Toronto's independent weekly - NOW Magazine - was launched Thursday, September 10, 1981 as the city's alternative voice. Starting with just five staff members, founding owner/operators Michael Hollett and Alice Klein have seen the weekly grow to become a key cultural and political voice in Toronto - and Canada - with more than 100 fulltime employees.

Welcome to NOW's seventh annual Love & Sex Guide, where we parse and present the most intimate details of how we live and love ourselves and others.