【Twilight the Porno and Other XXX Parodies】

2025-06-26 00:12:46 328 views 3538 comments

Substituting Russian Literature for Sex Ed,Twilight the Porno and Other XXX Parodies and Other News

By Justin Alvarez

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Film still from Anna Karenina(1935).

  • “Jonathan Franzen gripe” or “YouTube comment about saggy pants”? You be the judge.
  • Forget condoms and turn instead to Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Gogol, according to a Russian children’s ombudsman. Says Pavel Astakhov, “The best sex education that exists is Russian literature.”
  • The little-known original ending of “The Frog Prince” (spoiler: there was no kiss) sheds insight on why the Brothers Grimm were so grim.
  • A Stanford University study shows evidence that today’s kids are actually writing longer and better essays than people in Twitter-less 1917. However, according to a recent Pew Research poll of teachers, children are also writing too informally.
  • A defense of buying books and never reading them.

 

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