Relationships

Yes, I'm In Love With a Stripper

Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! BURNED BY THE RELATIVE I LOANED MONEY Dear Willie D: I loaned my cousin $500 more than six months ago. She promised ... More >>

Gay Couple Claims Post-Dispatch Rejects Engagement Announcement

Update below: A gay couple that recently got engaged says that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is intentionally rejecting their engagement announcement that they want to run in print, because they have some sort of unwritten policy against same-sex couples. The accusation of the duo Kurt Lee and Kyle Ha ... More >>

Scott County Central School District Votes Unanimously to Repeal Same-Sex Prom Rule

The Southern Poverty Law Center has just issued a statement praising the Scott County Central School District in Sikeston for its decision to officially remove discriminatory language against same-sex couples from rules governing its high school prom. The decision was sparked by Stacy Dawson, a 17- ... More >>

Mizzou Study Says Happily Married People are Healthier, or Another Reason to Hate V-Day

In case you need another reason to hate Valentine's Day, the University of Missouri has some exciting news for you. Christine Proulx, an assistant professor in the department of human development and family studies, has discovered that happily married old people are healthier than divorced or widowe ... More >>

Divorced Men Can Get Laid, St. Louis Author Assures

Valentine's Day is not a holiday most divorced men look forward to. But then most those guys have yet to read Crestwood author Greg Fisher's new book, The Divorced Men's Survival Guide. In it Fisher dispenses all kinds of advice for men emerging from a failed marriage, including tips on how to cook ... More >>

My Two Moms

Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore And The Four Biggest Rock And Roll Breakups

Wikimedia Commons​Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth have separated after 27 years of marriage and now the future of the band is unknown. Their record label released this statement last Friday: Musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, married in 1984, are announcing they have separa ... More >>

LGBT Protections, Domestic Partnership Registry on the Books in Olivette

​Last night, Olivette city council passed two measures that solidify the suburb as a welcoming place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.The Vital Voice reports that the council unanimously passed bills 2672 and 2677. The bills create a domestic partnership registry and criminaliz ... More >>

Brandon Davies: Come Play for Saint Louis University, Sex Your Girlfriend All You Want

​Image ViaYou're okay with St. Louis, Brandon.​Brigham Young University, better known to sports fans the nation over as BYU, may very well have lost their chance at winning a national championship this year. They're currently ranked number three in the nation, and were widely expected to grab on ... More >>

Take Her to the Cabaret, Ray

Tim Kasher

8 p.m. Wednesday, December 15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Same-sex couples in St. Louis can get married in Iowa. They just can't ever get divorced.

NSFW: The St. Louis mom behind sex blog the Beautiful Kind is outing herself

Cardinals: Dodging Issue of Gays on Kiss Cam Since 2006

Unfit for public consumption?​The Post-Dispatch this morning takes on the topic of "Kiss Cams" -- the stadium pastime that places couples on the JumboTron with the expectation that they smooch.At issue: Will the Cardinals place a same-sex couple on the Kiss Cam this weekend when the team hosts "Ou ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the St. Louis theater scene

Pretty as a Picture

Never-Married Women in Their 30s Are Total Losers, Mizzou Study Finds

Image sourceBehold: the future of every single woman. (Because we couldn't find a picture of a dead woman in an apartment being eaten by dogs.)​It's tough being a never-married woman in your 30s. Well-meaning older people are always asking you when you're going to settle down. Self-help books ... More >>

Mayor Francis Slay Urges LGBT Couples to Come Out and Be Counted in 2010 Census

MayorSlay.com​The United States census form does not always keep up with the times. On this year's form, for instance, people still have the option to identify themselves as "Negro," a term that all but disappeared in the late 1960s. The Census Bureau defended its decision by claiming that m ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: English as a Second Language: The rest of the world knows English; are a few signs for Mexicans too much to ask?

Can Certified Sex Therapist Darcy Luadzers Get a Daily RFT Reader Off?

