[Los Angeles, June 11. Image via x17 ]

Robbie Cooper ’s film of young adults discussing (and demonstrating) their love of pornography is now up on Wallpaper ’s website. Featuring three women and three men, the film is essentially SFW (with the exception of some audio), but still fairly unsettling. Note: I speak for myself on that last point. Cooper has intercut footage of his subjects - Lindsay, Benjamin, Kristin, Rafi, Genevieve, and Theodore - talking about pornography with, well, if not quite actual pornography, something approximating it. Or perhaps I should say, his film can be seen as an exercise through which to discuss what exactly “porn” is: I have…

[Beverly Hills, June 9. Image via x17 ]

The imprisonment of Laura Ling and Euna Lee has drawn attention to a subject they were investigating when they were captured — the plight of North Korean women who flee to China. Blaine Harden of the Washington Post writes that up to 300,000 North Korean refugees currently live in China, and 80% of recent arrivals are women. Most of them leave North Korea not because of the oppressive regime, but because of hunger and poverty. In China, many wind up being sold to farmers as brides. As the wives of Chinese men, North Korean women usually have much better food and shelter than they did back home, and are protected from the Chinese police. However, since China refuses to recognize them as refugees, they have no legal status…

D.C. police say that a man entered the National Holocaust Museum early this afternoon, drew a rifle and shot a security guard . Two other guards returned fire, injuring the assailant. One person was apparently injured by flying glass . [ WTOP , WJLA ]