Daily Loaf

Your week in sex and love news. No mention of balloon boy (other than this one). Pinky swear.

The Big O says ‘hell no’ to mile high club: Earlier this week, Oprah Winfrey’s former flight attendant claimed that she was wrongfully fired after being accused of having sex during a flight in June. The attendant, Corrine Gehrls, has sued Harpo, as well as former co-worker Myron Gooch and Winfrey’s goddaughter, Kirby Bumpus, for false and defamatory accusations that led to her dismissal.

Esquire discovers why vampires are so damn sexy trendy: On Tuesday, Esquire claimed that the reason that young straight American women have become obsessed with vampires is because they secretly want to have sex with gay men. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. The name “Celtic Thunder” sounds pretty cool for a soccer team.  But when the bombastic appellation describes five attractive guys from Ireland and Scotland who sing an odd mix of pop hits and traditional Irish songs at the Mahaffey Theater on Friday, it’s hard not to think someone dipped into the same well of kitsch that inspired over-the-top names like “Lord of the Dance.”

Be that as it may, when Celtic Thunder takes to the stage at the Mahaffey this Friday, they’ll bring with them impressive credentials.  Two of their CDs reached number one on the Billboard World Music Charts, and Read the rest of this entry »

Local and national adult stars came out early Monday for the 17th Annual Night Moves Adult Awards. Notorious porn star Ron Jeremy hosted the event, telling dirty jokes and fondling fans. Tampa performer Evelyn Rose taunted the crowd with her fetish act, Rebecca Love bounced out of her sequin Buccaneers cheerleading outfit, and 2001 Odyssey girls spiraled through an erotic version of Cirque du Soleil. Other adult stars in attendance included Jessica Drake, Kaylani Lei, Alektra Blue, Bree Olson, Kayden Kross, Alexa Jordan, Alexis Ford, Angelina Armani, Austyn Moore, Candi Lane, Chennin Blanc, Christy Wild, Deliah Strong, Derrick Pierce, Jazella Moore, Kayden Kross, Kaylani Lei, Kylie Ireland, Lexi Lamour, Lindsey Lovehands, Lisa Sparxxx, Mariah Milano, Nikki Rhodes, Nikki Sexton, Savanna Stern, Taryn Thomas, Teagan Presley, Trina Michaels, Veronica Rayne, and Zoe Britton.
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Republican blogger, daughter of John McCain, and overall minx Meghan McCain, almost pulled a Miley Cyrus this week after a racy photo on her Twitter account sparked outrage from conservatives.  With all the problems Americans face these days, why are we worried about a little cleavage?

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After another weekend full of my usual make-out antics, an issue I’ve been coping with reared it’s ugly head: post-make-out dating etiquette.

Undoubtedly, the internet has revolutionized dating protocol. The days of going to your mom for advice are gone. I am pretty sure my mom would be stumped if I asked her “What does it mean if he posts on my Facebook wall, but just writes ‘Hi’?” Read the rest of this entry »

The Skipperdome was packed this past Sunday, October 11, for WMNF’s Woodstock Flashback. Having been to Skipper’s Smokehouse more than anywhere else in Tampa, I was shocked to find so many people there, both in the restaurant and the outdoor venue. The parking lot was packed to overflowing.

Due to the lack of parking and the fact that we had to pay $5 for the spot we found, we didn’t see the opener, Soul 2 Earth, playing Jimi Hendrix, though we heard it the tail end of their set on our way in. We got our wristbands as they were exiting the stage.

It was practically standing room only at the ‘Dome, patrons with drinks and food in hand, and wearing smiling faces. Indeed, the WMNF regulars I’d spotted at previous events were in full attendance, but like always, the audience was a diverse bunch, ages ranging from infant to senior, and everyone was there to have an amazing Woodstock Flashback experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Conservative icon Rush Limbaugh is in discussions with a group looking at buying without doubt the worst team in the National Football League right now — no, not the Bucs — the St. Louis Rams.

The NFL Players Association head has come out against this, as have a few black players, who don’t think much of “El Rushbo.”  Predictably, the Reverend Al Sharpton has come out against this as well.

Nothing new in any of this.  But it gives me the opportunity to weigh in on the fact that, bar none, if you’re looking for tasteless if not flat-out racist letters to the editor, you’ll not be disappointed if you go to TBO.com to read from the fair-minded citizens of the Tampa Bay area, on this or any other issue that affects blacks or Muslims. Never fails.  I give credit to the folks at TBO that they’ve omitted several entries on this story as being ‘inappropriate.’