​Daily RFT recently came into possession of Certified Sex Therapist and University of South Carolina Gamecock Dr. Darcy Luadzers' Virgin Sex for Guys and Virgin Sex for Girls. Rather than let Dr. Darcy's work go to waste, we're answering your questions with her verbatim advice!Today's question, wh ... More >>

Unreal dabbles in social psychology

New Study Proves That Single Women are Indeed Predatory Bitches

flickr.com/photos/syl2007​Unreal has just been informed that the biggest question that plagues single women is "Why are all the good men taken?"This came as a surprise to us, because we always believed the lament of the single woman (well, actually, women in general) was "Why are men such assholes ... More >>

It's Business Time

Iowa or Bust: Fourteen gay couples from St. Louis will soon head to the Hawkeye State to get hitched. Well, sort of.

Mean to Me

Break ups, breakdowns and the blues of the gods

Is Vegetarian Sex Better...or Just Bloodless?

As I posted yesterday, a PETA Super Bowl ad claiming that vegetarians have better sex was rejected by NBC. Of course, everyone will see the ad anyway, thanks to YouTube. But Gut Check is more interested in the question the ad poses.Do vegetarians have better sex? How, exactly, would you judge such ... More >>

Prop 8 Leaves Some Missourians in Marital Limbo

Crowds huddled around the Old Courthouse Saturday afternoon to protest California's recently passed ban on same-sex marriage. More Photos The high temperature was 39 degrees, but when in the middle of a crowd of a couple hundred people, the temperature was warmer, as the audience reacted to the w ... More >>

Prop 8 Protest Set for Saturday at Old Courthouse

Update: Coverage and photos of the protest: "Prop 8 Leaves Some Missourians in Marital Limbo" A protest against California's Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, is set for noon Saturday on the steps of the Old Courthouse. Show Me No Hate has been set up to inform people about the demonstrat ... More >>

A Life That Never Goes Out

Riverfront Times talks with director Julien Temple about the making of The Future is Unwritten.

Love of Last Resort

Shiner

Making Love (Anodyne)

Race Goggles

Unreal gets liquored up and starts demanding tasteless jokes. And in unrelated news, we talk teen sex with a Seattle sexologist and check out the locker room at the new Busch.

Week of February 2, 2006

>"I think a little of Brie's favorite pastime would go a long way towards loosening you guys up!"

Internet Dating Services

(City Diner, South Grand Boulevard)

Best Laid Plans

Michael Winterbottom delivers the sex, and not much else

The Great Imitator

The scourge of syphilis re-emerges, deadlier than before

Hard Times Ahead

Unreal gets all hot and bothered over some very special plants (and a rather steamy billboard) and finds the key to St. Louis' revival. Plus, a local blogger is driven mad by public breastfeeding.

Down Memory Lane

Unreal gives prom-goers a hand, visits with cute 'n' cuddly intestinal parasites, and celebrates the confluence of BBQ and protective eyewear. Plus: A local blogger strikes out.

Choke the Chicken

Adult businesses fear the "Smut Shop" bill will tax them into oblivion

Flesh for Fantasy

Get your groove on at this year's St. Louis International Film Festival

Breaking All the Rules

Six reasons why the Dresden Dolls ought to suck...but don't

Imperfect Unions

A new documentary sells gay marriage as the only answer to discrimination

Best Place for a First Date

Wrestling at the South Broadway Athletic Club

Love Stinks

The best foul-mouthed breakup songs of all time

Best Place to Buy Sex Toys

Cheap Trx

Best Place for a First Date

Fairmount Park

The Ethics Cop

Mike Reid knows firsthand what it's like to bend the rules

Media Whores

Never at a loss for new tricks, the Wahls are now on a spiritual quest.

The Naked Truth

Local arts lovers hope to take the stigma out of erotic art with a new exhibition/festival

Sex Starved

For the sexual anorexic, scarred by psychic trauma, a controlled, loveless existence may be easier to bear than the thought of intimacy