As everybody knows, the at world has always had a close-knit relationship with drugs, even long before art was what we know it to be today. Many artists, in order to stimulate their creation and inspiration, have grabbed all kind of substances to create their works. Mind-altering drug effects make artists open their minds with the purpose of finding new plastic forms.
This phenomenon is more common and known in contemporary art. Great artists such as Modigliani, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, Miró, Andy Warhol, Basquiat or Damien Hirst (below) made their best pieces of work under drugs effects.

A type of drug for each time
Each time has its favourite drug. For example, artists in late 19th- and early 20th-century in France were addicted to absinthe, due to its psychoactive properties. According to the myth, Van Gogh, drunk on absinthe, cut off the lower part of his left ear lobe and handed it to a prostitute named Rachel, asking her to “keep this object carefully”.

LSD and other psychedelic drugs were the favourite for Joan Miró, for instance, who used them to induce into hallucinogenic status, in order to create art through revealing the subconscious. Heroine was –and still is- a fetish drug among artists, especially for people like Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Detoxifying in a museum
This matter is interesting and extensive enough for writing a doctoral thesis, but the fact is that my intention is to report on the original initiative carried out by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art of Berlin and the Hotel Marienbad, which offer a drug detox residency for all those with drug dependency problems who are professionally related to the arts. Therapeutic guidance and medical care will be provided also for free. In return, artists must offer some public events (exhibitions, performances, conferences). This project is called ‘Cold Turkey. An Invitation’. Very suitable name…

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The other day a friend told me that women don’t like to consume porn. I told him that this opinion was wrong and also added a statement for women. Although it’s surprising, women watch this genre despite the fact that this type of movies, as some say, were created exclusively for men.

But, why do men have a tendency to think we don’t like porn movies? The genre itself is simple and basic, because normally the people who watch them are looking for quick excitement, nothing else. And sometimes, women need this offer too, just like men.

If it’s culture you want, I’d recommend you watch movies with a more complex argument. Porn movies have a superficial development of their screenplay and the plot is just “sex” in “somewhere”.

As I have read, porn is a genre that women should hate for obligation and tradition. Excuse me. It turns out that if a woman likes porn she is against the morally acceptable, against women. Why? I disagree with those reviews that say that women who see porn act against themselves. I gasp when someone tells me that I’m a traitor just because I am seeing a porn movie. In this moment, I just think about one thing: there are so many things that have to change in this world.

But that’s the controversy with porn around the world, from the city of Berlin that everyone assumes is so open and cosmopolitan to the small village lost in deep Germany. Maybe Berlin wouldn’t be an example of a city with no place for porn, quite the contrary as we smell modernity in every corner on the streets of the capital, full of extremisms and everything that breaks with a straight system.

Personally I have always believed, seen and ENJOYED porn as a fantasy but I also understand those who watch this genre for something as simple as it is, for learning.

The problem is that porn will be always a controversial subject. There are many porn related dilemmas that I don’t know what to think of. For example, does this genre kill sexual desire or, on the contrary, does watching porn encourage this practice in our relationships? For some porn can encourage sexual desire and for others it is just another relaxing entertainment.

The fact is that in the world in which we live today which is so liberal, so open, so permissive… why does society hamper something as simple as sex. Nobody seems to remember that the sexual act has been done since the beginning of our days and that without it, none of us would be here. So, why are we so embarrased about explicit sex?

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According to Helmut Newton, the feminine body is a naked sculpture among the skyscrapers of the urban space, a figure of white skin with high heels, painted nails and half black stockings. His work is erotic, provocative and even violent. Accordong to this Australian photographer born in Berlin (1920-2004), the woman is much more than a fashion mannequin and a sex symbol; the female body is an aesthetic that is renewed again and again in front of his objective…

One who does not know Helmut Newton should not know who Coco Chanel is either, another fashion icon fascinated with female forms. Newton published for prestigious magazines like Vogue, Elle, Playboy, Marie-Claire, so you’ve surely already seen one of his fashion photographs. They are erotic and provocative images. His photographs sometimes seem like movie images where men’s sexual fantasies come true, like two women kissing or one slapping the other… This is always done with elegance, glamour and a touch of classicism. He takes black and white images as well, offering light contrasts, lines and fantastic volumes.

We recommend you pay attention to fashion and nude photography; visit the Newton exhibition until May 16th at the Photography Museum in Berlin. The German capital houses also the Newton Foundation.

In female circles, Newton has been widely criticized because of the image he transmits of women. Many think they are macho, that they lack dignity and have been reduced to an object of male perversions, where women are exposed as ham whose taste would be for the lewd and the voyeur. But the woman is multiple, she has not just one face and Helmut Newton spent his entire life photographing her and creating an ode to the female body.

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We all know the same problem: We actually need some advice and tips about love affairs in bed, but of course, we don’t talk about such “embarrassing details” with our friends. Well, the only opportunity seems to be consulting thick books with typical topics like “How to make him happy” or “How to find her g-spot”. To be honest, the only entertaining thing we find in these mini-encyclopaedias are the funny pictures and illustrations… What humanity needs is something more real, something to feel, touch and experiment under the topic “learning by doing”. This is precisely what the Beate Uhse erotic museum in Berlin has paid attention to and they inaugurated a unique interactive exposition: the Sex-Akademie (sex academy).

All curious persons have definitely found their “el Dorado” in the “aroma – academy for sex and relationships”, because this exposition takes you on a passionate trip through the seven erotic erogenous zones of the most beautiful thing on earth. All you ever wanted to know, but you didn’t have the courage to ask for, will be explained to you in a very professional way. You even won’t turn red in shame, because the atmosphere is very relaxed and open and because sex is just a normal part of our everyday life. Why should getting some useful information on how to spice up our sex life be considered something strange?

