The Shame of Sex Addiction

From the outside, Brandon seems to have it all – a well paying job at a top New York firm, a swanky apartment and the ability to seduce nearly any woman into giving him what he wants. Yet, the relentless pursuit of physical and sexual gratification is his secret shame, transforming what was likely once a source of boundless pleasure into an insatiable, joyless and inescapable compulsion…

Who Needs a Boyfriend When You’ve Got An iPhone?

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, many single people dwell on that feeling of incompleteness we are brainwashed to think we must be feeling if we haven’t found our so-called “other half” yet. Not me this year, I’ve started spending a lot of my time with someone really special…

Condom Use Becomes Mandatory in LA-Based Adult Films

The Los Angeles city council recently passed a controversial ordinance requiring all porn performers to wear condoms during film shoots to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The 9-1 vote was a significant victory for the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an organization that has been tirelessly lobbying for years for mandatory condom use in pornography…

Sex Convention 2: Still Jerkin’

Lust was in the air at the 18th incarnation of the Salon de l’amour et de la seduction, which took place last week at Place Bonaventure. Generally, the convention achieved its goal of creating a relaxing and non-threatening arena for learning about sex and sensuality, purchasing a wide variety of pleasure objects and accessories, and finally entertaining, and dare I say even arousing, the middle-class masses…

Five Reasons to Attend the Everything To Do With Sex Show

Dubbed North America’s best adult consumer show, the Everything To Do With Sex Show, aka Le Salon de l’Amour et de la Séduction, is back at Place Bonaventure this weekend. Last year, to amuse ourselves, we played Sex Bingo, a treasure hunt of sorts of scintillating, scandalous and sexy products we thought we’d find. Based on the results and on what’s online, here’s what you might find at this year’s convention…

Classic Porn Reviews – Deep Throat

Recently, it came up over drinks with fellow FTBer Steph Laughlin that I hadn’t seen any of the seminal 70s porn films including the notorious Deep Throat. I decided it would be a double feature, paired with the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat for insight into the background and social climate of the time…

To Shave or Not to Shave

The first time I ever shaved off all my pubic hair I was 18 years old. I don’t know if that’s young, old or average, though I do know that I’ve never been much of a shaver. There have been times in my life when I could have practically braided my leg hair. I suppose it’s because of my inner hippie that no matter how much my mom made fun of my “European armpits” growing up, I just didn’t give a shit.

BUST magazine once featured a formative piece for my post-adolescent self, How to Be as Horny as a Guy. It was a 10-point list of practical, easy tips, many I was following already..

2011 Year In Review: Sex

2011 was a great year to be a sex columnist… oh who am I kidding, any year is a great year to cover all the things that turn us on, make us wet and get us off! The best part about writing this column is my in the field work covering sex-related events. This year, I rode a bike naked with about a hundred others for the Midnight Naked Bike Ride, donned a PVC corset…

Holiday Gift Guide for Men

Why should ladies get to have all the tantalizing toys under the tree? Here are some suggestions to make this a red-hot Christmas for your man!

If he’s a nervous newbie:

Lubricant is your best friend when introducing any type of anal play or toys into the mix. Whereas water-based lubricants are the popular ones on the market, they don’t hold a candle to the smoothness of silicone-based lubricants.

Since silicone lube is not absorbed by the skin, it lasts much longer than their water-based counterparts. The major downside of silicone lube is that…

Holiday Gift Guide for Women

This holiday season, give the gift of pleasure to that someone special in your life. After all, a sex toy is the gift that keeps on giving… at least until the batteries die. Lucky for you many modern toys are equipped with rechargeable batteries. With the vast array of options, the thought of buying a pleasure object for someone else can be a bit intimidating…

This XXX-Mas, You Could Be The Star!

For about a year now, I’ve been extolling the free-spirited liberation and ridiculous heaps of fun I have performing our contemporary take on burlesque with the troupe Glam Gam Productions. Many of you out there might be thinking, hey that sounds like something I’d like to try, but I haven’t the faintest idea how to get involved…

My Kind of Garden Party

Imagine a place where exotic mystery and unbridled sexuality come together, a club where self-expression isn’t merely encouraged – it is pretty much required. This is the kind of place where the open-minded congregate for an all-out assault on the senses. Those behind London’s most infamous fetish club, the Torture Garden, are making their first-ever visit to Montreal on their 20^th anniversary tour. Founders Alan Pelling and David Wood…

29 things I Learned in my 20s, part two

And now a continuation of last week’s post with some of the life lessons I’ve picked up along this bumpy road known as my twenties:

13 If you do have the horrible realization as your head hits the pillow at home after that particularly offensive walk of shame that your magical turquoise ring with the chipped stone is not on your finger and is, in fact, on slimy douchbag’s table, wait a few hours before dragging your sorry ass back there…

29 Things I Learned in my 20s, part one

I had a birthday this week, and not just any birthday, a significant one. I turned 29, which, if supposedly humourous greeting cards have taught me anything, I’ll be having again and again for the next few years.

I figured this would be a good time to reflect on some of the lessons I’ve learned in the past ten years. It’s been a most interesting decade indeed: moving to the big city for university, adventures abroad in Southeast Asia, starting my writing career, and plenty of trysts and lovers in between. So without further ado I present 12 things I’ve learned in my 20′s…

Expand your Sexual Repertoire with a Workshop

Understanding how to fulfill your deepest sexual desires can seem intimidating yet undeniably intriguing. It begins with getting to know your own body and figuring out what gets you going. This exploration can be even more fun with a partner. , especially one with whom you share a level of intimacy that makes asking questions and giving sexy suggestion possible. Local sex shop Joy Toyz is offering a diverse series of workshops…

All Sluts Eve

while putting on a sexed-up caricature of a nurse’s uniform, police office or pirate may be liberating, is it even relevant these days? With all the reinforcing of traditional heterosexual stereotypes, sex columnist Dan Savage even likened Halloween to a straight pride parade. He cites a particularly disturbing costume of a “sexy coroner” as evidence that we’ve gone too far in objectifying everything. Similarly, an “Anna Rexia” costume depicting a meager skeleton…