In Tampa today, the Hillsborough County Commission has voted to reject a rezoning request today that would have allowed for Catholic Charities to get closer to building a tent city in the County.

The organizers said they would build housing for up to 250 homeless people, for up to 90 days at a time.

Interestingly enough, the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County is against the proposal.  The head of the Coalition, Rayme Nuckles told Fox 13 last week that:

“The tents are not an effective way to meet the needs of the homeless,” said Rayme Nuckles, CEO of the Homeless Coalition, who has also been critical of Catholic Charities.

Here’s what Nuckles says on a home video shot at a meeting of the Stop Tent City group October 2nd:

“We said, ‘let’s do this the right way, because you screwed it up in Pinellas County.’” There were hoots and applause, music to Tent City’s detractors, who’ve pledged to campaign against any county commissioner who votes for the tents.

But again, on a 4-3 vote, Commissioners Higgenbotham, White, Sharpe and Hagen voted to deny the rezoning.

For those who work difficult jobs, sex is an important way to blow off steam.  My husband has a very stressful job, so I do my part to make his home life as pleasurable as possible.  One particular night my husband called home late from work. I could tell he had a rotten day because he asked if we had anything to drink.  At that moment I went into whore mode. It would take him a half hour to get home, which was enough time for me to plan his evening. Read the rest of this entry »

I consider myself a fairly patient person, especially when it comes to service in restaurants. I, along with millions of others, toiled in commercial kitchens and dining rooms across the country, and certainly understand the often horrific treatment endured by smarmy scumbags masking as diners. But enough is enough. I must kvetch about wine service in restaurants. Wine is conceivably the most lucrative cash cow a server has at his/her disposal, yet so many abuse the privilege of potentially making 15 percent for simply opening and pouring a bottle. To futz this up is ludicrous.

My least favorite flubs: Read the rest of this entry »

“Do you think it’s possible to love someone without being afraid of losing them? But at the same time is it possible to be alive in this world without loving anyone at all?”

Those questions are at the heart of the gentle, bittersweet Love of Siam, Thailand’s 2008 submission to the Academy Awards. They’re spoken by Mew to his best friend Tong, childhood pals who have rediscovered each other as teenagers, both having suffered wrenching losses: Mew of his beloved grandmother and Tong of his older sister, whose disappearance years before still haunts his parents. Mew has somewhat inexplicably become the lead singer in a boy band (Did Lou Pearlman move to Bangkok?), but when he reconnects with Tong his love songs take on a whole new dimension. Read the rest of this entry »

Porn stars, local adult entertainers, online entrepreneurs, fans, half drunk nudists, and overenthusiastic dudes with cameras such as myself, flocked to the nudists resort Caliente Sunday to pre-party for the 17th annual NightMoves Adult Entertainment Awards Show Monday at the Dallas Bull. I went hoping to get a nude Facebook photo with Ron Jeremy, moments after drenching his man-meat in ice water. Instead I snapped pictures from the sidelines as he fondled my topless lady friend.

The various adult entertainers in attendance included, Alektra Blue, Alexis Ford, Christy Wild, Derrick Pierce, local fetish model Evelyn Rose, Jessica Drake, Kayden Kross, Kaylani Lei, Kylie Ireland, Mariah Milano, Trina Michaels, and Zoe Britton. But, the real draw was the bikini-less bikini contest, populated by a mix of locals and porn stars.

(Pics below the break are most definitely Not Safe For Work – NSFW) Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, CL reported on where the business community in the Tampa Bay area stood on the soon to be proposed light rail referendum in Hillsborough County.

One key player in the process is the Tampa Bay Partnership.  Not until this week were we able to sit down and discuss the organization’s thoughts on the proposal.

Stuart Rogel is the President & CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership.  The Partnership has been a supporter of light rail coming to the region, announcing in the summer their support of TBARTA’s Master Plan.

But as Commissioners get closer to voting on an actual proposal that will be go before the citizenry next year, Rogel told CL that there are some key provisions that his organization want to have addressed before they are willing to go further in support.

Those provisions include:

1) A list of clearly identified projects and realistic timelines for project delivery.

2) A plan to have an independent, nonpartisan oversight board created to ensure that the funds for the project will be ‘on time and on budget’.

3) And a sunset provision to offer ‘confidence and comfort’ to citizens that the one cent sales tax ( which is believed to last for 30 years)- not be imposed without ‘opportunities for additional input’.

