Playboy Sex & Culture – Spoken Edition

It says a lot about the Trump era’s dislocations that liberals—in the space of one weekend—went from hailing the Parkland kids as America’s last, best hope, to hungrily fantasizing that Stormy Daniels’ interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes was going to blow up the MAGA Death Star for good. On Saturday, Emma Gonzalez, her cohorts and the movement they’ve launched, lived up to those expectations and then some.

After Ezell Ford was shot by police in 2014, a group of activists held an 18-day occupation at LAPD headquarters. One of them was Shamell Bell, a dancer and community activist who is now a PhD candidate at UCLA. She says being there day and night, and dealing with constant police harassment, took its toll on the protestors. In an effort to uplift everyone’s morale, she made a suggestion. “I said, ‘Let’s do something that’s going to make us happy.

When one casually strolls down the drug store aisle of condoms and lubes, they’re likely entering the experience with little knowledge. When choosing from the selection of boxes strung side by side, we’ll usually stop on the most colorful package promoting something flashy like an “intense tingle,“ then casually toss it in our carts, along with unnecessarily large condoms so the cashier knows what’s up. (Wink, wink.) This is the wrong way to approach lubricants.

As a sex researcher, I’ve grown accustomed to seeing my work discussed in the media. After all, sex is a subject about which almost everyone is intensely curious. However, the tone that has greeted my work and the work of my colleagues has begun to change. It has gotten downright scary, reaching the point where at least one sex scientist I know regularly relocates her research lab to unannounced locations.

Denying, or at best downgrading, Russian interference in the 2016 election while attacking Barack Obama’s failure to interfere with Russia’s nonexistent (or maybe just irrelevant) interference is classic Donald Trump.

Before Netflix rebooted Queer Eye this year, I had never watched an episode of the original, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. When that series premiered in 2003, gay men were rarely represented on television as anything more than a token, much less the faces of an entire series. Back then, the general opinion, at least where I was raised, was that the media was “shoving homosexuality down our throats”; alongside Will & Grace, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy was a chief culprit.

A father, the patriarch of the family, goes by many monikers: dad, papa, pop, you get the idea. But one particular designation has become something of a staple, particularly when it comes to sexual vernacular. The name that I speak of is “daddy,” and from what I hear, some men love it, while others regard it as an instant boner-killer because, well, incest.

Dianne Feinstein has been a U.S. Senator from California for longer than frappucino has been a beverage or Jurassic Park has been a movie franchise. While it’s an understatement to say she’s never been beloved, she can usually count on being able to command respect. Among her other accomplishments, Feinstein authored the only assault-weapons ban ever to become federal law, even though it expired in 2004.

“There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Slaughterhouse-Five half a century ago. Every time another school shooting fills America’s screens, Republican (and some Democratic) legislators in the NRA’s pocket have done their best to prove Vonnegut right, starting with a terminology that makes them resemble crash-test dummies temporarily granted very limited powers of speech.

You had a long day at work. You come home, kick off your shoes and speed-walk to the fridge. There you are: hungry, bordering on starving, in front a beautiful fully stocked fridge. The options are endless, yet you reach for the Cool Ranch Doritos in the pantry. Why? Because you’re ravenous. By the time you would have prepared a proper meal, you’ll have withered away to nothing. What does this have to do with sex? Let me explain.

Following an 11-year effort, the Global Association of International Sports Federations finally recognized pole dancing–or “pole,” as adopters like to call it–as an official sport in 2017. In an announcement at the time, the organization stated that both pole dancing and poker were granted “observer status,” which means they’re provisionally regarded as sports. That means they are now eligible to apply for membership to the International Olympic Committee.

You always want what you can’t have. That’s the saying, right? Well, a new study suggests this sentiment is especially true for female attraction. According to a paper published in Scientific Reports, men receive an “attractiveness boost” from women when they’re in a committed relationship, a quality shared with abstract art (as in, you don’t know it’s attractive until someone else tells you). This concept is called “mate-choice copying.

Not too long ago, while texting a prospective Tinder date, she requested I send a picture of my bulge. “You mean my dick?” I asked inquisitively, surprised a dick pic was actually something she wanted to see. “No, your bulge,” she replied. “Like, through track pants or something.” She then offhandedly mentioned that if said pants were gray, the image would be even hotter. So, I did what any man in my situation would have done and obliged her request.

This story appears in the January/February 2018 issue of Playboy. Subscribe Q:I may be the only man ever to admit this to the Playboy Advisor, but I’m not a football fan. The problem is I’m dating a Cheesehead. Football is her life, from playing in a fantasy league to Super Bowl partying. I’ve attended games with her but still feel alienated from the culture—and from her when she talks to other men about football.

Would you have ever thought that there would be a market for Rugrats-themed porn? Because there is. Recently, porn production company WoodRocket(NSFW) launched Tugrats, a porn parody based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon that many of us eagerly watched on Saturday mornings. Before rushing to judgement, the characters are proper, sexually-curious adults, though they suspiciously wear the same clothes (Tommy is still in his diaper).

