Can You Cure Germophobia By Confronting Your Fears?

By COREY LEVITAN

I have a serious drinking problem. I refuse to partake from my wife's glass.

Like an otherwise normal person, I will swap spit during a kiss, since I am in love. However, imagine bottoming up an empty glass that your loved one has spit repeatedly into. Gross, right? That is exactly how I feel about doing the champagne switch toast.

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He Wants His Foreskin Back (and He Just Might Get It)

By COREY LEVITAN

As many Americans re-evaluate their thoughts on male circumcision—and there's an ongoing debate about whether circumcision is necessary—it's too late for most of us who were subjected without a say in the issue. Or is it?

A company called Foregen claims it will be able to grow a custom-made foreskin in a lab, in the not-too-distant future, using your own stem cells, and surgically "re"-attach it to your penis.

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Can Taking Your Wife to the Porn Awards Actually Be Good for Your Marriage?

By COREY LEVITAN

Is there a more romantic way to spend a wedding anniversary than at the AVN Awards?  

Initially, I saw a conflict between covering the annual Las Vegas porn extravaganza and celebrating my 11th anniversary, which fell on the same weekend. Then, I realized that I could combine the two, and use the opportunity to have porn stars offer us some marital guidance.

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Is Your Sperm Vegan-Friendly?

By COREY LEVITAN

Remember the illogical question Captain Kirk asked that evil floating robot that made its head smoke? Here's one for your favorite vegan.

All vegans go out of their way to avoid ingesting animal products—even cage-free eggs, milk and honey. But boy, is there a sticky situation for those with male sex partners: Semen is not plant-based. And, depending on whether teeth are involved, it may not even be cruelty-free.

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I Tried Speed Dating with a Bag over My Face. Here’s What Happened

By COREY LEVITAN & JUSTIN YURKANIN

The latest craze in London is speed dating with a paper bag on your head. No, seriously. It's the perfect antidote to the digital narcissism of today's young singles, who regularly lie to themselves when they say looks don't matter.

While traditional, bag-free speed daters wonder why they're still alone after rejecting soulmate-after-future-soulmate because of a bald head or a double chin, these Londoners seem to have hit upon a novel way of seeking romantic compatibility—and of hiding their bad British teeth.

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Go-Going For it: My night as a go-go boy in a gay nightclub

By COREY LEVITAN

It's a good thing I'm getting married next month. These photos are going to kill off all my dating options for at least three years.

As one of nine go-go boys at the gay nightclub Piranha, it's my job to "fulfill the fantasy," as described by Carlos Salazar, the 34-year-old Las Vegan who trained me to replace him.

I can't imagine a single fantasy fulfillable by the sight of my jiggling atop a Plexiglas pedestal in low-rise briefs , but here I am.

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PANE AND SUFFERING: Window-washing stint has reporter yearning for terra firma

By COREY LEVITAN

My trembling right foot slips off the rung as I descend the ladder backward. The ground, where so many of my fondest memories have occurred, lies 921 feet straight down.

I don't want to say I'm afraid of heights, but I talk to God whenever the ski lift goes over those roller things. Yet here I am, hanging outside the observation tower at the Stratosphere, washing the windows. Yes, the ones at the tippy top.

And I've lost my footing. My ass is glass.

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