For being a website that bills itself as a smart, honest magazine on sex, with cliché-shattering prose and fiction as well as striking photography, reading Nerve one-handedly doesn't really happen. It's almost like Slate or Salon, which I rarely actually read but occasionally skim the front pages and more-or-less get the point of the articles without having to suffer through the elitist liberal holier-than-thou atmosphere that those websites cultivate.
Nerve comes across as that girl in 7th grade who threw up on the guy while giving her first blowjob (and then kept going) and then established herself as the expert on sex not because she was smart (or even good at it) but because she declared herself one, and never shut up about how she was dating a high school senior. No one really believed her, but she stood her ground until eventually we stopped caring. She now probably writes those painful Carrie Bradshaw-esque articles in her college newspaper.
Recently, Nerve came out with their list of the Top 50 Sexiest Albums You Must Own (But Probably Don't), and as one might expect from such a grand statement, it's not entirely true. Their list is a fairly banal collection, stradding between the beyond-obvious cliches (Miles Davis, Al Green, Prince, Jeff Buckley, Marvin Gaye) and the cocking your head in incredulousness (Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, White Stripes, Patti Smith, Liz Phair). I wouldn't necessarily think of having sex to most of these songs, unless it's a type of sex I don't want to have. You can have sex to pretty much any type of music, but that doesn't mean that you should.
So here's a muxtape with some of my recommendations for sexytime music. I make no claims that this mux is for every time a dick is whipped out, but just for certain types of sexytime. Hopefully I did a respectable job at expanding the sweet symphonies to accompany penes going in and out of orifices.
