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BUSTING OUT

BUSTING OUT

By Laura Roberts • on July 2, 2009

Summer is finally here! As the temperatures climb towards sweltering and the humidex registers somewhere in the “muggy and sweaty” range, the clothes inevitably start to come off. Despite Montreal’s permissive attitudes towards strip clubs, sex shops and swingers - who, as you may have heard, were forced to run from the burning

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Sex News

QUEEFS, SUNDAY SMUT, AND ABORTION DOCTOR MURDERED

QUEEFS, SUNDAY SMUT, AND ABORTION DOCTOR MURDERED

By Black Heart Staff • on June 1, 2009

Sex News Round-Up for June 1, 2009: The hilarious Dr. V over

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TWITTER TITS, DRUNKEN SLOGS, AND NOT-HOT SEX LOCALES

TWITTER TITS, DRUNKEN SLOGS, AND NOT-HOT SEX LOCALES

By Black Heart Staff • on May 25, 2009

Sex News Round-Up for May 25, 2009: We know these are surefire

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SEX WORKERS VS. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, LOVE LAND AND TECH SEX

SEX WORKERS VS. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, LOVE LAND AND TECH SEX

By Black Heart Staff • on May 19, 2009

Sex News Round-up for May 19, 2009: Audacia Ray, VP of Sex Work Awareness in Brooklyn, NY, posted a

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PLAYBOY’S SEXY WIVES, NY TIMES ON CRAIGSLIST AND BEST SEX BLOGGERS WEEK IN KINK

PLAYBOY’S SEXY WIVES, NY TIMES ON CRAIGSLIST AND BEST SEX BLOGGERS WEEK IN KINK

By Black Heart Staff • on May 11, 2009

Sex News Round-Up for Monday, May 11, 2009 Carolee

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Friction Friday

EROTICA WRITING GROUP: WRITERS WANTED

EROTICA WRITING GROUP: WRITERS WANTED

By Black Heart Staff • on June 12, 2009

Are you an erotica writer, or do you aspire to be? Do you live

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MARGARET ATWOOD GETS IT

MARGARET ATWOOD GETS IT

By Laura Roberts • on May 29, 2009

Fairly recently, in a galaxy not unlike this one, there lived a famous writer by the name of Margaret Atwood. One day, Margaret Atwood was invited to judge

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REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF LIFE

REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF LIFE

By Peter Baltensperger • on May 22, 2009

Harold Palmer drove along a meandering country road past fertile fields, rich orchards and sprawling farms. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in July

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THE NEIGHBOUR

THE NEIGHBOUR

By Gino Sabatini • on May 15, 2009

I remember being struck by her natural beauty when I first saw her, so I helped her carry suitcases and several boxes upstairs to her apartment. A week

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V for Vixen

POETRY WHORES

POETRY WHORES

By Laura Roberts • on June 25, 2009

While poetry readings may not typically conjure up a frisson of sexual excitement, the new generation of poets certainly has a few tricks up its sleeve.

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SEXY FRINGE MADNESS

SEXY FRINGE MADNESS

By Laura Roberts • on June 18, 2009

Though my fellow Hour staffers listed some of their Fringe favourites in last week’s issue of the Hour, I’d like to make a few of recommendations

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DOES SAFE BREATH PLAY EXIST?

DOES SAFE BREATH PLAY EXIST?

By Laura Roberts • on June 11, 2009

As I write this instalment of Vixen, I’ve just heard the shocking news of actor David Carradine’s death at the age of 72. It’s still

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QUEERING GENDER WITH THE DUKES OF DRAG

QUEERING GENDER WITH THE DUKES OF DRAG

By Laura Roberts • on June 4, 2009

Drag kings rock my world. I’ve only seen them from afar, often missing the gender-queering performances of Montreal’s Dukes of Drag (the group

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Interviews

HOT LIT: A DOWN & DIRTY INTERVIEW WITH JON PAUL FIORENTINO

HOT LIT: A DOWN & DIRTY INTERVIEW WITH JON PAUL FIORENTINO

By Laura Roberts • on April 21, 2009

As Montreal gears up for the internationally acclaimed literary festival Blue Metropolis, which begins

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DANIEL ALLEN COX SHUCKS IT ALL

DANIEL ALLEN COX SHUCKS IT ALL

By Laura Roberts • on October 9, 2008

Daniel Allen Cox, our Boy Montreal (photo by Farah Khan) Hustling isn’t the most glamorous job. It can make you a ton of cash, sure, and probably

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MORE COMPLICATED THAN BRITNEY SPEARS, MORE HEART THAN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

