In authoring this pioneering feminist manifesto, Friedan helped to unleash too long stifled dialogues surround the patriarchal subordination of women in Western society. Though the feminist community's ideologies continue to evolve more nuanced and inclusive, none can refute the historical influence that this landmark testament maintains.
A lady never kisses and tells. A "hustler"—by contrast—is likely to spill several juicy beans, as Bowers does within this behind the screens peak at the Hollywood Golden Era's most elicit sexcapades. Odds are 5 to 1 that the only thing dropping faster than a world-famous matinee idol's trousers will be your jaw.
Skene Johnson combs a myriad of scientific fields in order to discern just what makes us sexually "tick", along the way affirming our propensity to "tock" as uniquely differentiated individuals. A magnifying glass is cast upon gender, sexual orientation, and practice revealing that the devil—if not the delight—is indeed in the details.
Nagoski uses the pharmaceutical industry's quest for the "female viagra" pill as a point of departure for her consideration of how womens' sexualities differ not only from mens', but from each others. Ultimately, her finding affirm each woman's innately individual sexual "fingerprint".
Perhaps his reluctance to eat your dish has less to do with his appetite and more to do with his fine dining inexperience; consider that meal presentations can be rather elaborate, cutlery potentially foreign, and serving-sizes run the gamut from modest to generous. Don't 86 the whole shebang: an opportunity to explore Ian Kerner's dinnertime primer—familiarizing himself with some choice recipes for success—will undoubtedly have him ordering up a 2nd and 3rd course.
Though our innate senses of gender reside within, the overwhelming dominance of cultural programing can often make discerning them exceedingly challenging. Testa has devised this course of exercises with the objective of elucidating for individuals the nuances of their personal gender identity that might otherwise go ignored or obscured.
Until relatively recently, the journey to gender affirmation remained a largely uncharted path for many. In this memoir, Rain Hill recounts how early childhood gender dysphoria lead to multiple attempts at taking her own life, before she realized her authentic self deserved and could have an opportunity to not only live...but thrive!
Unmistakeable not only in her singular brand of haute-burlesque performance, but her honing of an aesthetic-of-self so meticulous it cannot be duplicated, Von Teese pulls back the velvet curtain to share some her the beauty tricks-of-the-trade. This icon's goal is never to make you over in her image, but rather to grant you magically transformative tools allowing you to realize an amplified one all of your own.
Lifetimes before matching a "right swipe" provided listless men with the opportunity for casual coitus, Los Angeles' brothels and bordellos thrived amid a Hollywood that was yet to fully form. Our site's own Madame, Liz Goldwyn constructs a fiction (based largely on actual events encountered within her extensive research) of flop houses, feathered lamps, and fast cash for love. This was how the West was done.
A flash of shoulder revealed then covered, a shimmy of the hips executed to tantalize without telling the entire story; burlesque is as much about what you conceal as it as about what you reveal. Our own founder, Liz Goldwyn profiles the performance genre's twilight luminaries in this captivating study of the performative tease.
Mookerjee reexamines the Hindu goddess Kali—often viewed as warring and vengeful—in a less explored context of benevolent femininity, rich in nurturing and mercurial spirituality. Paintings, sculptures, and scripture inform a new visualization of the too-often misinterpreted feminine divine.
