Sexual arousal is a complicated physiological process. It has neurological, psychological, endocrinological, sensual, and other components. It can occur due to visual or physical stimuli, and it can happen at the most inopportune times. Like while you’re dying.
I got married when I was young and stupid, and ended up divorced. Tale as old as time. Before that, I got married when I was younger and even more…
It’s not easy to talk about. It might seem ghoulish or macabre. It might even make you feel like you’re disrespecting the dead. But it’s not just you. A lot…
The human body is 14% bone. Human bones have been used to construct chapels and places of worship, most notably sites like the Sedlec Ossuary a Catholic chapel in the…
In 1988, dusty old artgrump Tim Burton gave us the gift that is Beetlejuice: the ultimate vehicle for Michael Keaton’s unhinged antics and Winona Ryder’s moody wraith act. The planned…
Juan Carlos was always sick, but we didn’t know what that meant. He had a special breathing treatment machine in the school nurse’s office. It wasn’t like the inhalers some…
They call her L’Inconnue de la Seine, and no one knows her name but she left behind one of the most famous death masks in human history. But what is…
There is only one American memorial to the victims of the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918, the so-called Spanish Flu. An estimated 675,000 Americans died over four years of brutally…
When my grandmother died, she loved three things: scotch, soap operas, and gambling. It’s hard to write a eulogy for someone nobody really liked, and embarrassing to describe someone’s life…
There are two kinds of black lipsticks in the world. There’s the kind you buy because it’s Halloween and you’re going as Wednesday Addams, and then there’s the kind you…
