• Monday, February 22, 2010 - 10:28am By Tim McElreavy
    Artists have imagined the life of Jesus Christ for two millennia, often with reverence but sometimes with a freedom that has been called heresy. A recent exhibition of photographs by the young artist Fernando Bayona at the University of Granada in...
  • Friday, November 13, 2009 - 8:46pm By Dr Martha Lee
    Officials in the Spanish region of Extremadura have launched a major programme to encourage a more hands-on approach to sexuality. That’s right: it is aimed at teaching young people how best to masturbate. Encouraging "sexual self-...
  • Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 3:49pm By Tim McElreavy
    As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, we also begin to see those other harbingers of 2009 coming to its inevitable conclusion: holiday decorations and, of course, the new crop of calendars for 2010. Amid the usual profusion of Georgia O'...
  • Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 12:20pm By Chris Hall
    Taking a romantic cruise on a luxury liner is the dream of a lot of couples. Cruise lines have made a mint from exploiting the "Love Boat" mythology even twenty-some years after the cheesy television show sank in the sea of ratings. One...
  • Friday, September 4, 2009 - 10:29am By Tim McElreavy
    Tourists have traditionally flocked to the Spanish city Barcelona for the architecture, the food, the nightlife, and the weather, but these days it seems that more and more people are coming for the sex. And the sex is happening out in the open on...
  • Friday, August 7, 2009 - 10:28am By Chris Hall
    When it comes time to give your daughter her first doll, will you encourage her to bottle-feed or breast-feed? The latter wasn't so much of an option before, but thanks to Spanish dollmaker Berujan, it is now. The company has ignited an...
  • Monday, April 20, 2009 - 3:13pm By Tim McElreavy
    Reuters reports that Spanish researchers have published a study in which they conclude that the Hapsburg family, which ruled Spain for centuries, was brought down by inbreeding, impotence, and premature ejaculation. Gonzalo Alvarez and colleagues at...
  • Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 4:44pm By Chris Hall
    If you're a gay man with an abusive boyfriend in Spain, don't count on the law to protect you. Although same-sex marriage has been legal in Spain since 2005, the domestic abuse laws are not so equal, at least according to an interview with a judge...
  • Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 8:44pm By Tim McElreavy
    In response to Pope Benedict XVI's declaration, "You can't resolve [AIDS] with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem," Spain announced that it would send one million (1,000,000) condoms to Africa to fight the...