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Bisexual woman reveals secrets of UK's swingers' clubs where she receives thousands of offers of sex

Marie, 29, is the most sought-after type in the swinging world - a "unicorn" - because she is young, single and 'swings both ways'. Tall with long blonde hair, she is inundated with offers of sex from admirers at parties and online - and she romps with couples in swanky hotels and penthouses. Marie, from Cardiff, told WalesOnline that she had her first meet-up just weeks after signing up to a swingers' app - and every Christmas she sends one couple a sexy snap of her in her underwear.

- Mirror

Cab driver shares stories of being propositioned for sex while on the job

I dropped a woman home after her hen do, and she asked if I wanted the payment sexually. She said, “I’m about to be consigned to the same cock for the rest of my life, and he’s f***ing loaded but boring!”‘ Jack,* 39, manages a cab firm, but he’s happy to think back to his time as a cabbie; when he was regularly propositioned by passengers. In the bride-to-be’s case, he knocked her back, because, ‘she was easily two to three bottles of wine down.’ ‘I didn’t want to risk a sober reality check in the morning,’ Jack tells Metro.co.uk. ‘She took her bra off and we did have a kiss, but as much as she insisted she wouldn’t regret it, I refused to take it any further.’

- Metro UK

Des oeuvres méconnues de Banksy exposées à Londres

Des pochoirs mondialement connus à des huiles plus inattendues en passant par quelques sculptures: des oeuvres de Banksy sont exposées dans une galerie londonienne à partir de jeudi, l'occasion de découvrir d'autres facettes du mystérieux artiste britannique.

- La Presse

35mm footage of London's King's Road in the late 1960s

THE ENDURING, DISPASSIONATE POWER OF SUNGLASSES

More people are spending their disposable income on designer sunglasses. The latest global eyewear industry forecast suggests continuous growth for the segment in the $102 billion industry, with demand largely driven by the sunglasses’s “fashion quotient.”

But long before it was considered a fashion accessory, sunglasses were used to mask to cover the most telling aspect of our face. Judges in 12th-century China wore flat panes made of quartz (no relation to us) to conceal their eyes when interrogating witnesses in court. By covering the most expressive part of the face, jurors maintained a veneer of impartiality. The ancient sunglasses didn’t offer sun protection and were only meant to be worn indoors. A vestige of this practice can be seen in the allegorical depiction of justice as a blindfolded woman.

- Quartzy

How to Become Less Afraid of Death

Death, in the view of many theorists, is a good thing, at least for a society that aspires to be creative. When you’re on the clock, you accomplish more. Cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, author of The Denial of Death, called mortality “a mainspring of human activity.” If you want to invent a light bulb or paint a Mona Lisa, you’d best get started, because checkout time is coming.

- Time

«Irrécupérable»: prophétique Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce était-il seulement humoriste ou également prophète ? « Je me suis alors rendu compte que chaque groupe aimait tellement son candidat qu’il aurait vraiment fallu qu’il se disqualifie de manière évidente — par exemple, qu’il regarde la caméra bien en face et déclare : “Je suis un voleur, un escroc, vous m’entendez ? Je suis le pire président que vous pourriez élire !” », écrit-il au sujet non pas de la plus récente élection présidentielle américaine — Bruce est mort en 1966 — mais bien au sujet de celle de 1960, opposant Kennedy et Nixon. « Et même là, ses adeptes applaudiraient : “Eh bien tu vois, voilà un homme honnête” », ajoute-t-il, comme s’il avait eu accès à Twitter quatre décennies avant son invention.

- Le Devoir

My Failed Experiment With Non-Monogamy

Welcome to It’s Complicated, stories on the sometimes frustrating, sometimes confusing, always engrossing subject of modern relationships.

My friend Sarah and I were shopping for lingerie together, as a group activity, the way some people catch up over brunch. The two of us had already downed several cocktails when we slipped into the store in Williamsburg with seductively posed mannequins in the windows. The universe operates by different rules on a sunny Saturday afternoon in New York City when no one has other plans and you both have had an indeterminate amount of mimosa — maybe we’d get tattoos or septum piercings next, who knew for sure? But for now, lingerie.

- The Cut

'IT'S LIKE SKYDIVING': INSIDE NEW YORK'S FLOATING SEX PARTY ON A PRIVATE YACHT

As the cruise around Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay wound to a close, and passengers downed the last of their free champagne, the captain appeared on deck with news: The tide was too low, and the boat could not dock for at least another hour.

“I’ll let you know when we can dock,” he told the crowd. “Until then, keep loving each other, and keep f***ing each other!”

The passengers cheered. That was, in fact, exactly what they had come to do. They were members of Chemistry – New York’s private, bi-monthly sex party, which was being held on this particular evening aboard a private yacht.

- Independent

2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer Of The Year Winners

The Ultimate Pool Party. Raja Iliya captures the idyllic scene of a summer pool party in Koh Samui, Thailand. (Photo by Raja Iliya/National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest)

- Design you Trust

Amazing Socotra Island

The island of Socotra is part of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. It is so isolated that a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. Notable are the dragon’s blood trees that look like flying saucers perched on trunks.

In 2010 a Russian archaeological team discovered the ruins of a city on Socotra dating to the second century. The island is also held by some to be the location of the original Garden of Eden, due to its isolation, biological diversity, and the fact that it is located on the edge of Yemen’s Gulf of Aden, which many connect with the ancient Sumerian tales of a paradise called Dilmun.

There are almost no roads on the island, which is also home to a collection of caves and a number of shipwrecks.

- Atlas Obscura / Cuzz Blue

Didier Paquignon et la fabrique extraordinaire de faits divers

L’homme est un collectionneur d’extravagances contenues dans les informations insolites qui décrispent chaque jour le monde de l’information. « Je ne regarde pas la télévision, je ne vais pas au cinéma, résume-t-il à l’autre bout du fil pour justifier cette étrange passion. Le soir, après une journée de travail, je fais des monotypes en m’inspirant de toutes ces histoires que j’accumule depuis des années. J’en ai plus de 400. Au début, je les découpais dans les journaux. Aujourd’hui, ce sont des amis qui se chargent de me les faire parvenir après les avoir trouvées sur Internet », comme cette histoire mettant envedette sur un plateau de télévision le mannequin Orit Fox et un serpent.

- Le Devoir