Rogel also says though all the agencies involved in trying to bring light rail to the area (HART, TBARTA, and the County Commission) have seemingly been working in concert to get the referendum up on the 2010 ballot, and ultimately approved by the electorate, he’d like to see a formal agreement be signed by those parties going forward.

But the Partnership does appear to be prepared to start spreading the word.

Next month, they will be bringing in Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Patrick McCrory to town.  He’ll speak at a Transportation Forum about his experience in bringing light rail to his community, and the economic benefits that it’s enjoyed since coming online nearly two years ago.

Rogel says his organization is prepared to reach out to work on bringing the entire community – Blacks, Latinos, the disabled, seniors- to the table to understand the benefits of bringing light rail to the region (and like virtually every major player involved, he emphasizes that the referendum would also include funding for road projects as well).

The Partnership is also invested in working with Ed Turanchik and his ConnectUs organization vying to win federal money for a Tampa to Orlando high speed rail line.  When asked what the biggest attraction was for the Tampa Bay Partnership, Rogel said construction jobs.

But he also said that the Tampa/Orlando region is a heavily traveled region, with so many who live in between in Polk County commuting to either side of the I-4 corridor.

Paul Allen leans over his immense desk discussing the family business.  He speaks in a raspy voice not unlike Brando’s in The Godfather, though given to bursts of impromptu songs like, “I kissed a girl and I liked it.” Fingers weighted with gold rings comb his dark, slicked back hair and trimmed goatee. A large man sits in the corner with his tattooed forearms crossed. In an adjacent office, Allen’s wife Tracy finishes Paul’s sentences, filling in names and dates. Allen’s son walks in, getting his father’s approval on a project while Allen’s daughter in-laws announces new callers. Even Allen’s eighty-two year old father works in the office, balancing the books. All the doors are open, promoting an open-air intercom system. With Tampa Bay Downs blocks away, and sports memorabilia layering the walls, one might assume Allen runs a bookie operation. In fact, Allen even played a mafia kingpin in Stormy Daniels’ adult film Whack Jobs. But Allen is no gangster. He’s a business man who heads a family run publishing company, the staple of which is NightMoves—a free, monthly magazine dedicated to Tampa’s active adult scene. Read the rest of this entry »

Baby Formula works, as a formula, in much the same way E=Mc cubed would: it doesn’t. The mockumentary format leads you to believe that the actresses portraying the two lesbians who’ve conceived sans sperm could be real people. That perhaps they aren’t just, well, bad actresses. Read the rest of this entry »

On Monday night at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at USF St. Petersburg, a group of local reporters were were invited to share stories and hear directly from 17 African journalists who have been participating in a program that the USF St. Petersburg Department of Journalism and Media Studies hosted in partnership with the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

The event was co-sponsored by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists.  After snacks and soft drinks were consumed, the organizers of the event (who included USF-St. Petersburg Journalism professor Bob Dardenne) broke up the assemblage of U.S. and African reporters into two groups, where a moderator asked what were some of the greatest challenges that they faced.

Many of the African reporters mentioned the oppressive hand of the state government.

Aaron Maasho is from Ethiopia.  He said that he’s had big problems with government interference in providing information.  And he said tensions remain between the government and independent (or ‘private ‘) media.

Loughty Dube works for the Zimbabwe Independent.  He spoke about the problems with state media being in control, and having to work and curry favor at times with the country’s Minister of Information.

South African reporter Sibu Ngalwa said that many Zimbabwean journalists are actually working in exile in his country.

Another problem the African reporters described was simply having little or no access to electricity, which can obviously play havoc in getting access to television and the Internet.

Uganda scribe Peter Ntimba mentioned that community radio in his country is critical in providing information to the masses.  He said it’s probably the most effective form of communications, and says there’s been a renaissance of sorts of late.  Previously only Radio Uganda was broadcasting, but he said stations are going beyond the capital of Kampala.

But Ntimba labeled some of the laws on sedition that reporters must follow in Uganda as being “draconian,” discussing how the government can (and does) arrest reporters, and then release them the next day.  He says those prisons are, to say the least, not very comfortable, and they have a chilling effect on the independence of those journalists.

Liberian reporter Robert J. Clarke used the terms sustainability and empowerment when he said that a simple objective for members of the media in his country is to just to make a decent living.  He meant that those who are struggling financially are much more vulnerable to taking bribes to influence coverage.

He also bemoaned the fact that there is no FOIA — Freedom of Information Act —  in his country, like U.S. reporters enjoy here.

