Sexuality

Deviate sex at hotels (and adultery) about to become legal in Colorado: Party time!

Today, the Colorado State Senate gave its approval to a bill that would do away with Colorado sex laws that date back to the '50s. To be more specific: the 1850s. Yep, legislation now headed to the desk of Governor John Hickenlooper (who's expected to sign it) is designed to wipe from the books st ... More >>

Getting Off at the Library

Ten effective ways to fake an orgasm (NSFW)

I love that we live in a country that's sexually open enough -- not as much as some European countries, but that's another list for another time -- to allow for public education on how to have and give orgasms. Denverites, you have an upcoming class available at Anythink Library Wright Farms: The ap ... More >>

Fifty Shades of Grey means business for Fascinations chain

Shanna Katz's top five tips on how to become an oral-sex rock star

Who should learn -- or re-learn -- how to give their lovers the best oral sex possible? Everyone. Local sex educator Shanna Katz has a new book out this week, Oral Sex That'll Blow Her Mind: An Illustrated Guide to Giving Her Amazing Orgasms. Her inspiration for this guide was simple: She wanted t ... More >>

Now Playing

Batteries Not Included

In the Next Room provides a stimulating evening of theater

Vibrators play a starring role in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room

Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is about orgasms -- but it's neither titillating nor smutty. Ruhl has been called one of our most brilliantly imaginative playwrights, and locals have seen her luminous work before at the Denver Center, Curious Theatre Company and the Boulder Ense ... More >>

Vibrators: A pop-culture history of this buzzed-about device

Like gay marriage, marijuana use and tattoos, public perception of female sex toys is not what it used to be. While male sex toys still weigh heavy on the shame scale, a female pleasure device is mostly seen as a cute novelty. Encountering one while snooping is comparable to finding a rutabaga in th ... More >>

Feminism & Co. sells out a program on sex work

Selling out for the first time since moving into its basement home at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday night's Feminism & Co.: Sex Work lecture had to turn many people away at the door. The expertly curated lecture series seeks out artists, scholars and women of all trades to speak about women ... More >>

Naughty and Nice

When a booty call calls, do you answer?

Here booty, booty.​I got a third-party booty call last week. It started with a text from a friend, asking what I was up to. On a Thursday at 11:30 p.m.? I wanted to say, "I'm at Bardo's, staring down an attractive barista man who was probably born in the '90s, instead of writing an article," b ... More >>

Orgasmic meditation, BDSM classes at Bedroom event not educational enough for Lakewood PD?

More pics below.​Beyond the Bedroom is described by co-organizer Dan Powers, aka Daka-Dan, as an October 16 educational event about sex. But police in Lakewood, where Beyond the Bedroom was originally scheduled to take place, weren't so sure, due in part to a possible live demonstration of org ... More >>

Abstinence-only funding was refused, but that didn't stop a state school-board member

The BYU Honor Code's five most absurd tenets

Violator!​The BYU men's basketball team was one of the best four in the country until last week, when forward Brandon Davies had consensual sex with his girlfriend. He's been dismissed from the team, and they are likely no longer a title contendor. At most colleges, the repercussions for prem ... More >>

Planet Mars

Suck on this: Shanna Katz offers up "blow job basics" at Fascinations tonight

Shanna Katz, getting prepared.​Slobbing the knob. Gumming the root. Swallowing the sword. Playing the skin flute. Sucking "the dick." These are all things you could be learning to do tonight when Shanna Katz, a professional and certified sexuality educator, presents Suck on This! Adventures ... More >>

Let’s Talk About Sex

Chased by an Elephant: Walmart does its part to ward off the gay

Isn't his outfit a little gay?​It's never too early to plant the seeds of life-long sexual neurosis; in this day and age of growing tolerance toward the scourge homosexuality, we've really got to step up our efforts to instill deep self-hatred in our children at an early age. That's where Chas ... More >>

Book release party with a happy ending: Mastering Your Man from Head to Head

​Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade run the Oysters & Chocolate erotica empire from their home base in Boulder, and they're celebrating the release of their second book, Mastering Your Man from Head to Head: How to work your man below the belt, between the ears, and beneath the sheets for excep ... More >>

Reader: Sex ed must go beyond condoms to take on STDs, "hormonal upheaval" of abortion

​Reporter Melanie Asmar's recent post juxtaposing abstinence education versus what she termed more "realistic" sex ed drew a passionate response from one reader. She feels the question should go well beyond whether or not instructors will still be able to use bananas and condoms.

Planet Mars

Pushing the Envelope

Meanings of banned jelly bracelets: Is silver a hand job, fisting or outdoor sex?

Here's a girl who's ready for just about anything.​The principal at Lafayette's Angevine Middle School has reportedly asked parents to urge their kids not to wear colored jelly bracelets to class -- and those who do will be asked to remove them. The reason: The colors are said to denote assort ... More >>

After tackling Politics, Sebastien Tellier gets deep into Sexuality

Q&A with Sebastien Tellier

French singer-songwriter Sebastien Tellier isn't shy about talking about either his sexuality or Sexuality, his new album, throughout which he delves into matters of the flesh with great delight. But he also sees the sacred side of salaciousness, as he makes clear in a December 4 Westword profile ... More >>

Carnal-val

Glossary of Prostitution Terms

Tell Me You’ll Watch Me

The Vibrators

The Vibrators

Wednesday, September 19, 3 Kings Tavern, 303-777-7370.

Hapa Sushi Grill and Sake Bar

A sushi roll or a roll in the hay?

Hate the Sin

One Wild Ride

Sex was Michelle Ormond's driving force -- until she tried to put on the brakes.

Under the Leather

If Bob Beauprez needs a spanking, Jae Januze is ready to lend a hand.

I Want Your Sexpo

Denver hosts the naughtiest of naughty conventions.

Best-Laid Plans

Michael Winterbottom delivers the sex, and not much else.

Best Business Name to Use Very, Very Carefully

Denver Concrete Vibrator

Drink of the Week

G Spot

Good Vibrations

Competion is stiff in the sex-toy business. But Kevin Larson comes prepared.

Planet Mars

Herbalist Brigitte Mars speaks the language of love.

Virtual Strangers

Denver researchers study how the chat room leads to the bedroom.

Savage Love

Fact or Friction?

The ex-gay movement has its straight man--but ex-ex-gays may have the last laugh.

Free Willy

As part of his never-ending fight against gays, car dealer Will Perkins gets himself "arrested" in Vail.

Sensual Healing

COME TO JESUS

THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME...IN KEVIN TEBEDO'S PRESENCE.

CONJUGAL BLITZ

DR. DAVID SCHNARCH HAS A BLACK BELT IN THE MARITAL ARTS.

HEAD GAMES