a travelogue
Photos, books, links and writing related to sex
Everything tagged sex
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05/24/07
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The Birth Control of Yesteryear
Old news if you know anything about Greek history or alternative medicine, but I’ve never linked to it before, so what the heck. From Damn Interesting: “Approximately 2,600 years ago — around 630 BCE — the Greek island of Thera …continue reading »
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05/24/07
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Stilton Launch Blue Cheese Perfume
This sounds so damn wrong, but the makers of the famously pungent Stilton blue cheese have launched their own perfume. Oh yes, and it is apparently, “an eminently wearable perfume.” I dunno as much as I like Stilton I don’t …continue reading »
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04/30/07
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New York Times Magazine: A Disciplined Business
Interesting behind the scenes look at an internet porn company in this weekends Times’ magazine. Nice that it avoids some of the pratfalls of most porn articles I’ve seen, but then again it still buys the industry’s numbers which have …continue reading »
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04/02/07
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Paul Rudnick’s Naughty Bedtime Stories And the NSFW Bogeyman
“Who’s afraid of naughty words? Not The New Yorker this week, but it made me wonder what would happen if I, a simple blograt, ran the same darn thing: ‘A children’s book that included the word “scrotum” was recently the …continue reading »
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03/20/07
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Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S and UK 1815-1914
The public fascination with the human drama of the courtroom did not begin with Perry Mason or Court TV. Cases involving the relationships between men and women, within or outside the bonds of marriage, have long engaged the popular imagination. …continue reading »
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01/09/07
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Black Tie Optional - New York Times
“Naked parties on campus are more an experiment in social interaction than a sexual experience - Lighted only by tea candles, the party had the afterglow of a literary reading: Students chatted in small groups, drifting toward the darkest parts …continue reading »
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07/21/06
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Vietnamese Sex Ed
“The straight-laced government of communist-run Vietnam, where pornographic Web sites are banned, plans to offer downloadable movies on an Internet site to educate married couples”continue reading »
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05/17/06
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Britain’s Secret Sex Survey
The Kinsey Report of 1948 famously lifted the lid on American sexual behaviour. But when a similar study was conducted in Britain the following year, the findings were so outrageous they were suppressed. Only now have they been revealed. The …continue reading »
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05/17/06
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Sex in the Stone Age: Pornography in Clay - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE
New pornographic figurines from the Stone Age have been discovered in Germany. But researchers can’t agree on what the 7,000-year-old sculptures mean. Were our ancestors uninhibited sex fiends, or was reproduction strictly controlled to improve mobility? An increasing number of …continue reading »