It seems like everyone on the internet loves cats. The internet feeds my partner’s addiction; she gets daily flickr feeds and so on, so how could I NOT have checked this place out with her while in Amsterdam. Here’s the lowdown on Amsterdam’s de Poezenboot (The Cat Boat) sanctuary.

Relevant Links: de Poezenboot Website

I’ve studied art history and classical studies and so have seen my share of images and read plenty documentation on the views of sex throughout human history and culture, but nothing as blunt as The Sex Museum in Amsterdam can give in such a short amount of time. Nuno gives you on a quick lowdown of the sex museum, also known as The Venus Temple, and hopefully enlightens many out there to the very real notion of sex as an act of pleasure and not just an instinctual necessity to procreate.

Relevant Links: The Sex Museum, Amsterdam

Ever wonder where modern torture etiquette came from? Nuno gives you the lowdown on the Torture Museum in Amsterdam and in doing so highlights some of the old age devices that have thankfully gone out of practice today. At least we can all hope so, but really, who knows what goes on in the darker places of war and tyranny.