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Friday, June 20, 2008

Le Swap: Paris Swing Clubs

big%20cowgirl.jpgEveryday on Gridskipper we give you a new map. Some are new, some are fetched from our archive, newly updated. Happy Gridskipping. So you've heard all about our clubs échangistes but aren't exactly sure how to get in there? Fear not, little libertine! Paris sex clubs are actually quite welcoming, what with their Western theme nights and all-you-can-eat buffets. First-timers and those without the courage to coucher appreciate the "no means non" policy and acceptance of voyeurism. So when you find yourself ready for a Michel Houellebecq sort of evening, remember our map and warm up with this inspiring video from Stereo Total.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

> Sex

bikini061908.jpgHeadline of the day: “Science proves that bikinis turn men into boobs.” Finally, there is scientific proof that “Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice.” Or, in other words, when in the presence of a nearly nude chick, guys make bad decisions. [MSNBC]


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

> What's in a name?

Three Greek islanders have asked an Athens court to “ban a Greek gay rights organization from including the word ‘lesbian’ in its name.” The plaintiffs argue that use of the term affronts their native island of Lesbos. [AP]


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Confessions of a Call Girl: NYC’s Best & Worst Hotel Room Service

callgirls061008.jpgNews of sex rings and call girls has dominated the media in recent months. But, rarely, do we get to hear it from the horse’s mouth. Considering the life of a call girl includes countless hotel room trysts, who’s a better judge of hotel room service, than the women who service extremely wealthy and high profile men? After the jump, a NYC-based call girl who goes by the name of “Chloe” and whose “clients range from bankers to hipster, well-known indie band-mates,” divulges all the dirty details of what NYC hotels really stand out when it comes to in-room dining, and which should be avoided altogether.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

> Swinging in Miami With a side of Spitzer

Miami’s leading"swinger's club," Miami Velvet, gets some serious face time in a new New Yorker article about Roger Stone, a political figure who claims to have played a role in the fall of the former governor of New York thanks to a call girl he met at the sex-fueled club. Fact = better than fiction. [via The New Yorker]


Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Expect less strip clubs and

Expect less strip clubs and strippers in the city of Toronto, as well as elsewhere, thanks to the Internet. "Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit there if he could get it all for free on his computer at home?" a 23-year-old ex-dancer asked the UPI. Perhaps because he likes the feel (or at least the look) of a real, live woman? Guess not. [ UPI]


Tuesday, April 29, 2008

French Sex Lessons

french-sex-lessons.jpgSpringtime in Paris, blah blah blah. Despite their proclivity for swing clubs, kinky saunas, and other libertine pleasures, it turns out the citizens of the supposedly most romantic city on earth aren't all born Romeos and sex kittens. Love coaches, bondage, spanking, and sex toy lessons at the city's chicest sex shops: here's a list of useful addresses where Parisians go to keep up their reputations as the sluttiest people on the planet.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Allwyn Rondeau was the Heathrow

heathrowemployees423.jpgAllwyn Rondeau was the Heathrow employee who sued Lucy Chilton, a security guard at the London airport, after she harassed him for being gay by "wobb[ling] her breasts" at him and asking him to "come on, give it to [her]." Ew, the term wobbling is so gross. Chilton has been found guilty and faces a fine of up to 30,000 pounds for personal injury. [via]


"Penis theft panic hits city..."

"Penis theft panic hits city..." 13 suspected sorcerers have been arrested in Kinshasa, the Congo's capital city, for possibly "using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft." [via]


Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Beautiful Women of the World: Princess Charlotte Casiraghi

charlotte-casiraghi-1.jpgI'm feeling a little out of sorts today, so I've decided to just post whatever I'm in the mood to blog about. Obviously, I've used this as an excuse to write up odes to some of the finest women in the world. No day of posting international hottie photos would be complete without acknowledging the Princess of Monaco, Charlotte Casiraghi. No less an authority on pretty women than Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld (who, regardless of his personal preferences, is constantly surrounded by gorgeous models) once likened Princess Charlotte to the famous French sex kitten Brigitte Bardot. Her movie star looks are to be expected, since Charlotte's grandmother is none other than Grace Kelly. In addition to her royal pedigree, killer tan, and piercing grey eyes, the 21-year-old Princess is also in possession of her own island off the Sardinian coast, which is a good thing because she looks damn good in a bikini.

