L'infidélité revisitée

Pendant que vous lisez ces lignes, dans tous les pays du monde, une personne trompe, est trompée, en rêve ou s'en mord les doigts. Partout. Là où des couples se forment, des aventures se créent. La thérapeute Esther Perel a voulu comprendre. Analyser. Et même carrément revisiter l'infidélité. Parce qu'il le faut, dit-elle. Entrevue.

-La Presse

A lighthearted Ancient Greek myth explains why humans are doomed to yearn for partners

Emotional vulnerability and the risk of heartbreak aren’t enough to deter most people from seeking out companions. Indeed, romantic yearning is considered a central part of the human experience. So why were so many of us created to feel unfulfilled without ‘another half’? According to a myth by the comic playwright Aristophanes, recounted in Plato’s Symposium, humans were once two-bodied creatures until they challenged the gods. Zeus, angered by humans overstepping their bounds, sliced them all in two, leaving us destined to yearn for partnership.

-aeon

30 Outrageous 2-Page Pulp Art from Mid-Century Men’s Magazines

It’s an old clichéd joke to say you read adult magazines for the articles.  However, if you’re talking about men’s mags from the 1950s and 60s, there might actually be some truth in your statement. Magazines like Playboy, Adam, Jem, and Rogue often featured genuinely well-written articles and short fiction.  Getting published in a men’s magazine wasn’t the shameful smudge on an author’s reputation as it is today – in fact, it was a common stepping stone for soon-to-be-famous authors.

But it isn’t just the stories that deserve respect – it’s the artwork that complimented them.  Often sleazy and purposefully outrageous, the illustrations were designed to entice you to read the story in a not-so-subtle way.  Here are 30 excellent 

-Flashback

6 Terrifying Serial Killers (Who Are Still Out There)

It's comforting to pretend that real-life crime plays by the same rules as TV, and that sooner or later every killer is nabbed by an attractive cop with a clever one-liner. Unfortunately, some deranged murderers are never found. What happened to them, you ask? Maybe they switched hobbies, maybe they slipped in the shower and broke their necks, or maybe they're hiding in your closet right now. (Yes, every single one of them.)

So load up a playlist of cute baby animals in another tab, and let us tell you about ...

-Cracked

The Origins of 25 Monsters, Ghosts, and Spooky Things

Though dressing up as an angel is acceptable, it’s ghouls and goblins that truly capture our imaginations during the Halloween season. As lit jack-o’-lanterns beckon and monsters lurk in the shadows, we explore the origins of 25 frightful things that go bump—or boo—in the night.

-mental_floss

Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory

Humans’ ability to predict the future is all thanks to our ability to remember the past. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia, because humans predict what the future will be like by using their memories. This is how things you do over and over again become routine. For example, you know generally what your day will be like at the office tomorrow based on what your day at the office was like today, and all the other days you’ve spent there. But memory also helps people predict what it will be like to do things they haven’t done before.

-The Atlantic

1843-1947 The past in color

Early photographic technology lacked a crucial ingredient — color. As early as the invention of the medium, skilled artisans applied color to photographs by hand, attempting to convey the vibrancy and immediacy of life in vivid detail (with mostly crude results).

Featuring 124 photos, from the first known photographic self-portrait, to a young and clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln, to unseen images from the Walt Disney archive, the book presents black-and-white originals alongside startlingly lifelike color remixes.

-Mashable

Moscow’s Bagel House

In the early 1970s, Russian architect Evgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov came up with plans for an unusual house in the capital city Moscow. The house was to be shaped like a ring, about 150 meters across, enclosing a large inner courtyard with playgrounds and green spaces. The building was to have over nine hundred apartments, and all the necessary services and facilities, including shops, a pharmacy, a laundry room, a studio, post office, and so on. When completed in 1972, the authorities were so impressed that plans for more such house across Moscow were drawn up.

-Amusing Planet

These Are the World’s Happiest Places

What do Denmark, Costa Rica, and Singapore have in common? Their people feel secure, have a sense of purpose, and enjoy lives that minimize stress and maximize joy. Here’s how they do it.

-National Geographic

Cocaine Advertising of the 1970s-1980s

In the late seventies through the mid-eighties, it wasn’t uncommon to find cocaine related products advertised in your standard men’s magazine (ex. Hustler, Penthouse). The products ranged from designer mirrors and gold plated razors to purity testers and whimsical straws. Let’s have a look at 37 examples.

-Flashbak

22 Inspiring And Awesome Bill Murray Quotes

Not only Bill Murray has done a lot of funny and weird things, but this actor can also think very deeply and share it with all of us through his quotes. We bring you 22 Bill Murray quotes that are inspiring and awesome!

-The Awesome Daily

25 Truly Stunning Shots of Abandoned Places

There are places out there in the world which human beings abandoned long ago, leaving nature to reclaim them in their entirety. They often make for a sight that is both frightening and fascinating. They allow us to glimpse a landscape of the future — when humanity has left or ceased to be.

-Bright Side

Dans l'ombre de la peur: retour sur une enquête

La bédé-enquête de Michael Keller et Josh Neufeld sur l'utilisation de nos données personnelles par les Google, Apple, Twitter et Facebook de ce monde vient de paraître dans une excellente traduction française. 

