Culture

Look at those bodies. It’s the final round of Hottest Bod in the World contest, run by Body Heat, a men’s fragrance from Parfums de Coeur. Gratuitous contests like these make life worth living. I don’t know how many countries are represented or whether every hot hunk in the world was given a fair chance…continue reading.

The public loves a juicy story about hookers and the media is fast to provide. The problem is these stories are two-dimensional at best, either told as a cautionary tale or paraded as the height of empowerment, with no regard for the nuances or humanity across the spectrum. David Henry Sterry, author of the sex…continue reading.

The sex tape: a staple of our time, and, as far as Los Angeles goes, a requirement. Introducing Timelapser, an iPhone app that turns the sex tape into an artsy proposition. This app lets you easily make time-lapse videos on your iPhone. Because it works using still shots, you can use it even if you…continue reading.

Texting has become a fixture in our lives. As with everything, we quickly turned it into another conduit for our sexual expression and exploration. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, always fascinated by such things, decided to tackle the matter in a survey relating to teen cell phone usage. The results of…continue reading.

Whether you’re in love or in lust, the movie experience can be treacherous. The idea of forcing someone to sit through a movie beside me when they clearly had no interest–or worse, having to suffer something like Meet The Fockers or The 40 Year Old Virgin–gave me so much angina that when I was married,…continue reading.

I was fortunate in my sexual discovery: I never contracted any sort of disease and while not every encounter resulted in dynamite sex, I never found myself in a threatening situation. I like to think this has to do with the fact that I am fairly intuitive and committed to my personal health, but we…continue reading.

Playboy model Joanna Krupa is all tangled up in a controversy regarding her latest contribution to the expansive catalog of controversial PETA ads. Krupa, a practicing Catholic, is depicted in one PETA’s “Be An Angel For Animals” ads nude with only a crucifix to cover her naughty bits. Another ad features her topless, holding a…continue reading.

Here’s the issue with euphemisms: they confuse the fuck out of people. Recently several news outlets reported that Lady Gaga had once been afraid of sex. Or intimacy. Or both. They’re not the same thing and anyone with an ounce of gray matter knows it, but because the media is either terrified of talking about…continue reading.

Technology and sex have always been an ideal match. Recently, Rachel Kramer Bussel at The Daily Beast did an overview of the top eight hottest sexcessories around. These are our top three: PASSION Want to know how good you are in bed? Surprise, surprise–there’s an app for that! Launched in July, Passion uses “all of…continue reading.

A few weeks ago, Sex and the 405 did two lists of the music we’d like to boink to: 15 High Energy Songs To Have Sex To and Songs To Be Seduced To. There is a mix for every brand of passion, you’ll realize, if you take enough time to think about it. But if…continue reading.