The Eight Day Week
Wednesday 23rd Wilhelmina or won’tchemina? This was supposed to be the day on which Vagina Monologue -ist Eve Ensler discussed the “current state of activism among younger women” (i.e.,...
View ArticleFeeble Assault Backfires- Let Fans of Porn Rejoice
What kind of person is arrogant enough to believe that, for the good of society, our sexual fantasies should be policed? In Pornified, Pamela Paul jumps on that tired old horse named Pornography Is...
View ArticleFeeble Assault Backfires— Let Fans of Porn Rejoice
What kind of person is arrogant enough to believe that, for the good of society, our sexual fantasies should be policed? In Pornified, Pamela Paul jumps on that tired old horse named Pornography Is...
View ArticleKitschy, Kitschy Coo: The Cost of Coddling Kids
PARENTING, INC.: HOW WE ARE SOLD ON $800 STROLLERS, FETAL EDUCATION, BABY SIGN LANGUAGE, SLEEPING COACHES, TODDLER COUTURE, AND DIAPER WIPE WARMERS—AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR CHILDREN By Pamela Paul...
View ArticleDetails Discovers Masturbation
Add another trend piece to the ever-growing ‘Internet Porn Addiction Ruins Relationships’ canon. This month, Details‘ Em & Lo offer Jerking Off Is the New Infidelity (subhed: "Is your secret habit...
View ArticleThe Times’s New Culture Club
Clockwise: Sia Michel, Julie Bloom, Danielle Mattoon, Pamela Paul Last month, The New York Times culture section held a version of an “upfront”—the television-industry mainstay where advertisers gather...
View ArticleMorning Media Mix: Kara Swisher, Feared and Well-Liked
Kara Swisher (image via Twitter) “The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin, where she’d come for the SXSW Interactive conference,...
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