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Sex and food and Abraham Lincoln

Gift books for every (perverse) taste
We put out a call to our contributors to suggest appropriate holiday gift books and what do we get back?
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 02, 2008

Sometime Sinner

Ask Dr. Lovemonkey
Obviously his notion that it's okay to be sexually active, but not to "live in sin," is ridiculous.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY | November 25, 2008

Mister Sister picks up where Miko left off

Sex In The City
When Miko Exoticwear on Wickenden Street closed its doors for good this summer, Providence lost a local landmark.
By AMY LITTLEFIELD | November 19, 2008

Free pass on gay hatred?

Turning a blind eye
Outside observers have been quick to criticize any signs of anti-Semitism connected to the new Roxbury mosque.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 24, 2008

Ask Dr. Lovemonkey
I have been together with a man for 14 years. We have a strong, stable relationship, a seven-year-old son who we adore, and everything is just fine except for the fact that his family has been constantly (and increasingly) pressuring us to "make it legal."
By DR. LOVEMONKEY | November 12, 2008

Save Me

A decent, but not great, soap opera
Mark (Chad Allen), a trashy young gay man into motel sex and coke, makes a sea change by agreeing to reside at a Christian halfway home, where the once-gay clientele are weaned away from homosexuality and into the arms of Jesus.
By GERALD PEARY | November 05, 2008

Sex Drive

The usual preoccupation with nut sacks and virgins
Sex Drive doesn’t venture anywhere new, but it makes the same old scenery amusing again.
By TOM MEEK | October 15, 2008

Be a real man

Ask Dr. Lovemonkey
I hope you inform your readers that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month throughout the United States.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY | October 09, 2008

Letters to the Portland Editor, October 3, 2008

Sex is risky
If a pregnancy is endangering a woman’s life, the woman’s life needs to be saved. But I feel this way because I’m pro-life.
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | October 01, 2008

Dated advice

Old-school words of wisdom for a better college sex life
To boink a lot or not to boink a lot?
By NEELY STEINBERG | September 04, 2008

Privacy invasion

Politics and other mistakes
Let’s talk about Susan Collins’s sex life.
By AL DIAMON | August 27, 2008

Leaky thinking

Ask Dr. Lovemonkey
I have recently discovered a whole world of sexual experience out that I had been missing.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY | August 20, 2008

Sex and videotape

Dr. Lovemonkey
I saw videos on his computer that showed him having sex with a number of different women.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY | August 06, 2008

Socks appeal

Drag kings flip the script on gender impersonation. We go undercover to get to the meat of the matter.
Rico swaggers down the aisle of the Art House Theatre in Provincetown, oozing confidence and brazenly flirting with the cheering women who’ve claimed every available seat for the sold-out show.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | July 09, 2008

A Jihad for Love

Potent subject matter overshadowed by special effects
Homosexuality is illegal and highly punishable in the Muslim world (being stoned to death is a possibility); the faces of many of Sharma’s subjects are blurred to conceal their identity.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 25, 2008