Pick of the Week

“Sexpert Auntie Angel, AKA Denise Walker, told VICE her unique blow job move—dubbed the ‘Death Technique’—has caused ‘massive heart attacks’ in men.”

“In a video on her YouTube channel, Angel, 43, explains her signature method, which involves a warm grapefruit with a hole in it and a bizarre, hoover-like noise.”

“Why bleach your bumhole, when you can colour it pink, green or yellow?”

“When I tracked down the painting online I was so flummoxed as to the likely cause of disgust that I thought it must be the fact Ms May was depicted smoking a pipe. Few things cause more umbrage now than someone wantonly enjoying tobacco. But further investigation revealed it was the way the sitter’s short waistcoat and undone breeches framed a luxuriant dark V of pubic hair—not to mention, the ‘Come hither, if you dare!’ expression on May’s face”

“… the Society of Women Artists was permitted to replace McCall’s work with another less provocative nude: one where the model wasn’t tattooed and standing hand-on-hip, all unbuttoned. It seems the Mall Galleries’ clientele can cope with nudes, so long as the model is a more passive and unthreatening recipient of the wandering viewer’s gaze. ”

“McCall is understandably incensed at the censoring of her portrait, as her avowed intention in painting it was to explore, ‘how women choose to express their sexual identity beyond the male gaze’. It’s an added irony that her work should be removed from an all-female exhibition, curated by women.”

“McCall explained that Ruby May (who leads erotic workshops) had proudly wanted to own the pubic hair that is so often waxed, covered or air-brushed away in contemporary depictions of the female body—and rarely glimpsed in classical ones, come to that. The painter can’t begin to understand how a painting that reveals no intimate flesh, other than the pelvic triangle, could possibly be described as pornography.”