Sexuality

Have Boobs, Will Write Comedic Erotica: St. Louis Writer Alice Clayton Talks Books, Travel

Erotic novelist Alice Clayton doesn't write your typical, love-at-first-sight romance novels, with sex on the beach and meaningful eye contact. Her characters worry about their unshaven legs, and one gets pooped on by a seagull before she ever gets the chance to have a roll in the sand. "For me, re ... More >>

Five St. Louisans Just Trying to Get Laid Before the End of the World

If you truly believed that the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you be doing? Making amends, fulfilling promises, enjoying the company of those dearest to you, perhaps? Nonsense! You should be trying to have sex with strangers. Daily RFT has got you covered. After the jump, we have link ... More >>

"Masters of Sex": Showtime Orders First Season of Masters and Johnson Drama

A pair of Washington University sex researchers are about to get the Mad Men treatment. About a year ago, Showtime announced that it approved a pilot based on the work and exploits of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the legendary sex researchers who attempted to demystify everything from the ... More >>

The Gay Selma: Schools ignore gay bullying at their own peril

Bill Would Outlaw Homosexual Discussion in Missouri Schools

A Missouri legislator from near the Arkansas border is pushing a bill that would severly restrict conversations about sexual orientation in Missouri schools.State Rep. Steve Cookson's HB 2051 is backed by 19 co-sponsors who helped push the legislation last week to the House Elementary and Secondary ... More >>

The Gut Check Valentine's Day Reservation Guide: One Day Out

Valentine's Day is TOMORROW, you guys! If you haven't made your dinner reservations yet, you must be screwed, right? (Or not screwed, as it were.) Fear not! Gut Check's perusal of OpenTable has found several tables in the 5:30-9:30 p.m. window still available -- including two very well-known resta ... More >>

La Cage Aux Folles at the Fox Theatre

Read Dirty to Me

Man Who Molested Daughters to "Educate Them About Love and Sex" Loses Court Appeal

Mo. Dept. of CorrectionsLeonard Cannafax is currently in year two of a 25-year sentence.​The following is not for the squeamish, yet it appears here to illustrates just how depraved people can be.Last week, the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a Greene County Circuit Court's 2009 conviction of Leo ... More >>

Sarah Ruhl's vibrator play produces a decent buzz at the Rep

Good For What Ails You

On Fire, With the Lord

Good for What Ails You

More on Sex Blogger Kendra Holliday's Custody Challenge

photo by Jennifer Silverberg​As we reported last week, Kendra Holliday, the woman behind one of St. Louis' raciest blogs, The Beautiful Kind, is facing what she calls "the worst thing imaginable" since revealing her true identity in a Riverfront Times profile.Hollidy's ex-husband is suing to modif ... More >>

Top Ten Things That Have Been Inside The Beautiful Kind's Vagina: NSFW

Now that Kendra Holliday has outed herself as the face behind St. Louis' raciest sex blog, the Beautiful Kind, we thought it only fitting to commemorate her greatest hits. And no, we're not talking blog posts. We're talking penetration, baby! Here's our (admittedly subjective) list of the ten most ... More >>

Kinksters of the Lou, Unite!

Classic kink: Bettie Page​Does Shibari tie you in knots? Not sure if your disciplinary needs would be better served by a cane or a cat o' nine tails? Do you have any idea what those last two questions were even about?Well, lucky for you, there's a brand-new group, Sex Positive St. Louis. The group ... More >>

Chicken Joins List of Foods That Will Turn You into a Girly Man

Image viaBolivian President Evo Morales. Note the full head of lustrous hair.​Bolivian President Evo Morales made news earlier this week when, while speaking at an environmental conference, he declared that eating chicken could cause homosexuality and male-pattern baldness.The Guardian reports...M ... More >>

Let's Talk About Sex

Introducing "Ask Certified Sex Therapist Darcy Luadzers"

​Here at Riverfront Times we've accumulated many books over the years. It ain't voluntarily. People send us this shit. And most of it is shit. But every now and then, we find a real gem -- or two! Specifically, we find Virgin Sex for Guys and Virgin Sex for Girls, both written by AASECT Certified ... More >>

Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #2

Yesterday we gave you a sampling of street lit from Keisha Ervin's first novel, Me & My Boyfriend. Today you get a hit of her second book, Chyna Black. As you can read in this week's cover story, "Lit Up," Ervin hit pay-dirt with this little number about a high-school dropout who gets knocked up ... More >>

Lost in Gyration

Love comes in spurts

Cougar Heaven!: Unreal goes on the prowl for (and with) honky-tonk older women

What Girls Want: Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville turns fifteen years old this year, but remains as relevant as ever

Cards Blog: Nats Go Down, Cubs Fans Are Primed

Cards Blog: Nats Go Down, Cubs Fans Are Primed

Odds for your Bodkin

Upcoming Foodie Events

Texas Vibrators

Unreal's holiday wish-list includes crime fiction, sassy shorts and, um, "sensual massagers." Plus: Don't bring your screaming tots to opera auditions, people.

Why won't Mexican men go down on their ladies?

Week of November 2, 2006

Cleveland's Rocks

Parker Posey and Paul Rudd get their OH faces on.

Everybody's Doing It

Unreal plays fair with an all-inclusive sex survey and celebrates the St. Louis Centre skybridge's dramatic relocation to the Loop

Where Do Wolf Babies Come From?

Sometimes Mother Nature can use a little human intervention

Spring Cleaning

Unreal contemplates a quickie with Mr. Clean, celebrates Poop for Peace Day and meets "The World's Foremost Expert on Nametags." Plus, a local blogger adjusts to the clothes-wearing life.

Empty Sex

John Waters' latest farce strives for nothing more than NC-17

Blindness of Strangers

Men deceive and women manipulate in Intimate settings

WMDs Found at Last!

Our favorite inanimate objects celebrate birthdays, Russ Carnahan snags the Hefner endorsement, and Silver Dollar City gets political; plus, we find the real WMDs (in St. Charles!) and Bill Haas phones it in

Letters

Week of May 12, 2004

By the Light of the Moon

When unconditional love becomes unrequited love

Members of the Firm

Law-firm employee apparently didn't see enough dicks at the office

Best Example of Wasted Taxpayer Money

Angela Coffel

Mike Dearborn, Paul Birken, Spike Johnson and Adam Louis

Saturday, July 6; Kastle

Anatomy of Desire

A St. Louis dominatrix instructs the uninitiated in bondage, domination, sadomasochism, masters, slaves, dungeons and other pleasures and pains

That's No Prostitute, That's My Wife

Sexual gadflies Tom and Suzi Wahl play show-and-tell with members of the local media, who respond with varying degrees of uninterest

Sex and Drugs and Fisher-Price

The protagonist of hometown novelist James Gunn's new book, The Toy Collector, discovers that, yes, play's the thing

LEGENDARY HEARTS

Even after 23 years, the Buzzcocks have inspiration to spare

ROMANCE

Written and directed by Catherine Breillat

Royal Pain

Lacking a monarchy of our own, Americans raised Elvis and Marilyn to sovereign status -- but the very vulnerability that drew us to them was their downfall

Out of Order

When the case of a woman who claimed she was fired after refusing sex with her boss came before Circuit Judge Robert H. Dierker Jr., he didn't just issue an order. He let the world know a little too much about his politics and what he thinks about the "de

Unshakable Dignity