Year: 2010

Eloquent Analysis (And Seduction Secrets): Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist

Seen on Hacker News and sent by a sweetheart: Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist by S.G. Belknap is a must-read. A spot-on analysis of pick up artist’s techniques in the post-“The Game” era, plus a simply beautiful, personal piece of writing suitable for those who love New Yorker style non-fiction essays. The…

Sadly, The Periodic Table of Swearing by Modern Toss is currently out of stock. It was also extremely expensive. Still, the very British-flavored periodic table of verbal obscenities and graphic insults is really entertaining (click to view large size for detail, link via The Awesomer). I’m definitely going to start using these on Twitter when…

Femina Potens might just be one of the most happening and significant art spaces in the United States. Seriously. And not just because the central them is sexuality: this space is a movement, an intersection for art and thought, and an evolution in the space between artist and art, subject and object, old models of…

This is a great story that defies stereotypes; Julia Perez is a sex symbol in Indonesia, a primarily Muslim country (86%) who is currently running for deputy district head in Pacitan, the province Indonesia’s president comes from — with a big focus on sexual health, women’s rights, sex ed for teens and is targeting corruption…

Today in Paris Dita Von Teese got tight-laced and took to the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fall/Winter 2011 collection for the highlight of Paris Fashion Week. Teese stripped down to an eye-popping rhinestone-encrusted exoskeleton that cinched to a micro-waisted corset. Amazing. The whole gallery of Getty Images from today’s spectacle are here. (zimbio.com)