National Sexlife Journal
A part of our heritage
Quebec filmmaker Dominic Poliquin has added lesbian nuns to his queer parodies of the Historica-Dominion Institute’s familiar “Historica Minutes”, called “Heritage Minutes”. Surely you remember the Historica Minutes: 60-second shorts meant to encapsulate a part of Canadian history? My personal favourites include “Winnie. The. Pooh!” and the homage to Nellie McClung’s sass (“Nice women don’t want the vote!”)
Zara's Fantasy Land: A Place for Newbies to Dip Their Toes in the TGirl Pool
Zara's Fantasy Land: A Place for Newbies to Dip Their Toes in the TGirl Pool
by Peter Berton
The growing media fascination with tgirls has led many men to fantasize about shemale sex. At the same time, North America masculinity ideal makes many men too afraid to take the plunge – “what if I find out I'm gay!?”
Zara's Fantasy Land in Toronto, Canada (www.zfl-spa.com) is a safe place for Toronto men to dip their toe in the tgirl pool, before they decide to dive in. It is a new tgirl 'massage experience' spa launched by tgirl Zara Aryan (www.tszara.com).
Health Canada advisory: 18 Again & Stiff 4 Hours
Health Canada has issued an advisory for two unauthorized sexual stimulants that were sold at the Unchained Romance booth at the Vancouver Taboo Sex Show. The drugs, “18 Again" and "Stiff 4 Hours" were tested and found to contain prescription ingredients (sildenafil or tadalafil) that could pose a health risk to users, especially those who have heart problems or are taking nitrates.
Health Canada has suggested contacting them at 1-800-267-9675 with questions or complaints about the products, and consulting your doctor about using them.
Tripcentral.ca sex survey
A survey conducted on behalf of the travel website Tripcentral.ca of 1013 Canadian women reveals that 53% think sex is better on vacation. 55% of those interviewed gave a lack of stress or more relaxation as the reason for hotter sex away from home, 16% credited the romantic setting.
Other results included who was willing to get down outside of the hotel room (43%), with 20% saying they already had.
Wicked Wanda and the Barbie-and-Ken Bondage Scene
by Peter Berton
Wicked Wanda’s Adult Emporium (wickedwandas.ca) is a downtown Ottawa sex store. Besides offering an extensive range of sex toys, Wicked Wanda’s stirred up some dust last Christmas, by featuring a window display featuring Barbie and Ken dolls in graphic bondage play!
Cereal for sexual health
Ontario entrepreneur Peter Ehrlich has created a cereal with ingredients he believes “point the way” to long-term sexual health. Sex Cereal, available now in 500 stores in Canada, takes form of a Male cereal, which according to its website “supports testosterone and energy levels” and a female cereal which “was created with hormonal balance and desire in mind”.
While Ehrlich makes no claim that the cereal is a natural libido enhancer, he claims that friends who have tried the cereal “definitely feel like they want to have sex.”
Sexological Bodywork Course
The profession of Somatic Sex Education is growing in Canada. The community of body-based sex educators is expanding with the Sexological Bodywork Training being in it's third year in Canada.
Teen pregnancy on the rise in Atlantic Canada
While teen pregnancy rates in Canada have been declining since Statistics Canada started tracking them in the 70’s, that decline is at an end and experts suggest the socio-economic climate is partly to blame.
Playtex Canadian sex survey results
To promote their Fresh + Sexy wipes (side note: stop trying to convince me my vulva is dirty, advertisers), Playtex Products sponsored an online survey of 1003 sexy Canadians aged 18 – 49. The results make me want to give all of you a high five (and some lube.)
Ontario premier to reintroduce inclusive sex-ed
Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s new premier, has promised to “evolve the physical health and sex education program” that was shelved in 2010 due to religious protesters, since age-appropriate curriculum about gender and sexuality is so very blasphemous. Wynne did not announce when they planned to reintroduce the curriculum but said that parent consultations will come soon and will include advocacy groups like the Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (OPHEA) and People for Education.
New study into sex and virginity
A new study conducted at the University of Mississippi shows that the quality of your experience losing your virginity might affect your sex life in later years. Of the 331 people interviewed by researchers, those who had a physically and emotionally satisfying first time were more likely to report being fulfilled with their current sex life.
Sundance gets sexy
The annual independent film festival in Utah was extra steamy this year, with documentaries, biopics and dramas about everything from kink to pornstars to sexual discovery.
“I was surprised how many submissions there were involving sex this year,” said chief festival programmer for Sundance, John Cooper. “And they're not necessarily explorations of relationships either.”
U of T student organisation hosts sex club
So over study groups, University of Toronto’s Sexual Education Centre was hosting a different kind of club for sexual awareness week. The student non-profit group charged U of T students $5 (rather than the regular $20) for admission to the multi-story sex club Oasis Aqualounge, and saw the 189-person building reach capacity by evening.
With the rules no harassment, no pictures, and ask only once and an age limit of 19-35, attendees were provided with a safe space to have sex, enjoy the sauna, or just grab a drink and peruse the toys.
Canada Post mails out nudes by mistake
An advertisement featuring porn star Bree Olson, fully nude, slipped through Canada Post’s screening process and made it into the mailboxes of some Halifax residents. While most of the pamphlets were caught before being delivered, Canada Post does not know exactly how many were accidentally delivered.
"If anyone is looking to send anything of an explicit or sexual nature, it should be in an opaque envelope and should be labelled 'Contains adult materials,'" said spokesman Jon Hamilton.
CBS moves to change blood ban
Looks like all that talk came to something!
Canadian Blood Services has submitted to Health Canada a policy change that would replace the lifetime ban on men who have sex with men (MSM) to a 5-year deferral, meaning men who haven’t slept with another man in 5 years would be eligible to donate.
Researchers fail to find men who haven't seen porn
University of Montreal professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse says research into the effects of pornography on males had to be scrapped when researchers couldn’t find any men in their 20s who had not consumed porn.
Research did find that on average, straight men looked at porn for the first time at 10 years old. Thank you, late-night Showcase.
Pussy Health: New guidelines suggest paps every 3 years
New guidelines by the Task Force on Preventative Health Care say that 3-year intervals are enough for cervical cancer screenings. While the rates of cervical cancer and related deaths have dropped dramatically over the past few decades as a result of screenings, Canadian doctors are saying that annual testing is unnecessary.
“Every three years gets nearly all of the benefits and reduces the harms. Just because a little bit is good, doesn’t mean a whole lot more is better,” Dr. James Dickinson said.
Understanding the Dynamics of TGirl Attraction -- Part Two
Understanding the Dynamics of Tgirl Attraction - Part Two
by Peter Berton
In the first part of this series on ‘tgirl admirers’ – men who are attracted to male-to-female transsexuals (tgirls’) -- we asked some of the world’s most notable tgirl escorts what kind of men like tgirls, and why.
In this segment, we dig deeper into the sexual orientation of tgirl admirers, and how tgirls feel about their and their obsession for ‘chicks with dicks’
Companies compete for .gay
Four companies are competing to claim the .gay domain since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers expanded the options for top-level domains (.com, .net, etc.) in 2008.
One of the companies, dotgay LLC, applied exclusively for .gay and did so as a community-based group. Community status requires written endorsement for their proposal and the group has so far collected over 128 from gay media outlets, businesses, and non-profits, including PFLAG Canada and the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
