Quick & Dirty: AI Matchmakers, Horny Goat Weed, and Other Signs of the Sexual Apocalypse

Camille unpacks a series of unhinged headlines—from a reality tv-style gooning competition to Julia Fox’s libido renaissance and the internet's erotic fixation on Nathan Fielder

I’m back with another edition of Quick & Dirty, a fun, flirty dispatch breaking down the latest in sex and desire.

This week, we set out to answer burning questions like: Is New York so over? Is Julia Fox’s libido so back? Is Nathan Fielder actually hot—or are you all going insane? And so much more…

Julia Fox is gay, celibate, and hornier than ever. Or so I assume, based on the last string of headlines I saw. First she came out to Ziwe (“I have a gay bone”), then announced her celibacy, and now she’s promoting aphrodisiac-infused erotic skincare and libido supplements made with “horny goat weed.” Maybe next, she’ll be selling a treatment for whiplash.

Julia Fox’s libido, presumably

A new season of The Rehearsal dropped, and everyone’s fiending for Nathan Fielder… sexually. Personally, I don’t get it—but maybe that’s because I dated my share of awkward evil geniuses in high school and got it out of my system. If you’re down bad for him, tell me why on this anonymous form, or drop your contact for an interview… I want to understand.

Masturbation Month is in full swing—and the hottest new porn trend is JOI, or “Jerk-Off Instructions.” This is basically what it sounds like: someone looking into the camera and telling you how to masturbate.

And hey, if you think you’ve got a gift for gooning… There’s a reality TV style competition called The Great BateWorld BateOff! where you can compete for the title of “Master Bater.” Yes, really.

Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd announced she’s embracing AI matchmakers—and envisions a future where online daters could have ‘AI concierges’ that date each other to find the best possible match, essentially outsourcing the talking stage to personalized robot representatives. I have a lot more to say—editors, HMU.

Chatbots are having sexual conversations in celebrity voices. Meta paid millions to license the voices of actors like Judi Dench, John Cena, and Kristen Bell for a new fleet of chatbot companions…. which promptly went off the rails and began engaging in sexually explicit conversation with minors, some of which involved graphic sexual scenarios featuring characters from Disney’s Frozen. Yikes!

The new American pope is taking a stand against artificial intelligence.
First, he became meme fodder. Then he announced he’ll take on the name Leo XIV in tribute to Pope Leo XIII, who became known as “the pope of the workers” for his critiques of the mechanized economy during the Industrial Revolution. In his inaugural address, the new pope drew parallels to today’s AI boom, warning against the impact of new technologies.

But enough about AI. Let’s talk about the real existential threat: West Village Girls. In a viral article for The Cut, Brock Colyar investigates the influencer-transplant takeover in the West Village, where TikTok girls are cosplaying Carrie Bradshaw—and making it insufferable for everyone else.

Around the same time, Lena Dunham dropped a “why I’m leaving” essay for The New Yorker. And Candace Bushnell—author of Sex and the City, and the original Carrie Bradshaw—took her one-woman show to New York’s Sony Hall… which, I later learned, is also the location of Hillsong, the controversial celebrity megachurch frequented by Justin Bieber.

Candace Bushnell preaching to rapt audiences

After Candace regaled us with tales of a bygone era of New York, I walked around the city alone, taking in the sights on my way to a lingerie-and-pajama-party at Johnny’s—and encountered, to my bemusement, a fleet of genuine Bicycle Boys, one of the archetypes Bushnell coined in her original column. I couldn’t help but wonder—beyond West Village Girls and their two-wheeled counterparts, what modern dating archetypes are you seeing out in the wild? Drop yours in the comments, or submit anonymously HERE.

And in case you missed it…

• The future of fucking

  • I teamed up with Feeld for some sexual trend forecasting. Here’s what’s next, from fairy smut to female perverts.

• How do I navigate a threesome?

  • Advice on how to bring a third into the bedroom without blowing up your relationship.

• What AI erotica reveals

  • I jailbroke ChatGPT and made it write smutty stories—for journalism.

XOXO
Camille