Gambling: The French won with a chimera

Gambling: The French won with a chimera

Ticket Article reserved for subscribers In 2023, the sector recorded a turnover growth of 3.5%, which is not surprising in these inflationary times where we dream of a straw of salvation. The National Gaming Authority released its 2023 report on Monday, April 22, and this is a sector that is in great shape: +3.5% in … Read more

Second hand market: “Tons of clothes travel from one end of the planet to the other, sometimes returning to the starting point”

Second hand market: "Tons of clothes travel from one end of the planet to the other, sometimes returning to the starting point"

Fashion Article reserved for subscribers Responsible consumptioncase In “L’envers des fripes”, anthropologist Emmanuelle Durand works to “scratch the ecological varnish” with used goods. For “Libé” she deciphers the underside of this growing globalized market that is neither neutral for people nor for the environment. In Lebanon, Emmanuelle Durand wanted to research used clothes. Faced with … Read more

Tattoos, piercings… Intimate in the skin: “I wanted to show my dead father in several forms on my body”

Tattoos, piercings... Intimate in the skin: "I wanted to show my dead father in several forms on my body"

Testimony Article reserved for subscribers They got a tattoo or piercing to reclaim their body or to remember a significant event in their life. They say “Libé” a certain meaning of one of their bodily modifications. In our first episode, Laura, 31, a hairdresser and barber in Paris, who carries the memory of her father … Read more

Tattoos, piercings… Intimate in the skin: “It’s a piercing of the perineum, between the bursa and the anus”

Tattoos, piercings... Intimate in the skin: "It's a piercing of the perineum, between the bursa and the anus"

Testimony Article reserved for subscribers They got a tattoo or piercing to reclaim their body or to remember a significant event in their life. They say “Libé” a certain meaning of one of their bodily modifications. In our second episode, Julien, 46 years old, a journalist in Paris, talks about his guiche, a navel piercing. … Read more

On social media, everyone is buzzing about Asian hornets

On social media, everyone is buzzing about Asian hornets

Dart work Article reserved for subscribers Videos of Asian hornet hunters are all the rage on YouTube and TikTok, at a time when the Senate has just passed a bill aimed at organizing the fight against this bee-harming pest. Against all expectations, the Asian hornet, which colonized France in about twenty years, became a star … Read more

Body modifications: tattoos and piercings in all directions of the dermis

Body modifications: tattoos and piercings in all directions of the dermis

Ornaments Article reserved for subscribers Body modification is an ancient practice, as evidenced by the recent discovery of an 11,000-year-old piercing. If for our ancestors they were mainly cultural rituals, they are developing towards an ever-increasing self-affirmation. 10,000 old? 15,000 45,000 years? We still don’t know exactly when the first piercings appeared. On the other … Read more

“As seen from Hawaii, these embroidered poke bowls just throw anything into the bowl”

"As seen from Hawaii, these embroidered poke bowls just throw anything into the bowl"

Interview Article reserved for subscribers For Hawaiian chef Mark Noguchi, head of an organization that advocates for local farmers and fishermen, the dish served in France or the United States has little to do with Hawaiian poke and the idea of ​​”connection” it conveys. Mark Noguchi is a Hawaiian chef and founder of the Pili … Read more

Scatological games: from carnival to sex toys in the bedroom

Scatological games: from carnival to sex toys in the bedroom

400 donkeys Article reserved for subscribers Long evoked by Diderot, d’Alembert or the ethnographer John Gregory Bourke, activities under the sign of excrement can today find their expression in the privacy of the home, with toys that imitate excrement. What strange meandering of the mind affects man’s relationship to what falls or flows from him: … Read more