It’s art!
Visitors attending the grand opening of a museum wing in Austria last week were greeted with something more than the usual wine-and-cheese celebration. As people walked through the halls, they...
View ArticleTintin sting
Since it first appeared in 1929, the comic strip Tintin, created by Belgian artist Hergé, has won the hearts of millions of children around the world. Boy reporter Tintin wanders the globe, having...
View ArticleDon’t call me again
How far would you go to be with your ex-lover? We've all been guilty at one time in our lives of committing some mild juvenile-type stalking of exes. Who hasn't driven past the house where they live?...
View ArticleDoggie style
Travelers planning a trip to Zambia should take note: Leave your dog at home. For some unknown reason, the nation is seeing a bizarre increase in reported cases of bestiality. A man in Livingstone,...
View ArticleIt’s a circus
The mention of Princess Stephanie conjures up a variety of images, from the palaces and casinos of Monaco to the tragic and fatal auto accident of Grace Kelly. Last week, her name was linked to a...
View ArticleSay “cheese”
An employee of a supermarket in Vienna, Austria, discovered a novel method for adding to his personal collection of pornography: If he caught female customers in the act of shoplifting, he allowed them...
View ArticleAroused by fresh pancakes
A doctor working in a hospital in the town of Ruzayevka, in the Russian republic of Mordvinia, probably doesn't see many surprises come through the doors of the hospital -- some industrial accidents,...
View ArticleBig duh
We've seen the lists compiled by Internet research companies detailing the world's most visited Web sites, like Yahoo, AOL and MSN. But nowhere in these official tabulations does one ever see a glimpse...
View ArticleHide those thighs
For an entire year, a strip club has operated on central Moscow's seedy main street of Tverskaya Ulitsa, located just a bread loaf's toss from the mayor's office. Nudity and prostitution is certainly...
View ArticleRodent revelations
Last year health researchers discovered something unsettling about the popular spermicide nonoxynol-9. A study with prostitutes concluded that the birth-control goop can increase a woman's chances of...
View ArticleSex patrol
High in the mountains near Iran's capital of Tehran, a man and a woman are skiing down a slope. They talk, they laugh and their rapport is so friendly that it's clear their relationship will turn...
View ArticleNuclear scandal
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is best known as birthplace of the atomic bomb, and since that time the facility has kept busy developing and refining our idea of "national security."...
View ArticleDemon music
Music has always had its sexual elements. Elvis gyrated his hips to the squeals of hormone-crazed high school girls. The music video for Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" featured female rumps jiggling...
View ArticleGirls just want to have fun
The mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Antanas Mockus, is known for making unconventional political decisions. He has declared himself "Super Citizen" and walked through the city dressed in red-and-blue...
View ArticleTokyo teens
Teenage girls in Tokyo don't often go to their school counselor for sexual advice. Nor do they visit a doctor. And they're certainly too afraid to ask their parents. So where does a young woman turn if...
View ArticleThai one on
Along with the beautiful scenery and relaxed attitude you'll find in Thailand, you might see Thai couples spanking one another's bottoms until they turn bright pink, cheered on by gays waiting in line...
View ArticleA teacher’s nightmare
It was a routine Monday in the classroom full of third-graders at Roosevelt Elementary School in Kenosha, Wis. The kids were fresh from the weekend, and looking forward to watching a video about...
View Article“We are good”
This rant was first performed Oct. 20 at San Francisco's Edinburgh Castle at a party hosted by Kevin Williamson and Angeline Ferguson of Rebel Inc. -- original U.K. publishers of the novel...
View ArticleBill Hicks, the black-humored articulator of doubt
It's October 1991, inside the brass-and-ferns Punch Line comedy club in San Francisco. The sound system is blasting Stevie Ray Vaughan at top volume. I'm here because a friend has pestered me for weeks...
View ArticleShe is JT LeRoy
When Geoffrey Knoop confessed to the New York Times in February that his partner of 16 years, Laura Albert, was the one who wrote as JT LeRoy, the jig was up. For over 10 years, Albert, now 40, had...
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