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July 31, 2014 Marina Galperina

Let “K” show you how. Because who isn’t turned on by the idea of sitting naked in front of a rickety plastic ye olde computing machine, indulging in the cam-free web of anonymous eroticism, typing into an anonymous chat room: K: i’m very horny and im looking for some good cybersex are you interested? B: […]

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July 14, 2014 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Leah Schrager talks about the origins of her infamous performance project Naked Therapy, as well as German expressionist dance choreography, erotic photos and WordPress themes. Naked Therapy started as a proposal to the world on the […]

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June 26, 2014 Sophie Weiner

The new Bompas & Parr exhibit, FUNLAND: Pleasures And Perils Of The Erotic Fairground, is opening today at the Museum of Sex. The installations offer stimulations for all the senses, including a bouncy house made of massive boobs and something called “Grope Mountain.” There’s a mirrored “Tunnel of Love” that leads to a metaphorical g-spot […]

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June 12, 2014 Backdoor Pharmacist

There’s brownies, chocolate bars, butane hash oil, you can smoke, you can vape, now there’s another way to take cannabis, vaginally. Foria, made by a California collective The Aphrodite Group, has made a cannabis infused “sensual enhancement oil” that can purported enhance sexual pleasure. As “Stacy” says on a testimonial posted on their site: “I had […]

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May 13, 2014 Andy Cush

Yesterday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the NYPD will stop using condoms as evidence for prostitution arrests, a change advocates have been pushing for years. The policy shift will allow cops to continue using condoms as evidence in sex trafficking cases. “This is a reasonable approach to targeting the most at-risk community as it […]

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May 6, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Betty Dodson had been teaching workshops on masturbation and holding orgies in her apartment for forty years. Dodson, who wrote the seminal Sex For One in 1973, has re-emerged from retirement to enlighten the “post-Girls generation,” a group she thinks still needs a lot of help when it comes to exploring their own sexuality. Dodson, an NYC […]

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April 29, 2014 Andy Cush

As part of a kinda-infuriating, kinda-hilarious segment on how Beyoncé is to blame when black teenagers get pregnant, The O’Reilly Factor aired the above image of Queen Bey’s Butt. Taken from the “Partition” video, it shows Beyoncé from the back, wearing a sparkly, two-tiered black thong. Bill O’Reilly, in service of his simpleminded, condescending point — […]

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April 28, 2014 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Brooklyn and web-based performance artist and playwright Ann Hirsch speaks candidly about Twelve, a digital media piece inspired by her cybersexual preteen relationship with an older man, which was turned into an app and censored by Apple for […]

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Andy Cush

Good news: a bill that would prohibit prosecutors from using condoms as evidence against sex workers in New York has passed through the state Assembly and could soon get approval in the Senate. If passed, it would be the law of its kind in the U.S. Beyond simple discrimination, the practice of using condoms to […]

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April 7, 2014 Andy Cush

In 2001, a medical student figured out how to make you cum at the push of a button. Now, fifteen years later, he’s still struggling to find interest in his discovery. Stuart Meloy uncovered the magic touch while doing research on pain relief, but now hopes to use it to help women who have trouble climaxing. According […]

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