Pablo Picasso and Pornhub: What I Learned From Magazines This Week

Reading magazines this week, I learned that:

Sally Field dislikes gefilte fish.

(Vanity Fair, 3/16)

Pornhub, an explicit-video-sharing site, gets 2.4 million visitors per HOUR.  

(Time, 4.11.16)

There are 641 million obese people in the world today. 

(Time, 4/18/16)

Women face extraordinary demands that are seldom appreciated by men.

(Men's Health, 4/16)

President Obama's advice for deejaying a party? Open with Aretha Franklin's “Rock Steady.”

(The New Yorker, 4/4/16)

The minimum number of times you and your mate should have sex in order to maximize your satisfaction in life and the relationship? Once. 

(Men's Health, 4/16)

Neuroscientist Simone Kuhn, whose study on porn watching and brain structure was published in the prestigious journal JAMA Psychiatry, says that her employers at the Max Plank Institute were unhappy to be associated with it.

(Time, 4/11/16)

The lowest point for American men when it comes to life satisfaction is age 52.

(Men's Health, 3/16)

Pablo Picasso is the world's most in-demand artist, the world's most forged artist and the artist whose works are most often stolen.

(Vanity Fair, 3/16)  

In five years stem-cell treatment may finally cure baldness.

(Men's Health, 3/16)

Rule 34 provides that “if it exists, there is porn about it.”

(Time, 4/11/16)

When Aretha Franklin went to see Diahann Carroll in a production of “Sunset Boulevard” she got one seat for herself and another for her mink.

(The New Yorker, 4/4/16)

The words that Sally Field says she overuses the most? “Ishmagiggle, Doolywacker” and ‘Motherfucker.”

(Vanity Fair, 3/16)

Roz Warren (www.Rosalind warren.com) is the author of OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES, A COLLECTION OF LIBRARY HUMOR.)