Ricky Saiz, who directed Beyoncé’s clip on a hot summer day in Brooklyn, said recently that he based the concept on George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” video. He also discussed Beyoncé’s nipple-emphasizing bodysuit. “Our stylist Karen Langley was incredible,” he said. “When she brought out that Tom Ford for YSL molded bodysuit with the pierced nipples,…

“How would you touch me?” Scarlett Johansson asks in her unmistakable charred rasp. The question is an invitation, the first turning point in the film’s three-act structure. Johansson is Her: the latest technology, an artificially intelligent operating system brought into being by Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a modern day man-child from the near future. My…

Scientists at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Dresden, Germany, have created “the first sperm-based biobots” – a cybernetic microorganism made of metal and a bull’s sperm cell that can be remote controlled and used to impregnate an egg or deliver a drug to a target anywhere inside your body. Scientists create a cyborg sperm…

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: The British Fashion Awards in London (HQ Candids) The innocuous elegance of the sex toy box, which could easily double as the jewelry box on a fashionable nightstand, is partly what enabled MUA to become the first adult company to get by Kickstarter’s puritanical standards. The First Ever Adult Product on Kickstarter Isn’t…

Above: Terrific commercial from ACW Grey, Tel Aviv for Israeli lingerie brand Delta. Sperm donation has evolved from a practice of customized production to an industry that resembles mass manufacturing. Today, the supply of sperm in the United States is concentrated in a few large companies that maintain multiple offices around the country, generally near…

To say the trailer for Lars von Trier’s upcoming sex epic Nymphomaniac was hotly anticipated would be an understatement. The rapidly-cut preview clip (above) doesn’t disappoint, packed as it is with graphic sex scenes. ‘Nymphomaniac’ Trailer: Lars Von Trier’s Epic Gets Sex-Soaked Preview (Video) (Hollywood Reporter) The publisher and editor of New Jersey’s largest newspaper…

Meet today’s two contestants: Ryou Sawai, a heterosexual Japanese porn star with a 90s boy band haircut, and Takuya, a gay man who owns a bar called Cholesterol. The challenge: Can Takuya bring Sawai to orgasm against his will within 40 minutes? If you thought Deal or No Deal was high stakes, welcome to Japan’s…

“Like all good stories, this one had a villain: “the girlfriend.” A sex-hating, man-foiling human barricade whose cruel, withholding ways sent armies of disconsolate men into the tender embrace of their “favorite” porn stars daily. I was taken aback. I was a girlfriend! I mean, I wasn’t that girlfriend. But the more this version of…

What Are We Doing After We Finish Masturbating? (The Onion) File under: is the APA crazy? Pedophilia is not a “sexual orientation,” and erroneous use of that phrase will be corrected soon in the American Psychiatric Association’s newest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5 or DSM-V. The APA’s statement…