Relationships

Yes, I'm In Love With a Stripper

Welcome to Ask Willie D, Rocks Off's advice column where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! BURNED BY THE RELATIVE I LOANED MONEY Dear Willie D: I loaned my cousin $500 more than six ... More >>

Dallas Most Superficial City, But Houston's Close, "Study" Says

In the annals of pots, kettles and blackness, there is this: An online-dating service calling out a city for being superficial. Since that city is Dallas, we can't disagree, but that's not the point, dammit. There are a lot of good things about making decisions on people via their online-dating pro ... More >>

Montrose's St. Stephen's Will Hold Houston's First Episcopal Ceremony "Marrying" Gays

St, Stephen's Episcopal is in the heart of Montrose, and it has long embraced the neighborhood's live-and-let-live vibe. (Kids, it really used to be like that before the townhomes invaded.) That tradition will continue March 17 hen it holds what it says is Houston's first Witnessing and Blessing of ... More >>

Justin, Selena and Music's Top 10 Heartbreaking Split-Ups

By now, we've all had a few days to digest the awful, shocking news that North America's sweethearts, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, have decided to buck destiny and call it quits. We're not entirely sure how this could have happened, but Obama was just reelected. Clearly, our worst fears are alrea ... More >>

Company

The Single Girl's Guide to Breakup Dining

Is there really such a thing as a non-messy breakup? Is there a breakup in which neither party turns to a tub of Duncan Hines frosting to muffle the yak-like sounds of their latest, mostly unprompted crying jag? Is there a breakup outside of Pennsylvania Dutch country that doesn't involve inappropr ... More >>

Port Arthur High School Denies It's Banning Same-Sex Couples from the Prom

The Port Arthur school district says it's blindsided and not entirely sure where the rumors started that there is a ban on same-sex couples at its Memorial High prom, but officials say it's not true. An online petition had begun -- in this day of easy online petitions -- demanding the district reve ... More >>

Love Letter: R. Kelly And Online Dating

​ For over 20 years, R. Kelly has been making sexual history as the official "pied piper of R&B," lovingly encouraging men and women to embrace their inner freaks. He's probably even been present for most of you young bloods' conceptions. Behind the scenes, though, he's made personal legal h ... More >>

Houston, You Are the Tenth Most Promiscuous City, You Slut

Feeling at home in Houston.​Man, you host one slutwalk and.... Houston has been named the tenth most promiscuous city in the nation, in a study that we don't doubt for a second is rigorous, peer-reviewed and unassailable. It comes from a dating site called OKCupid, but the people at OKCupid ... More >>

Houston's Same-Sex Couples More Likely to Raise Children

And they may just live in Houston.​The Atlantic's blog has crunched some numbers from a recent gay survey and census data, and it's found that when it comes to raising kids, Houston's same-sex couples are near the tops in the nation. The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area had the seventh-highest ... More >>

Lesbian Video!! Get In on the Action!!

Get in on the action.​Are you a lesbian? Are you single? Do you live in Texas? Are you not freaked out by the idea of living your life online? No, we're not here to offer you a gig on our fledgling "erotica" Web site, but to tip you off to a casting call for thw web reality series Lezbeproud. ... More >>

Oral Sex Leads To Intercourse Among Teens, Study Somehow Discovers

It all starts with the oral sex​The Houston Chronicle's Mom blog led us to this amazing piece of scientific research. We'll let the official press release headline speak for itself: "Having oral sex increases likelihood of intercourse among teens."That was the profound conclusion reached by a stud ... More >>

Twitter Follow Friday -- My 24 Favorite Tweets From @OMGFactsSex (with commentary)

It's all about the sex​It's a bye week Friday, so we don't have the Texans defense to kick around this week. So I'm going to use my Friday post as a forum to do the new and exciting Friday activity that's sweeping the nation -- telling people to follow other people on Twitter! Riveting! Actuall ... More >>

Game Time: Tiger Woods -- Divorce, It Does A Body Good

Tammy Wynette never addressed the golf angle​Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Oil spills, hurricanes, divorce. Compassionate human beings don't wish any of these things upon their fellow man.That said, we live in a capitalist society. Financial Darwinism, survival of the fittest, wha ... More >>