MORE COMPLICATED THAN BRITNEY SPEARS, MORE HEART THAN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

By Laura Roberts • on February 9, 2007

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CLIKS photo courtesy of The Cliks Standard music interviews inevitably ask the band in

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Hot Lit

REVIEW: FISH BONES + NEW POEMS BY GILLIAN SZE

REVIEW: FISH BONES + NEW POEMS BY GILLIAN SZE

By Laura Roberts • on June 22, 2009

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I love Gillian Sze. Not in

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SEX NOVELS: AMOROUS WOMAN

SEX NOVELS: AMOROUS WOMAN

By Laura Roberts • on May 20, 2009

The sex novel is a highly underrated art form. Erotica, these days, tends to be short and sweet—or at least wham, bam, thank you ma’am. It’s

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EBAY AUCTIONS SPOT IN AUTHOR’S LATEST NOVEL

EBAY AUCTIONS SPOT IN AUTHOR’S LATEST NOVEL

By Laura Roberts • on May 12, 2009

Nathan Tyree is writing a novel, and he wants you to be in it. Yes, YOU. How? He’s auctioning

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REVIEW: BEST SEX WRITING 2009

REVIEW: BEST SEX WRITING 2009

By Laura Roberts • on May 5, 2009

I’ve always found anthologies a bit difficult. Although

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Dear Vagina

DEAR VAGINA

DEAR VAGINA

By Veronika "Vagina" Van Kessel • on April 30, 2009

EDITOR’S NOTE: As we continue to tweak our editorial

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Personal Essays

WAXING ELOQUENT

WAXING ELOQUENT

By Donna George Storey • on June 26, 2009

As an erotica writer, I had to try it at least once in my life.  For the sake of the authenticity of my art.  And so, purely out of professional duty,

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MS. SEABOURNE, 1975

MS. SEABOURNE, 1975

By Alan Girling • on June 19, 2009

She passed around condoms and diaphragms for everyone in the class to examine. She had us scan glossy magazines for subliminal sexual imagery in photos

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VAGINA DENTATA

VAGINA DENTATA

By Peter Baltensperger • on June 5, 2009

Our lives are filled with myths, old wives’ tales, and other popular misconceptions about sex that permeate society, confuse the issues of sexuality,

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I HATE CALIFORNIA GIRLS

I HATE CALIFORNIA GIRLS

By Lina Harper • on May 6, 2009

They seem cute at first. On the surface, California girls seem to be full of pomp and good times, with their little blonde hair wisps and harm-reduction

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Assorted Reviews

DIRTY, FILTHY (VIRTUAL?) SEX ACTS

DIRTY, FILTHY (VIRTUAL?) SEX ACTS

By Black Heart Staff • on December 16, 2008

There are plenty of things that turn people on, and for every couple that claims to prefer plain vanilla sex, there’s at least one repressed fantasy

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REVIEW: DUREX PLAY

REVIEW: DUREX PLAY

By Laura Roberts • on July 15, 2008

Getting ready to Play Durex Play Vibrations is

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HOT FOR YOUR WORDS

HOT FOR YOUR WORDS

By Simon Case • on July 1, 2008

Screenshot of HotForWords.com Okay, I don’t know about you but it seems to me the blond bombshell

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REVIEW: MY INVISIBLE

REVIEW: MY INVISIBLE

By John Moore Williams • on October 9, 2007

My Invisible: Popahna Brandes, Carolina Maugeri and Miranda Mellis From its first strumming, guitar-like chords to its liltingly delivered lyrics, reminiscent

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Still Hot

BOUDOIR PHOTOGRAPHY AND BUBBLY

Hair, makeup, costumes, bubbly, lights, camera, action! If that sounds like the set of a film, you’re not far off. Actually, these are just some of the perks of the Andrea Hausmann Photography experience,

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STRIPPER STAND-IN

High school reunions aren’t sexy. In fact, they’re one of those things that tend to induce shudders of revulsion, no matter how rich, famous or successful one appears to be in daily life. Yet

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GETTING BENT

A friend of mine recently informed me that she no longer identifies herself as a lesbian, preferring the term “queer” instead. When I mentioned this to another woman-loving woman, I was told

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ASANA

Lila walked into the studio, feeling a flutter in the base of her belly and a tightening against her Lycra yoga pants. She unrolled her mat, wondering how she would make it through the next 90 minutes

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MAINE GAYS, REPUBLICAN SLUTS AND EROTIC FILTH!

