Why do we buy furniture? To have sex on, right? Right. Finally a furniture seller has faced up to reality and offered a web interface that lets you animate people having sex on their wares. This is shopper-centric merchandising without the BS.

Tok&Stok, Brazil's answer to Crate&Barrel, provides for your enjoyment three tables, three couches, a beanbag chair, and what look to be two dog beds(!). Fun for the whole family...

Under the description of each item, there are five "Suggestions of use." You've got your doggy style, your 69, your reverse cowgirl, and a few other standards (and exotics) I don't recall the names of. (The muscle memory is strong though.) Take your pick and watch Moby and Sinead O'Connor rub naughty bits right there. In case they didn't include your favorite Kama Sutra position, there's a SuperSpecialBonusFeature that I just LURVE. Click on "my own style" and play with 27 variables, creating the most bizarro antigravity freakazoid borderline-non-Euclidean mf lovemonkeyness you can fathom. (You cannot, however, toggle off the damn floating hearts.)

Alva Bernadine’s incomparable photographic signature is quite unique. His work combines elements of surrealism and erotic photography with humour. These photographs — be they in color or in black and white - are astounding, provocative and compelling.

Bernadine’s photographic world is way out, incredible funny at times, disturbing at others. Its compositional strength and colour intensity always constitute a visual happening, or as Alva Bernadine himself puts it: "I take the theatricality of surrealism, the elegance of classical haute couture photography, the narrative of reportage and the refinements of advertising photography and mix them all into a ‘Bernadinian cocktail’ — a radical photographic synthesis."

The artist Allen Jones has created various "furniture-sculptures" incorporated scantily-clad female mannequins. Inspired by popular culture rather than "high art", these pieces typify Pop Art. Although functional, they must be considered fine art rather than design. You can read his biography here.