Category: Focus

Ottawa may have a reputation as a staid, conservative government town, but it’s also home to a thriving fetish and bondage community.

Imagine a woman in her mid-twenties. She has worked up the nerve to attend a workshop on oral sex. She arrives, shakes off her coat and looks furtively around the room, trying not to make eye contact. Suddenly, her eye catches someone over in the far corner. She is horrified to realize that it’s her mother.

Valentine’s Day may be associated with heterosexual romance, but that doesn’t stop the GLBT community from coming out to celebrate.

What ever happened to sacrificing a goat and then choosing your mate out of a giant urn? The ancient Roman ritual may have been messy, but at least nobody was lonely.