From Ancient Rome to 304Tok: A brief history of

3 Jun

A post on X asking for perfume recommendations to “smell like a French whore” recently went viral, garnering 50,000 likes and a flood of replies suggesting perfumes heavy with animalic notes and overpowering florals. While provocative, the idea isn’t new. The link between scent and sex work runs deep. In A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman notes how many slang terms for sex worker – like the French putain and Italian puttana – derive from the root pu, meaning “to rot” or “decay” (as in putrid), reflecting a long history of associating sex workers’ bodies with foul odours. In Ancient Rome, brothels, or lupanaria (“wolf dens”) were sensorially overwhelming: cramped, poorly ventilated, the air thick with smoke from oil lamps,...

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16 Aug

Groove Thing is a musical sex toy that creates

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Groove Thing is a musical sex toy that creates

A new sex toy has been compared to the feeling of being in a club and putting your hand on a sound system – that deep, carnal pounding that hits your chest as your hand touches the metal grate, the sound reverberating across your outstretched limb, through the skin, and into you. Remove the crowd, cut the strobes, and amplify the sensation – and you’ve got Groove Thing, the sex toy that creates a “concert inside your body”. Who would want that, you might ask? Well, it turns out, a lot of people. The latest venture from Michael Weiss-Malik and Elizabeth Dell, Groove Thing is already causing a buzz in the sextech sphere. The product’s Kickstarter reached its goal in just...

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16 Nov

Is anyone having sex after their 12-step evening time

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Is anyone having sex after their 12-step evening time

The girl in my phone is pulling a small piece of black tape off her lips, smiling as she wiggles it in front of the camera. She undoes the clasp of a chin strap fastened in the back of her head. She peels off glistening overnight masks: one on her brow, and one under each eye. She shakes free a mass of curly hair from a baby pink silk bonnet, rubs an oil into her roots, tells her audience she’s about to have an “all the things shower”. That is the ‘morning shed’: the strategy of removing beauty products and coverings which have been worn overnight. On TikTok, videos in regards to the morning shed have racked up tens of millions...

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26 Sep

10 of the most well liked Instagram accounts fusing

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10 of the most well liked Instagram accounts fusing

The flesh-baring accounts you wish to follow17 Images Instagram’s notorious censorship rules have alienated many artists from the app, with anything deemed too revealing or sexual in nature – infamously including women’s, but not men’s, nipples – banned from the feed. But despite the questionable regulations, today IG stays a spot of creativity, connection and discovery. For the artists and designers who use the body of their work, specifically the feminine form, creative solutions have been made to search out a approach to skirt the road between the erotic and the express – sliding (mostly) past IG’s watchful eye while doing so. Below, try the accounts to follow for flesh-baring and bodies at their best. THE HOTTEST INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS JADE O’BELLE Jade O’Belle, model, artist, creative...

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