You thought Nicolas Sarkozy was the only womanizer in Paris? S'il vous plaît. One of his aides, Pierre-Louis Colin, has written up a guide to spotting sexy ladies in the arrondissements.
Colin says you'll have luck just about anywhere in Paris, equating France's women with its cuisine:
Just as every region has its gastronomy, every quartier has its feminine speciality.
Top spots for babe-spotting include the Madeleine neighborhood and the Café Louis-Philippe, where strategically placed seats let pervy tourists glance up women's skirts as the ascend a spiral staircase. But the top spot on Colin's list is the Menilmontant district in the 20th, where you'll find:
Perfectly shameless cleavages, radiant breasts often uncluttered by a bra.
Why are we not surprised that this news is out of Vegas? Caesars Palace is starting up summertime lunch-and-booze service at its Italian restaurant, Rao's. But rather than just have grilled food outside, the place is stepping it up with bocce courts and some Bocce Bellas, ostensibly hanging out to help you with your game.
The food menu is on the simple side, channeling that barbecue vibe with sausages, burgers and chicken wings. The specialty drinks sound a little sweet for our taste, but you can't really go wrong with pitchers of sangria.
The bocce bar menu is set to be a seasonal thing, starting this Thursday and running until just after Labor Day. And, yes, we have a gratuitous photo of the Bocce Bellas after the jump.
Want to spice up your sex life without landing in a seedy porn shop or a swinger's club? You can do it with class (literally!) at Babeland, a women-owned sex shop chain with two locations in New York.
When we headed to the Soho store for their first workshop of the year called the "Big O." We admit that we were a little, uh, gun shy. (Remember that Sex In The City episode where the girls attended a sex class only to witness a live demonstration of how to pleasure a man?) How the heck was Babeland going to teach a group of strangers how to have better orgasms? Would they make us share our sexual issues in front of an audience or--oh God, no!--ask for volunteers to illustrate techniques?
The new Airbus A380 proudly flown by Singapore Airlines last week is a huge aircraft with plenty of room for all kinds of activities. Except one: sex.
If you're thinking of booking the world's first flying double bed, you'll first need a lot of money. And second of all, no desire to have sex. Singapore Airlines has said that if couples using the double suites "engage in inappropriate activity," they'll be politely asked to stop. One of the first couples to fly in the suite thought this seemed a bit unfair since the flight attendants kept bringing champagne.
We agree that it doesn't seem fair, but at the same time, we don't want those kind of noises added to screaming engines and wailing children to make our long-haul flight experience even more painful.
We've been wondering for a while what the European Union is really doing to help people like us globe-wanderers and now, thanks to their own promotional efforts, we know. The EU is not around for political stability, its cultural wonders, or to provide fast inter-country transport. It's there for sex.
Okay, not exactly sex: but films featuring sex. The European Commission itself has released a YouTube video featuring clips of soft-core porn, er, cinematic depictions of lovemaking from European movies. The EU is happily promoting both its financial support of these films and the idea of one Europe: "let's come together," they say. If this doesn't cause a rise in travel to The Continent, nothing will.
There's a great new bar open in Chandigarh, northern India in the Kalagram Arts Village Complex on the Chandigarh Shimla Highway: the Condom Bar. Basically it's a place with drinks, music and bar stools ... and a lot of condoms everywhere. As decorations and logos, and also sitting around in bowls free to be pocketed by customers, the condom theme is running wild. Why? Because:
Condoms must be seen as friends, not some embarrassing necessity that no-one wants to talk about.
Curiously, it's a government-sponsored tourism project, Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development group pays the bills, so it kinda sounds like not only do they want to promote safe sex amongst locals, they want to pull in a few tourists with the lure of some free rubber. Get in while they last!
Having never had a Chinese boyfriend, we're not really sure what's behind this: but an amusement park in the city of Changchun in northern China has just constructed the world's largest penis.
A sure way to bring a few extra customers (but maybe put off a few too), this 30-foot phallic named the Sky Pillar is a concrete pole wrapped in straw at the Longwan Shaman Amusement Park. Apparently it's all for historical reasons:
Legend says a Shaman hero named Ewenki vanquished a cruel female ruler and gave her a penis totem, telling her to respect males and not kill them at will.
Got it. We just can't wait to see if this penis is big enough for Google Earth to pick it up. That'd be worth boasting about, boys.
The demand for the sassy Kelly Osbourne has apparently not yet died down in Britain, where Ozzy's spawn get handed TV shows without even asking for them. Kelly recently filmed a miniseries called "Turning Japanese," in which she plants herself in Japan, takes on local jobs, and laughs her way through some totally wacky culture shock.
One of the episodes, above, was filmed at a love hotel. Kelly and her Japanese-speaking friend, Yumi, play front desk girls for a day. Mild hilarity ensues, but it's got more to do with the guests' candor than Kelly's nerves.