On a Getaway Boat, Part I

Postcards from Italy

No, not this one. Maybe metaphorically like this one. But not actually like this one. I need to get away. To hide. A disguise! I need to breathe. Breathe. Remember to breathe. Breathe in. Breathe out. I slip into the first store I think I’ll be safe in. An Asian-Italian Read More…

Unexpected Grinding at San Jose Coffee Shops

Some South Bay Vietnamese coffee shops now offer more than merely coffee to attract customers. We present to you the glorious nearly nude coffeeshops of San Jo, where pasties, thongs, fishnet and bare women abound. Angry wives often send video footage to Councilwoman Madison Nguyen demanding

Recently Banned: Rainbows in Ontario, Male Lingerie Salesmen

In an uncharasteristically un-Canadian act of cupcake-hating— erm, we mean, homophobia, one Ontario Catholic school banned all depictions of rainbows on campus when students of their unofficial gay-straight alliance attempted to hold a fundraiser with signs and banners displaying them. In response, the students took down the signs and baked Read More…

Un-sexy public acts may get you arrested

By un-sexy public acts, we specifically mean masturbating on planes, as one shameless gentleman was alleged to have done on a cross-country United flight. At least the three 18-year-olds who noticed can’t be as traumatized as the passengers on that one motherfuckin’ plane with those motherfuckin’ snakes (see left). Another way Read More…

Berlin university students consider sex work

Would you consider sex work to pay for school? That was the question Berlin Studies Centre researchers posed to 3,200 Berlin university students in an investigation into one oft-mentioned but little understood local situation: Student prostitution. One in three said they’d consider sex work, while four percent had already done some form Read More…