The Mystery of Love Motels
Seeing a themed motel feels a little like passing by a payphone. If you were to pick up the phone, you might disappear into another dimension.
Category: Love & Sex
Rock Candy Takes Us to the Candy Shop
There’s a new kind of candy shop in town, cowgirls. We fell in love with the confectionery delights of Rock Candy Toys, a new brand of sugary sex toys from gummy-bear vibrators to lollipop-inspired dildos. We would be remiss not to say that it is, in fact, a sweet fantasy.... Read More
300(ish) Words on High-Fashion Condoms
The mall-after-dark aesthetic drunkenly insists on its own allure and kicks open a trapdoor to an unfettered world...
A Taxonomy of Mysterious Lingerie Brands
Who, for instance, is Leg Avenue? Who thought to turn a moment into an Elegant Moment?
Society Report: LOVE MOTEL—The Getaway of Your Dreams!
Last Thursday, something truly magical and sensual happened at Paradice Palase in Bushwick.
On Valentine’s Day, Love Motel Will Be the Getaway of Your Dreams
Hello, my sweethearts! The time has come to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Very Famous, the site I started one year ago on Valentine’s Day, making it live during a frantic one-hour lunch break. We’re teaming up with famed pop culture museum THNK1994 (recent exhibits include: “The Fantasy Art of Celebrity Perfume” and “Anna Wintour Crossing... Read More
300(ish) Words on Lana Del Rey’s ‘Mariners Apartment Complex’
Hearing Lana Del Rey go down to a deep, whispery timber to sing “I’m your man” has been the church pew I’ve been sitting on the last month.
Champagne, Mirrors and Romance at the Poconos’ Honeymoon Resorts
But then you plan a weekend to float with your lover in a heart-shaped pool, enclosed in a red-and-pink tiled room, before seeing your reflection in a many-mirrored wall and falling asleep together under lit-up constellations.
💋 TRUE ROMANCE! A Chat With Author Rebecca Brooks
Before Cosmopolitan, before confessional first-person essays, before New York Magazine's Sex Diaries, before there were more novels featuring female protagonists, there were romance novels.