Jonathan Power in Prospect Magazine, In search of the Swedish soul: “An examination of the Swedish soul must begin, I’m afraid, with sex. Not Volvo, not IKEA, not Alfa Laval nor H&M. Not Strindberg nor Dagerman nor even Astrid Lindgren and Pippi Longstocking. Not the welfare state, not income equality nor criminal justice. Not the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sex'
Tom Ford Spring/Summer 2008 Advertsing
June 3rd, 2008
Tom Ford Spring/Summer 2008
Tags: advertising · fashion · sex · tom ford
The Orgasmic Mind
May 15th, 2008
‘Le Roi de la Capote [Charlotte] Publicité préservatif’ (video – Adrants), ter gelegenheid van Wereld Aids Dag. Scentific American, The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure: “Achieving sexual climax requires a complex conspiracy of sensory and psychological signals—and the eventual silencing of critical brain areas”
On James Brown’s sexual habits
April 6th, 2008
Sean Flynn on GQ Blog, Papa: “”You’d have to grow up in a whorehouse to understand how James Brown felt about women,” one of his confidants says, which is apt because Mr. Brown did, in fact, grow up in a whorehouse. His mother walked out on his father when he was 4, and two years [...]
Tags: james brown · music · sex · sexuality
‘Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex.’
March 13th, 2008
Lauren Berlant in The Nation, Against Sexual Scandal: “Instead, what stories like this really do is to damage the reputation of sex. Whenever there’s a sex scandal, I feel sorry for sex. I felt sorry for sex during the Larry Craig brouhaha last summer. What if he liked being married and procreating and giving anonymous [...]
Tags: eliot spitzer · erotophobia · media · sex · sexuality · usa
Airworks Inflatable: Vagina
November 14th, 2007
“Rather frightening inflatable vagina, made for theater production, the monster was blown up on the stage and burst out of a cupboard, to devour the main character” Airworks Inflatable: Vagina. Video: Vagina uit een kast. (via)
Where Are The Women Conductors?
November 12th, 2007
New York Times, A One-Woman Vanguard: “There can be a seductive element to conducting. Think of the kinetic young Leonard Bernstein, the suave Herbert von Karajan, the exotic and scruffy Valery Gergiev. Ms. Alsop is a dynamo on the podium, an incisive technician who moves and grooves much like Bernstein, her mentor. Might male orchestral [...]
Tags: conducting · feminism · marin alsop · music · sex
Sex and the Renaissance Nun
September 25th, 2007
The Smart Set: Sex and the Renaissance Nun. “Church officials in Venice and Rome turned a blind eye to these activities, but reluctantly investigated some of the most blatant and scandalous cases. The Italian academic Guido Ruggiero has pored over countless documents to find that only 33 convents were prosecuted for “sex crimes against God” [...]
Tags: feminism · history · italy · religion · renaissance · sex · sexuality