- Susan Sarandon found out she was pregnant by the pool. Princess Margaret visited. So did Hillary Clinton. And now Gore Vidal’s Italian home, La Rondinaia, is up for sale. What happened in Ravello. at this dramatic home Vidal became so well-known for inhabiting, encapsulated the wider narrative of Vidal’s private and public life—the writing, the celebrity, the sex, and the depth of his relationship with his longtime partner Austen.
Inside Gore Vidal’s Cliffside Palace of Sex, Scandal, and Celebrity (Daily Beast)
- “In the four months since my breakup I’ve culled the combined wisdom of my single friends to help me through this twisted maze. (Look for my guide to online dating: “Limp catfish and other cautionary tales” in the near future.) Just about all of my eligible friends have shared their personal war stories from this new era of love as a digitized battlefield. … 1. A simple “hello” is your RSVP to a private viewing of strange dick …”
Let’s talk about sex: This is Computer Love (Engadget)
- “In a twist confirming the plotline of many porn films made for straight men, a new study claims that when it comes to arousal, all women are at least a little bit into women. For women who have already confirmed they are into women (like me), the results leave me with more questions than answers. Straight women have been rejecting my offers to split an Awesome Blossom at Chili’s for more than a decade. What’s going on here?”
Why I’m Not Buying This Study That Claims All Women Are a Little Gay (NY Mag)
- Warning for survivors of sexual abuse and trauma. The star of a film on sex work in Morocco – banned in the North African kingdom – was savagely beaten in Casablanca last week, sparking an outcry on social media over social taboos that activists say can be enforced by violence. Loubna Abidar, who portrays a Marrakech sex worker in Much Loved, a film by renowned French-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch that caused a stir in Morocco when a series of previews were released on YouTube, said police and hospital workers refused to help her. Instead they humiliated her, she said.
Morocco sex worker film star severely beaten amid controversy (Independent UK)
- Now that we are actually living in 2015 — and with 2016 right around the corner — it’s fun to look at some notable books and films that tried to envision what sex would be like in the future. In other words, right this very minute. A lot of things turned out to be flat out wrong. But what’s even more intriguing—and even more than a bit chilling—is what they actually may have gotten right.
The Sexual Future of 2015: What Sci-Fi Movies and Books Got Wrong… and Right (Future of Sex)
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- The groan-worthy double entendres that Bond would use to coax willing honeys into bed were some of the most immediate pleasures of the ironic ’70s Bond pictures and of the highly questionable Brosnan era. The days of characters named Pussy Galore have long since past, but let’s revisit a time when Bond lived like the MacGyver of sex puns, turning whatever subject at hand into a roiling hotbed of barely contained eroticism.
James Bond’s Ten Randiest Sex Puns, Ranked From Corniest To Suavest (Uproxx)
- In these food-obsessed, dinner-Instagramming times, chefs are clearly the new rock stars — and they now have the groupies to go with their celeb status. It’s not only the male chefs who have their zealots. “Dating a chef like April is my absolute dream. Not only is she attractive, but her food is so creative,” gushed Dana Salvatore, a 25-year-old producer. “It’s my absolute goal to meet a chef; I’ve tried on Tinder.”
Meet the chef groupies looking for sex in the kitchen (NY Post)
- Shocking the internet is not easy to do; earlier this year, a woman who found a ball of cat hair in her vagina managed to transfix those of us who love hearing that someone else’s life is more ridiculous than theirs. This week, freelance writer Amanda Chatel has managed to make jaws drop with her YourTango essay entitled, “I Sent My Cheating Husband An ACTUAL Pile Of Horse SHIT In The Mail.” No, said “horse shit” is not a metaphor, but actual horse shit, mailed via a company called Shitexpress.
We’ve reached peak male fragility: A writer sends a box of horse crap to “my cheating husband” and random men tell her she should kill herself (Nerve)
- From 2010 to late 2013, Fabian Thylmann presided over the meteoric rise of a company called MindGeek, a collection of online adult streaming video (or “tube”) sites that became one of the largest and most powerful adult entertainment conglomerates ever assembled — and in turn, irrevocably influenced the course of countless business ventures and careers.
Meet The Guy Who Changed Porn Forever (BuzzFeed)
- If sex were music, what would it sound like? Our pop stars and musicians have come up with some deft approximations over the years, but nothing quite as literal as Rory Viner. The Japan-based sound artist has been strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live.
What Real Sex Music Sounds Like (Vice)
