Sex
On a night not
unlike any other Thursday in Gotham, 2 intrepid women made their way to the
impressively vast third floor of Barnes & Noble at Union Square. On this
night, however, the escalators, and aisles were a-buzz with women. And
interestingly there was no succinct, neat demographic to be found. Women in
their 50s were chatting with nineteen-year-olds who were giggling with college
girls eavesdropping on graduate students....
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 08:52
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On my way to meet my dog walker Wednesday
at 7:45 a.m., the umbrella I’d bought from the kiosk snapped and transformed
into a suspicious weapon. The innocent
metal spokes were naked and alarming, and I
was reminded of a guy who’d once implored me to make sure I didn't
poke someone’s eye out with a very similar tangled but innocuous shield. As a New Yorker, I am hopefully a
little savvier and have learned to navigate wet...
Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 21:20
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Is eavesdropping
the auditory equivalent of voyeurism? Eavesdropping is done without the
listened-to parties' consent. What about when the listened-to wants, in fact,
desires you to listen? We are undoubtedly a fiercely visual species, but what
would porn be like without the requisite grunting and moaning, the
"dirty-talk" and revved up elevator Muzak?
We are all well
acquainted with life in the fishbowl and the attendant charms...
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 10:01
Bose | CIA | Culinary Institute of America | Eavesdropping | erotica | exhibitionists | Gorilla Cafe | Intimate Details | Listening In | Metro North | Personal Space | Porn | selective hearing | Sex | Sex Lives | Voyeurism | Voyeurs
Newsweek's April 23 – 30
edition featured a soft-core bondage cover: an artfully coiffed, red-lipped woman with her eyes covered by a black silk blindfold. Naked, near
ecstasy and happily not in control of her fate, the woman is the picture
of acquiescent abandon.
The story accompanying the
highly stylized image is titled: "The Fantasy Life of Working Women:
Why Surrender is a Feminist dream."
I read the article with equal measure of...
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 09:44
Fantasy | Feminism | Fifty Shades of Grey | Freud | Girls | Gloria Steinem | HBO | Katie Roiphe | Neo-Con | Newsweek | poly-morphously perverse | Polyperverse | Powerful Women | sadomasochism | sexual behavior | Sexual Fantasy | Sheila Nevins | Spanking | The Fantasy Life of Working Women | Working Women
Erotica - Literature
or art intended to arouse sexual desire
Porn – a/k/a Pornography Printed
or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual
organs or activity.
The line between
Erotica and Porn is a wavering one. It's a line that has been
crossed and re-crossed, drawn over an over by a culture that never stops
progressing and regressing and progressing again. Bawdy in 1840 was nothing
compared with...
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 09:22
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"Where's the sweet
young thing who I normally get" a voice bellowed as the glass doors swung
open to the otherwise brilliantly silent nail salon. The elegant salutation was
met by chorus of giggles from the all-Asian young women dutifully manicuring
their clientele.
"She's with another
customer right now sir," the gentleman behind the reception desk politely
responded.
"I didn't give her
permission!" the voice quipped with the...
Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 10:27
Last Sunday at Alice’s Tea
Cup I visited with a lovely couple from Washington D.C. who were in town
meeting with representatives regarding the upcoming 2012 Stop Modern Slavery (SMS) walk. Savoring each bite of Alice’s fresh
buttermilk and pumpkin scones, I admired merchandise samples my
friends had received from Nomi Network.
Nomi is a non-profit based in New York City “dedicated to breaking the
cycle of poverty that is...
Saturday, April 7, 2012 - 08:43
2012 Stop Modern Slavery | Alice's Tea Cup | anti-human trafficking initiatives | Backpage.com | Child Sex Trafficking | Goldam Sachs | Human Trafficking | New York Cafes | Nicholas D. Kristof | NOMI Network | NY Times | Polaris Project | Prostitution | Restore | Safe Horizon | Scones | Sex Slavery | Sex Trafficking | Stop Human Trafficking | The Good Man Project | The Village Voice | Tom Matlack | Village Voice Media
On
Thursday evening, Wall Street was slamming with an after work crowd polished in
Giorgio Armani suits, Prada shoes and Marc Jacobs handbags. A good friend of
mine and myself met at Harry’s Bar for a drink to talk business and browse the
available and unavailable men. Perched at the bar wearing high
heals and J'adore perfume, I was struck by how many more men than woman there were mingling amongst themselves; ...
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 10:19
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Take a
pinch of outspoken feminism; add a dash of brilliant English professor, a
splash of classic studio movie star. Stir ingredients with revolutionary spirit
and outrageous heart. When the mix is brimming with poetic wisdom and a deep
energetic sexuality, cool to taste. You have just experienced Erica Jong.
You can
have all of her and more by delving into the pages of her first anthology
Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write...
Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 09:42
There is
something charming in the fact that the least sexy of all holidays, is the
holiday during which most people find themselves falling lustfully into bed;
albeit with someone they may not remember the next day.
Green clothes,
shiny-green paper top hats, clovers abounding, booze breath by noon … HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY NYC! It is the day
the bars overflow, the streets are filled with screaming drunken kids, the
garbage -cans are...
Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 09:34
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