A Chat with the Icelandic Politician Who Wants to Ban Porn
A Chat with the Icelandic Politician Who Wants to Ban Porn
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Midgaans and Ethiopians Are Fighting for Last Place in Somaliland
Above, the Jaylaani barbershop. Below to the left, a Gaboye in front of the shop. The Jaylaani barbershop in the center of Hargeisa, Somaliland, does good business. It’s nothing special as far as...
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Vaginas Are Ugly
Image via So I was reading about a student magazine that wanted to put photos of vaginas all over its front cover, and feeling all righteous and right-on about it, 'cos the people involved all sounded...
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Living the High Life in a Music Festival VIP Section
Music-festival season is almost over, and it seems like every town has their own version of the stereotypically debaucherous, overly expensive drug buffet. I had my heart set on covering the Calypso...
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Do Squeaky-Clean Child Pop Stars Even Matter Anymore?
I didn’t belong there. That fact was abundantly clear. If I wasn’t tipped off by the parents who winced at me dead-eyed as I stood behind their bedazzled progeny, it was probably the box-office clerk...
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Polyamory Is a Good Way to Be Slutty Without Hurting Anyone
Polyamory supporters in San Francisco. via WikiCommons. Tall, dark, and handsome. That’s the general idea of a perfect husband when you’re a little girl. You can’t really imagine what he’ll look like,...
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Bunheads
Lily wears I.D. Sarrieri bra and knickers, Charlie May skirt, American Apparel necklace, vintage ballet shoes PHOTOS: ROBERT HARPER STYLING: BERTIE BRANDES, CHARLOTTE ROBERTS Make-up: Philippe Miletto...
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How Do You Kill Giant Cats? Get Some Giant Dogs
Photo by Jake Weigl The animals in Australia’s Northern Territory tend to be bigger and stranger than wildlife elsewhere, so when reports emerged in June that thousands of feral cats, reportedly...
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Less Coca in Colombia Means Nothing for Your Supply
A coca leaf. Photo via According to a UN report released earlier this month, coca growing in Colombia is down by 25 percent. At first glance, the news appears to be either welcome—if you’re of the...
View ArticleThe US Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
The US Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
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We Are Not Men: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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Turkey and Greece Are Working Together to Punish Dissidents
Graffiti on the side of an ambulance during the recent unrest in Istanbul—which was caused, according to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, by disruptive foreign plotters. Photo via. While Turkey...
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I Joined NYC's Most Boring Cult
New York's SoHo neighborhood has plenty of art galleries, and it certainly has plenty of crazy people. But an art-gallery cult? The Terrain Gallery, owned by a group called the Aesthetic Realism...
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A Few Impressions: What We Talk About When We Talk About a Couple of Carver's...
Image by Courtney Nicholas Yesterday I was roasted for a Comedy Central program that will air on Labor Day. All the comics at the roast were great and seeing them perform their monologues amazed me. I...
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Teju Cole is Way Better at Twitter Than You
Image via I first read Teju Cole’s Open City on a boat somewhere in Kerala. It was a pretty chill place to read a super intense novel about cities (Brussels and New York) and especially to be chucked...
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Japan Is Opening Internet Fasting Camps Because 500,000 Students Are "Pathologically Addicted"
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The Armpit of the Internet: Will 3D Hentai Kill the Human Porn Star?
Collages by Sam Dwyer. Poke around the cum-stained corners of the internet’s vilest porn repositories, and you’ll find that it doesn’t get much filthier than cartoons. Freed of the body’s physical...
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The Quebec Government's Plan to Ban Religious Symbols May Be a Stroke of...
The Charter could ban religious symbols at public institutions, but this huge cross on Mount Royal in Montreal is OK? Image via Flickr Last week the Journal de Montreal dropped a bomb on Quebec’s...
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