The sex issue: Is monogamy dead?

There are about 4,000 mammal species on Earth, but only a few dozen form lifelong monogamous pair bonds. The bonobo chimpanzees of Congo, for instance, eschew monogamy because they use sex as a social activity to develop and maintain bonds with male and female chimps. And monogamy is hardly the norm for humans.

-The Long Good Read

Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness

As dawn broke over the interior of Belize on April 30, an elite team of 42 police and soldiers, including members of the country's SWAT team and Special Forces, converged on a compound on the banks of a jungle river. Within, all was quiet. The police called out through a bullhorn that they were there looking for illegal firearms and narcotics, then stormed in, breaking open doors with sledgehammers, handcuffing four security guards, and shooting a guard dog dead. The compound's owner, a 67-year-old white American man, emerged bleary-eyed from his bedroom with a 17-year-old Belizean girl.

-Gizmodo

Corn Maze Craze: Get Lost in Halloween Horror Fields Before Harvest

Happy October! Before harvest, and popular in autumn around Halloween, fall festivals kick off a corn maze craze. Called maize mazes in the United Kingdom and labyrinths in Europe, corn mazes are a great way for farms to create income from tourism. This competition factor among Halloween fields of horror are also why these puzzles carved into the corn grow increasingly complex each year.

-Love These Pics

Times Square like you’ve never seen it before: Amazing images capture the Crossroads of the World from 1904 to modern days

Whenever someone mentions New York City in passing, Times Square is almost always the first thing that comes to mind.The bustling Crossroads of the World, the pulsating core of the Big Apple lit in myriads of neon lights has been drawing tourists from around the world like a magnet for nearly a century.

-Daily Mail

The models for American Gothic, Nan Wood Graham and Byron McKeeby, 1930.

Psychopathy's Double Edge

Over a 28-year-old single-malt scotch at the Scientific Study of Psychopathy's biennial bash in Montreal in 2011, I asked Bob Hare, "When you look around you at modern-day society, do you think, in general, that we're becoming more psychopathic?"

-The Chronicle

Sodomie et littérature : la porte d'à côté

On peut juger du degré d'un tabou par le malaise qu'il suscite. Parler de certaines pratiques, comme la fellation ou la masturbation, ne fait plus rougir personne. On rigole des histoires de fétichisme et de bonding. Mais si on aborde la sodomie, la réaction est plus gênée. Le sujet est pourtant de plus en plus à la mode: il est même sorti de la niche de la littérature érotique pour apparaître dans la littérature «grand public». En 2012, au moins quatre romans publiés au Québec ont décrit explicitement des scènes de pénétration anale entre des hommes et des femmes.

-La Presse

Philippe Muraglia, vendeur de couches pour adultes

Un adulte qui parle en bébé, c'est weird. Un adulte qui porte des couches? Un ti-peu plus. Mais ça existe. Explications.

-La Presse