Sex and Dating

Sexy Stuff to Do This Week: Stripper History, Steamy Storytelling, and Sinful Summer Shows!
Every Tuesday our subscribers get this awesome roundup in their inboxes. You should sign up right here to make sure you never miss a thing. Ah, summer in The City! The nudists are out and about in the Haight and the Castro, the parks are full of stripped-down singles peacocking

SFSX (Safe Sex) is the Sci-Fi Sex Worker Comic Book You’ve Been Waiting For
Welcome to Brain-Throbs & Blow Jobs, a column highlighting the great minds and perspectives of Bay Area sex workers through interviews and photo portraits by Maxine Holloway. I wouldn’t be the perverted queer whore I am today without San Francisco. The City by the Bay made living outside the lines a

When Can Vaccinated People Have Casual Sex Again? An Analysis
COVID-19 vaccine eligibility is about to open up like mad, and the fabulous weather forecast right now means you will definitely be having Spring Fever soon. You are probably going to get your vaccination appointment in April, if you don’t have it already, which begs the question — when can

When The Cartoon Character Tattooed On Your Rear End Gets Cancelled
I got the cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew tattooed on my right fanny cheek back in 1992, when I was 21 years old. Mind you, this was a time when a blockbuster indie hit movie Dazed and Confused featured a Matthew McConaughey character whose running “joke” was that he was

SF to Open Indoor dining, Movies & Museums Next Week
In short, indoor dinning at 25% capacity, indoor gyms at 10% capacity, indoor museums, zoos & aquariums at 25% capacity. Even the GG park ferris wheel is will reopen! And they are lifting the 10pm curfew!

The Bold, Abstract, Portraits of Messy Beck in SF
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists who are doing incredible work, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Exploring the human figure, sexuality and identity, with a bold, earthy palette and a cubist touch, Messy Beck

Stories from People Who Fell in Love While Working in Restaurants
Servers are accustomed to finding all kinds of things in the restaurants they work in, from left behind umbrellas and cell phones to forgotten retainers and disregarded dirty diapers. The one thing no server ever expects to find at work is true love, but it does happen every once in

The 10 Kinds of People You See on Dating Apps During COVID
Humanity has endured many historic events that have perpetually changed the way we live our lives. September 11th. The fall of the Berlin Wall. TikTok. But throughout it all, one thing has prevailed: the desire to get it on. Despite a national pandemic preventing people from their usual mating ritual