Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Had there been a male contraceptive pill in 1976, I probably wouldn’t be here to write this. That was the year when, after my mum–may she rest in peace–had been on the pill for 12 years, health worries made her doctor tell her to come off it. “She said to the doctor, ‘I’ll get pregnant’,”…
Pokémon Go, the addictive game that makes users walk around their neighborhoods to catch Pokémon, already has been installed on phones more often than Tinder. And it turns out that the ’90s nostalgia fest is a pretty good dating app by itself. Pokémon Go combines the randomness of meeting people in a bar, but adds…
It was only a couple of decades ago, before WiFi or the static death shriek of dial-up modems, that fetishes were hard-won secrets. The porno most of us stumbled across in our formative pubescence – a Playboy left on a rural Greyhound bus, or a waterlogged bodice-ripper in a back-alley dumpster – was all hard…
Last week, a corner of the internet went 100 percent gorillashit over a tweet comparing Taylor Swift’s vagina to a messy ham sandwich. And why shouldn’t it? It is gold-standard content, delightfully shocking and utterly insane. Several times that day, I returned to the tweet, pleasantly agog. But other people saw something more sinister in…
As you might imagine, a porn star takes her lingerie drawer very seriously. “This is the working lingerie desk,” says Stoya, gesturing to a vintage-looking writing desk in her Brooklyn apartment. “It’s for sets that are special for me but haven’t been shot, things I haven’t worn on-camera. They live here.” Up the staircase…
Photo Credit Paul Rogers Christopher Beemer, a 75-year-old Brooklynite, is impressed with how well his wife, Carol, maintains friendships with other women and wonders why this valuable benefit to health and longevity “doesn’t come so easily to men.” Among various studies linking friendships to well-being in one’s later years, the 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of…
How does drinking affect your dating life? Slo Down Wines pulls back the covers to find out. Does your date become more attractive after a little (or a lot) of booze? Does a glass of wine make you want to take your pants off and dim the lights? Does getting buzzed prevent you from getting…
Here are 16 babies, six short of our sperm donor’s full count.Thinkstock Never has a subject been more deserving of New York Post coverage than Ari Nagel, the Brooklyn man who graced the cover of the tabloid over the weekend with the headline “Great Balls of Sire: NY prof donates free sperm in public…
“If you want to create jobs, you can’t just focus on Silicon Valley, New York and Boston,” AOL founder and billionaire Steve Case told Recode earlier this year. “And you can’t just focus on tech, you have to focus on other sectors.” Now Case is pulled together the dollars to further test that thesis, Forbes…
T are many things that we do in this life simply because we are required to, such as going to the dentist and telling people their babies are cute even though they look like someone tried to make a hand puppet out of a yam. Performing a sex act that you’re not suuuuuuper into just…