In areas like fantasy and fetish, wellness and health, sex, partnership and love you not only can you read interesting details on the information boards but you can also practice it in over 50 different interactive models. We all know that you learn nothing with such a huge theoretical input. Touching and feeling is what counts! So don’t get scared if you see other people fingering a plastic doll and suddenly a loud “Ooooooooooohhhhh yeeaaaaah” blasts from the loudspeakers. It’s just an exercise, successfully finished, about finding the mysterious g-spot. You may think that it’s only about dirty things, but then you’re completely wrong. Even in the videos a lot of sexual practices are explained to you in a very professional way, which has nothing to do with cheap porn.

The Beat Uhse Museum is one of the most important erotic museums worldwide and with this interactive exposition, wants to achieve the aim of being a platform of sexual education. And they are doing very well. Anybody from teenagers, seniors, couples, singles, groups of friends, or tourists of different countries are welcome to stop by at this amazing museum. As you can see, the intimate hours are apparently in the centre of attention, despite the denial from most of society.

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It turns out the global economy is so bad that nobody escapes from its rough effects, not even super-heroes, like Marvel’s icon Spiderman.In the next issue of the popular comic book series ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ number 623, coming out this month, Spiderman’s alter ego, Peter Parker, will be fired from his position as photographer for New York City Mayor J. Jonah Jameson.

Who could imagine Spidey ending up on the unemployment line? And on top of all, he will have to hear the words ‘You are fired!’ from his cranky, long-suffering boss. Worst still, Jameson not only sacks Parker, who makes his living as a photojournalist, he blacklists him with every news organization in town. Fans of the Spiderman movies might remember J. Jonah Jameson as Parker’s boss at the tabloid newspaper The Daily Bugle. A few months ago (in comic book time), Parker returned from an inter dimensional journey with the Fantastic Four, Marvel’s superhero team, to find Jameson had been elected mayor.

How will he pay his bills?

Struggling with unemployment is very hard at these times. But calm down! The web-slinger will still be keeping New York City safe from Venom and Carnage and any number of other dastardly villains he’s tangled with over the years, but he’s going to have to do it between trips to the unemployment line. Poor Peter! This of course raises all kinds of interesting questions, such as how will Parker maintain his Spiderman costumes? Dry-cleaning bills alone must run to several hundred dollars a year. Or, for instance, how will he keep buying the stuff he uses to spin those industrial-strength webs needed to hop from building to building? Surely he doesn’t pick that up at the 99 Cents Store. And what about his rent? He can barely afford to keep a roof over his head!

Well, we hope this ugly situation gets better for him, and for all unemployed people in real life.
At least we can find some consolation in the thought that even super-heroes with super-powers are not perfect.

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To find out that your boyfriend is having an affair is already painful, but if on top of that you find out that he has a fling with a friend’s wife or girlfriend, it must be crazy. And imagine the deceived friend! A British dating website has revealed that half of the unfaithful men it polled for a survey on affairs admitted to having a fling with a friend’s partner.

The fact is that attractions develop very easily between men and women who see each other frequently, in the same circles. And, it is often easier to be together without arousing any suspicions.
The poll showed that of the more than 5.000 men surveyed who admitted to being unfaithful, a staggering 47% confessed to having committed adultery with a friend’s wife or girlfriend.

Do you mistrust your friend?
And what do we have to do now? If you notice that your friend is too friendly with your partner, is it a reason to become suspicious? Being an excessively jealous person is not such a good thing, but maybe there is no harm in being alert. You know they say that one self is the last to discover these sorts of things, and you will not want to make a fool of yourself, will you?

The same advice is used for the other side of the deceived: the adulterous’ wife. Now we’ll have to watch out for that philandering friend, and maybe going out with other couples will be too much of a risk! That’s all it needed!

As if a relationship wasn’t sufficiently complicated, then a poll like this gets published…But don’t panic! The best thing you can do is to trust in your partner…and in his friend’s wives, don’t forget it.

Ok, here is some advice: take your partner and have a romantic trip…without others couples, just in case.
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Up to 20,000 women take the morning after pill, buy condoms and adopt children. So far, this is not a big deal. But this is not an ordinary woman we are talking about, but a video game for girls where they must create a female adult profile. So up to 20.000 girls play as if they were adult women in the Internet. It seems that the parents are the only ones concerned with this issue because the game creators and the girls are in paradise.

Virtual Life

This game called My Minx, has the knack of making millions of girls happy. Those girls that want to be women, with all that involves: go shopping, buy sexy lingerie, drink alcohol in a nightclub with some friends, take the morning-after pill or buy some condoms, and even adopt children from Haiti. There is no age limit, but it seems that the seven year old girls are the most common players within the 20,000 registered profiles. They dream of a life like that of Angelina Jolie or Madonna, perfectly assimilated by the creators.

Real Life

My Minx aroused a virulent polemic in English homes. Faced with the success of the game, many parents criticized the initiative: “the developers take advantage of the young audience for the money, without care about their moral responsibility toward the girls”. Maybe it is favourable for the girls to be aware of the sexual dangers, and to know how the poor people live, but don’t you think they should not be exposed to adult problems or issues? Each age has its concerns! It is not good for a seven year old girl to “play” the life of an adult woman because in the real life, you don’t resolve problems by few mouse clicks.

Perhaps you think that the responsibility does not lies with the creators, but with the parents that should take a look at what their kids are playing in the computer.

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