If you feel proud of your body, and particularly of your penis and feel the need to let it know (and show) to your friends or partner, here’s the ideal gift so that no one stops admiring it at any time. This is the chocolate penises cloner. I do not know if your friends will love the idea but your partner sure will because there is nothing more delicious than chocolate and sex together … it’s the perfect gift, no doubt. But what about if you have no partner? No problem, you can put in the room of your house without any shame, adonis-style.

It can also be sexually very exciting for the owner of the penis because if someone clones his own penis, he must like seeing how his partner sucks it while being penetrated by the original member. It is certainly a highly original greedy sexual position. This male cloner has her feminine variant so that both can enjoy a fun dessert that can result in a truly wild night because you know what chocolate is like… it actives you.

But apart from giving your own penis in chocolate you can also simply give the kit to be others who give shape to their members, without doubt, this is a fun gift and without doubt, you can get much more game from it.

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You can use it in the privacy of one of the apartments in Berlin because in a city as cosmopolitan as the German capital, nobody is surprised to receive a gift of this kind. Although as I said earlier, it might be better idea to give the kit directly, lest we live a surprise and chocolate penis is not pleasing to the recipient, which would be a huge disappointment. Thankfully, creating it does not take very long, only five minutes, but hey, you don’t lose anything by proving it.

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On February 4, the C / O Berlin -one of the institutions of photography’s most renowned in Europe- presented an exquisite exhibition. Under the title “Shoot! Existential photo” the exhibition will present the culture of self-portrait in the field of photography, one of the most fascinating disciplines.

The philosopher Susan Sontag said that the self-portrait represented a way of sublimating suicide -an aesthetic harakiri where the photographer fell in a duel with himself. The act of shooting with the camera, in the self-portrait, is evidence of that morbid double sense. It is, somehow, the act of confronting oneself, to be the observer and the observed at the same time. Of being subjected on one side and on the other, become the object. And this way, it is not surprising that the self-portrait was one of the

Some of the best-known artists and photographers in the world succumbed to the morbid fascination of self-portrait. Unforgettable, for example, the amazing self-portraits by Van Gogh, who put in evidence the artist’s mental state. Other artists were staged as masters or geniuses, as almost ethereal figures that wanted to delve us into the secrets of the world and life.

Further info: http://www.co-berlin.info/vorschau.html

Heloise Battista

Until March 27 the C / O will present some contemporary exponents of this almost forgotten discipline. If you want to see this form of harakiri beauty, this sublimated suicide, we advise you to rent apartments in Berlin and go to the C / O where each visitor can shoot their own portrait.

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A Serbian boxing teacher, an Israeli dancer, a schoolteacher from Kazakhstan, a Turkish fashion designer, and a total of eight brilliant statements that questioned, among other things, the definition of home, all demonstrate that each person is a world in itself, and that Berlin is open to diversity and social differences. Interviews lasting from a minute and a quarter to three minutes maximum, with strong and moving messages of life in which each individual presents their experience of adapting to a place that sometimes becomes hostile, find answers in a Turkish proverb that says “where I am satisfied, that’s my home”.

The New Berliners is the name of the series and multimedia project that is immersed in the special home of immigrants from the capital of the German Republic and which was made by director Julia Lipkins to the known site of English notes The Local.

The city of Berlin emerged from the ashes with the push it received after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and since then the population was plunged into a process of continuous transformation that has had as a main objective the practice of tolerance and acceptance of others with all their differences.

Germany has not suffered major criminal acts or disturbances of or from immigrants as happened in France or the UK, but the debate over immigration is seen as necessary by some social and political sectors, especially before the new legislation integration proposed by the government of Angela Merkel.

The current German chancellor was concerned in some statements on the issue of immigration, “The multicultural approach that says: we live next to one another and we are happy for each of us, has failed completely. We should not be a country that gives the impression to the outside world that those who do not immediately speak German or even raise don’t want to are not welcome here. This can damage a lot to our country”. Merkel said accepting the difficulties of integrating diversity.

Since it changed its strict citizenship law by accepting the ius solis, Germany is home to four million Muslims and about ten million people of migrant descent. Ius solis means rights in land and is a legal standard that determines the nationality of a person with a physical site that lives almost in opposition to jus sanguinis, for which citizenship is obtained by blood or foster even if the place of birth is another country.

Laura Aurelia

Berlin is now one of Europe’s most open cities to diversity, exchanges, multiculturalism and the expressions of all kinds. It is an eclectic, world-renowned city for its history, nightlife, nightclubs and bars and for its arts, museums and palaces. Rent one of the apartments in Berlin and enjoy this place as a paradigm of the new millennium in which the mixture of influences is the everyday.

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The Gay Museum in Berlin will pay until March 7, 2011 a tribute to French writer Jean Genet, who spent his youth among street criminals, prisons and sexual exploiters, and ended up being a friend of Cocteau, Picasso and Sartre.

