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Top, screen capture from Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer, 2013. Via. Bottom, photograph by Martin Parr, Untitled, from the series From A to B - Tales of Modern Motoring, 1994. Watch also, the mesmerizing BBC TV series directed by Nick Barker.

Since I’ve been driving I’ve been either going out with my husband or I’ve been married. This is the first time I’ve driven a brand new car that I wanted, and it suddenly dawned on me that I was no longer married.

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If you think about why any story moves us, it’s because of a quaking moment of recognition. It’s never the shock of the new, it’s the shock of the familiar.

Joshua Oppenheimer. Via.

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Addyi is not only the first sex drug marketed to women; it is the first drug ever to target desire or libido in humans. Whereas Viagra affects physiology—increasing blood flow to the genital region—Addyi affects neurocircuitry. It goes right to the source of the so-called problem: the female brain. Initially formulated as an antidepressant, Addyi works by allowing for more uptake of norepinephrine and dopamine, while decreasing levels of serotonin in the brain. (It is in a different drug class but similar to another antidepressant, Wellbutrin, which is sometimes prescribed to offset the symptoms of low sexual desire and anorgasmia that can result from taking SSRIs like Prozac and Zoloft.)

Alyson K. Spurgas, from Solving Desire, for The New Inquiry, March 2016.