Love seems awful treacly

at this time of year, given all of the Hallmark-card and Kay Jewelers insistence upon it. But Valentine's Day began as a strange Roman holiday-Lupercalia-in which thonged young men used bloody goat entrails to whip naked women who wanted to get pregnant.

Now that's a holiday Baltimore could get behind!

So, forget love. You hold in your hands

City Paper

's

Sex Issue

, where you'll find a

with sex educator Jacq Jones; a profile of

, a male porn star from Dundalk; a story about two different historic First Amendment

fought from a warehouse at 3300 Clipper Mill Road; and a piece on

, which hacked Victoria's Secret's website last fall and is planning V-Day action on the National Mall.

But here at Baltimore's randiest alt-weekly, we know that sex is not only fun-it can also be horribly embarrassing. So we asked you, Baltimore, to share your own

. Most of these are anonymous, but we got a great one from Brokeass Gourmet's Gabi Moskowitz about

.

Elsewhere, you'll find pictures of classic

in the bathrooms of Baltimore bars, portraits of Baltimore's

, and, yes, even

.