The Red Light District in Amsterdam is one of the city’s main tourist attractions, where prostitutes pose in street-side lairs and blow kisses at passersby through large windows. Hookers trolling the streets of Zurich don’t have it as good – the Swiss have found them to be such an eye sore that police are building [...]

Martin Amis, the enfant terrible of British novelists, recently came to Manhattan to read from his new book, The Pregnant Widow. During the summer of 1970, the novel’s protagonist and several other privileged 20-somethings frolic in a castle outside of Rome, reveling in the newfound sexual liberties of their time. Amis could have chosen to read a [...]

Before the days  of texting and emailing, “XOXO” was an affectionate farewell scribbled at the end of long love letters, or birthday cards from parents and close friends.
Now, mere acquaintances and even strangers are sending out hugs and kisses in emails, texts, tweets, and wall posts.  The term has taken on many meanings, from a coquettish [...]

France has been absorbed in a convoluted scandal starring Liliane Bettencourt (the billionaire heiress of the L’Oreal fortune), her daughter, a gigolo photographer, and now, President Sarkozy.
It started when the heiress’ daughter filed suit against her geriatric mother and complained that the aforementioned gigolo photog, Francois Marie-Banier, was seducing the old lady so that she would [...]

In the art world, Larry Rivers is praised as one of the grandfather’s of the Pop Art movement. But in his daughter’s eyes, Larry Rivers is also a pervert who began filming her nude when she was eleven — and continued to document her and her sister’s development through puberty over the next five years [...]

While interviewing for a “Booking Editor” position at a start-up magazine last week, I was thrown into a model casting to test my skills. One by one, over thirty male and female models pranced — or crept — into the casting room; several were giddy and outwardly confident, but most were unable to mask their [...]

I recently had the mixed fortune of landing an interview at Vogue, an opportunity that was at once a pipe dream and a nightmare. After sweating through several preliminary screenings with frosty and uninterested assistant editors, I was brought to the Supreme Judge (let’s call her “M”) who would ultimately conclude whether or not I was Vogue [...]

Blenheim – an 18th century palace nestled among resplendent gardens, shimmering lakes, and stately trees- is England’s Versailles. With 2500 acres of verdant fields and elegant rose gardens, it’s no wonder the English gentry flock here for picnics by the river and a little afternoon delight in the property’s arboretum. Tourists come to see where Winston Churchill spent his childhood [...]

Renowned film director and creeper Roman Polanski faces more allegations of sexual abuse, this time by the middle-aged British actress Charlotte Lewis. She claims Polanski forced himself on her back in 1982 when she was a budding 16-year-old starlet. Though there was no mention of champagne and Quaaludes, the potent mixture with which Mr. Polanski once [...]

There is a group of young men and women willing to sell their virginity in a live auction so that filmmaker, Justin Sisley, can capture it for his documentary/“sociological experiment.” These guinea-pig-virgins are getting paid up to $20,000 each, in addition to 90% of the winning bid for their v-cards. The remaining 10% is being [...]