#Nipplegate

A recent post I wrote on my Forbes blog about whether or not you should post sexy photos to LinkedIn generated some debate in the comments. The picture you see here is the picture that was up for discussion. The owner of a bathing suit company posted it to her LinkedIn page. So, you see, it is on brand. And yet, LinkedIn is so devoid of sexuality that the context makes the picture more provocative. (See: nipples.) In any case, interesting. Eye of the beholder, I suppose.

$UCK IT

Valentine's Day/wangover feelin @alexanderwangny $UCK IT

"Valentine's Day/wangover feelin @alexanderwangny $UCK IT"

That's Lexi.

Cleavag Redux

I wrote a silly thing about cleavag for Men's Health.

"Sure, her face is beautiful, her breasts are impressive, and her hips are pleasing, but what draws your eye downtown is the barely-covered area between her bellybutton and her crotch. The top of her bikini pulled low, she practically demands us to gaze upon this year’s newest trend: a daring flash of vagina cleavage."

[Men's Health]

Cleavag Is the New Cleavage

My god, Jennifer Weiner is fucking annoying. She's made a career out of writing crappy books and carping about how men are to blame for her lack of being taken seriously when the reality is that her books are what cause her to lack being taken seriously.

Most recently, she crawled out of the ooze to weinerwhine about how pubic hair or something: "Great! Another Thing to Hate About Ourselves." She wordclutters on for a while before getting to her point:

"This year, the hot new body part is the formerly unnoticed span of flesh between the top of one’s panties and the labia majora, currently displayed on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition by the model Hannah Davis."

Reference: This is the Weiner. This is the Davis.

In other words, Weiner says, the SI cover is POORRRNNNN:

"With hard-core pornography available to anyone with a laptop and a credit card, Sports Illustrated has to raise the stakes if it wants to stay relevant."

Followed by this HILARIOUS admission:

"(Disclosure: my gentleman caller edits books for Sports Illustrated and is the author of the oral history of the swimsuit issue that appears in '50 Years of Beautiful,' a coffee-table book of swimsuit shots. #Awkward.)"

#Indeed.

The rest is a fuzzy blur of complaints against Hannah's "mons pubis" and some sort of garbled defense of a vagina area that is hirsute and fat. Or something. I was left weinerized. #Confused.

(See also: FUPA.)

Personally, I was more excited by SI's half-crotch shot because I was like: TREND. What the image makes us look for is ... what to call it?

I settled on cleavag.

Let's celebrate it.

Robot Love

via Fashion Copious

Unretouched Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford's April spread in Marie Claire features 100% non-retouched photos. Take a bow Ms. C. pic.twitter.com/ttQz2BcRfg

— Charlene White (@CharleneWhite) February 13, 2015

SwimCity

"Body Ritual Among the Swimsuit Models in the Horny Hell of SwimCity":

"Although it was founded on the breezy idea that city should be swim, SwimCity is not a free-for-all vacation destination, zoned for the pursuit of happiness. It is a regimented, horny hell. The most famous models like Twitter phenom Chrissy Teigen and Real Housewives daughter Gigi Hadid are sequestered from visitors by stages and roped-off lines. Lesser-known swimsuit gals pose for photos on the floor with the men who have come to see them in the middle of a work day. Gray-suited bodyguards flank them, sometimes correcting visitor behavior. No hands! Don't lean! Move it along!"

[Gawker]

Boots Were Made for Stomping

Image via @natashapoly

Sex in Space

If you were thinking about becoming an astronaut so you could have sex in space, think again. BuzzFeed has a listicle featuring "9 Reasons Why Having Sex in Space Is a Horrible Idea."

"In microgravity, sweat doesn’t drip down your body. Instead it clings to your skin and forms pools, Millis said. If you were engaging in some heavy, vigorous sex, then blobs of liquid would be flying all over the place."

[BuzzFeed]

Panytime!

Hey, it's Julie. She's ready for Pantytime. So says American Apparel. This would be a great candidate for litvertising.

[AA]

Thick vs Thin

Look, a plus-sized model, Ashley Graham, is featured in an ad in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue. Everyone is excited.

"'I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt,' Graham says in a statement," reports everybody.

Girl looks good. Thick is the new thin.

[ET]

The Beholder's Share

"Our response to art stems from an irrepressible urge to re-create in our own brains the creative process – cognitive, emotional, and empathic – through which artist produced the work…This creative urge of the artist and of the beholder presumably explains why essentially every group of human beings in every age and in every place throughout the world has created images, despite the fact that art is not a physical necessity for survival.  Art is an inherently pleasurable and instructive attempt by the artist and the beholder to communicate and share with each other the creative process that characterizes every human brain – a process that leads to Aha! moment, the sudden recognition that we have seen into another person’s mind, and that allows us to see the truth underlying both the beauty and the ugliness depicted by the artist." -- The Beholder's Share

 

Interview Secrets

"'When I was little, I would play this game where I would talk to people in order to see how much I could get from them without having to reveal anything about myself.'"

[StyleLikeU]

Brand Whores

"I found the tech conference I went to really depressing. Everyone there was a brand whore. Is this what we are: brand whores?"

[Forbes]

Mirror Stage

My friend Clayton Cubitt has another installment of his wildly popular "Hysterical Literature" series. Playboy considers the project in "The Case of the Missing Orgasm." The latest episode stars Marne, who is awesome.