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Too Tired For A Tryst? Young Icelanders Need Better Sleep
Fatigue from busy lifestyles is causing young Icelanders to have less sex than their older counterparts, according to an expert in life and medical sciences. Dr. Sandra Mjöll Jónsdóttir highlighted the issue—which has come to light through various studies—on RÚV’s Rás 2…
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Interest In Polyamorous Relationships Increases Among Icelanders
The idea of polyamorous relationships seems to have recently been gaining traction among young Icelanders. In a country where “if you can think it, there is a Facebook group about it,” the polyamorous of Iceland have indeed created two online platforms to…
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Saga Recap: The Saga of Bosi And Herrauður
One thing you should know about the Icelandic sagas is that some of them are not only sexually charged, they’re utterly fucking pornographic. And equally pun-ographic. There’s no other way to prepare you for what you’re about to read, so let’s just…
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THIRST_GAMES
Italian men wear wifebeaters and are passionate lovers. French men are skinny and smoke after sex. Brazilian men can dance and are carnal and generous in bed. But now that we’ve gotten racist generalizations out of the way, what about Icelandic men?…
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Fake News! No, There’s No Football-Fueled Baby Boom in Iceland
A single tweet from an obscure Reykjavík anesthesiologist on Monday suggested that a spike in the number of hospital epidurals last week was correlated to Iceland’s berserk victory over England in last year’s EuroCup. The doctor, Ásgeir Pétur Þorvaldsson, noted that exactly…
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Blast from the Past: Boycotting the Girls of Siglufjörður
This March 19 marked the 75th anniversary of the Great Boycott of Siglufjörður women, by the men of said town. This was during the British occupation, you see, and there was a lot of fraternisation. This was not always taken well by…
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Icelandic Secondary School Switches To “Genderless” Bathrooms
The secondary school Verzlunarskóla Íslands, following a proposal from the school’s Feminist Society, has done away with labeling their bathrooms as being for male and female staff and students. In their place, all bathrooms are simply labelled “WC”. Feminist Society co-chair Helena…
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RECAP: Möttuls Saga, the Saga of the Mantle
If you remember the portrait of Arthurian nobility painted by Erex, this Saga is about to fuck your shit right up. It’s another translation of an Old French poem, technically into “Norwegian” but this was so long ago that Norwegian was just…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About Sex Stuff
Hey Nanna, What’s the best available lube in Iceland? Slip’n’Slide Hey Slip’n’Slide (ew), The best available lube in Iceland is the tears of sex-negative misogynists. But in a pinch I recommend Tastes Of Iceland, an all natural, organic artisanal sea themed lubricant…
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Icelandic Condom App Will Haunt Your Dreams
Currently the most popular app in Iceland is a sexual health awareness app promoting the use of condoms to prevent the spread of STD’s, reports MBL. It will, incidentally, also haunt your dreams. The game features well known Icelandic celebrities reimagined in…
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Betty Dodson Will Teach You To Sex Correctly
An Icelander, an Australian and a Yank walk into a bar. The Icelander (a few drinks ahead of the others, naturally) brags: “Sex is so great here. We start the earliest in the world, we have liberal attitudes, and LET’S GET DRUNK…
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It’s Alright, Martin!
“Festivities are known to have occurred at Sæból by fjord Dýrafjörður, at Flankastaðir on Reykjanes, in Reykjavík and Árnessýsla county. They dwindled throughout the 18th century and seem to have fully vanished in its last decades. Since then, no dancing took place…
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Fewer People Having Sex In The Blue Lagoon
The reported “problem” of people having sex in the Blue Lagoon is vanishing, says an official for the popular tourist spot. Atli Sigurður Kristjánsson, the project manager for the marketing department of the Blue Lagoon, is familiar with the old chestnut that…
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Tip-ical?
After falling for Iceland just over a year ago, whilst at the same time falling for an Icelander- in a safe, real-life friend of a friend of a friend situation. I soon realise that human interaction at whatever distance and whichever country…
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Eight Inside Tips to Surviving the Icelandic Winter
DARK ICELAND can be a total fucker to deal with, all Northern Lights and magical elves aside. So guess what: our man Ragnar put together a bit of a “listicle” to help y’all cope. Now, go forth and cope! Try the secret…
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Uxi = You x I
On June 29, 1995, an advertisement appeared in every Icelandic newspaper. It announced a large-scale, international open-air music festival that was to take place five weeks later in Kirkjubæjarklaustur, a small town in the south of Iceland. It would feature big, international…
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Love In The Land Of The Midnight Sun
It’s nearing four o‘clock and the boys at the bar are tearing their shirts off. Bare chests multiply on the dance floor like drunken amoeba—three, four, five. This is a high-stakes game and all stops are pulled. You don’t go gently into…
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WTF ICELAND AIRWAVES!? Pt. III: Advice for getting through your first (or fifth!) festival experience
Dear Grapevine, I’ve heard rumours that getting into the more well-known bands’ shows will be really difficult and I may have to wait in line for a long time. Is this true? I’m just trying to see as much music as possible…
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Iceland’s Underground Sex Scene
A long-standing stereotype about Icelanders is that they do not date. The notion of asking for someone’s number, inviting them out for dinner or movies, taking a potential relationship through a step-by-step process from friends to lovers has been, as many contend,…
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Is The Stripping Ban A Good Idea?
The government of Iceland has outlawed all businesses that profit off of the nudity of employees, most notably strip clubs, leading the Guardian’s Julie Bindel to proclaim it “the most female-friendly country on the planet.” Meanwhile, strippers, sex workers, and sex worker…
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Minnesotans and Sex
In my home, we had two things that we didn’t bring up in mixed company: Minnesotans and sex. Actually, we had a few other topics that were off the menu too: politics, religion, affection, love, food, my father’s bleeding gum disease and…