Welcome To Sex Week

By: SoundProof Staff

Photo: Erika Jacobs

^{Updated: February 14, 2010}

We like sex. A lot. In fact, it would probably be fair to say we love it. Frankly, even more than some of the people we'd had it with. It's all sorts of fun. All squishy and warm and good-feeling. Really the only thing we don't like about sex is that we don't have it nearly enough. And that every year, the good people at Hallmark schedule yet another Valentine's Day to remind us of that fact.

Our usual coping strategy involves a lot of ice cream, pornography and tears. This year, however, we decided to try something new. We declared the entire week leading up to Valentine's Day to be SoundProof's Sex Week. We've spent the last little while thinking and writing about our two favourite things in the world and how they relate to each other. We posted the results—features, lists, videos and more—over the course of the last seven days. We're hoping it will create some sort of emotional distance. After all, why bother having your own online music magazine if not to sort through your own personal issues in a public forum?

Below, you'll find links to all of the articles that we posted over the course of the week

Music & Sex:

		Part One: Let's Start at the Beginning, Shall We? The question of how music and sex got mixed up in the first place may be more complicated than you think.

		Part Two: Rock Star Sex Gods From Mick Jagger to Har Mar Superstar, why is it that musicians have such an easy time getting laid?

		Part Three: Why Don't We Do It In The Road? How music fucks with the sexual staus quo.

		Part Four: We'd Actually Rather You Didn't Do It In The Road How music doesn't fuck with the sexual staus quo.

		Part Five: It's In Your Head We conclude our week-long feature by looking at how music and sex affect the brain.

Other Features and Lists:

		Ten Songs About Kissing Hope you had your HPV shot. We're about to slip you ten tunes about slipping you the tongue.

		Subgenre of the Month: Booty House It's Sex Week. Let's celebrate the most NSFW subgenre ever: Booty House. (Believe us about the NSFW thing.)

		Art On Our Sleeves: Boobs Breasts! Boobies! Knockers! Tits! Jugs! Hooters! Honkers! Cans! Cantalopues! Mazoombas! And the album art that features them. (Um, not so much safe for work.)

		This Week In History - Sex Week Edition Tom Jones does TV, Rod Stewart's sex-charged hit, Paul Simon finds 50 ways to leave his lovers, The Captain & Tennille keep it together, and two Valentine's Day weddings.

		SoundProof Recycled: Ten Songs About Cheating There are times when your heart takes a beating/ And you're left feeling broken and bleeding/ You may freak and itch/ But that chick is a bitch/ So here are ten songs about cheating.

		SoundProof Recycled: Ten Songs About Masturbation As Woody Allen once said, "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."

		SoundProof Recycled: Ten Songs About Scorned Love Valentine's Day is over and we can't wait until all the lovey-dovey crap is over. The perfect time to look at ten songs that show the side of love that truly gets the blood pumping.

Interviews:

		Eight Questions About Sex With Pamela Des Barres The world's most famous groupie talks about her views and experiences, which include relationships with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon and more

		Eight Questions With Dr. Robert Zatorre We talke to the pioneering neuroscientist at the Montreal Institute of Neurology about how music affects the brain

		Eight Questions About Sex With Kids On TV John Caffery, the frontman of the Toronto-based "queercore" band, talks feminism, lust and playing in a bath house.

		Eight Questions About Sex With Har Mar Superstar How a short, round, raunchy American songwriter with a receding hairline gets laid. A lot.

Videos:

		"Crazy" by Aerosmith Having subjected you to the video for "Pink" yesterday, we figured we'd better make it up to you by posting an Aerosmith video that was actually sexy, thanks to Ms. Tyler and Ms. Silverstone. (Weird as it is that she's his daughter.)

		"Pink" by Aerosmith Steven Tyler, desperate to prove he's the opposite of sexy.

		"It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Back in the ay-tays shit was fresh t'death.

		"Good Weekend" by Art Brut With a moustache like this, the weekend is bound to be good.

		"Fuck The Pain Away" by Peaches Peforming live at UCLA, Peaches presents her own take on sexuality and gender.

		"I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred Us too, Right Said Fred. Us too.

		"Justify My Love" by Madonna Before Britney, Paris and the Kadashians all turned themselves into soft porn products, there was Madonna. But she did it in black and white. So that makes her an artist.

		"Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt-N-Pepa What more appropriate way to kick off SoundProof's Sex Week than with this 1991 hit by Salt-N-Pepa?

		"Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye Marvin, that may just be the best suggestion we've heard all day.

		"Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin Oh man, this got so banned on the radio. Even if you don't understand French, the message comes acorss pretty clear

The Best of The Gator:

		Christina Aguilera's Dirrty Voted Sexiest Music Video of All Time Life Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

		Love Guns, Tight Pants, and Big Sticks Bitch Magazine talks about what the rise of cock rock meant for female performers.

		Lust For Life: Memoires of an Unrepentant Ex-Groupie From coke and sex with John Cale to Iggy Pop's enormous cock, Margaret Moser looks back on her adventures as a groupie in Texas.