Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
News Flash: The Power Lunch — where deals are made, influence is peddled and relationships are forged — is alive and swell. That might be surprising, given a decade that saw the midday meal leveled by corporate downsizing, rocked by the recession and undermined by an increasingly digital mind-set that often regards a constant…
(Credit: VLADGRIN via Shutterstock) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry’s penis has an argument with his brain and loses? It’s a classic: We’ve all been torn between love/lust and logic. (If you haven’t, check for a belly button because this isn’t your home world.) This brilliant bit of comedy…
Kristin M. Jones Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution ‘If you poured water on each frame, it would become a novel,’ Gloria Steinem said with wonder during her introduction to a recent screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution (2010), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It seemed an apt description of…
The new wave of Arab supermodels Hind Sahli joined her first modelling agency in 2008 Arab supermodels are making a name for themselves in the fashion industry, and are changing the way Arab women are perceived by the rest of the world. Hind Sahli is from Morocco, has been modelling for a couple of years…
Is Make-Up Sex ‘The Best Sex You’ll Ever Have’? (VIDEO) HuffPost Women associate editor Emma Gray’s recent post “15 Types Of Sex You Have In Your 20s” sparked a debate over what defines good sex and whether monogamy…
American filmmaker and critic of the US war machine says the ex-general is not worthy of unreserved support US, former top general, David Petraeus, resigned from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – the media quickly calling it a fall from grace. This happened…
A real-life experiment is playing out in front of computer screens all over the world, as millions of people regularly consume porn. Scientists, who have begun to study the potential consequences, are divided. One person to have addressed the issue very openly is advertising maven Cindy Gallop. During a TED conferencein Monterrey, California, 49-year-old…
virgins Oct 24, 2012 8:16 PM 3,132 Brazilian Woman Sells Virginity for $780,000 Taylor Berman A month-long auction for 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini’s virginity ended this morning when a Japanese man called Natsu bid $780,000 for the “date,” as the NY Daily News calls it. The auction/generally repulsive publicity stunt is part of an Australian…