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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BUSTING OUT
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
Sex News
QUEEFS, SUNDAY SMUT, AND ABORTION DOCTOR MURDERED
Sex News Round-Up for June 1, 2009: The hilarious Dr. V over
TWITTER TITS, DRUNKEN SLOGS, AND NOT-HOT SEX LOCALES
Sex News Round-Up for May 25, 2009: We know these are surefire
SEX WORKERS VS. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, LOVE LAND AND TECH SEX
Sex News Round-up for May 19, 2009: Audacia Ray, VP of Sex Work Awareness in Brooklyn, NY, posted a
PLAYBOY’S SEXY WIVES, NY TIMES ON CRAIGSLIST AND BEST SEX BLOGGERS WEEK IN KINK
Friction Friday
EROTICA WRITING GROUP: WRITERS WANTED
Are you an erotica writer, or do you aspire to be? Do you live
MARGARET ATWOOD GETS IT
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
REFLECTIONS ON THE MEANING OF LIFE
Harold Palmer drove along a meandering country road past fertile fields, rich orchards and sprawling farms. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in July
THE NEIGHBOUR
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
V for Vixen
POETRY WHORES
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.
SEXY FRINGE MADNESS
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
DOES SAFE BREATH PLAY EXIST?
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
QUEERING GENDER WITH THE DUKES OF DRAG
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
Interviews
HOT LIT: A DOWN & DIRTY INTERVIEW WITH JON PAUL FIORENTINO
As Montreal gears up for the internationally acclaimed literary festival Blue Metropolis, which begins
DANIEL ALLEN COX SHUCKS IT ALL
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
MORE COMPLICATED THAN BRITNEY SPEARS, MORE HEART THAN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CLIKS photo courtesy of The Cliks Standard music interviews inevitably ask the band in
Hot Lit
REVIEW: FISH BONES + NEW POEMS BY GILLIAN SZE
In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that I love Gillian Sze. Not in
SEX NOVELS: AMOROUS WOMAN
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
EBAY AUCTIONS SPOT IN AUTHOR’S LATEST NOVEL
Nathan Tyree is writing a novel, and he wants you to be in it. Yes, YOU. How? He’s auctioning
Dear Vagina
Personal Essays
WAXING ELOQUENT
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,
MS. SEABOURNE, 1975
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
VAGINA DENTATA
Our lives are filled with myths, old wives’ tales, and other popular misconceptions about sex that permeate society, confuse the issues of sexuality,
I HATE CALIFORNIA GIRLS
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
Assorted Reviews
DIRTY, FILTHY (VIRTUAL?) SEX ACTS
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
HOT FOR YOUR WORDS
Screenshot of HotForWords.com Okay, I don’t know about you but it seems to me the blond bombshell
REVIEW: MY INVISIBLE
My Invisible: Popahna Brandes, Carolina Maugeri and Miranda Mellis From its first strumming, guitar-like chords to its liltingly delivered lyrics, reminiscent
Still Hot
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
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
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
MAINE GAYS, REPUBLICAN SLUTS AND EROTIC FILTH!
NEWS ROUND-UP: Rejected Facebook ad for And Then Came Lola (via AlterNet) Facebook
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”
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
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
MASTURBATION, THE GREAT TABOO
Er and Onan, from The Brick Testament (image: thebricktestament.com) Onan is one of those many minor biblical characters
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
“CRAIGSLIST KILLER” ARRESTED IN BOSTON
WHY SEE SASHA GREY IN THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE?
Sasha Grey (photo: Rachel Kramer Bussel) Sasha Grey’s mainstream crossover film,
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
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
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
CRAZY-ASS USED BOOK SALE
Co-op Bookstore manager Larissa "Lit Pimp" Dutil (photo: Joseph Yarmush, via Hour.ca) Black Heart loves community bookstores
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
MAKING MAGIC
America's Finest News Source (image: The Onion) There is something that I will never tell anyone about. It’s
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
IS EROTICA DEAD?
"Specify type of goat" (photo: incubaker.com) Though the internet is full of porn of every variety, and all one
SOMEBODY STOPPED THE CALLIOPE
Calliope, 1872 (photo: Wikimedia Commons) The last orgy at Phillip and Sylvia’s house was by far the best
ADDICTION
"Still Life With Smoker" by Michael Harwood (michaelharwoodphoto.com) Christian McArthur didn’t mean to take up smoking – he had heard
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
AN OPEN LETTER TO HENRY ROLLINS
Dear Henry Rollins, Henry Rollins (photo: Wikimedia Commons) I know you are a
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.
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
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
THE KINKIEST CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE
THE TOP FIVE: 5. Satan (Paradise Lost, Milton): Nobody can out-charm Milton’s Lord of Darkness. Much-lauded
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
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,
