The Sex Lives of the One Percent
In the new season of HBO’s <em>The White Lotus</em>, the rich have wandering eyes and intimate desires—and their wallets can satisfy only so much.
The fictional White Lotus resort in Sicily is home to a collection of Testa di Moro, beautifully decorated vessels shaped like human heads made by local artisans. As a receptionist informs the newly arrived guests in the second season of HBO’s , the objects represent a tragic folktale: When Sicily was occupied by the Moors centuries ago, a young Moorish man seduced a Sicilian girl, but after she learned that he had a family back home, she beheaded him and used his skull as a vase. It’s a rather violent origin story for such ornate artwork, but the visitors casually brush this off. “It’s a warning to husbands, babe,” one quips sunnily to
