Erika Lust: ‘Women want to try porn. But it’s not for us.’ Meet the filmmaker who’s leading a feminist revolution

Erika Lust is taking on the misogynistic world of porn. The female gaze matters, she tells Emily Sheffield.

It’s a blustery Tuesday evening and I am upstairs at the Groucho Club in Soho turning blindly in circles, watching numerous beautiful people having sex: group sex, masturbation, spanking… It’s elegantly shot and certainly erotic, but at the same time I am trying to avoid bumping into the bar or anyone else around me.

- Evening Standard

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Michel Simon dans un musée du sexe ?

Tout ce qui touche au sexe, l’acteur Michel Simon l’achète. En parallèle, il fait des photos explicites, annotées de petits textes obscènes, maintenant publiées sous le titre : “L’Album pornographique de Michel Simon”. La part cachée du monstre… sacré ?

- Libération

 

Cold Inside: Sexual Climate Change

People are having less sex. Even before the pandemic, social distancing, and masturbatory Zoom-bombing, far less sex. We’ve long imagined a sexually sterile future, from the dystopian visions of Brave New World, 1984, and The Handmaid’s Tale to the more recent, controversial novel by Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island (La Possibilité d’une île), in which humans have engineered sexuality out of their reproduction, enabling them to exist in individual compounds with no physical, and virtually no social, interaction. 

- Guernica

 

Spike Lee réalisera une comédie musicale sur le Viagra

Selon le magazine en ligne deadline.com, le scénario sera basé sur un article écrit par le journaliste David Kushner dans la revue Esquire et intitulé : All Rise : The Untold Story of The Guys Who Launched Viagra.

Médicament utilisé pour régler les problèmes de dysfonction érectile, le Viagra (sildénafil) a obtenu en 1998 une autorisation de mise en marché aux États-Unis. Depuis, le médicament est devenu la petite pilule bleue la plus connue de la planète.

- La Presse

 

A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can’t Crack

IN APRIL 2017, a man started hiking in a state park just north of New York City. He wanted to get away, maybe from something and maybe from everything. He didn’t bring a phone; he didn’t bring a credit card. He didn’t even really bring a name. Or at least he didn’t tell anyone he met what it was. 

- Wired

 

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Texas Punk Rock, Straight From the Pit

Over the last seven months, American life has cautiously adjusted to the strictures of quarantine. We eat in the street, pull up to drive-in theaters and watch live music via our laptops.

Best intentions aside, the tactile experience of a concert — the sweat, the volume, the beer that guy just spilled on you — can’t be replaced by anything but the real thing, which may remain impossible until well into 2021. So it’s with some wistful irony that the writer and photographer Pat Blashill released “Texas Is the Reason,” a photo book telling the story of the 1980s Austin, Texas, punk rock scene, in February, less than a month before the country locked down.

- NY Times

 

Shh. It’s Breakfast Time

Silent breakfast is a wellness practice that is helping some people cope with the pandemic. “I don’t meditate so I look to other parts of my day to become meditative, including my coffee and breakfast routine,” Nina Zorfass, 30, a New York City resident who works in marketing, wrote in an email. Her technique? Eating breakfast in complete silence.

- NY Times

 

L’heure de jouir

Quarante-cinq minutes de préliminaires avant la pénétration : c’est ce que suggérait aux femmes désireuses d’atteindre l’orgasme Anita Boeninger, une conseillère en santé holistique et spécialiste de la culture orientale.

Anita Boeninger est citée dans le livre Jouir. En quête de l’orgasme féminin, de la journaliste canadienne Sarah Barmak, récemment traduit en français aux éditions Zones. Dans la tradition orientale, écrit Sarah Barmak, « les femmes, qui avaient plus de yin, étaient associées à l’eau : il leur fallait du temps pour s’échauffer, mais aussi pour refroidir ».

- Le Devoir

 

The Montreal Woman Having Sex With Two Men in One Day

A woman tanning naked while working from home and pining for a man she loves but has never had sex with: 33, single, Montreal.

DAY ONE

10 a.m. I invited a guy over for a quickie after we matched on one of the apps last night. When he arrives, I see that he’s cute just like his photo. He’s ten years my junior, with a mischievous smile. We have our way with each other in the living room and then my bedroom.

- The Cut

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXXVI)

Welcome to your Halloween edition of 13 Things, not for the faint of heart!

1. The French Werewolf Epidemic (1520-1630) was France’s version of Europe’s witch trials and executions, but with werewolves. For 110 years, 30 thousand people were accused of being werewolves, tortured in exchange for their confessions, or lack of admission of guilt and died at the stake. Of the many examples of accused werewolfery is of Jacques Rollet, dubbed the Werewolf of Chazes. Rollet lured a fifteen-year-old boy to the woods where he murdered and ate his body. When he was tried for his crime, he confessed to having done the same to other locals, specifically employees of the court system such as lawyers and attorneys. Rollet got the death sentence (like pretty much everyone else back then) but ended up in an insane asylum…

- Messy Nessy Chic