Sierra Leone’s Samuel Valcarcel said that the only quality radio station for independent news in his land comes from the United Nations.  But he said that soon that channel will merge with the government, which he fears will then fall prey to the heavy-handed influence from Sierra Leone’s version of what we would call Big Brother.

There were moments of mutual understanding.  Valvarcel said that after recent elections, the media was sharply divided.  Sharon Tubbs, an editor at the St. Petersburg Times, said that in the U.S. there is a similar sense of parallel universes, the vast difference in coverage between Fox News and MSNBC being one example.

Valcarcel also said that he envied the U.S. audience, because “here you have a 100% literacy level.”  Well, we don’t of course, but the point was that it was significant in comparison to the literacy rate of his home nation.

The reporters will end their stay at Poynter today, and fly back to their respective homes later in the week.

I love truffles. Not the gooey chocolate delicacy but the delicious yet expensive mushroom that I’d sell myself on the street to pay for. Few people are enamored or familiar with my favorite fungus. Only elite culinarians are hip to them — much like the chenin blanc grape. Truffles are to food as chenin blanc is to wine, a white that only wine geeks seem to appreciate.

It’s no wonder. Chenin blanc (shen’n BLAHNK) is the freaky Sybil of grapes. It can be sweet or dry and either austere and acidic, or lush and aromatic depending on where it’s grown, how it’s tended and the winemaker’s mood. In France’s Loire Valley, where chenin blanc was first canonized in 985 A.D, it’s camouflaged behind the Vouvray label. There, it tastes luscious, slightly to very sweet, and displays a fruit soup of peach, nectarine and lime – perfect grog for people who shun bone-dry wines. However, finding quality Vouvrays – and rare dry versions from Anjou or Savennières, two other Loire Valley regions – is like wild truffle-hunting: exasperating. Grab them if you see them, and also be on the lookout for incredible (and remarkably cheap) Crémant de Loire chenin-based sparkling wines.

But in new world regions — South Africa, Australia and the U.S. – this chameleon transforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Our loves holes lose elasticity with age, usage, and childbirth, which is unfortunate because the tightness of the anus and vagina contribute to sexual pleasure for both men and women. This is why it’s necessary to exercise these muscles daily.

While I was in nursing school, one of my instructors continually made negative commits about anal sex and how it destroyed the body. To give you an idea of how ignorant she was, when a gay student pointed out that not all gay men participated in anal sex she said, “Yeah right!”  I eventually dropped that class. She was either homophobic or just trying to justify why she wouldn’t let her husband do her in the ass. She was probably one of those uptight people who didn’t like sex anyway.   Read the rest of this entry »

Every single time it happens, I wake up the next day convincing myself that it must have been the booze, or if sober, a repressed middle school memory must have reared it’s ugly head. Please someone explain this phenomena to me. WHY would ANYONE over the age of 14 dry hump another human being?! Read the rest of this entry »

Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre is expected to announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate next week.

The 74-year-old Ferre has not served in public office for 13 years, so on the surface this would not appear to be a significant development.

However, it goes to the perception in some Democratic circles that Kendrick Meek (right) is not the strongest candidate the Dems might have next year to run against either Charlie Crist or Marco Rubio in the race to succeed Mel Martinez in the Senate.

Originally, Miami Beach State Senator Dan Gelber was in the race, but after Crist officially announced, Gelber moved over to run for Attorney General.

Meek is the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination, based on his strong union endorsements as well as heavy fundraising numbers. But some state Democrats have been grumbling amongst themselves that he won’t be competitive next year.

But whether Maurice Ferre will provide any type of competition remains to be seen. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time to move from wondering what’s Slow Food to questioning Slow Money. Like enjoying locally-grown food, slow money is about making your investments local, “bringing money back down to earth,” says Woody Tasch. For deeper digging, there’s his book, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered. No time? Check out why the Wall Street Journal considers slow money a local hedge fund.

In early September, over 450 people from 34 states and six countries showed up in Santa Fe for the Slow Money Inaugural National Gathering. If you missed it, they are slowly putting workshops videos up on their web site.
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Many articles try to correlate personalities with purchases: cars, pets, and clothes. Just for fun I’m going to correlate a person’s sexual personality with the type of wine they drink.

White Wines such as Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio/Pinot Gris, Rieslings, Sauvignon Blancs can be sweet, dry, or somewhere in between.  Sex with a white wine drinker can range from missionary sex to an SNM scene. This person is full of surprises. Have fun and look out. Read the rest of this entry »

Life has a way of taking wrong turns when you least expect it. We all face it, sometimes fear it, usually deal with it, and hopefully learn from it. Our lives are intertwined with so many others, we barely know where to draw the lines. And after a particularly large turn, we find ourselves faced with new variables to maneuver, new obstacles to overcome.