The Gay Museum was founded in 1985 by three gay students who were working at the Free University of Berlin as exhibition guards. Manfred Baumgardt, Andreas Weiler and Wolfgang Theis Stern decided to create a museum that would tell the story of gays in humanity and the contributions they have bequeathed to the universal culture, despite having been persecuted, murdered and marginalized in different humanity stages and by almost all ideologies. This museum promotes the study and social research on the homosexual movement and the great political struggles that have fought to end discrimination against gays, lesbians and transsexuals.

The exhibition will consist on prints, books and paintings that reveal the life of this writer born in 1910, with a prostitute mother and unknown father, and was handed over to an orphanage when he was only a year old.

Life in these deplorable conditions took him to early offending. Despite being an exceptional student, at 10 he already stole for living. He spent his adolescence in juvenile prisons, which meant he fell into prostitution to cope with everyday life full of violence.

His work is marked by his life and reflects a profound rebellion against society and double standards of its customs; he plays with provocation and bursts with anti-heroes who demolished the characteristic stereotypes of the novel. In 1946 he wrote The Miracle of the Rose, which relates the marginal life experiences and encounters with lovers who had been in the reformatory. At the age of18 he enlisted in the French army, which quickly expelled him because of “conflict with the moral behaviour” after being caught up in gay sex.

With no clear destination, he began to roam, steal and prostitute. From these experiences he writes The thief’s journal, which take place in the Chinese district of Barcelona in the years preceding the Spanish Civil War. This book chronicles the seedy underworld of the thirties. However, in 1947 with his novel Funeral, his work moves towards a more political stage, with a plot on the battle of Paris against the Nazi forces of occupation, whose characters are former lovers belonging to the Resistance.

The raw theme, where crime of homosexuality are treated in an explicit way, led it to censorship and prohibition. In the 60s, with accentuated political commitment and supporting the rebellion of May 68 and the Black Panthers, he wrote plays and essays, which were analyzed by philosopher Jacques Derrida. His latest book, A captive Love, was devoted to the Palestinian cause and his friend Yasser Arafat.

Nancy Guzman

Knowing the work of Genet and the story of those who have been marginalized and censored by their sexual orientation is a wonderful intellectual experience, not to be missed if travelling to the capital. Take the opportunity to enjoy Germanic apartments in Berlin

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This is an issue which I do not particularly encourage but I do not condemn it either when there is no exploitation or children involved, sex tourism exists since several years ago and moves a lot of money around the world. I mention this issue because two months ago the mega Europe’s largest brothel, the Paradise, located in the northwest of the Catalan province of Girona, La Jonquera, opened and everything seems to indicate it has been very successful in promoting such tourism. It has 2,700 square meters, one private and one public parking, 80 rooms and it can accommodate up to 150 prostitutes who pay 70 euros a day to work there.

It is the largest in Europe by now but it’s not the only one in town, because just a couple of miles away there is another 60-room brothel and it’s almost as large. The mega brothels in the Spanish province are a commercial success due to their proximity to the southeast of France, a country where laws are more drastic with this type of business. The French arrive massively because they are just minutes away by car, liquor and gasoline cost cheaper, and there are prostitutes for all tastes.

Sex tourism is often the case for these reasons: because in another country everything costs more expensive, because they are looking for a specific type of woman (brunette, Asian, arias, etc.), or because they have more privacy (in a city that is not yours, nobody knows you.)

But do not think that only men practice sex tourists, of course not, women also practice it, and a lot, but with the difference that they do not seek a companion in the brothels, they do not need it, they go to discos, drink, dance and play the role of the wished foreigner wanted by the locals, “they want to be conquered” to get the sex they are seeking. Many residents do this with foreigners expecting gifts, to be covered their expenses, or even make them their lovers to get a visa and leave their own country.

Sex tourism, as long as all involved are adults who have total freedom of their actions and use protection to avoid infection, should not be censored. But the big problem with this practice is that on the black market it encourages and enables trafficking (women and men) and the abuse of minors, especially from poor areas of humble social strata. Something that I find reprehensible under any point of view. It is a very serious problem because on this crime there is powerful and dangerous mafia difficult to disrupt.

Miruton

Whether you’re seeking to experience sexual tourism or not, Berlin is a city that can offer all kinds of emotions and experiences; rent one of our apartments in Berlin and fully enjoy all that the Germanic city can offer to its visitors. Remember, if you’re looking for sex, let it be with another adult. And do not forget to protect yourself!

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InfoJobs, the online initiative offering a database service to those in search of jobs or employees, is one of those many absurd contradictions of our society. From now on, if you want to find work through them, and get your CV read by potential employers, you have to pay a membership fee. Though you’ll be surprised to hear it, the company belongs to the Opus Dei, so its service is supposedly morally sound. I’m just telling it like I see it.

