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Bulgaria’s Immigrant Bummer
Bulgaria’s “special homes” are essentially prisons for immigrants. The official purpose of these centers is to detain illegal immigrants until they can be deported, but many long-term inmates are refugees seeking asylum who have gotten caught in the...
Art During Wartime
Sculptor Ali al-Wakwak, a Benghazi native, creates rusty configurations, large enough to climb upon, resembling humans, animals, and insects. The sculptures are made from the leftover wreckage of Libya’s revolution.
This Machine Makes Orgasms
The Multistim looks complicated and vaguely threatening, but if you hook your vibrator up to it, it transforms into a super vibrator that has the potential to make women with anorgasmia quiver like Mexican jumping beans being held by an epileptic.
Some Serious Thought Was Put Into This Retarded Doll
In May, a very special doll began showing up in stores in Sweden. According to the package, it was supposed to have cerebral palsy. “The retard doll GIL. Treat her like a real retard!” the label read, while the Facebook page for the doll added, “She...
Literary Titans Are Super Freaks
I have taken the liberty of rounding up the dirtiest exploits of some of the most revered (and perverted) authors in the Western canon.
Chef's Night Out: Eddie Huang
Chef Eddie Huang is tired of Americans eating Chinese food like hooligans, so on this tour of the best Asian restaurants in NYC he teaches us how to eat soup dumpling properly.
Mentioning Unmentionables in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Sharia practices have some pretty strange by-products. One of the most peculiar is the fatwa against women selling bras or lipstick.
Silky Canadian Beavers
The emerging middle class in places like Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and northern China are just discovering how smooth and snuggly Canadian beaver coats and stoles can be.