Culture

Here’s an easy SafeSearch user’s guide to prevent the inadvertent access of children to adult content via Google. We hope it helps.

Parenting. It’s not easy. And what bigger challenge is there than talking birds and the bees? Feast your eyes and lolz on a selection of mothers who had to think fast on their feet and whose children came out relatively unharmed.

A lot of people have taken to putting notices on their social media profiles that threaten legal action if said profile’s information is mined for content without permission. We’re concerned with these warnings because they give users the impression that putting these up somehow protects them. They do not.

Our favorite anti-feminist feminist, Camille Paglia suspects the rise of Gaga indicates the death of sex. Those of us who enjoy Gaga are “marooned in a global technocracy of fancy gadgets but emotional poverty,” Paglia says — are we?

The LA Weekly tackled the sex industry this week with an epic headliner about brothels. The piece, which explores the influx of women from all over this recession-stricken country to legal brothels in Nevada, centers around the stories of a handful of girls with mouths to feed.

MTV, which is running a campaign to get people tested for sexually transmitted diseases, has paired up with the location-based network Foursquare to incentivize the process. Through the month of September, they are offering a super special badge to all those who check in at a clinic.

If the forbidden is what is exciting, we have to work hard to bring the taboo into our most intimate relationships. If transgression is so titillating, we have to learn to transgress where we’re most safe.

Cosmo and Maxim are pretty much all about guys. Of course, Maxim doesn’t fill its cover with ways to make men better. It announces how to make money while doing nothing and how to use one’s phone as an espionage device. Cool! Meanwhile Cosmo can’t even talk about female genitalia properly. Va-jay-jay, really?

Woman’s Day October 1st issue features an advertorial for Summer’s Eve, a company that makes personal care products for women, which suggests that the best way to get a raise is to make sure one’s vagina is squeaky clean. Yikes.

The show is about a girl from the Midwest whose boyfriend convinces her to go to L.A. to become a porn star. Mark Wahlberg, who did OK with the porn on Boogie Nights and brought you a peek into show biz with Entourage is behind this, of course.