By Josh Gilman: The top trending story around the world this morning was the death of the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner. The death of every human is a sad day, but unfortunately today’s memorials to the man who made pornography so mainstream he nearly put himself out of business, are in their very adulation a condemnation of his life’s … Read More
Singleness, Marriage, Contentedness, Porn & Pavlov
By Josh Gilman: Happy Valentines Day! Depending on your personality and life circumstances, today is the best/worst/happiest/horrific/lovely/sickening/romantic/depressing day of the year. But for nearly everyone it is definitely one thing. Triggering. I’ll explain why. Contentedness One of the most common terms that is thrown around when we come upon anything that reminds of relationship statuses is the word “content”. Usually … Read More
2 reasons to never use the phrase ‘Food Porn’
By Brad Pullan & STF Staff Food Porn I really don’t like the phrase ‘food porn’: Why? If you haven’t already I’m sure you have seen someone share a delicious looking picture from a ‘food porn’ social media page. There are countless other pages like this (e.g. Earth Porn) but this article will specifically focus on ‘food porn’. There are … Read More
Heroes & Villains
By Josh Gilman When I was 5, my Grandmother gave me a couple of superhero figurines. To my parents’ embarrassment, I wasn’t particularly grateful and kept playing with whatever cereal box I deemed a more entertaining toy at that moment. My Grandma, however, just picked up the batman figurine. “I love Batman!”, she said. “He’s my favourite, he’s my hero.” … Read More