Divorce is one of those turns. After many years of marriage, when I found myself single again, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I only knew that anything I wanted to do, I did with myself. Okay, a little lotion and a lot of imagination goes on. Read the rest of this entry »

CDs:

7 Worlds Collide – Sun Came Out
New album from the project led by Neil Finn with contributions by Sharon and Liam Finn, members of Wilco, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway of Radiohead, Lisa Germano, Bic Runga and others.

AFI – Crash Love

Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Includes a special guest performance by Elton John on the album’s title track.

The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
Produced by Rick Rubin. Also available on vinyl.

Martin Belmont – Guest List
Features new and exclusive recordings with Paul Carrack, Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, Graham Parker and others.

Black Cobra – Chronomega
A crushing mix of High On Fire-tinged stoner metal and Buzzov*en’s Southern fried sludge, with a heaping dash of Melvins-style drone to wash it all down.

Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony

Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

Elvis Costello & the Attractions – The Costello Show: Live at the El Mocambo
Live recording of The Attractions’ March 6, 1978 Toronto show. This show was broadcast live on a Canadian radio station and released in a very limited promotional pressing, which was subsequently bootlegged many times over.

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Video games allow us to simulate amazing feats and experience what it’s like to possess superhuman abilities, or to put it another way – to act like superheroes. Even games like Halo or Call of Duty owe as much to the super-heroic experience as they do to modern warfare. In real life, you can’t just shrug off a burst a machine gun fire by hiding behind a rock for five seconds. That’s a bona fide, Wolverine-style super power. It’s off then that there have been so many bad superhero games over the years. But we’re in a new golden age of such games, and if you read my Batman: Arkham Asylum review then you know it’s possible to make a superhero game that perfectly captures that comic book experience. Batman focused all its efforts on simulating one particular hero. The new Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 takes the opposite approach, offering a whole comic book universe of heroes to choose from in an attempt to recreate the world of Marvel Comics in one giant epic tale.

Ultimate Alliance’s story is drawn straight from two recent cross-over events in Marvel Comics – the Secret War and The Civil War. The Civil War in particular strove to achieve some really interesting political and social relevance with the legal and moral issues facing superheroes mirroring real world debates about freedom vs. security in the age of terror. With Marvel’s heroes split into two camps – Pro-Government led by Iron-Man and Pro-Freedom led by Captain America – the high drama of brother against brother that only comes from a civil war played out in dark, dramatic fashion across the pages of dozens of different comic book titles. This game offers a pretty close (but not by any means exact) version of that story, leaving it to the players as to which side they will support. And of course since it’s a video game, you can always go back and play it again from the other side. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing bores me more than controlled environments like movies, plays, amusement parks, the zoo, or the circus. I just don’t enjoy artificial stimulation–at least that kind of stimulation. Unfortunately my husband is the complete opposite.  Recently, on a perfect afternoon with the sun shining through the clear, 59 degree Pinellas County sky, he wanted to go to a matinee. I agreed but I had no interest in the movie; I just wanted to try out my new toy: a penis leash. A penis leash is probably one of the best things a woman in a heterosexual relationship can invest in, other than a bed with high posts. Mine was similar to a dog leash, except the constricting portion encompassed the bottom portion of the cock’s shaft and the nuts. It’s similar to a cock ring or cock & ball divider, but it acts as a choke chain. If you pull the leash, it will tighten. Read the rest of this entry »

This afternoon, Mackenzie Phillips revealed on Oprah what most of the world found out earlier this week–that Phillips had a 10 year affair with her father, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.

In her new book, High on Arrival, Phillips chronicles her life of drug, sex, rehab, divorce, arrests, and a sexual relationship with her father. The  affair, which was a consensual relationship, began on the evening before her marriage to Freddie Sessler, when Phillips was just 19 years old. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian singer/songwriter Patrick Watson began his musical career early in life.  As a boy he played in church choirs and studied jazz and classical piano performance, composition, and arrangement. While in high school in the late 1990s, he sang and played keyboards with a ska band called Gangster Politics. He left the band in 2001 and released a solo debut. He creates vibrantly textured music with his “romantic” voice that can easily be heard above the guitars and pianos so common to his sound. Read the rest of this entry »

VINYL:

Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
Now available on HQ-180 gatefold double vinyl.