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Beautiful Women of the World: Germany's Sexy Playmates

censoredgermanplayboy.jpgSince we're blogging about whatever strikes our fancy today, I thought I'd take this time discuss one of my all-time favorite topics-- beautiful women! Some of my favorite sources for sexy lady eye candy are the international editions of Playboy Magazine. Hugh Hefner's porno empire has spread throughout the world, and presently there are at least 25 international versions of the magazine. Each of these global remixes of Playboy has their charms. The Russian edition features hardcore chicks with tattoos and rippling muscles who look like they could survive a stint in a bleak Stalinist factory or kick the shit out of you in a bread line. Brazilian Playboy features naturally curvy, implant-free cuties. The best part of Brazilian Playboy is something called "Coelhinhas," which seems to involve regular girls sending in naked pictures of themselves to the magazine. To be quite honest, I'm not exactly sure what "Coelhinhas" are, I just know that whatever it is, I like it a lot. Anyways, I digress. All of the international Playboys are pretty great, but today I want to talk about the best one of them all: Playboy Germany.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Japanese Nerds Enjoy Kinky Drag Maid Cafes

cafegirl.jpgOh Japan. Words cannot express how much I love you. You always give us the best sex links. First, there were bar bunnies, and now there's this video of Tokyo cafes where dudes in French-maid outfits draw pretty ketchup pictures on omelettes. Perhaps weirdest of all, these cross dressing "maid cafes" are only open on holidays because all of the drag queens have day jobs. The miniskirted male maids also seem to insist that their behavior has nothing to do with homosexuality. Sure thing, fellas. The Reuters reporters who got the clip link this phenomenon to Japanese otaku or "nerd" culture. One of the best things about Japan is the way the freakiest sex subcultures are linked to the most mundane sectors of society. You've got the massage parlor and hostess-bar-happy salarymen and the geeks who love pornographic cartoons and kinky cosplay. If only things were more like this in New York, Silicon Alley would look like a fetish club and Midtown would be, well, still pretty much the same old Midtown. Check out the full footage of the Japanese drag cafe-maid madness after the jump.

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Nude New Yorker Cattle Call

tonywantsyoutogetnaked414.jpgTime Out New York is looking for some nude New Yorkers. The rag wants to feature "everyday New Yorkers" (i.e. not those of the aspiring actor/model/porn star variety) "looking their sexiest best in various states of undress." Interested? Tell them who you are, where you live, what you do and why on earth you want to strip down to (or beyond) your skivvies. Submissions should be sent to inyc at timeoutny dot com. [via]


Monday, April 14, 2008

A serial subway groper who

freddiejohnsonsexoffender414.jpgA serial subway groper who has been arrested 53 times made his latest unwanted advance to a woman two weeks after he had been released from prison. Thanks to his most recent offense, if convicted, "Subway Rat" Freddie Johnson could be sent away for life as a result of his "persistent sexual abuse." [WCBS]


Friday, April 11, 2008

Tokyo Bar Bunnies Photo Gallery

tokyobarbunniesmain.jpgWeb design zine, Openers Gallery, has a preview of photographer Yabuta Osami's project "Tokyo Bunny Girls." For the series, Osami took black-and-white pictures of bar hostesses in Downtown Tokyo. The artist says his photos are "erotic/sexy but elegant." The racy shots show tired-looking waifish women writhing around in lingerie and their trademark bunny ears. Osami cites magazine photography as a major influence, and his bunny girl photos have a documentary quality. I see these images as portraits of a hard profession-- they're far more sad than they are sexy. Some of the photos show the bar bunnies out on the streets, while others seem to capture the hostesses in their places of employment. More Tokyo bar bunny shots after the jump. [via]

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Los Angeles Day Spas

laspamain.jpgThere's a wide range of spas in LA, many completely swanky but some of them affordable yet not at all skeevy. We've covered spas located in hotels, as well the best spots to get couples' massages, but this here is just about some of the best day spas in LA, from the celebrity-attracting to the culture-shocky. Add your favorite in the comments.

