NORTH ANDOVER, MA — Citizens and visitors to North Andover, MA can be legally married to their same-sex partners, but they’ll have to drive around a bit if they want to buy a vibrator, bottle of cherry flavored lube or other marital aid, thanks to a recent decision by...

WARSAW, POLAND — A guide to better sex for married couples is flying off bookstore shelves in Poland. The shock and awe surrounding the book’s reception is due not as much to what the book advises, but instead to who penned the manual: A Franciscan friar.Rev. Ksawery...

TAIPEI — Who doesn’t at least occasionally glance into their toilet bowl with nervous concern that they might find a snake or other inappropriate creature lurking inside? One man in Taipei certainly wishes he’d taken a second look, because he has learned that the legendary...

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — Lives could be saved if the UK would legalize brothels, a group of British nurses said in calling for exactly that.Tired of seeing women abused, substance-addicted and murdered, the nurses called on the Royal College of Nursing to urge Parliament to...

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY — A generously endowed female totem found in a cave in southern Germany has added support for the argument that pornography indeed may be the world’s oldest obsession.Archeologists believe the Venus of Hohle Fels, named for the southern Germany cave in...

FLORANCE, ITALY —Established in 59 BC by Julius Caesar, Florence Italy was renowned during the Renaissance for its flourishing art and mercantile communities. Although not as famous for its courtesans as Venice, it nonetheless housed many a wealthy man who kept a beautiful...

CYBERSPACE — When you’ve designed websites for some of the hottest names in porn redesigning your own site can inspire a unique form of performance anxiety. Adult industry Web design leader Blue Design Studios has faced that fear and proven to be up to the challenge with...

LONDON, ENGLAND — RIVCash.com, the affiliate program for Italy’s interactive Ragazzeinvendita.com adult community, has signed on as a corporate sponsor for Cybernet Expo.Launched in early 2005, Ragazzeinvendita.com (RIV for short) has become one of the best-known...

HOUSTON, TX — The wonderful thing about strip clubs is that if a waitress gets a little long in the tooth, you just fire her ass and hire someone younger who will, ideally, work for less money, right? Not according to a recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

CYBERSPACE — Sure it’s fun and seems harmless, having descended from a longstanding source of amusement in the real world, but security experts warn the “porn names” game currently trending toward the top of the hot-topics list at micro-blogging site Twitter could be a...