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Toronto’s oldest gay bathhouse, Club Toronto, has closed to become an “upscale swinger’s club,” the fancy name for a straight bathhouse. On April Fool’s Day, a hand-written note appeared on the red door of Club Toronto reading simply, “Closed forever.” It was no joke. After 37 years as a bathhouse, the large brick house at Mutual and Carlton streets is …

You just know the internet porn industry has got their eyes on this one. Hong Kong scientists have developed a robotic hand that allows people talking over the web to experience the sensation of touching each other — even feeling the strength of a handshake. The cyber hand can grip and shake as well as make the signs for OK …

Portfolio points us to a new Fleet disposable douche campaign targeted at gay men. Fleet’s new product is for “elective rectal cleansing.” “We’ve always known that some of our consumers were using Fleet enemas for reasons other than to relieve constipation, so we wanted to develop a product that would meet the needs of those users and provide them with …

According to a strange Kinsey Institute survey published in the Journal of Sexual Health, what a lot of gay people call sex, a lot of other people don’t. Via 11 Points: -Anal sex, with a condom – 18% don’t count that as having sex. -Anal sex (no caveats) – 19.1% don’t count that as having sex. -Receiving oral sex – …

A survey taken of 15,000 “well-traveled” women yielded the above ratings on the sexytime abilities of men around the world. AmericaBlog’s John Aravosis agrees with France’s rating, but he’s probably unduly influenced by his current residency in Paris. Personally, I think I’ll need a much larger sampling before I make my own call.

The Meatpacking District’s fancy new Standard Hotel straddles the also fancy, also new High Line Park, whose visitors have been treated to numerous sex shows from the windows of the hotel, including a few porn shoots. The New York Post is outraged: Disgusted neighbors say they’ve seen men masturbating, professional porn films being shot and couples engaging in sex in …

Dan Savage reports that he’s in LA taping a pilot for HBO. “Savage Love,” the (potential) teevee show, “will focus on current events and cultural trends with sex as the filter.” I’m hoping to bring a new kind of conversation to TV about sex—an honest conversation, one that’s informed without being (too) wonky, funny without being (too) cruel, sexy without …

ABC is launching a new show called Dating In The Dark, in which “six strangers meet in a light-sealed room.” And feel each other up to see if they want to “kiss.” Tagline: “When the lights come on, will the truth come out?” Oh, hmm. Where have we seen THIS concept before? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Alexys Fermaintt, 30 (left), was arrested by Holyoke, MA police yesterday for the murder of Michael Pecora, 38, who was found stabbed to death in his Queens apartment last week after what police believe was an internet hookup gone horribly bad. The suspect was being hidden in his mother’s home, according to television reports. A NY Daily News story not …

After initial reports that actor David Carradine had committed suicide by hanging, comes word that he probably died accidentally after engaging in auto-erotic asphyxiation – just as in the case of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. Police sources have told The Sun in London that Carradine may have died after he attempted an erotic asphyxiation act when he wrapped a cord …

The guys over at The Sword (NSFW) emailed me the results of their extremely scientific compiling of Craigslist M4M ads in ten American cities. According to the stated preferences of postings in those towns, NYC comes out slightly, er, on top. Houston, not so much. A lot, not so much.

The producers of Outrage send us this amusing clip of outtakes from the movie, asking that time-honored question.

A year ago I posted the list of the most popular online “dating” sites as measured by an outfit called Online Personals Watch. Below is their most recent ranking, listed by number of visits, not membership. On the homo hook-up tip, Gay.com was #11 last year, now it’s dropped entirely off the chart. Manhunt moved up a notch to #7 …

According to a new study, frequent masturbation after the age of 50 is good for your prostate. Before 50, not so much. Masturbation may be good for you – or bad, depending on your age. The solitary sexual activity that is widely practised but little discussed, is linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer when practised frequently by young …

Well, this was inevitable. Thanks to Porno Pete LaBarbera and his endless enthusiasm for and attention to the sex lives of leathermen, wingnut sites such as Free Republic and WorldNetDaily are lighting up today over LaBarbera’s ::shocking:: finding that there will be a sex party during Mid-Atlantic Leather. Which, you know, is totally our coming communist dictator’s doing. From the …

Anybody remember the Orgasmatron, the phone-boothy thing that sent people into ecstasy in Woody Allen’s Sleeper? Scientists in the UK are developing an implantable brain chip that works in a similar way. The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain. The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson’s disease. But in …

Vince Sandoval, a 25-year-old gay New Yorker, is going without sex for 100 days in a “social experiment” to find things to do in and around New York City that are “better than sex”. From his email to me: I started it a little more than a month ago as a social experiment and a way to explore the art …

No, really. Apparently the business has been around for awhile, but I just learned about Rent-A-Dildo.com from an ad in this week’s HX Magazine. Described by some as a “Netflix for sex toys”, the site promises: We’ve developed a patent-pending process for thoroughly cleaning each toy before it is sent out to a customer. Our extensive research and testing indicate …

It looks like Americans get less sex that just about anybody. Americans are not getting enough action. The United States is one of the world’s most undersexed countries, according to a new study released Monday. Just 53% of Americans having regular, weekly sex according to results from the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey of 26,000 people in 26 countries, tying …

New York Magazine is riffing on a survey released last year by the CDC that reports that the incidence of anal sex among heterosexuals has climbed by about 50% over the last 15 years, with 38% of women and 32% of men now saying that they occasionally indulge in backdoor shenangigans. The article, written by sex advice authors Em & …