La Presse s'est entretenue avec le dessinateur américain de ce projet hautement controversé, qui n'a, disons-le, absolument rien changé à la situation.

-La Presse

« Extases » ou l’itinéraire du libertin Jean-Louis Tripp

Dans « Extases », le dessinateur Jean-Claude Tripp se met véritablement à nu en nous racontant son éveil sexuel. Cette autobiographie dessinée d’un libertin apparaît dans son premier tome comme le témoignage d’une époque où les mœurs se sont complètement libérées. Pour le meilleur et le plaisir, surtout.

Lancement officiel (Canada) à l’Orage le 9 novembre

-Metro

MY LIFE AS A 31-YEAR-OLD SEX ADDICT

Despite its debilitating effects on the psyche and relationships, psychology still doesn't recognise hypersexuality - a dysfunctional preoccupation with sexual fantasy – as an addiction. From masturbating at work to spending £2,000 on sex clubs this year alone, we spoke to one woman on the realities of living with an obsession with sex.

-EllE 

Candid Photographs Reveal New York City Taxicab Passengers Taken by Their Own Driver in the 1980s and '90s

A self-described “photographer-taxi driver,” Ryan Weideman presents duotone portraits of punks, white- and blue-collar types, prostitutes, club kids and others who rode in his cab before plunging back into New York City's anonymous throng.

-Vintag

Can You Really Delete Your Internet History?

It's a perennial joke: "If I die, delete my browser history." Everyone gets it because no matter how unquestionable your internet activity might be, we all have weird Google searches people might not understand when taken out of context. And we've all visited someone's Facebook page one too many times. But even though the internet has advanced in leaps and bounds, our understanding of our right to privacy on the internet has been slower to catch up.

-howstuffworks

Can sleeping apart help your relationship?

A few things that can wreck a good night's sleep? Caffeine, sure. Stress and anxiety, definitely. Being in a relationship? Well, yes, now that you mention it.

Specifically, it's the bed-sharing that messes things up. Simply put, sharing a bed means waking up more. In one 2007 study, nearly half of participants reported that they'd been woken up by their partner's movements, noises, or activities.

This presents an unfortunate predicament: You want to be able to sleep through the night, but you also want to keep on sleeping next to your partner. Ultimately, research suggests, most people end up choosing the latter, either because it's what's expected of couples or because they believe it's better for the relationship.

-The Week

L'hymne au célibat! Tiré du film ''Tango'' de Patrice Leconte

The Science Behind One-Night Stands and Drunken Hookups

An investigation of the link between alcohol and one-night stands highlights a drinking culture that turns sexual encounters into gratifying sex stories.

A study of one-night stands among hard-partying young people in Norway has found that, for many, the tail is secondary to the tale to be told. In other words: it’s not the sex — it’s the story.

-Seeker

Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘Pornography is an art form’

The Honourable Woman star explains why her role as a prostitute in New York drama The Deuce changed her views on sex work.

Set in the grimy, trash-strewn New York of 1971, The Deuce is named after a notoriously seedy stretch of West 42nd Street that was populated by pimps and prostitutes, and home to live peep shows and porn shops. Written by David Simon, who created The Wire, and his frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, the series charts the rise of the pornography industry in New York City.

-The Guardian

Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and the American Male

The careers of certain cultural figures follow a predictable arc: first young and brazen, then oddly revered, then overly familiar, and then, at last, obsolete. Frank Harris had a career with a shape something like this: a cowboy and a lawyer before becoming the leading London newspaper editor of the eighteen-nineties, he then became known only as the author of a scandalous, multi-volume sexual memoir, ending up merely notorious. Hugh Hefner, the publisher of Playboy, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-one, at the Playboy Mansion, in California, was another such figure. It is as hard now to recapture the period during the nineteen-sixties and seventies when Hefner actually seemed, if not exactly a cultural presence to be reckoned with, then at least a publishing magnate to be recognized, as it would be to return his magazine, Playboy, to the distinctive place, high up on the newsstand, that it once occupied. At one point, George Will could compare Hefner to Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby—not an entirely bad notion, given that the essential vulgarity of Gatsby’s taste, obvious to his creator, has been eclipsed by the retrospective glamour that has been placed on the book. But something like the opposite has taken place with Hefner. There was a time when his excursions into the Playboy philosophy, which was not quite as ridiculous a document as its title makes it sound, were, though never taken seriously, at least seen as significant. Now, they seem not merely quaint but predatory.

-The New Yorker

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The Genius of the Playboy Interview

Hugh Hefner was a complicated individual whose notions of sexuality and human relationships were at once woke and predatory, who stumbled upon a brilliant idea at a time when American culture was milquetoast. A loss of identity in the 1950s, particularly among men, was palpable for a generation who no longer had a war to fight. It took a magazine that paired the mind and the body, high culture and naked women, to shake the male from his slumber.

-Flipboard

Why Happy People Cheat

Most descriptions of troubled marriages don’t seem to fit my situation,” Priya insists. “Colin and I have a wonderful relationship. Great kids, no financial stresses, careers we love, great friends. He is a phenom at work, fucking handsome, attentive lover, fit, and generous to everyone, including my parents. My life is good.” Yet Priya is having an affair. “Not someone I would ever date—ever, ever, ever. He drives a truck and has tattoos. It’s so clichéd, it pains me to say it out loud. It could ruin everything I’ve built.”

-The Atlantic