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| | | Celebrity Crushes Can Improve Your Film Taste | When I was 17, I became obsessed with Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park. The unbuttoned shirt? The scene where he drops water on Laura Dern’s hand, tracing its path while purring to her about chaos theory? Lord. My crush led me to watch stuff I never would’ve otherwise, movies that I’ve since learned are fairly well-regarded cinema. No version of myself would’ve willingly watched a genre called “body horror” — which revolves around physical, disfiguring frights — if a crush weren’t involved. But like a dog can be tricked into taking a pill with peanut butter, I lapped up The Fly. And I liked it. Read More |
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| | | | | | | | SEX & RELATIONSHIPS | | My Night At A Queer Rope-Bondage Class | I’d recently stumbled across the Instagram account @FreaksnotCreeps, New York City-based rope artist Liv’s visual diary of rope suspension and deviant bondage imagery. As a curious queer, I was hesitant but highly intrigued to know more. I learned that rope bondage is a form of shibari, also known as kinbaku, that originates from Japan. In modern Western culture, the stereotype of an older man tying a skinny, flexible white woman is widespread, but from festivals to meet-ups, there’s actually a thriving, diverse queer rope-bondage community around the world. Read More |
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| | | BOOKS | | 5 Must-Read Romance Novels Tia Williams Absolutely Loves | “I grew up with a mom who was obsessed with ’80s romance paperbacks,” Tia Williams tells Bustle. “She always kept them in this stack in my parents’ bathroom by the tub, so they were all puffy and swollen from the humidity of the baths she would take.” It was only a matter of time before Williams and her sisters cracked those waterlogged covers. “I didn’t date or even have my first kiss until I was 18 years old, so it was living out what I wasn’t experiencing in my own teen life. It just felt like the ultimate fantasy,” she says. Read More |
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