Corinne Bailey Rae

Houston, You Are No Longer The Most Sexed-Up City, Amazingly Scientific Survey Says

Let's get it on, to beat Miami​If you're reading this, it means you're one of the few Houstonians who is not outside right now, having sex. Or at least that's how we're thinking after having read the results of an extremely informative survey brought to us by the jimmyhat experts at Tro ... More >>

F*ck Love, Let’s Party: An Anti-Love Celebration

Being single on Valentine’s Day just got a whole lot more fun

Online Stuff You Gotta Do After Being Dumped

​He was the sun in your sky, the cream in your coffee, the spring in your step. When you awoke, your first thought was of his embrace, whether you were tangled in it or not. Every evening before you slumbered, he was the last image to cross your weary mind, even if his body wasn't suctioned ... More >>

Sex and Soccer

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

He Said She Said: Breakup Songs to Help You Bawl

We've all been there, in the throes of a breakup so bad you fear you'll end up dying alone or in jail: Crying so hard your eyes are chapped and red, throat sore and aching from sobbing, hair matted from days without a shower and nails chewed to the quick. Your friends are tired of hearing you rehas ... More >>

True Lifetime Movie Network Tales: Juicy Divorce in Spring

Photo by jcoterhals Here is the inaugural installment of True Lifetime Movie Network Tales, in this case ripped from court papers down at the 1st Court of Appeals. The names are being withheld out of sympathy for the participants. Put yourself in this man's shoes for a moment... After your wi ... More >>

Eternal Flame: I Love You, Man

Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.

Tyler Perry’s The Marriage Counselor

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Houston Group Helps Fight Against Old People Having Sex

No one wants to think about old people having sex, except maybe old people. And even then they probably think of themselves having sex with much younger people.But -- incredibly, unimaginably -- the most recent issue of the magazine of the American Association of Retired People contained an advertis ... More >>

Houston Women Will Test What Everyone But Doctors Call Female Viagra

Smoove B Robs A Kroger's

Update From Beaumont Cop: Those Orgasms Sucked

HPD Loses $50,000 Worth Of Sex Toys

Christian Polygamy Advocate Says Mormonism Is the Problem

Big Love, Texas-Style

Polygamists live in a compound on our state's dry western plains

Swing Time

On-site clubs are increasingly popular for fans of instant gratification

Pick Me Up

Turnout at Houston's swingers clubs swells with the young, hip and restless

Best Laid Plans

Michael Winterbottom delivers the sex, and not much else

Take This Love and Shove It

The best X-rated breakup songs

Just Horny or a Hard-Core Addict?

Testing for the abnormal outlooks on sex

Divorce Over Easy

Collaborative divorce promises to be kinder, faster, cheaper. But does it really work?

Black Holes

Houston's newest troupe probes the dark side of infidelity in the underproduced Kama Sutra

Brown, Gay Leaders Cut Deal on Antidiscrimination Legislation

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Strangers in the Night

Is that evil lurking in the Blind Date lovefest auditions?

XX Marks the Spot

Christie Lee Littleton's chromosomes nullified her marriage, but paved the way for a groundbreaking one

Sex Toys and Videotape

Adult-shop raids raise the issue of what's nice and what's vice

Coming Out

Gay domestic violence is a dirty little secret that traps victims with nowhere to turn

The Yenta

The nice Jewish boy of my mom's dreams-for a hundred bucks?

Left Standing at the Church Door

Bering Methodist stops all weddings if there can't be gay marriages

News of the Weird

Courtship, River Oaks Style

High-powered attorney Earle Lilly was Linda Sarofim Lowe's divorce lawyer, then her lover. Now he's left her, and she wants her $6 million in attorney fees and her Mercedes back.

"One-Man Mob"

The cops say what John Shike did to his wife amounted to "legalized stalking." And after being hit with one of the largest fines ever at the county family courts, he vowed he'd get the judge, too.

Brotherly Love

Ed Burns returns to the subject of sex and sibling rivalry

The Naked Eye

Laura Letinsky's explicit photographs explore the ambiguity of ordinary sex

See No Evil, Teach No Evil

A Fort Bend County school district decrees that sex ed should start with abstinence and end with fidelity