Pop culture has construed them to be full-blown nights of drunken debauchery for which no one is held accountable for the sinful shenanigans that transpire. They are the infamous bachelor and bachelorette parties—when spouses-to-be are customarily subjected to wild partying with friends before "settling down" into a stage of expected monogamy.

Opinions on such gatherings are hotly contested. Anti-partiers question the readiness and maturity of a fiance(e) wanting a "last taste of freedom." Pro-partiers question the naysayer's trust in the relationship. And then there is a whole gray area where a couple must determine how much is too much … Read More

Being the modern, liberated, well-educated woman that I am, I never thought I would mind the man in my life going to a strip club. Years ago, I would even occassionally join my guy friends for an evening at a gentlemen's club. It meant free cocktails all night, and have you ever seen the ladies' room at a strip club?  The restrooms are girly bonanzas that range between the cosmetics aisle at a drug store to a miniature Sephora. Plus, strippers on their bathroom breaks have the best gossip. Desperate Housewives? Days of Our Lives? Child's play in comparison. 

Fast-forward … Read More

Two couples made history this week when they got married in the most unexpected, albeit romantic, of all places.

Italian soccer player Luca Ceccarelli and his fiancée, Irene Lanforti, made history when they were married under the very same balcony where legend has it the woman who served as inspiration for Shakespeare's Juliet revealed her love for her real-life Romeo so many centuries ago. The wedding marks the first to take place in this historic location. Read: 10 Greatest Love Stories Of All Time

Never before have two people been married at the House of Juliet despite the obvious … Read More

It looks like today is shaping up to be a gorgeous day. It's Military Spouse Appreciation Day, so thank a military spouse if you bump into one. You probably also know that Mother's Day less than 48 hours away, so do something considerate (it doesn't have to be sincere). At any rate, the best of love on the web this week:

In honor of the forthcoming Mother's Day, Em & Lo turn motherly wisdom into sex advice. The may have missed "it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye," but who's counting? 

Over at Wowowow, Murphy … Read More

The Girlfriend Experience, a film about high-class call-girls and the men who pay for them, aired earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival just a few blocks north of where the real action took place—Wall Street. Director Steven Soderbergh called upon adult-film star Sasha Grey to take the lead, a role that, surprisingly, made the porn actress weary.

"I got [to my first sex scene], and I was only nervous waiting around," the actress told MTV News. Then once the scene started, I was fine. But working for Steven—it's like, 'Am I doing this right? Should … Read More

A few months ago my roommate and I went to a strip club with some friends. I was expecting a trashy bar with dirty-looking girls, but it wasn’t like that at all. The club was small, clean, and felt safe. The girls were all attractive, not supermodels, but they looked real. And we had a blast.

We made friends with a few of the girls, and even got one’s email address. She told us how much fun she had dancing and how empowered and sexy she felt afterward. We left that night wanting to be strippers, and swore … Read More

How do you start a conversation with a woman that says, "I'm sexier than you, I'm more confident than you, and I have more fun than you." You don’t. You don’t normally make friends with strippers either which is why reading the blog Stripper Barbie is so addictive. It’s not as though a lap dance comes with a Q&A. Those are usually extra. So consider Stripper Barbie the ultimate stage show that you don’t even have to pay for. No two drink minimum or husky guy named Hank standing in the corner watching your every move … Read More

During a recent business trip, I found myself shoe-horned into the back of a taxi with colleagues in various stages of inebriation, hurtling through chancy neighborhoods of Baltimore. I was on my Blackberry with my wife, going through the litany of "kids/mail/bills/when are you coming home/this single mother crap is getting old" when the cabbie abruptly stopped at our destination. "Gotta go, hon," I said. "We just pulled up to the strip club." My colleagues turned their heads my way, mouths open.

"You told her you were going here tonight?" one colleague asked.

"My wife would throw my junk on the … Read More

Love Bytes: three must-click love and relationship links.

Have you seen this video, How To Break Up With Your Girlfriend In 64 Easy Steps? Well, The Frisky has written a response, How To Break Up With Your Boyfriend in 44 easy steps—20 fewer steps, since women are more efficient. [The Frisky]

A woman describes her first time a at a male strip club. [Lemondrop]

Is it fair to your husband to stay in a marriage if you feel ambivalent about the relationship? [First Wives World]

Would he be happier in the long run if we ended … Read More

You can touch a stripper in Toronto. You can fondle her thighs, squeeze her boobs, kiss the nape of her neck as she arches her back in pretend ecstasy. Unlike the American clubs where you’ll get beaten by a bouncer and tossed in the alley if you lay a finger on her, you can do almost anything you want in Toronto.

"You can touch me anywhere except my p***y," the blonde told me. "That's my job."

She was curvy and ravishing. She smelled like hand sanitizer. She charged $20 a song to sit naked on my jeans in a dim … Read More