NEWS ROUND-UP: Rejected Facebook ad for And Then Came Lola (via AlterNet) Facebook

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THE MATTHEW SHEPARD ACT

Matthew Shepard (photo: The Matthew Shepard Foundation) Throughout all the gay marriage hubbub, with Miss California as one of the latest “celebrities”

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SO SWEET

Since I got fired, my girlfriend and I have fallen into a routine. She comes over to my condo after work and drags me to the bedroom. Usually she sits on my face and smothers me. Then she hurries me into

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PORN FOR WOMEN: AFRODITE SUPERSTAR

What’s the deal with porn for women? As much as standard formula porn rubs women the wrong way with its

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MASTURBATION, THE GREAT TABOO

Er and Onan, from The Brick Testament (image: thebricktestament.com) Onan is one of those many minor biblical characters

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SUPPORT SEX-ED: SENSOWRIMO

Support Quebec sex-ed: SensoWriMo! (photo: New York Daily News) Hugo Vaillancourt is a man on a mission. A volunteer for

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“CRAIGSLIST KILLER” ARRESTED IN BOSTON

Alleged "Craigslist Killer" Philip

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WHY SEE SASHA GREY IN THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE?

Sasha Grey (photo: Rachel Kramer Bussel) Sasha Grey’s mainstream crossover film,

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GIMME SOME SUGAR, BABY: ON “KEEPING UP WITH BEING KEPT”

Julia Roberts as Richard Gere's sugar baby in Pretty Woman (photo: mentalfloss.com) This weekend, the New York Times published

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NEWS: Amazon De-Ranks Thousands of LGBT Books

One of these authors is too "adult" for Amazon.com. Is it Henry Miller or Anaïs Nin? If you’re

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THE QUEST FOR SFW PR0N: PG PORN

For those who prefer their porn to be scrubbed free of the typically nasty T&A, to the point of being—finally!—SFW (Safe For Work), here’s a novel concept: PG

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CRAZY-ASS USED BOOK SALE

Co-op Bookstore manager Larissa "Lit Pimp" Dutil (photo: Joseph Yarmush, via Hour.ca) Black Heart loves community bookstores

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ESSENTIALLY CURED

"In&Out" photo by Flickr user bass_nroll (for more: http://temp.sickgirl.it) My wife used to tie me up and burn cigarettes

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MAKING MAGIC

America's Finest News Source (image: The Onion) There is something that I will never tell anyone about. It’s

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THE POWER OF SEX

The Power of Sex album cover by E-rotic The other day I was sitting around watching my boyfriend play a

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BAD SEX WITH BAD WRITERS

You

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IS EROTICA DEAD?

"Specify type of goat" (photo: incubaker.com) Though the internet is full of porn of every variety, and all one

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SOMEBODY STOPPED THE CALLIOPE

Calliope, 1872 (photo: Wikimedia Commons) The last orgy at Phillip and Sylvia’s house was by far the best

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ADDICTION

"Still Life With Smoker" by Michael Harwood (michaelharwoodphoto.com) Christian McArthur didn’t mean to take up smoking – he had heard

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VALENTINE’S DAY ROUND-UP

There’s plenty happening in Montreal this Valentine’s Day weekend, and in case you haven’t already got plans, here are some of the super-sexy shows you won’t want to miss! CO-OP

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AN OPEN LETTER TO HENRY ROLLINS

Dear Henry Rollins, Henry Rollins (photo: Wikimedia Commons) I know you are a

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CUM: BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

"Breakfast of Champions" by David LaChapelle (photo: artnet.com) I like to start the day with a bang. Or, at the very least, a nice pan-galactic gargle-blast of cum down the back of my throat.

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KINKY CHARACTER CRUSHES: TYLER DURDEN

There are plenty of hot characters in literature to drive a girl mad. Of course, some only turn you on once they get transmogrified to the silver screen, to be played by gorgeous hunks of man-meat like

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PORN: FANTASY VS. REALITY

I find myself torn in various directions when it comes to the topic of porn. As a sex writer, I am often asked about porn and my relationship to it, whether it’s the guy who wants to know if I have

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THE KINKIEST CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE

THE TOP FIVE: 5. Satan (Paradise Lost, Milton): Nobody can out-charm Milton’s Lord of Darkness. Much-lauded

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SCENES FROM A FETISH

photo: Flickr user Phoney Nickle SCENE I: Write those words on my body as you seduce me. You know the three

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COSMO’S CRIMES AGAINST GOOD SEX

Cosmopolitan, purveyor of bad sex tips (photo: cosmopolitan.com) I must admit, I’m a sucker for a good headline,

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