A Bollywood starlet has become the first Indian woman to pose nude for Playboy, sparking a wave of criticism in her home country where the magazine is banned. Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will appear in the November issue. However, a series of teasing interviews has provoked a round of condemnation from women’s rights activists who…
Everyone loves smut, says Patty Marks of Ellora’s Cave, who turned kinky fiction into millions before E.L. James It might seem that women reading super-smutty romance novels is a new phenomenon, thanks to deafening buzz around the series whose name cannot be spoken. (Fine, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” There! I said it.) But to Patty…
It was a huge surprise that Julian Assange suddenly checked into the Embassy of República del Ecuador in London. The twitter reaction from leading Swedish media personalities, in the midst of a Football match, was predictably myopic – and as nationalistic as Football. The picture that came into their minds was that of an…
What would you do for free food? More than 200 naked shoppers flocked to a German supermarket in hopes of snagging some free groceries last week. The store, located in the city of Süderlügum, offered to treat the first hundred shoppers to up to $276 worth of items if they came wearing only their birthday…
Op-Ed: Moroccan author and political scientist offers a subtle thesis: sexual repression is a gateway to corruption and political repression. Secret love in Marrakesh (Emanuele UbO) By Omar Saghi* LE SOIR/WORLDCRUNCH CASABLANCA – The link between sexual repression and political repression might seem like a stretch. And yet there is a clear connection between the…
Fighting for no reason—how we’re hard-wired to be hostile I’ve been doing a lot of reading about relational psychology, and one fascinating chapter from a book on non-verbal communication which mentions that one of the predictors of a satisfying relationship is the ability to successfully read (or “decode”) the emotions of your partner. Let’s be…
Author Katie Roiphe and her novel 50 Shades Of Grey has swept the nation and the book itself is on Kindle, which only adds to the feeding frenzy for the movie rights. More digital ink has been spilled on love novels for women and their sexual desires than any other genre The…
Get ready to see Debra Messing, Maria Menounos, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, and Morena Baccarin like you’ve never seen them before — completely nude! The gorgeous stars all posed in the buff for Allure‘s annual celebrity nudes portfolio, which also features Heidi Klum topless on the May cover. Debra Messing (Patrick Demarchelier/ALLURE) “Smash”…
We’ve all been there. Agence France-Presse reports that a German man in Munich allegedly had to flee to the police after a woman demanded too much sex. After several amicably agreed upon rolls in the hay, the man reportedly tried to leave the woman’s apartment. But she wouldn’t let him exit…