New York Magazine: June 12, 2017 Issue

Table of Contents

June 12, 2017

Cover Story

Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time

What ten years of Pornhub has done to the American sexual imagination. By Maureen O’Connor

On the Cover: Illustration by Ben Wiseman.

Features

What We Learned About Sexual Desire From 10 Years of Pornhub User Data

Women are much likelier to watch porn on their phones, Pornhub traffic spikes on Christmas morning, and more fascinating insights.

By The Editors
‘I Started Really Getting Into It’

Seven pioneers of amateur web porn look back.

By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
Is Trump Inc. the President’s Greatest Vulnerability?

One D.C. advocacy group attempts to litigate kleptocracy.

By Andrew Rice
The Bullet, the Cop, the Boy

In 2012, 18-year-old Ramarley Graham became yet another black man killed by police. An unusually revealing look at what happened next.

By James D. Walsh

Intelligencer

Culture

The Fine Art of the Final Episode

An inside look at the making of The Leftovers’ finale.
Do Endings Even Matter Anymore?

TV is moving away from finale fever — which makes TV better.
Forever and Ever, Amen

Your definitive, not-at-all-controversial guide to 25 iconic finales.
Tony’s Dead, Walt’s Not, and Phoebe’s Hooked on Meth

For every show that’s ended, there’s a fan somewhere who’s concocted a strangely convincing theory about what really happened in the final moments.
The Movie Review

Sofia Coppola directs the “female gaze” at The Beguiled.
The Movie Review

My Cousin Rachel takes on the male gaze’s myopia.
The Book Review

Francesco Pacifico’s post-hipster Williamsburg in Class.
To Do: June 14–June 28, 2017

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

The Cut

Finer Things

Patent-leather Jimmy Choos with a side of corn on the cob.

Departments

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