Fugazi – End Hits
Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing
Remastered reissues, with each containing a bonus download.

Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge LP+MP3
Mudhoney – Mudhoney LP+MP3
Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff LP+MP3
Reissued on HQ-180 vinyl with MP3 download..

Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages
Nelson’s first “concept album,” the Jerry Wexler-produced (at Muscle Shoals) Phases and Stages, provides both a man and a woman’s viewpoints on a crumbling marriage.

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head and the Sky
Between My Head and the Sky is resplendent with mind-melting blend of styles and sharpening themes while, like its forward-thinking author, plunging into the always-mysterious future.

Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Available on deluxe double vinyl.

Various Artists – Wheedles Groove: Seattle Funk & Soul 1965-1975
On the quality Light in the Attic label.

CDs:

Basement Jaxx – Scars
They have remixed the likes of Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliot, N.E.R.D, Daft Punk, and are back with a new album.

Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
Digitally remastered. The CD includes a bonus disc of B-sides and rarities including seven never before released tracks. Read the rest of this entry »

The internal prostate massage is one of the most sexually stimulating practices you can do for a man, and it’s healthy.  I started milking the prostate a few years ago after reading some literature on the subject.  It was more than difficult getting my then 46-year-old husband to try it, but once I did he enjoyed it.

Milking keeps the blood moving and releases seminal fluid.  Some men aren’t into having anything in their anus, so a perineum massage can also be stimulating as well. The perineum is a small, smooth patch of skin located between the testicles and the anus. By pressing down on this area, not too hard, this will indirectly stimulate the prostate.  I usually use this technique when I’m masturbating my husband.  Again, I enjoy using ky-warming gel and it drives him nuts.  Read the rest of this entry »

It stands to reason that at some point in our lives, we are going to have to deal with the, “sex/relationship with a co-worker” situation.

Most of us spend more time at the office than anywhere else. It’s a great dating pool, as long as you ignore every rule of human resources and don’t mind the fact that you will be haunted by said sex or relationship until one of you quits or dies. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s only one of Harold Seltzer’s (of Sam Seltzer fame) new Cuban sandwich chain concept, but it’s already good enough — and authentic enough — to put Tampa’s handheld icon on the map the way Outback popularized Australia’s traditional deep-fried whole onion.

4424 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, 813-287-6662, finestcubansandwich.com.

What’s the buzz on the latest issues in the Green Community? Check out what you may have missed this last week:

Hillsborough County receives $7.6 million federal energy efficiency grant- The county plans to use these funds to undertake energy efficiency and conservation projects on its facilities and vehicles.

The pursuit of sustainable happiness- Sustainability in relation to happiness here is used to denote something that is generative, something that will complete us and not deplete our energy levels, something that would inspire us to be better.
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Sometimes when I hear a person say, “having sex,” I start to wonder what kind of sex?  When I was growing up, “having sex,” meant sexual intercourse involving the penis and vagina. Doggy style was considered kinky. Today I find that most of my peers are willing to experiment with different kinds of sex, especially if they are new divorcees or if they just want to spice things up. But, sex has changed since we were kids.  Sometimes when I hear a sexual reference I don’t understand, I ask my 22-year-old son to explain it. This just goes to show that new sexual practices are constantly being created. However, for the purposes of this quick guide to sex, I’m only going to discuss: intercourse (penis and vagina), oral (mouth on penis), anal  (penis in anus), and masturbation. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. Next Wednesday, everyone’s favorite gay, straight-talkin’, potty-mouthed sex advice columnist, Dan Savage, visits USF Tampa as part of the University Lecture Series. Bring your hammer: it’s time to put another nail “Dear Abby’s” coffin.

Amid the rumors that his “Savage Love” syndicated weekly column could be HBO-ified for sex- and cable-loving audiences across the nation, the busy writer and Editor of The Stranger visits to provide witty insight to the masses of Tampa Bay at “Savage Love Live”– but be forewarned: his answers are often unexpected, but they’re never couched in compliments. If you’re one of the brave souls who approaches the mic during the question and answer session, may I suggest a raincoat in the likely case that you’ll be weathering a shitstorm?

His advice covers everything from well-meaning Savage-isms like “DTMFA” (Dump That Mother Fucker Already), to serious subjects like rape and abuse. Ocassionally, he’ll even take advice from his adoring legions of fans — like his decision to drop “retarded” for “leotarded.” Weds., Sept. 23, 7 p.m., University of South Florida Marshall Center, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, uls.usf.edu for tickets and info.