Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo: AP ESPN The Magazine’s Sam Alipour published a story about athletes using online dating today, and though the trend piece seems six months too late, the timeliness can be forgiven because of the anecdotes within. Athletes are just like us, in that they’re looking for people to hump. Unsurprisingly, the younger players are more…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Defending a Texas state law banning the sale of sex toys, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz argued in a 2007 court brief that individuals have no legal right to use them, even in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Prior to becoming a U.S. senator, Cruz was for more than five…
—David Corn on Wed. April 13, 2016 6:00 AM PDT /imgur In one chapter of his campaign book, A Time for Truth, Sen. Ted Cruz proudly chronicles his days as a Texas solicitor general, a post he held from 2003 to 2008. Bolstering his conservative cred, the Republican presidential candidate notes that during his stint…
Why Do You Think They Call It a Blow “Job”? There has been a lot of anxiety over the past couple of decades about teens and oral sex. Much of it can be traced back to the late 1990s, to a New York Times report that among middle-class teens, oral sex—and by “oral sex,” it…
Until very recently, the 27-year-old New Yorker who goes by the online alias Ricca was not a Star Wars fan. She’d seen the prequels at some point long ago; she didn’t sit down and watch the original trilogy until last year, when, she said, “it was no longer appropriate not to have seen them as…
The weirdest programme of 2013 was Sex Box, a Channel 4 show where people literally had sex in a box in front of a studio audience for some reason. channel4.com The show got terrible reviews and we all thought we would never see it again. Until now. Sex Box is back because according to their survey we are…
I’m 26, single, and four years removed from anything resembling a serious relationship. So I did what any solo twenty-something guy would do: I installed Tinder on my mom’s phone and asked her to find me a date. As me. It’s a warm late-summer night in New York’s West Village, and I’m on my way…
“1) I ‘dated’ a white girl during my freshman year at college who—during sex, hookups, etc.—would almost always use the adjective ‘black’ when describing, uh, my dick. Any and all dirty talk that included the word ‘dick’ would include ‘black’ as a descriptor. At the time, I didn’t really care, though, ’cause she was hot,…
When it comes to marriage, what you don’t know really can hurt you. Whether because of shyness, lack of interest or a desire to preserve romantic mystery, many couples do not ask each other the difficult questions that can help build the foundation for a stable marriage, according to relationship experts. In addition to wanting…
I understand the allure of the possible revelation that a world class stone thrower also abides in a glass house. But of all the reasons to be outraged about Ted Cruz, of all the nyah nyah nyah reasons to pick the guy apart, Friday’s explosive claims that the Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly cheated on…