jss | May 13, 2009
The New York Times today is showing a picture of ” huge, projecting breasts and sexually explicit genitalia.”
I guess it’s OK when the photo is of ivory carvings that are more than 35,000 years old.
Ancient Figurine of Voluptuous Woman Is Found
Funny ol’ Times.
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Tags: breasts, Full Body Project, genitalia, Leonard Nimoy, new york times, nudity
jss | April 27, 2009
The New York Times today features AQTH, a company in Pakistan that has carved out a niche in the $3 billion Western market for fetishwear and bondage gear.
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jss | March 14, 2009
Sunday Styles, indeed. Maybe The Times should stop trying to shoehorn sexuality stories into parts of the paper and, periodically, just run a sexuality section. It would no doubt be the best-read part of the newspaper.
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jss | February 26, 2009
My source of frustration … stems from the taboo that extends, obviously, even to hedonistic New York City. That even Miss Wanda asks that her enterprise not be recognized … that she does not want her real name in the newspaper, associated with her sex club … will say, to many readers, that she is ashamed of what she does.
Which she undoubtedly is not.
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Tags: Alan Feuer, Brooklyn, Casbar, Gothamist, Keokuk, Miss Wanda, new york times, sex blog, sex club, swingers, Tuscaloosa
jss | January 23, 2009
Under the … less turgid … headline (than mine) of What Do Women Want?, The New York Times Sunday Magazine this week allows contributing writer and author Daniel Bergner to delve into the current state of scientific research into what turns women on, sexually. “What do women want?” seems like a larger and even more unanswerable question, bringing, as it does, shoes and chocolate into the range of choices, rather than keeping more strictly to perhaps baser instincts and desires.
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Tags: arousal, Daniel Bergner, female desire, hypothalamus, Julia Heiman, Kinsey Institute, lust, Marta Meana, Meredith Chivers, new york times, orgasm, times sunday magazine
jss | January 21, 2009
The Bush administration had flogged this particular dead horse for years (my apologies for that graphic cliche, but the Bushies always seemed more at home with gratuitous violence than they did with sex.) My only regret is that now we’ll never know if an Obama Justice Department would have pulled away from supporting COPA …
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Tags: child online protection, Constitution, COPA, David Stout, federal appeals court, free speech victory, internet porn, into temptation, new york times, Obama, pornography, President Bill Clinton, SCOTUS, sex, Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme