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 You're reading Friends with Benefits, a bi-weekly email from the Museum of Sex that keeps you up on your sex news.
Friends with Benefits is edited by Julie Ruvolo with contributions from Daniel Basiletti, Jim O'Shea, Lia Wong and Mark Snyder.

 

1. ON EXHIBIT   


The Trough
Alexis Rockman; 1992
Oil on wood
Gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation
Museum of Sex Collection

2. BRAZILIAN BUTT TRAINING

 

MoSex co-editor Julie Ruvolo interviews the Rio tweens behind the butt-training meme on YouTube:

 

Bonde Das Maravilhas
 
 

3. SEX ED

   

Corset Magazine does Ms. M:

 

Ms. M. is quite the lady. Besides being a sex therapist and an advice columnist for New York City's Museum of Sex, she also happens to be an artist and a musician. With CORSET she shares details about her ideas for sex topics, writing, music, and the ideal sex education curriculum:

 

"We need to readdress how we educate ourselves and our children about sex. 

  

For example, I don't think young girls should even attempt to lose their virginity until they have learned how to make themselves orgasm first, or until their partners can get them off with their mouths or fingers first.

  

What's the point in risking pregnancy or an STD just to get him

off?"

 

Read Ms. M's interview in Corset Magazine here.


 

 

 

4. SEXTYPE.ME


 

 

For the sake of science, send this to people you fuck: http://sextype.me/

Sextype.me is a MoSex project that hopes to discover a correlation between sexual personality and lust. Help us out, take the test and invite people you've been with. 

 

 

5. "IT'S MY PULSATOR"

  

The Museum of Sex Shop is featuring award-winning German adult toy producer Fun Factory in an installation in the shop for the month of February.

Highlighted in the installation is the new Stronic Eins Pulsator. Daniel Basiletti, Director of Retail for the Museum of Sex, says it's revolutionary:
 
"The Stronic is an incredible new toy that will change the industry forever. Rather than the traditional vibrations created by most toys, the Stronic Eins itself actually pulsates and moves in a series of different patterns and intensities. With Stronic Eins, Fun Factory has revolutionized the industry and opened a Pandora's Box of pleasure."

 Here's a video of a Stronic Eins pulsator race that took place during the launch party held at the Shop at the Museum of Sex on February 1st:
 
FUN FACTORY Stronic stretch race at Museum of Sex in NYC

Presiding over the race is Dirk Bauer, owner of Fun Factory. 
Also featured in the installation is a collection of important artworks by Fun Factory artist Dennis Bernhard Stuckenbrock, created between 2001 and 2006. Of the artworks, Mr. Basiletti says: 
 
"These works embody Fun Factory's mission to experiment with form, and speak to the Museum of Sex's exploration of how design and art play an important role in human sexuality."      

  

 
Artwork by Fun Factory artist Dennis Bernhard Stuckenbrock
 
Check out the Stronic Eins in the MoSex store.
 

 

 6. STICK IT IN

 

7. DEAR MS. M




 

We broke up. I still watched tranny porn. I even had sex with a stunningly gorgeous one I had befriended, who was fully functional and had great tits. (Gay men, I know you're judging me right now-you always do.) I lived out the fantasy, but it wasn't as exciting as I had built it up in my mind to be. I too, had sexually processed something I couldn't understand, which manifested itself into a fantasy. And when I tried that fantasy in real life, it wasn't all that. I haven't looked at tranny porn in years. It does nothing for me now.

 

I happen to think fantasies are much healthier if they go through phases, if you explore them, because when you evolve, so do they. Being stuck on the same fantasy your entire life can't be healthy ... or satisfying.

 

 

Keep reading on the MoSex blog. Have a question for Ms. M? Email AdviceFromMsM@gmail.com.

 

 

8. PEOPLE WHO JUST HAD SEX  

 

 

Jinks likes big women. Good thing he's with Money, a lovely BBW who's really only been with one dude-Jinks. We waited outside the bedroom while they enjoyed each other for a while, and then interviewed them afterwards for a sex-session recap.  


 Watch interviews with people who just had sex 
on Vice.com.


 9. QUOTABLE

 
What do ice cream and porn have in common? InsuranceCommunityUniversity.com

Brazilian bikini waxes make crab lice endangered species - Jason Gale & Shannon Pettypiece for Bloomberg
 

The history of condoms (featuring MoSex curator Sarah Forbes) - Cosmopolitan
 
The luxury rental girlfriend - Lisa Taddeo for The Observer






The end of courtship? - Alex Williams for The New York Times

New Delhi attack: The victim's story - Krishna Pokharel, Saurabh Chaturvedi, Vibhuti Agarwal & Tripti Lahiri foThe Wall Street Journal



 

10. #CANCELED 



This is the pilot of Oxygen Media's All My Babies Mamas, starring rapper Shawty Lo and his 10 babies mamas and 11 kids, and that's all you're going to see, folks. 
 

 

 

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