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By a 24-2 vote, workers at the sex toy chain Good Vibes voted to form a union today, according to a union organiser.

Vibratex, the sole North American importer of the Magic Wand brand, announced that its "Pleasure as Art" commissioned piece will be on display later this month at the Good Vibrations downtown location in San Francisco, California.

The prevailing history of the vibrator is shrouded in night-time mystery and buried deep beneath duvets. Buzzing softly between whispers for almost two hundred…

INSTRUCTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: LEARNING HOW TO LIVE NOW, BY CARMEN WINANT. London: SPBH Editions, 2021. 119 pages.“LET ME PAUSE HERE to say that ‘instructional photographs’ is a term that I have made up; there is no preexisting dedicated category for this kind of picture,” writes artist Carmen Winant in her slim, pocketable book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now. On the opposite page, a woman gingerly pulls hardened plaster from her face; culled from a photographic “how-to” on mask-making, the black-and-white image has been shorn of captions and context, extricated f...

Delving into her vast found photography collection, the artist considers how instructional images can – beyond teaching us practical, life-building skills – proffer ontological truths about our bodies and world