Italian islands become 'sex pilgrimage' sites

They're pristine, wild and extremely hot -- and not just because of the high temperature and the stunning volcanic landscape with constant little eruptions.

Stromboli and Filicudi, two beautiful islands in Sicily's Aeolian archipelago, are believed by some to have magical, aphrodisiac powers ideal for those seeking -- or desperately trying to recover -- the ecstasy of passionate nights.

- CNN

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Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Anthony Catalano passed away suddenly on March 1st, 2014. He was 54. Thanks to his surviving brother, John Catalano, we can see Anthony’s terrific photographs and Kodachromes of what life was like for the boys in the 1970s.

- Flashbak

 

Rimming Was Everywhere in the Middle Ages, but Not for the Reason You Think

In 1998, President Clinton announced to the world in his State of the Union address that he never had “sexual relations” with intern Monica Lewinsky. When pressed on the matter later that year he admitted that there had been an “improper physical relationship” with Ms. Lewinsky, but defended his position on the matter on the basis that while she had performed fellatio on him he had not reciprocated and thus had not “had sex” with her. Clinton’s hair-splitting argument prompted a national debate about what actually constitutes sex.

- The Daily Beast

 

Blue sky thinking: is it time to stop work taking over our lives?

Anthropologist James Suzman says now is the perfect time to rein in our unsustainable work habits. But is it possible?

Three encounters loom large in the anthropologist James Suzman’s memory of his brief but informative stint in the corporate world. The first was early on, when he told a colleague that he didn’t need to spend the half-million pounds allocated for a task because he could do it for free. His colleague was horrified. “If you don’t spend your budget,” he said, “they won’t think we’re doing anything!”

- The Guardian

 

Vivian Maier: The elusive genius who hid herself away

An exhibition in Amsterdam celebrates the work of a nanny who has come to be recognised as a master photographer. 

It was the kind of discovery that curators dream about during slow days at the museum. In 2007, a Chicago history buff named John Maloof bought a box full of negatives on a whim at auction for $400. Sorting through them, he realised he’d stumbled across something astonishing: charismatic, crisply composed pictures of the city in the 1950s and 60s, which ranked with the best US street photographs of the period. Not only had none of these images been seen before, no one had a clue who had taken them.

- BBC

 

L’intermède lumineux de Josée Blanchette

La sexualité, la spiritualité. L’amour, l’ayahuasca.Le gin, les copines. Dans Mon (jeune) amant français, on retrouve les sujets qui ont parcouru les écrits de Josée Blanchette. Et qu’embrasse maintenant Jeanne, la protagoniste de son roman, qui le rencontre, cet amant de trente ans, sur une piste de danse. Dans une soirée de swing, comme celles qu’affectionne la chroniqueuse du Devoir. « On part avec ce qu’on vit, ce qu’on est, ce qui nous allume. Je n’ai pas tout fait, là. Non. Non. Mais Jeanne a fait ben des affaires. »

- Le Devoir

 

THE AFTERLIFE OF THE MALE MODEL

What happens to young men when they quit the modeling industry? While some exit the business gracefully, others take a nose dive, only to find salvation at the Cheesecake Factory.

- MEL

 

The Love Story We All Need Right Now

In 2010, the renowned nature filmmaker Craig Foster started free diving in the icy, brutal ocean waters off the Western Cape of South Africa. He was suffering from debilitating burnout and adrenal fatigue and was desperate for “radical change” — but unsure what shape it might come in. Then it arrived in the form of a speckled, eggplant-hued octopus. After their first encounter — both of them under the sea, she so expertly camouflaged beneath a pile of abandoned shells that even the surrounding fish were perplexed — he was so mesmerized that he resolved to visit her every day. The resulting Netflix original documentary, My Octopus Teacher, chronicles the yearlong relationship between man and cephalopod.

- The Cut

Le dernier cinéma porno de Rome résiste

Il a survécu à la pornographie accessible à tous sur l’internet, mais résistera-t-il à la COVID ? Le dernier cinéma porno de Rome, l’Ambasciatori, continue contre vents et marées à projeter ses films « sexy » des années 80, pour le plus grand plaisir de ses clients.

- La Presse

Caught unawares: intimate glimpses of friends, strangers and lovers - in pictures

Amateur photographer Alberto di Lenardo’s work was, for many years, hidden away in a secret room. Now the unguarded moments he captured are being published in An Attic Full of Trains.

- The Guardian

A Real Hotwife Doesn’t Let Her Husband Watch

Harry’s wife Anne was a staunch feminist. When she learned that Harry wanted her to cuckold him, she was adamant: 

“Sure, I’ll cuckold you,” she said. “But I’ll be damned if I’ll let you watch. What do you think I am, your own personal porn star?”

“No, I’m sorry,” Harry replied, chastened. “I get it. I have no right to use you for my own prurient, voyeuristic satisfaction. You absolutely should cuckold me, though, because that’s what I want.”

- My Erotica

Sun-soaked snapshots - Adventures across Europe in the 1970s and ’80s

Photographer Sergio Purtell spent years travelling the continent at length, capturing a romantic world of motels, cafes, beaches and bars.

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Your Life Is Full of Porn. Stop Getting Yourself Off

You’re consuming porn daily and you don’t even know it. It’s just not worth being addicted anymore. Porn ruins lives. And you don’t need to be a porno star on viagra to witness its devastating effects.

What is porn? Porn is what I call addictive habits. These habits are like porn because they start off as small and end up curtailing out of control if you let them.

- Medium