"cultures" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

In an effort to clean up its aging red light district, Amsterdam seems more than willing to give up its reputation for legal-prostitution in order to revive the infamous neighborhood.

This friendly group of female rights activists have an issue I think we all can support: a woman's right to go topless if she pleases. To show your support for equality, urge your female friends to go topless on August 23 as part of National Go Topless Protest Day.

Given the powerful streaming media technologies inherent to Apple's iPhone, it's a shame that Apple is not embracing adult content and refuses to offer porn through the iTunes service.

While liquor laws, fire codes, and zoning ordinances are designed to ensure our personal safety and maintain an orderly society, in many cases brought against adult businesses and even swingers clubs, these seemingly protective laws have been twisted and used against the right to freedom of sexual expression.

A man in India who lied to a woman about his marital status has been charged with rape, according to a recent Supreme Court ruling.

The first vibrator was actually a steam-powered behemoth dubbed "manipulator" and was used to treat hysteria in women. Since then, sex toys have evolved from a cure for culturally misconceived conditions to a pleasure device used for hedonistic self-pleasuring.

The mainstream media is taking a bit of heat from conservative groups who feel that there is a lack of positive portrayals of marital sex, and an overabundance of sexual scenes glorifying adultery and pre-marital sex. The result, according to these groups, is an undermining of traditional family values that has led to a loose and unprincipled sexual culture.

With a British group of scientists claiming they are close to developing a pill that inhibits sperm from entering the ejaculatory fluid transmitted during male climax, it seems that there may be some additional social barriers to cross before men will start adopting this method en masse.

In a culture where 'time is money' and 'wham-bam-thank-you-mam' has entered the popular vernacular, it is apparent that Americans are not making quality time for sex, and the quality of our romances marks this obsession with speed over quality.

If people have worn black clothing in the past to hide unsightly body parts or blemishes, a new trend of accepted nudity, particularly in the UK, seems to indicate that to truly accept one's natural beauty, faults and all, one should expose themselves completely naked.