Its synthesis was the end of
A Trail of Sulfa Research,
and its master was awarded the Nobel Prize. (Chemistry, not Peace.)
You can scent your loveletters with it,
but sorry, peaches... you can't huff a good cuddle, but you might like to huff while you cuddle. Previously.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Mar 14, 2010 -
48 comments
The Imperial Palaces of
Tsarskoye Selo (nowadays Pushkin), near St. Petersburg, contained many invaluable cultural treasures that were plundered or destroyed during the Second World War. Most famous among them was the fabled
Amber Room, whose disappearance has soured diplomatic relations between Germany and Russia ever since (
the Germans can't find it back). Some claim that another, much more secret room of the
Catherine Palace was also plundered. However, in this case, the Russian authorities deny that it ever existed.
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posted by Skeptic
on Jan 17, 2010 -
26 comments
An interview with the first male gigolo of the Shady Lady Ranch:
I think for a male, if you want to be successful in this type of venture, you're not a prostitute. You're a surrogate lover. You encompass everything that's required of you—not only emotionally, physically—but psychologically. Because women are wired differently. They're much more sensitive creatures. You actually have to enjoy what you do. You can't necessarily say, "Oh, it's just a job." You actually have to say it's a passion.
Background:
Nevada has legalized male prostitution (LATimes)
posted by andoatnp
on Jan 14, 2010 -
213 comments
"
One might be tempted to say that the LFL is a startling critique of the homoerotic undertones that are rife within men’s American Football. Indeed American Football’s hyper-masculine qualities, its predilection for tight trousers, bottom patting and suggestive positional names (‘tight end’) have long made it an easy target for artists, theorists, critics, or anyone who is not American. Yet while to claim such satirical depths for the LFL would be disingenuous, what the LFL does achieve is equally subversive." Highbrow British art magazine
Frieze discovers the
Lingerie Football League.
Warning: pictures on both links are NSFW.
posted by WPW
on Jan 13, 2010 -
73 comments
Carl Zimmer on the duck's incredibly long, corkscrew-shaped, ballistic penis. My tale is rich with deep scientific significance, resplendent with surprising insights into how evolution works, far beyond the banalities of “survival of the fittest,” off in a realm of life where sexual selection and sexual conflict work like a pair sculptors drunk on absinthe, transforming biology into forms unimaginable. But this story is also accompanied with video. High-definition, slow-motion duck sex video. And I would imagine that the sight of spiral-shaped penises inflating in less than a third of second might be considered in some quarters to be not exactly safe for work. It’s certainly not appropriate for ducklings.
[As Carl says, video links are possibly NSFW.]
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posted by chorltonmeateater
on Dec 23, 2009 -
59 comments
The Love of Lust: "The emancipation of social mores has played a bizarre trick on men and women. Far from giving free rein to the joyous effervescence of the instincts, it has only replaced one dogma with another. Reined in or forbidden in the past, lust has become mandatory."
posted by AlsoMike
on Dec 20, 2009 -
112 comments
Sex sells PEZ. A visual survey of the "PEZgirl," as used in PEZ advertising. Slightly NSFW, as one image at the bottom of the page shows bare breasts. That's right, PEZ ran topless advertisements.
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posted by OmieWise
on Dec 10, 2009 -
28 comments
"Meanwhile, down in Vaginaland, Mr Condom's beginning to feel a bit iffy. He's overheating. For some reason, the shagging seems to be twice as fast this evening, and he grimaces as he gets flung willy-nilly in and out of the pink tunnel. He starts getting friction burns, hanging onto Bobby's stiff penis for dear life, headbutting Georgie's cervix at 180 beats per minute. 'Help me!' he yells in the darkness, feeling himself melting."
This year's worst sex. [NSFW or post-turkey family reading] [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam
on Nov 25, 2009 -
44 comments
