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

 

GBH - Drug party in 526

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

Shelley Duvall off camera cooking breakfast at the Overlook Hotel

 

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

 

Portugal - Des surfeurs de l’extrême s’attaquent aux premières vagues géantes

(Lisbonne) Plusieurs surfeurs de l’extrême tentaient jeudi matin de dominer l’énorme houle à Praia do Norte, célèbre spot de Nazaré atteint par les premières vagues géantes de l’automne, dans le centre du Portugal.

- La Presse

 

Requiem for a Dream at 20: Aronofsky's nightmare still haunts

The auteur’s bold and brutal 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr’s cultish novel about addiction remains an indelible and shocking act of provocation.

I was 17, and just beginning university, when Requiem for a Dream descended on cinemas like an opaque, bruise-blue mist. Notwithstanding the no-under-18s restrictions stamped upon it by stern censors in the UK and elsewhere, I like to think I was the optimal age for it. Darren Aronofsky’s addiction drama may be cross-generational in its focus, but with its unremittingly punishing storytelling and frenzied, all-systems-go cinematic energy, it represents a very young person’s idea of how a very adult film looks, sounds and spasms. 

- The Guardian

 

William Bujold à la recherche de la perle rare

À 26 ans seulement, William Bujold est déjà un pionnier de l’élevage des huîtres au Québec. Premier à commercialiser ce mollusque dans les eaux de la Gaspésie, cet amoureux de la mer compte bien faire déguster l’huître au-delà des fameux mois en « bre ».

- Le Devoir

 

Men Love Sluts: How the Fear of Bigger Penises Fuels Slut-Shaming

Sexual due diligence, penis metrics, dick discernment, and how the sexual shaming of women hurts both sexes.

In 1996 I was eighteen years old and had been a stripper for two years already. I hung out with a group of drug dealers, pimps, professional athletes, and a crew of four other strippers I booked for private dances with some of my rich and famous friends, who I met in the private gentlemen’s club where I worked daily double shifts. I’d been living on my own since I was sixteen years old and pulling in no less than a thousand dollars a day. I was a troubled teenage dropout, a runaway, and one hell of a hustler.

- Medium