With how many people did people used to sleep? It’s hard to tell. Language changes, and there’s the problem of bragging. Take the French. Stendhal in his treatise on love is expansive on the seduction strategies of his friends (hide under the bed; announce yourself so late in the night that kicking you out would [...]
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Harper’s have started posting a lot more of their content online. I wonder if this is connected to Lapham’s handing over editorial responsibility? Anyway, here’s an interesting piece on the mail order bride business:
Shyly, slyly, hopefully, the men around the table smiled; these damaged guys, so desperate to believe.
In one form or another, the [...]
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Getting all Tom Wolfe on your ass for a second…
Since YouTube doesn’t have immediate review of uploaded videos (unlike Google video), it has a ton of home made softcore porn. There seem to be at least two main categories – hot girl strips, and hot girls kiss. There is definitely some sort of editorial control, [...]
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Not really too surprising, but interesting nonetheless.
Having a lot of money is good for attracting e-mail messages, at least for men. Those men reporting incomes in excess of $250,000 received 156 percent more e-mail messages than those with incomes below $50,000. Women like men with a higher income than they have but men do not [...]
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Interesting contrast:
An Australian teacher has been jailed for six months for repeatedly having sex with a 15-year-old student. A lower court had given Karen Louise Ellis a 22-month suspended sentence after she pleaded guilty on six counts of having sex with the teenager – but an appeal court overturned that decision on Thursday. The judge [...]
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
What is being sold in the showroom of Sapphire is not a car but … what exactly? Sexual arousal? That can be had for far less with a few clicks of the remote back at the hotel. What your $20 gets you is, yes, the closer approximation of sex, the physical presence of the woman, [...]