Sex conventions have been somewhat stigmatized. Images of sweaty, overweight men rummaging through boxes of vintage pornography may come to mind. One might also imagine BDSM mistresses walking up and down booth aisles in tight leather. Part of the reason these stereotypes exist is because nobody really knows how to (nor probably wants to) define [...]

SEX: Now that we have your attention, let us tell you about The Everything To Do With Sex Show, featuring such activities as “Got Ass Best Booty Contest,” “The Bad Boy of Hypnosis,” “Bottoms Up, Impact Play,” “I’m A Little Tied Up,” “Hedonistic Lifestyle,” and many more, this show promises to oil those rusty “kinks” [...]

Despite its puritanical roots and reputation, Toronto’s sexier side will be revealed in a new course at the University of Toronto called Sex in the City. The course is part of a new program at University College. Called UC One: Engaging Toronto, it aims to help first-year students get up close and personal with Toronto’s [...]

“A lot of people assume that I’m comfortable discussing everything about sex,” says Good For Her owner Carlyle Jansen. “They find it really surprising that I can get really shy with my partner. It’s about intimacy and risk; I don’t have a lot of risk telling you my desires, but if I tell my partner and they say that’s really weird, that hurts. Most people think there aren’t any hard edges left for me when it comes to sex, but there are.”

When we call prostitution the "world's oldest profession," surely we're being facetious. Dentistry is a profession. Teaching is a profession. Prostitution is a crime, right? Well, sort of. In fact, prostitution itself has been decriminalized in Canada since the '70s, but there's a catch. Almost any activity associated with prostitution is illegal: communicating to solicit clients, living off the avails, keeping a "bawdy house" (a term that perhaps gives away the vintage of these laws—it sounds like it was coined by the Wife of Bath). In case you haven't noticed, this has all been entirely ineffective at stopping prostitution from existing. Forget about "profession," and focus on the "world's oldest" part. As in, "has existed in some capacity in just about every society everywhere ever." And that includes penguin society!

UPDATED For years, the roof above the Zanzibar Tavern has served as a peaceful escape for servers and strippers alike. But its days serving as such may be numbered. In the early morning hours of July 23, 1984, Yonge Street at Elm was a scene of complete pandemonium. Properties around the Zanzibar Tavern were ablaze, [...]

Claudia Dey is poised to make couples across North America much happier. A celebrated novelist (Stunt) and widely produced playwright (Trout Stanley), Dey has just released a sex manual that is as much about him as it about her: How To Be A Bush Pilot: A Field Guide To Getting Luckier. On the morning of [...]

Talent, top singles competitors, and hired help mingle onstage at the Lavalife Summer Lovin’ Festival. Several months ago, the online dating site Lavalife announced a competition to crown one of its members “Canada’s Top Single.” From the Lavalife profiles that heeded the call to compete, a squad of celebrity judges chose fifteen men and fifteen [...]

ArtStars* is the TMZ of the Toronto art scene, in the good way, making easily digestible videos about the not-so-easily-digestible. Torontoist brings you one new ArtStars* episode (more or less) every week—with the warning that we don’t necessarily approve of their bad behaviour. You don’t need to tell us. We’ve gained a reputation in the [...]

Diversity dance company Ill Nana. It’s Friday night, and it’s loud at Toronto’s fifth annual Feminist Porn Awards. As in deafening. If the FPAs are “the Independent Spirit Awards of the porn world,” as Tristan Taormino, writer, director, anal-sex guru, and nominee, has called them, the “spirit” part is in plentiful supply. A glance around [...]