sex
Asexual awareness week: what’s wrong with preferring cake?
Asexuals form a colourful and diverse community of people who don’t want sex and want their little-known sexual orientation to be acknowledged and respected, especially during a special awareness week between 23 to 29 October. After all, what’s wrong with preferring cake, which is one of the symbols they use to promote themselves?
sex, lifestyle, men and women, sexuality, asexual, lifestyle, society
Sila Sahin, Turkish-German actress and first 'muslim playboy model'
In May 2011 the 25-year-old posed on the cover of German Playboy, becoming the 'first muslim’ to pose nude for a glossy magazine. Her 'act of liberation’, as the tabloids called it, sparked religious outrage and divided the Turkish community from Berlin to Istanbul. Yet was it just a marketing coup, or even a daring act of integration? Interview
Welcome back to Europe? cafebabel editors size up Dominique Strauss-Kahn
On 23 August the French former head of the international monetary fund (IMF) walked free from criminal charges in New York accusing him of assaulting a hotel maid in mid-May. What would have happened to his French, German or Anglo-Saxon equivalent?
sex, fmi, new york, dominique strauss-kahn, politics, france
Istanbul 'sex bus': student beaten for defending couple speaks
On 17 April a young Turkish couple were asked to leave a city bus because the driver considered their kissing and hand-holding as too obscene. Events worsened: whilst arguing with the driver at the stop in Taksim Square stop in the couple's defence, fellow passenger and politics student Gökçe Koç, 28, was assaulted by a stranger getting on the bus. We meet via facebook where Koç started a protest group, Seks Otobüsü (‘Sex Bus Number…’): 34 TN 1992 25T
sex, interview, best of cafebabel.com, mustafa kemal atatürk, turkey, istanbul, taksim
After Polanski and Assange, Dominique Strauss-Kahn in sex assault arrest
The managing director of the international monetary fund was arrested on 14 May in New York on charges of sexual assault and attempted rape. The Polish, Belgian, French and German press write that even the powerful must abide by the law, and assumes that the French Left's strongest presidential candidate is now out of the race
Ukraine feminists ‘Femen’: topless a political weapon
At first the 300 members of the feminist community came to the streets to protest against the expansion of sex tourism in the Ukraine. The 12, 000 active 'sex pats' are growing under the indifferent gaze of the authorities. Femen has been organising nude performances as a political weapon for three years now. After a run-in at the Italian embassy, Inna Shevechenko vents her anger
sex, ukraine, italy, feminism, sexism, corruption, censorship
Italian women for and against accused Silvio Berlusconi
Whilst the satirical search engine 'Bungle Bungle' publishes videos of a million women protesters supporting the dignity of the female sex, Silvio's supporters protest in front of the law courts, where the Italian prime minister is due to show on 6 April, accused of the exploitation and prostitution of minors
Bunga bunga: European hanky panky guide for Mr. Berlusconi
The Italian fairytale has caused waves across Europe. We Italians can be proud to have exported a word out there amidst our Ferraris and mozzarella. The prime minister has revived the myth of the dying Italian stallion with a term Colonel Gadafi loaned to him, from ‘female harem’, for his orgies. Berlusconi stands trial for abuse of office on 6 April in Milan
sex, italy, tower of babel, best of cafebabel.com, languages, europe, silvio berlusconi
New year, new sex? cafebabel.com's statistics success
We raise our hands, we're an internet magazine. Every Monday our eyes glaze at the top ten most-clicked articles onsite. In between an investigation on the porn industry in Budapest, a focus on the ideal Swedish woman or an exclusive interview with the Italian porn veteran Rocco Siffredi, we find an analysis on the economic crisis of 2008! We won't hide our deploring eyes anymore at internet's fickle hand; instead, we've chosen to celebrate the start of 2011 with those very articles which are our website hits. From a hit parade throbbing with Berlin swingers and European red-light districts, we wish you a happy new year. We're back onsite on 5 January 2011!
World Aids day 2010: the 'plastic' pope has spoken
Condoms aren't bad for your health! Clear the ship for action, because we've still a long way to go. More than 41 million people have the HIV virus or Aids, which counts around 800, 000 people in Europe. To mark world aids day on 1 December in the UK, crooner Elton John has become editor for the day for The Independent. But whilst he's been known for his brash concerts in the Ukraine in the past, that country is seeing its own clinics being closed down. Prudence, because younger generations are less interested in plastic than news of when a virus kills en masse. Is the fashionable lack of protection the problem? One thing is sure; despite all the treatments, being HIV positive in 2010 is still no sinecure. Read the cafebabel.com archives before you feel the love tonight (Pictured, life through a condom lens, Image 'Mary Soaking' by (cc) Lomo-Cam/ Flickr)
Gay culture in Istanbul: ‘We have the balls to say it out loud’
Together with his partner, Sakir Yilmaz claims to be the owner of the first ‘openly’ gay bar-restaurant, Frappe Istanbul, in the famous party neighborhood of Beyoğlu. Interview
sex, gay rights, cities, homosexuality, discrimination, turkey, travel
Are Balkan women more promiscuous?
It's official: more women are approaching men in the dating stakes and a recent book in Serbia reveals a more liberal attitude. So is the Balkan woman moving towards a western, less conservative European model? We hear from Balkan guys and girls
sex, parity, literature, psychology, balkans, sex, men and women
Micro-penis: men on verge of a nervous breakdown
At a 'New Men: Really?' conference at Dusseldorf University in February, the possibility of introducing a representative for male equal opportunities at the German government level was bandied about. It seems the modern man has no certainties left - not even between his legs
sex, italy, masculinity, germany, men and women, sexuality, europe
Aids, Alzheimers, abortion: Europe's most shocking adverts
From Spain and Italy's saucy adverts, via the UK and Germany's treatment of diseases, to Poland's nazi memories - a video tour of the banned adverts which most recently shocked modern European society
sex, italy, rocco siffredi, aids, advertising, germany, video
Tips: dating success the Greek way
Dear friends from the north. You can print this out and give it a try but it’s useless. Flirting in this part of Europe is an art. It’s impossible to learn it, because southern men are born casanovas. Opinion
A Parisian male dissects success behind sex toys
A cheeky little vibrating bath duck or Ben Wa balls between your legs...for us guys, it all seems a bit unreal. Having never watched Sex and the City nor participated in an afternoon Tupperware party with my aunt, I am missing two indispensable references which might allow me to understand the boom of sex games in recent years
Death of the Italian stallion?
An August survey reports that the myth is dying, with Italian men becoming 'too feminised'. Whilst we make up our minds, a quick filmic tribute to Italian action hero Sylvester Stallone, who has long claimed the nickname and is back on the big screen, where sexual stereotypes from Europe are prevalent. Term of the week
sex, italy, rocco siffredi, cinema, masculinity, tower of babel, lifestyle
Swinger clubs: Blue Berlin 'liebt dich'
Berlin loves you. Berlin is young and isn’t ashamed of its exuberance. An Italian visits the premises of a capital’s red-light soul which is not expecting anyone. Far from Amsterdam’s sex ghettos and Italy’s hypocrisies, between the naked bodies of those for whom sexuality is no taboo
sex, religion, lifestyle, berlin, sexuality, europe, england
Boobquake: best of European cleavage expressions
When the French refer to a curvy woman's best assets, they note that 'there are a lot of people on the balcony', whilst the Spanish remark that a woman has a 'great breast-onality'. Eyebrow-raising expression of the week
sex, italy, tower of babel, germany, languages, europe, united kingdom
