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9 May

Dipetsa’s second collection explores the sexuality of the maternal

The Water Broke is the second chapter of Dimitra Petsa’s WETNESS project What goes through your mind while you see a pregnant body. What associations, thoughts, feelings, emotions are conjured up for you in that moment? Are they ones of purity? Or sexualisation? The Virgin Mary or the MILF category of Pornhub?  That is the query designer Dimitra Petsa is exploring along with her latest collection, The Water Broke, the second chapter in her Wetness project which takes as its themes bodily fluids, femininity, maternity, and the malleability of the feminine form. “The feminine body continually changes,” says Petsa. “Its physical form may be very fluid, depending on where you might be in your...
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28 Mar

Christina Aguilera Opens Up About Dealing With “Male Opinions”

Until recently, it was enough to be a critically acclaimed recording artist, a one-woman corporation reporting year-over-year revenue growth, and a pop icon without hyperbole. From today on, along with the opposite duties involved in being Christina Aguilerashe is going to assume one other role she was born to play: cofounder and chief brand advisor of Playgrounda boutique range of non-public lubricants intended to raise sexual health. Subtract petrochemicals and shame; add skin-care ingredients and the word "wellness." Founded in 2022 by beauty commerce veteran Catherine Magee and product development expert Sandy Vukovic, Playground's ambitions scale well beyond 3.7 fluid ounces. The brand's tagline is "Up for fun, down for anything," which can explain the choice to bring on an...
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1 Oct

Tevin Campbell Opens Up About His Sexuality: ‘You Just

Tevin Campbell recently opened up about his life and profession in a way we haven’t heard the ’90s heartthrob speak before. In a candid conversation on the PEOPLE Every Day podcast, the R&B singer talked concerning the image he was forced to lean into as a youngster within the music industry and the way what was portrayed was removed from his reality. “I don’t think the sex symbol thing worked, however the love songs last,” the 45-year-old said talking to the packaging of his successful debut album T.E.V.I.N. in 1991 and I’m Ready in 1993. “I had no idea on the time, like after I was 15 or 16 recording [‘Can We Talk’] that it might have that impact,” he added. “I used to be...
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25 Sep

A Black Girl’s Guide To Owning Your Sensuality And

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