online archive
4:00PM
NOV 29 2007
Why aren’t all people beautiful?
From Nerve, a look at how Alfred Kinsey's own sex life changed American culture, and an article on the erotic appeal of the Lands' End catalog. From Jewcy, a brief encounter with America's best sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Mating in captivity: An article on reconciling the erotic and the domestic. A review of Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy. Midwestern Kink: Dry academia—and slightly wetter hotel antics—at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Why aren’t all people beautiful?: Maybe the genes that make hot males make distinctly un-hot females. Don’t Blame It on Rio: The porn star Vanessa Del Rio burned herself into the corneas of masses of American males now in their 30s and 40s. Why do men like porn more? Studies of monkeys offer insight. No real sex please, we're ironic: Neither our literary elite nor our popular culture displays a serious attitude to sex. Flaccid prose: Modern literature doesn't do erotica very well — thankfully the Bad Sex awards exist to warn us of the worst offenders — and Norman Mailer wins it.