For its eighth annual Singles in America survey, Match polled more than 5,000 single people in the United States about sex and dating. Using a representative sample of adults of all ages, ethnicities and sexual orientations, the survery asked questions ranging from willingness to go out with someone of a different political party to willingness to have sex with a robot. For most American singles, questions about robot sex are purely hypothetical, but they do raise all sorts of complex issues.

Boiled down to its most lucid, consent is defined as “permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.” However, when applied to sex, one must consider its gradients, which means recognizing and embracing ideas such as “enthusiastic consent,” which, as its name indicates, expresses one’s excitement toward the sexual activity they are engaged in.

If you are still of the mindset that women don’t watch porn, you are sorely mistaken, my friend. The number of women watching porn has been consistently on the rise for quite some time now. In fact, Pornhub’s 2017 Year in Review report found “Porn for Women” (a category of videos voted on by female users) was the top trending search for the entire year, growing 360 percent among female users. This search phrase alone saw a 1,400 percent increase among overall users.

A person’s preference in penis is subjective. Some like a penis to curve upward, others to the left. Some prefer no curve at all. While a perfect penis may not exist, there are qualities we collectively find more visually attractive than others. So, because I’m a narcissist, I sought to find out how my own penis registers through the guise that I’m actually doing this for the betterment of men everywhere. To begin, let’s consult the research.

Hot tub sex has always been presented as romance novel-level coitis. Let me set the mood: On a cool evening, as the steam from the tub’s heat slowly encircles you and your partner, you begin kissing and exploring each other as the jets tickle your bodies. Before you know it, your partner has taken a seat on your bare lap, and the two of you are officially engaged in some sensual, I-can’t-believe-this-is-happening hot tub sex.

If you’ve seen Call Me By Your Name, you’ll recall the film’s infamous peach scene, wherein its main character, Elio, a confused and curious young man, inquisitively slides his dick inside a succulent peach while fantasizing about his father’s brilliant doctoral intern, Oliver. Theoretically, porking a peach would feel near-heavenly.

At the box office, muscle is still king. From Ryan Reynolds to Zac Efron and Chris Hemsworth, Hollywood’s leading men seem to be getting more ripped with each passing year.

Remaining friends with an ex is an idealistic pursuit, sure, but it’s completely devoid of logic. Take it from me, I was supposed to get married in October. Now, any and all contact between my ex and I is done through a lawyer, per my request. Actually, come to think of it, I’ve never remained friends with any ex ever. Though that might be more of a me-thing, I remain firm that in most circumstances, no, you absolutely, positively should not pursue any type of friendship with an ex.

Facials aren’t only popular at the spa, but in the bedroom as well. A new survey from Bad Girls Bible found ejaculating on the face is one of the most popular options for men about to climax. In fact, 16 percent of men’s ejaculations outside of a vagina were done on a woman’s face. The research notes the act has never been more popular, as young adults 18 to 24 are the group most likely to finish on a face (and least likely to finish inside a vagina).

Why shouldn’t Chelsea Manning run for the United States Senate? At age 30, she’s jobless and has no marketable skills except notoriety. Swimsuit shoots for Vogue aren’t going to pay the rent forever. Not only is keeping herself in the public eye a survival tactic, but the U.S.

A young woman pseudonymed “Grace” went on a date with Aziz Ansari last September. When they got back to his apartment after dinner, she told the publication babe, he aggressively and repeatedly attempted to initiate sex with her. She moved away from him, told him to slow down, that she was not into it. At one point, she told him “I don’t want to feel forced,” and he seemed to get the message and relent, only to try again a few minutes later.

In the U.S., circumcision has been on the decline for decades. Globally, only one-third of infants undergo the procedure. The World Health Organization recently estimated the number of uncircumcised men on the planet and found that circumcision was particularly popular in the United States, where only a quarter of men are uncircumcised compared to nations like Australia (41 percent), South Africa (65 percent), the U.K. (94 percent) and Canada (70 percent).

Men often pride themselves on their bedroom reviews, yet for some suspicious reason we don’t care to improve because we feel there’s no need. Except there is, a big one evidenced by the menacing orgasm gap between the sexes. Considering this lopsidedness, it might be useful to know that a meager 17 percent of women orgasm from penetration alone, which means your dick can’t possibly do all the work on its own.

Justin Timberlake’s latest music video, “Filthy,” features a humanoid robot performing a sexual dance in front of an audience. The video is set at the fictional Pan-Asian Deep Learning Conference in Malaysia, but it’s not that far from what’s happening in reality right now.

By definition, interracial sex constitutes sexual intercourse between people from different ethnic backgrounds. The porn industry’s definition is different. In adult film, the word represents a category exclusive to intercourse between black men and white women. That means, in order to be validated as an actor of color in adult film, you must perform with a white actress.