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‘Special’s Ryan O’Connell on Living with Cerebral Palsy on TV, the Millennial-Fueled Decline of Deodorant and an Argument Against ‘Foreplay’

Here’s a gross way to end the day: Andrew Fiouzi reports that the future of the deodorant-antiperspirant complex may very well be in peril, after…

Sunday Reads: The Buff Men Escaping Poverty in Kenya, The Desi Cult of Drake and a History of the Puffy Toilet Seat

Everything you missed from the Week That Was

The Fourth of July Sucks, Pools Aren’t Baths and TikTok Is Where Your Parents Aren’t

I once thought that the pool I swam in every day was a bath. I was in it for five hours each summer day (except…

Why South Asian Men <3 Drake, The Bygone Pastime of Quoting Movies and the Sunburned Men Harvesting Their Own Aloe Vera

Have comedies become less quotable since we began trading content online, as Miles Klee argues, or is it because all the good quotes have been…

Nairobi’s Booming (and Dangerous) Private-Security Industry, Why Men’s Swimsuits Have Mesh and Checking in on the #YangGang

Sunday Reads: The Last Wet T-Shirt Contest, a History of the Swim-up Bar and MEL’s Gigantic Summer Package

A Cultural History of the Wet T-Shirt Contest, Why Sleeping in the Nude is the Worst and the Horrifying Ingredients in Sunless Tanner

The Infamous Devon Sawa Dick-Slip in ‘Now and Then,’ In Defense of Vacation Selfies and How to Take the Kids on Planes 

Life as a Shirtless Beefcake on ‘Baywatch,’ An Ode to Sand and the Incels Catfishing Women with Images of Chads

The Rise and Fall of Oakley Sunglasses, The Last of the Sandcastle Kings and More from Our Gigantic Summer Package