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Les tatoueurs ont-ils des droits d'auteur?

Comme bien des athlètes professionnels, comme beaucoup de ses contemporains, le joueur vedette de basket LeBron James est tatoué. Le nom de sa maman (Gloria) apparaît sur son épaule droite, et des portraits de son fils (LeBron junior) sur ses avant-bras. Il porte même le numéro 330, indicatif régional de sa ville d’origine en Ohio.

À qui appartiennent ces tatouages, même les plus chargés de très intimes significations ? Autrement dit, qui possède les droits de reproduire ces images ? Le tatoueur qui les a réalisées ? M. James ? Ou une compagnie, publicitaire ou autre, qui miserait sur l’image de la mégavedette des paniers ?

- Le Devoir

Unfiltered : XXX, Holly Randall

Photographe et réalisatrice de films érotiques, Holly Randall a voulu présenter son univers et ses stars sans les juger, sans les condamner, sans filtre. Voici Unfiltered.

Holly Randall avait 20 ans quand elle a commencé à travailler pour ses parents. Un couple de réalisateurs de contenu pour adultes formé de Humphry Knipe et de Suze Randall, une pionnière parmi ces messieurs. Deux décennies plus tard, elle baigne encore dans l’industrie du X. Et elle en a ramassé, des « histoires de guerre ».

- La Presse

Isolation Has Profound Effects on The Human Body And Brain. Here's What Happens

Imagine being confined to a small, dark room, with no social interaction whatsoever for 30 days. Not many people would jump at this opportunity.

But, in November 2018, a professional US poker player Rich Alati bet US$100,000 that he could survive 30 days alone and in total darkness.

He was kept in a small, completely dark room with nothing but a bed, fridge and bathroom. Even with all the resources he needed to survive, Alati couldn't last the month. After 20 days he negotiated his release, taking a payout of US$62,400.

- Science Alert

Most Things You Worry About Will Never Actually Happen

Persistent worrying is pointless. Here’s how to stop doing it.

In his 1915 book Worry and Nervousness, the American surgeon and psychiatrist William Samuel Sadler described worry as an “inability to relax the attention” once it had fastened itself onto a given fear. All people experience negative or troubling thoughts. But for those with worry-related mental “disturbances,” Sadler wrote, those negative thoughts are stickier and, eventually, they can become destabilizing.

- Medium

Polyamory: Beyond the confines of monogamous love

Monogamy is still very much the norm in today's societies, but different types of romantic relationships are gaining ground. For this Spotlight feature, we have spoken to some polyamorous people and asked: What is fact and what is fiction about polyamorous relationships?

- Medical News Today

Polyamory offers a unique opportunity to enjoy prolonged passion and closeness in romantic relationships

As everyone knows, the nature of romantic relationships usually changes over time. An early period of intense attraction tends to develop into a less fiery, deeper attachment bond.

According to evolutionary arguments, the early stage, which typically lasts a few years, gives the pair the time and proximity that's required for developing a deeper nurturing, supportive – and predictable – relationship. While this type of attachment is important for rearing children, and for ongoing wellbeing, it's not necessarily great news for passion.

- Big Think

The Perched Villages of Cote d'Azur

One of the most endearing attractions of Côte d'Azur, also known as the French Riviera, in the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, are its charming hilltop villages. Perched like hats on top of verdant hills, these villages combine the allure of medieval architecture with birds-eye views of the Riviera coast and mountains.

Most villages emerged during the 12th and 13th centuries when peasants living in the coastal towns fled inland to the hilltops where they could protect themselves from pirates and marauding armies. After a postwar period of neglect, the perched villages gained new life when the residents renovated the crumbling town houses to serve as second residences. Artists and artisans moved in and set up boutiques and galleries to show their wares. Now, most villages have a thriving commercial life catering to tourists, retirees, and part-time residents. Many villages still have buckled medieval walls and their crooked, cobbled streets are pleasant to stroll.

- Amusing Planet

Talking Dirty

Here’s how you can make yourself sponge worthy.

“I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.” Kurt Cobain

We all remember the saying “Eyes are the window to the soul.” It sounds poetic, but it’s wrong. Forget the eyes. The real “windows to our soul” are words. Nothing defines who — or what we are — like the words we use.

As with sex, if you’re simply going through the motions, of course it’s lousy. You can’t just be there. Even talking dirty requires vulnerability and sincerity. Otherwise you’re just cussing in bed.

