50 Mistakes Women Make While Having Sex We here at New York Pudding feel its’ time the women get called out since it’s usually the men taking a bad rap for inconsistincies and missteps in the bedroom… Sexual skill is something most often tasked to and expected of men, but sexual fulfillment is a two way street. Truly great sex requires skill and effort on the part of both partners, not just one. Created By TheirToys.com Sex Toys Created via Their Toys Sex Toys By Mr. Grammys 2014: Here Are The Nominees Jay Z ended Friday's "Grammy Nominations Concert Live" event with nods in nine categories, leading the pack for the 56th Grammy Awards, which will air Jan. 26 on CBS. Up for seven nominations each are Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake. Drake and Bob Ludwig snagged five nods, while Daft Punk, Lorde, Bruno Mars, Kacey Musgraves and Taylor Swift earned four nominations. The veteran rapper came out on top on the strength of his 12th studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. To be eligible this year, recordings had to be released from Oct. 1, 2012, to Sept. 30, 2013. Album Of The Year The Blessed Unrest — Sara BareillesRandom Access Memories — Daft PunkGood Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick LamarThe Heist — Macklemore & Ryan LewisRed — Taylor Swift Record Of The Year "Get Lucky" — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams"Radioactive" — Imagine Dragons"Royals" — Lorde"Locked Out Of Heaven" — Bruno Mars"Blurred Lines" — Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams
Why We Love: 5 Books on the Psychology of Love It’s often said that every song, every poem, every novel, every painting ever created is in some way “about” love. What this really means is that love is a central theme, an underlying preoccupation, in humanity’s greatest works. But what exactly is love? How does its mechanism spur such poeticism, and how does it lodge itself in our minds, hearts and souls so completely, so stubbornly, as to permeate every aspect of the human imagination? Today, we turn to 5 essential books that are “about” love in a different way — they turn an inquisitive lens towards this grand phenomenon and try to understand where it comes from, how it works, and what it means for the human condition. No superlative is an exaggeration of Alain de Botton‘s humble brilliance spanning everything from philosophy to architecture. Every fall into love involves [to adapt Oscar Wilde] the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. Sample her work with this fantastic TED talk on the brain in love: Is love really blind?
How to Make Love: A 1936 Guide to the Art of Wooing by Maria Popova “Although we live in a modern age, we seem unable to throw off the yoke of Puritanism.” “Part of the modern ideology of love is to assume that love and sex always go together,” Susan Sontag observed in her fantastic meditation on love, sex, and the world between, “and probably the greatest problem for human beings is that they just don’t.” And yet we still refer to sex as “making love.” In 1936, the year my grandmother was born, a man by the name of Pietro Ramirez Sr. took that delightful vintage guide to the art of kissing published the same year one step further and released How to Make Love — an illustrated compendium of advice on “the secrets of wooing,” featuring the same amusingly dated ideas on gender norms, social etiquette, and conventions of courtship. Ramirez boasts in the foreword: Although we live in a modern age, we seem unable to throw off the yoke of Puritanism. Marriage is the culmination of love. Man was created strong. If she flinches, don’t worry.
Frowning In Bright Sunlight Can Make You Angry Way back in 1872, Charles Darwin noted that when people look into bright sunshine they often frown, assuming a facial expression similar to that of anger. And indeed, when people look into bright light without sunglasses, they contract many of the same facial muscles as when they are angry. ("I'm not angry, it's just sunny out!" said nobody, ever. Nevertheless...) Recent work has shown that emotions can be influenced by facial expressions and body posture. With these two ideas in mind, a team of Italian researchers put forward the hypothesis that people walking into the sun without sunglasses (who were thus involuntarilty squinting/frowning) would be more likely to report feelings of anger and agressiveness, compared to people walking away from the sun. They found that people walking into the sun reported that they were significantly more angry, and more agressive, than those who were headed away from the sun.
7 Moments That Made 'Frozen' the Most Progressive Disney Movie Ever A Disney princess is graceful, elegant and soft-spoken. Until Mulan, the idea of a clumsy Disney princess was antithetical, and even she found grace and form through her combat training. Until Merida in Brave, the idea of an outspoken princess was unheard of. Image credit: Disney blog Not to mention that in the line of Disney princesses, there haven't been many, if any, with a sexual inkling or romantic forwardness — ever. Image credit: Tumblr She's clumsy, knocks things over all through the castle and runs into horses, which doesn't change over the course of the movie. Image credit: Rotoscopers
Sleep and the Teenage Brain by Maria Popova How a seemingly simple change can have a profound effect on everything from academic performance to bullying. “Sleep is the greatest creative aphrodisiac,” Debbie Millman asserted in her advice on breaking through your creative block. “Sleep deprivation will profoundly affect your creativity, your productivity, and your decision-making,” Arianna Huffington cautioned graduating seniors in her Smith College commencement address on redefining success. And yet, as German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg argued in his fantastic Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired — one of the best science books of 2012, and undoubtedly among the best you’ll ever read — teenagers have already endured years of institutionally inflicted sleep deprivation by the time they get to college: there is a tragic disconnect between teens’ circadian givens and our social expectations of them, encapsulated in what is known as the disco hypothesis. Donating = Loving