I spent last weekend in Montreal celebrating my birthday. I love that city, with its European flair and its appreciation for blatant sexuality. Strip clubs peacefully co-exist next to retail stores like H&M on the main drag, St. Catherine Street, and nobody even thinks it's ironic that the street's named after a saint.
Sex and displays of sexuality are so prevalent that they need two sex shops to satisfy it all. One of the shops is a toy store. It has DVDs, BSDM props, vibrators, dildos, penis pumps, Venus butterfly toys, anal sex toys, and a dizzying array of blow … Read More

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

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

Strippers and strip clubs are one of those polarizing gender phenomenons that divide men and women almost squarely down the middle. (We'd venture even more so than porn, actually.)

Most men (at least once in their lives, stop lying fellas) have been to and thoroughly enjoyed their stay at a strip club. Perhaps even shelling out a wrinkled $20 or two for a lap dance (or four). No judgements here!

On the flipside, a lubed-up, g-string dressed man asking a group of ladies to part with any of their cash so he can shake his butt in their … Read More

How much debauchery is too much debauchery?

This is what New York City's bawdy, burlesque night club, The Box, is grappling over after after a New York magazine feature described the over-the-top sexual performances that go on inside in graphic detail. The Box features more than just your run-of-the-mill pole dancing...but you'll have to read the piece for all the juicy details.

I've been to enough burlesque performances to tell you urinating on the crowd is not a common occurrence. And maybe that is what allegedly made The Box so cool. (I say "allegedly cool" because the … Read More

Starting sometime in the 1950s, when female contraception was virtually nonexistent, legend has it some inventive women would shake a bottle of Coca-Cola and open it into themselves after having sex to prevent pregnancy. While this seems as effective a contraception method as standing on one's head is to getting pregnant, a Boston ob-gyn professor put the soft drink to the test in the early '80s and found it does indeed kill some sperm.

Taiwanese doctors who replicated Dr. Deborah Anderson's 1985 findings determined Coca-Cola is not an effective contraceptive, but both findings found that Diet Coke is … Read More

Starting sometime in the 1950s, when female contraception was virtually nonexistent, legend has it some inventive women would shake a bottle of Coca-Cola and open it into themselves after having sex to prevent pregnancy. While this seems as effective a contraception method as standing on one's head is to getting pregnant, a Boston ob-gyn professor put the soft drink to the test in the early '80s and found it does indeed kill some sperm.

Taiwanese doctors who replicated Dr. Deborah Anderson's 1985 findings determined Coca-Cola is not an effective contraceptive, but both findings found that Diet Coke … Read More

It turns out we have one more thing in common with monkeys. No, we don't actually swing from the trees crowing about our need for a mate each time we ovulate, but our body does emit signals that make men pay more attention.

According to the latest issue of Scientific American Mind, recent studies have shown that women appear—and even smell—better to males while at their most fertile. A University of Mexico study found that female strippers even score twice as much in tips if they gyrate while ovulating. But apparently we don't strut our stuff on … Read More