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How the Money Shot Became the Most Popular Move in Porn
Since the dawn of sex, we have to assume that people have been trying to ejaculate on their partners' faces. But facialsthe sex kind, not the spa kinddidn't become a well-known thing <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkbwd5/an-oral-history-of-the-moneyshot" id="4d43519e-d0e7-38e8-a6e2-747535908bba"> until adult filmmakers adopted them </a> as the standard ending scene in mainstream porn films in the mid-1970s. These scenes allowed filmmakers to clearly show male porn stars reaching...
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The Truth About Porn Sites and Personal Data
Watching porn online entails an unsettling paradox: We want and expect our viewing habits to be totally private. Yet we know the modern digital economy is built on constant surveillance of our browsing habits.
Why Do I Get These Weird, Long Dark Hairs on My Body?
The first time you find a rogue hair, often while going about your morning routine, can be pretty jarring. Typically dark, thick, and super long, these hairs tend to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chin-hair-removal_n_58fa5279e4b018a9ce5b187e" id="b33a70e8-9f83-3f4b-a236-5a4c29c4571f"> show up in places </a> like our earlobes or the tips of our noses were we tend not to have much visible hair, or sprout up like eyesores among the shorter hairs of our forearms, guts, or backs. To many...
These New High-Tech Gadgets Want to Help You Stop Snoring
Despite the explosion of <a href="https://sleepgadgets.io/" id="295233dc-afb7-3092-aec6-542edc4297aa"> sleep tech innovation </a> in recent years, relatively few companies have dared to tackle one of the biggest enemies of a good nights sleep: snoring-the jarring sound produced by vibrations of the upper airway. Some 90 million Americans snore ( <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/16/is-a-cure-for-snoring-finally-getting-closer" id="a76f4549-b39a-3cea-af5c-6d40b77abedd...
What You Should Know Before Buying a Sleep Tracker
The promise of sleep tracking technology is powerful and-at first blush-highly convincing: Good sleep <a href="https://www.popsci.com/sleep-trackers-health#page-3" id="67347707-2494-3304-afbc-f2ded991ae0a"> is vital for good health </a> . It can foster everything from waking concentration and creativity to gut recovery and immune system functionality. Yet it is difficult for many people to get a good sense of the quality of their sleep, unconscious as they are during it. They may not even re...
Does Losing Your Faith Affect the Health of Your Brain?
Losing faith in a higher power can be one of the most profound and formative experiences in your life. Depending on how strong that faith was originally, or how central it was to your sense of self or community, the drift to atheism can shatter the convictions and social systems that give your life meaning and security. (The exact level of these psychological and social effects varies greatly from person to person.) But a growing body of research suggests a loss of faith in higher powers may ...
Here's How Porn Stars Want You to Talk to Them Online
A decade ago, the only places the average person could ever hope to interact with a porn star were adult industry conventions and strip clubs, where some performers would do the occasional feature dance. But times have changed.
What it's Like to Get a Penis Transplant
In the past five years, doctors in America and South Africa have performed four full penile transplants. The first and only surgeries of their kind, they entail exactly what youd think: removing the penis from a deceased donor and attaching it to someone without a penis. (The two South African men who have undergone this procedure, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbx4jx/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-penis-transplants-but-were-afraid-to-ask-317" id="766ebf36-d64e-39dc-af60-64...
The Long, Complicated History of Men Trying to Suck Their Own Dicks
For a concept that seems fringe to many, it is surprising how often auto-fellatio (the technical term for sucking your own dick) pops up in modern culture. It shows up in movies like <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Clerks" id="e84d9b55-b71e-38d6-acc8-5e68517aea25"> Clerks </a> (1993) as both a male aspiration and a punchline. An aspiration because it is supposedly a near-mythic holy grail of uncomplicated solo pleasure- <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2011/08/autof...
How Butt Play Went Mainstream
Just over 15 years ago, the idea of a man fingering a womans ass as sexual play was fairly foreign to many Americans. Literally. The 2002 edition of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15309357" id="f6190d32-e793-300e-a7f7-8e8d96fc283b"> The Joy of Sex </a> , the late Alex Comforts seminal 1972 illustrated guide to everything sexual, refers to the act as postillionage, a distinctly French (read: bizarre European libertine) tradition, with which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01...
Why Gene Editing May Hold the Promise of a Herpes Cure
Herpes is shockingly common. Recent estimates suggest at least half of all Americans have HSV-1, or oral herpes, which usually manifests as cold sores on or around ones mouth, but can <a href="https://www.herpes.org.nz/patient-info/myths-vs-facts/" id="44ebf2dd-e274-33fd-a662-81f42272bd20"> </a> elses genitals through oral sex of the body. Up to a have HSV-2, or genital herpes, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-we-gene-edit-herpes-away-180968551/" id="c3dab0ef-931d-3...
