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The secret life of Ketamine
It began life as a medicine and anaesthetic, but recreational use caught on quickly – it was available, inexpensive and promised unpredictable journeys into other dimensions. What should a tempted experimenter know about Ketamine? Emily Wright investigates, with illustrations by Melanie Tahata. Many people’s understanding of Ketamine amounts to something like a memory of a [...]
Postcards from the Borderline
Mental health conditions have long been used as Hollywood plot devices. With greater awareness nowadays meaning we see fewer ‘mentally ill’ movie monsters, Lynne Marshall wonders why Borderline personality disorder seems to have been left out of the warm fuzzies. One in fifty of the general population and one in five psychiatric inpatients suffer from [...]
How do we get more women into games?
Games artist Hannah Crosby thinks that turning women on to game development is in the games themselves, but not where the industry thinks. Illustrations by Kate Lomax. It will come as little surprise, particularly to women who play games, that the video game development industry is one in which men massively outnumber women. A 2005 [...]
In search of the world’s oldest porn
What can the erotic objects of pre-history tell us about how humankind’s relationship with sexuality has changed over time? Jasper Wrayburn looks at some really old smut. Thinking of The World’s Oldest Porn might conjure all sorts of images: a Victorian sepia-toned photograph of a woman in bloomers, a Roman fresco of a couple enjoying [...]
The art of male burlesque
Why is the art of removing cool home-made outfits to retro music so rarely performed by men? Burlesque writer Claire Doble investigates the emerging male burlesque scene, and examines the issues it faces. After a brief spell on stage removing my own clothes, I decided I was better off behind a notepad and launched myself [...]
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