Basically, they are profiting from the needs of the poor and unemployed – not that it’s anything new to take advantage of the hardship of others. From the INEM offices, they urged me to sign up to this service that they themselves, with such shameless hands, put at my disposition. What’s more, they went as far as to suggest that this would be the only worthwhile way of finding work.

Dear men of money, are you on our side or not? Its not like I think I’m a genius – I live, eat and sleep. But I have a good sense of smell, and this stinks. Knowing what I know now, I don’t expect you to be the ones to save me from my own personal misfortune. You haven’t up until now, and I doubt you will in the future. Considering how much they have to spend, nobody could hope to benefit from your system. Except for all of you, of course. Your business is to win and never lose. To squeeze us dry, and then hit us with a gratuitous slap, leaving us in a comatose state forever more.

Each man for himself. As of now, we must realize that we are alone, completely alone. And that at the armchairs of power, nobody is thinking of you, but of themselves and their own interests. The situation is dire, and it certainly won’t be resolved by any initiative from the big players of organized power.

What we are living in today is a subtle form of dictatorship. One of parties, large businesses and corporations. And behind such so-called “democracy” lies the most mean and repellent intention of leaving us deaf and mute. And frightened. So that in the end, you rarely go out and when you do, you go directly to a shopping centre and buy. You buy what you don’t need and what you can’t afford, and go running back home.

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These people would never suggest you to look for cheap apartments in Berlin Their message is: stay behind your bars and just switch on the telly. Keep the breath and then expel it as strong as you can, without screaming. Otherwise you can try to do it underwater, so that nobody would hear you.

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The Gay Museum in Berlin will hold an interesting presentation on the World Cup and Homosexuality in 2011. This aesthetical bet is expected to be open from March and seeks to contribute to the discussion on individual liberty of the athletes to express their sexual preferences.

Society has stereotyped football players as the representatives of the breeding male sexually desired by women, who see in the roughness of the well-sculpted bodies, the erotic image desired. For this reason great athletes have had to hide their homosexuality to not be discriminated.

However, the hidden secrets in the dressing rooms where the sweaty bodies and high doses of endorphins and testosterone that are hidden from the eyes of the joyful fans, give ammunition to mischievous comments.

Given these suspicions, and some reports dared to expose the hidden gay relationships between players, Spanish-German striker of Bayern Munich and member of the German national team Mario Gomez, has advised gay football players to come out of the closet so that they can play “liberated”. To his words, just a popular adage comes to my mind “there’s no smoke without fire”.

Despite this finding of fuzzy relations between players, homosexuality in football is still a taboo. The millions football clubs sell trafficking with their players and the huge industry that revolves around sports apparel, balls, shoes and other related products, required to maintain the stereotype of male captivating successful beautiful women, because stereotypes are what sell.

Perhaps this is the reason many players choose to keep their sexuality secret and there is only one known case of homosexual claims, the German player Marcus Urban, who left the sport in the early 90′s after being discriminated against because of sexual orientation, despite his talent. Urban silenced for more than ten years his condition of gay and only dared to go public in 2007 in an interview about his early retirement from football.

The conservative FIFA managed by Joseph Blatter has displayed his homophobia stating that gay fans “should refrain from any sexual activity” in the World Cup 2022 in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. The response of Lavrikovs, public relations director of the European branch of International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex accused him of violating a very basic human right, adding, “It is a disappointment to see a body that promotes sport, which in its rules condemns any discrimination, making comments like that.”

The exhibition on homosexuality in the football world will be a great opportunity to look what hides behind the lucrative business and how it influences freedom of the sexual choices of the players, who must hide their sexuality in a closet waiting for a social change.

Nancy Guzman

If you consider yourself to be open and free from bias on the sexual orientation of any human being you should not miss the Gay Museum of Germanic capital to attend the exhibition and then stay and relax in one of the apartments in Berlin

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Is a life without money possible? A life in which we can use our time as we like, doing what we know and want to do, and not “working on activities that only enrich others after the sale of our spare time? Schwermer Heidemerie response is yes, of course it is possible, and it shows the fact that this woman from Berlin has not touched a euro yet since the European monetary union was formed.

More than six years ago, Heidemarie realized that something was wrong in her life. Essentially, she didn’t miss anything: she had a highly paid job and an own house, she ownd a car, bank accounts in black numbers and a house full of stuff. She specialized in teaching, and then in Gestalt therapy and made a lot of her career as a psychologist. But one day she decided to take the most radical decision of her life and leave everything. She distributed the money among her children and closed bank accounts; she gave the car, the house and her things away until she was left with nothing. Heidemarie decided to be a homeless claiming her freedom and asserting that her activity “had the mission to draw attention to injustice, it is my vocation. I do not need vacations. That is one of our society’s mistakes, which separates leisure and work, because most people does something they do not like just to make money and spend it on things they do not need”.