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Prostitution is "flourishing" in Indonesia,

indonesianpadlockmassage.jpgProstitution is "flourishing" in Indonesia, so the local leaders in one state have made a rule
requiring masseuses to wear chastity belts
. The devices mandated by the government in Batu, an area that's popular with tourists, are "padlocks" that a massage parlor staffer must wear "on the waist band of her trousers." Sexy! [Reuters]


Thursday, April 10, 2008

Return to the G-String Jungle

gstringjunglemain.jpgBack in October we published my first New York Strip Club Safari. There are far too many fine gentlemen's clubs in this city for just one post, so once again I braved the wilds of the city's nudie bar scene to bring you a list of even more strip clubs. This time I even found a place where women can go to ogle shaking booty. Since there is obviously such high demand in this fair city for drowning oneself in booze and silicone, this probably won't be our last strip joint roundup. I will not rest until I've chronicled each and every place in this town where people pay for proximity to naked bodies. What can I say? I love helping people. [Photo]

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

An R-Rated Response to Deltalina (Sexy Finger Wagging Included)

sexydeltalinavideorespnse49.jpgIt was only a matter of time until someone posted a response to Internet phenomenon Deltalina -- the redheaded, Angelina Jolie-esque stewardess who stars in the air carrier's new safety video. One parody that the fine folks at Funny or Die have provided is ridden with sexual innuendoes, dildos and a truly amazing take on Deltalina's finger wag. Their faux flight attendant (pictured here with a condom in her hands) even manages to get a few real flying facts in between talk of her "buttered tits" and "greasy ass." For instance, "If you're seated at an emergency exit, then you're f***ing lucky." Video (most definitely NSFW) after the jump.

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The Sex and Swingers Clubs of the DC Area

1430379301_e77f936b59.jpgWhether you are a bi-curious woman who's part of a couple, a hardcore swinger without time for idle chitchat, a bear into the leather scene, someone who thinks fat-bottomed girls make the rockin' world go 'round, a confused man willing to put part of yourself into a hole in a wall and hope for the best, an elderly homosexual into autoeroticism, or a dedicated practitioner of doggystyle, Washington, DC, has a club for you. Although these sex and swingers clubs cater to a wide range of interests, most them have another thing in common: they bill themselves as "classy." (For the record, and to protect my wife's integrity, all research for this piece was conducted online or through interviews. And what's below the jump is NSFW, unless of course you work for Gridskipper.) (photo)

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Spain has "smashed" a Russian

Spain has "smashed" a Russian ring of prostitution with gangs based in both the north-east and south of the country, leading to the arrest of 76 people and the detention of 400 women whose citizenship was questionable. "Russian-Spanish couples - married or cohabitating - were involved in the sex trafficking, police said." Money earned from the sex ring that went to Russia may have totaled over 2m euros (3.4 million USD). [BBC]


Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Brazil's "Rainforest" Condoms

rainforestcondoms48.jpgThanks to the natural rubber produced by trees in the Amazon, the Brazilian government will manufacture more than 100 million condoms this year in a state-run factory in the northwestern state of Acre. Given the name Natex, these contraceptives will benefit at least 500 families and provide 150 jobs in Xapuri, as well as help fight AIDS. "The Brazilian government has one of the biggest programs in the world to distribute free condoms," a practice often criticized by the Catholic Church. [BBC]


Monday, April 7, 2008

CNN reports that "male geishas"

geishaguy.jpgCNN reports that "male geishas" are the newest trend in Tokyo. These enterprising gentlemen work as "hosts" in clubs where women reportedly pay between "$1,000 to $50,000 a night for male companionship." As with traditional geisha girls, it's unclear whether the majority of these women are simply paying for conversation and entertainment, or for sex. Unlike traditional geisha girls, these guys don't wear elaborate makeup. But they do dye and blow dry their hair daily to "look prettier." [CNN]


Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Thailand: Still The Best Place In The World To Have Your Penis Chopped Off

thaitrannysurgery.jpgThailand has a well-deserved reputation as a haven for ladyboys and the men who love them. The large number of transsexuals, also known as "katoeys," in Thailand has fueled a boom in cheap quickie sex-change surgery clinics offering castrations in twenty minutes -- or less -- for around $125. The Thai government sees these speedy procedures as a public health hazard, since they don't require the extensive psychological evaluations that come with more formal gender reassignment therapy. To fight these sex-change chop shops the Thai government recently announced a temporary ban on castration surgeries. Experts doubt that the new restrictions will have a major effect on the Thai tranny operationindustry: it's easy to perform quickie castrations in secret. Even if the castration ban is effective, there remain a large number of clinics that offer more formal sex-change surgery packages to aspiring ladyboys. After the jump, see why Thailand remains a great destination for medical tourists looking to remove their manhood.

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