👓 Your Vagina Is Terrific (and Everyone Else’s Opinions Still Are Not) | New York Times

Read Your Vagina Is Terrific (and Everyone Else’s Opinions Still Are Not) (New York Times)
One year ago I wrote about my vagina and men’s opinions of it. Things have not improved.

👓 Everything You Need to Know About Anal Sex | Teen Vogue

Read Everything You Need to Know About Anal Sex (Teen Vogue)
How to do it the RIGHT way.
Not quite as detailed as I might have expected given Teen Vogue’s growing coverage of just about everything, but a good and gentle introduction.

🎧 Episode 54: American Made (MEN, Part 8) | Scene on Radio

Listened to Episode 54: American Made (MEN, Part 8) by John Biewen and Celeste Headlee from Scene on Radio

American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities. A trip through a century of pop culture and the stereotyped images that white supremacy has manufactured and attached to Asian and African American men. With scholars Tim Yu and Mark Anthony Neal and co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee.

Now I’m even more sad that Bruce Lee died an early death.

👓 The Sex Life of Samuel Pepys | Royal Museums Greenwich

Read The Sex Life of Samuel Pepys (Royal Museums Greenwich | UNESCO World Heritage Site In London)
This Valentine's Day our curator, Kristian Martin, looks at the notorious sex life of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys.
Odd that he didn’t try to hide this better. It’s also more interesting to read this in the year of .

Matt Ridley’s Thesis: When Ideas Have Sex

Watched When ideas have sex by Matt Ridley from ted.com
At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.
When extrapolated a bit, this thesis is one of the best arguments for why Twitter and other methods of social media are so useful.  There really is a great idea at the core of this presentation.