So in 1996, Heidemarie, along with other colleagues, founded the association Gib und Nimm, a center where they organized barter exchange of knowledge and different activities. Each one does what they can do and get by the others services they can provide, being food preparation, car repair, haircuts or classes for children, for example. This way, everyone gets what they need without some effort and doing what they like. For this reason, Heidemarie feels extremely happy today that has nothing material but in exchange she has earned the freedom to dispose of all her time the way she wants. And it’s no small feast. This practice, emphasizes her creator, has the positive effect of increased personal confidence and self esteem, it enables everyone offer what they do, and avoiding the alienation caused by a job that doesn’t motivate them or represent them. It’s a system based on mutual trust and solidarity, which destroys the convention “what you have, it what you are worth”.

Her book “Living without money ” has been a success since its publication, and the author – very consistently – distributed the money earned with copyright among battered women, social workers and various support groups.

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These barter practices are increasingly present in the German capital, and if you are intrigued by the possibility of an alternative lifestyle, I suggest you to rent one of the apartments in Berlin and begin to investigate how to proceed following the example of Heidemarie.

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On November 30, the Hamburger Bahnhof, contemporary art museum in Berlin, opened “Here Comes Everybody”, an exhibition dedicated to the work of New York artist Cory Arcangel.

Born in 1978, Arcangel has witnessed the digital revolution and the cultural mass, a son of the XY generation, which explores the myths and practices of Internet culture, like pop music and experimental music, as demonstrations and spokesmen of a lost youth, he completely devoted to consumption and entertainment. In his work he manipulates and modifies existing software and develops his own programs, which serve to create the original audiovisual works.

This way, Arcangel appropriates and reuses digital media to highlight the intersections and symbiotic relationship between popular culture and technology. One of his most emblematic works is the manipulation of the legendary Nintendo game console, a symbol of the revolution in video games and XY Generation. For many, Arcangel is only one impostor, for others, however, a keen observer of our contemporary culture. Therefore, we are not surprised that his artistic resume is dotted with some of the world’s most important institutions like the Migros Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Miami Art Museum and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Until May 1 this year, the Hamburger Bahnhof presents one of his most interesting works, the showing titled “A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould” in 2007. This interesting piece is composed by more than 1100 images, the artist downloaded from the Internet and manipulated with software developed by him. An audiovisual collage that highlights the amazing talents of Archangel.

More info: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de

Heloise Battista

Rent apartments in Berlin not to miss the work of one of the contemporary art nerds.

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Few cities have been so intimately linked to the cinema as Berlin. Not only for fascinating films that have the city itself as a protagonist, from the extraordinary film Walther Ruttmann, Berlin, Symphony of a City (1927), which in the wake of Dziga Vertov makes evocative use of music by Edmund Meisel, and the captivating photography of Karl Freund, Reimar Kuntze, Robert Baberske, and László Schäffer to make us feel the vibration of the pulse and breathing of everyday life in the city on any given day- to the deep cut existential lyricism of Sky over Berlin by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke made 60 years later.

Thing that is perhaps not very surprising considering that Berlin is probably the town that has had a more decisive influence in the history of cinema. Not in vain in the legendary UFA some of the most up films in the grammar of cinema studios in Berlin were directed on the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century. German expressionism of the time soon became a universal language, many of whose concepts would become an essential part of film education of generations of filmmakers. This influence was not only the result of viewing their films. With the arrival of Hitler to power dozens of industry professionals (directors, camera, script writers, art directors, costume, production, etc, etc,) migrated to Hollywood to make a determining drift in the film creation in United States and, therefore, almost the entire planet. Peter Lorre, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Max Ophuls, William Wyler, are just a few of the names to the case.

While all this is already history and belongs essentially to the past (perhaps there is something else different to the past?), Berlin is claiming its place of honor in the world of cinema by the conclusion of one of the largest and most prestigious world cinema festivals, the famous Berlinale (http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html), which this year takes place from 10^th to 20^th of February. The magnitude of the event can provide evidence not only of the sheer number of participants: more than 19,000 industry professionals from 128 countries, including some 4000 journalists but also the amount of projected films, which is around four hundred. They are about, mainly, European premieres, along with the rest of the films distributed in the different sections of the festival-Official Competition, Panorama (independent films and more artistic than commercial intent), Generation (film more geared to a young age), German Cinema Perspective, Forum (experimental films and little-known cinemas) and Shorts- which offer a varied sample of films from all genres, lengths and formats.

As if this were not enough, the Berlinale programs this year a splendid retrospective of the work of Ingmar Bergman, whose film Wild Strawberries won the Golden Bear here in 1958.

Paul Oilzum

The Berlinale graces the city of film, festival and art. It’s a great reason to rent apartments in Berlin at this time.

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