Is it Art?

The cult of romance: In a more tasteful Valentine’s vein, a new bilingual guide to Quebec has just been published, to help romantic souls find their way around Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau, Sherbrooke or even Ste-Hyacinthe. The Montreal and Quebec Erotic Guide (Petit Futé, Éditions Néopol) features informative descriptions of strip clubs, massage parlours, sex shops, XXX video stores, dominatrixes, “restaurants with sexy or nude waitresses” and much more. Written by Marie-Pierre Delaunay, the tone is first-person candid, frisky and pervy, as typified by this enthusiastic recommendation of a Laval massage parlour: “Non touch rules are observed, though I must confess that the jacuzzi’s swirls and eddies, together with the hostess’s caresses raise the temperature to its highest.” $10.95. :