- Medium

Georgia O’Keeffe: She Lived Deliciously Alone in the Wild, Wild West

In 1934, Georgia O’Keeffe gutted the passenger seats from her A-Model Ford. It was time to make way for the only companion she needed, and wanted, out west: her art. There, in the dry heat of New Mexico, the pioneering female artist drove, hiked, and schlepped her canvases to the farthest corners of its blackened moonscapes and red dusted rocks. It was how she made love back to the landscape that had enchanted her and which seemed, for the first time, to be a place on the same wavelength of her own staunch character. It was home. Today, we’re retracing the New Mexico of O’Keeffe’s creative, independent spirit – and taking notes to inspire ourselves. Think Spartan home décor, and skulls. Dust. Naked sunbaths. An infinite sky. If you’re itching for the same energy this summer, you’re in luck – a lot of O’Keeffe’s legacy is not only visitable, but rent-able out west. Giddy up.

- Messy Nessy Chic

Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye

A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.

Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

- Supervert

How Fish and Chips Migrated to Great Britain

THE POWERFUL PAIRING OF FISH and chips has long been considered a British staple. Dubbed “the undisputed national dish of Great Britain” by the National Federation of Fish Friers, it’s been enjoyed on the island for over a century, with an estimated 35,000 chip shops in business by 1935. During World War II, Winston Churchill exempted the beloved dish from rationing. Today, “Fish & Chip Friday” is a weekly ritual for Brits ringing in the weekend.

Fish and chips’s origin story, however, is a bit more complex than this nationalist sentiment might imply.

- Atlas Obscura

Disco Cowboys, Rejoice: The Dive Motel Is Here

A little birdy down south just let us in on a sizzling tip: the retro motel of our dreams just opened in Nashville, Tennessee, inviting travellers far and wide to teleport back to a time when mustard orange was a primary colour, and disco balls outnumbered people. So feather your hair, bedazzle your bell bottoms, and blast some Glen Campbell in that ’70 Chevy Chevelle before we park it at the “Dive Motel & Swim Club”…

- Messy Nessy Chic

The tiny video store that survived Netflix

In the wake of an algorithm-led video store apocalypse, Captain Video stays afloat by offering the human touch.

“Where the hell have you been? I haven’t seen you in 6 months!”

Ira Belfer rises from his throne (a well-worn dining chair from the 1980s), circumvents a countertop cluttered with VHS tapes, and lumbers toward a well-tanned man in a polo shirt who’s just walked into his store. “What, you’re done watching movies now?”

It’s a question Belfer has found himself asking a lot in recent years.

- Hustle

What It’s Like to Go To a Masturbation Coach

While “masturbation coach” absolutely sounds like a fake job title cooked up by a calculating Bachelorette producer, it’s a real job that helps people, especially those struggling with sexual dysfunction, get more comfortable with their bodies. You might think you’ve got masturbation down; after all, Malcolm Gladwell assures us that after 10,000 hours doing anything, you become an expert. But you know what? Even professional athletes have coaches.

- GQ

140 Dicks From Tinder (2019), Oil on Canvas

An intrepid 21-year-old art student set out to document over a hundred penises. Francesca Harris, who attends the University of Northampton in England, took to Tinder to solicit source material for her art project, titled “The Modern Male.”

According to Metro U.K., Harris matched with over 600 men. She started all of her conversations with a simple blunt request: “Dick pic?” In addition, her Tinder bio notified users that she was on a dick-pic hunt for a project. Many people happily obliged once they became aware of the nature of her work — many more than she expected. She says the flood of photos was almost too much for her phone to handle. “I had to turn [off] my notifications as it kept crashing my phone,” she said.

- The Cut

Jacq the Stripper: déshabiller les préjugés

Jacq the Stripper est strip-teaseuse, féministe, humoriste, artiste. Elle peut désormais ajouter à cette liste le titre de consultante cinématographique pour Hustlers. Pas le magazine sans s, mais bien le futur film mettant en vedette J.Lo et Cardi B.

Jacq the Stripper, de son vrai nom Jacqueline Frances, est strip-teaseuse depuis 10 ans. Sa déception face à « la représentation uniformément triste et tragique » des travailleurs du sexe dans la culture pop remonte à plus loin encore. Elle énumère : Darryl Hannah dans The Blue Iguana, Elizabeth Berkley dans Showgirls, Marisa Tomei dans The Wrestler, Dianna Agron dans Bare... Que du morose.

- La Presse

The fatal, hateful rise of choking during sex

Too many women’s lives are ending after what those accused of their deaths say were ‘sex games gone wrong’. But how did strangling ever become normalised?

- The Guardian

Here’s What Drive-In Theaters Looked Like In Their Glory Days

At their peak in the mid-20th century, drive-in theaters were the perfect place to catch a flick from the comfort and privacy of your car.

- BuzzFeed