https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy's first sex doll brothel was raided by the police on Wednesday, just nine days after it opened in Turin. https://www.thelocal.it/20180912/italy-first-sex-doll-brothel-has-been-closed-down-the-week-after-it-opened Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:58:43 +0200 italy-first-sex-doll-brothel-has-been-closed-down-the-week-after-it-opened Opening in Turin on Monday, Italy's first sex doll "brothel" has already had a flood of bookings, according to its owners. https://www.thelocal.it/20180903/italy-first-sex-doll-brothel-is-already-booked-out-for-weeks Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:44:46 +0200 italy-first-sex-doll-brothel-is-already-booked-out-for-weeks As Pope Francis marks the fifth year of his papacy next week, the pontiff once hailed as a fearless reformer is under fire for his handling of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church. https://www.thelocal.it/20180311/five-years-on-pope-francis-under-fire-over-sex-abuse-scandals Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:23:57 +0100 five-years-on-pope-francis-under-fire-over-sex-abuse-scandals Brothels in Pompeii were decorated with murals depicting erotic and exotic scenes: but the reality was far more brutal and mundane, writes Classics professor Marguerite Johnson https://www.thelocal.it/20171214/the-grim-reality-of-the-brothels-of-pompeii-history-graffiti-ancient-rome Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:55:18 +0100 the-grim-reality-of-the-brothels-of-pompeii-history-graffiti-ancient-rome A sex toy commercial is being run on Italian television for the first time, testing attitudes towards sex and women. https://www.thelocal.it/20170823/sex-toy-advert-airing-on-italian-tv-for-first-time Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:13:28 +0200 sex-toy-advert-airing-on-italian-tv-for-first-time A politician in South Tyrol has been handed a two-year jail sentence for buying sex toys using public money. https://www.thelocal.it/20170313/two-year-jail-sentence-for-italian-politician-who-bought-sex-toys-with-local-funds Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:07:53 +0100 two-year-jail-sentence-for-italian-politician-who-bought-sex-toys-with-local-funds Vatican finance chief George Pell on Thursday hit out at calls that he return to Australia to assist in a child sex probe into him, railing against "anti-religion" agendas. https://www.thelocal.it/20170209/pope-aide-pell-hits-out-at-anti-religion-agendas Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:34:06 +0100 pope-aide-pell-hits-out-at-anti-religion-agendas An Italian priest will likely lose his role after allegations that he organized orgies on church property. https://www.thelocal.it/20170203/italian-priests-likely-suspended-over-orgies-in-the-rectory Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:57:24 +0100 italian-priests-likely-suspended-over-orgies-in-the-rectory It's an award he probably didn't want to add to his collection, but a prolific Italian novelist was on Wednesday awarded the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a depiction of love-making which compared genitals to ballet dancers. https://www.thelocal.it/20161201/italian-writer-erri-de-luca-wins-bad-sex-in-fiction-award-dancing-genitals Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:55:00 +0100 italian-writer-erri-de-luca-wins-bad-sex-in-fiction-award-dancing-genitals Pope Francis on Monday announced plans for a worldwide day of prayer for the victims of sexual abuse, in line with a proposal from his child protection panel. https://www.thelocal.it/20160912/catholic-church-announces-prayer-day-for-abuse-victims Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:25:56 +0200 catholic-church-announces-prayer-day-for-abuse-victims The justice committee of Italy’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved the Senate version of a hotly-contested same-sex unions bill, paving the way for the lower house to begin examining the bill’s full text on May 9th. https://www.thelocal.it/20160505/italys-long-awaited-gay-unions-bill-final-vote-lower-house-law Thu, 05 May 2016 13:38:47 +0200 italys-long-awaited-gay-unions-bill-final-vote-lower-house-law Multiple courts across Italy will join forces to try billionaire Silvio Berlusconi and the young women he is accused of bribing to lie under oath, a judge in Milan ruled on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160429/multiple-courts-to-try-berlusconi-party-girls-in-sex-and-lies-case Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:38:25 +0200 multiple-courts-to-try-berlusconi-party-girls-in-sex-and-lies-case Police officers in Venaria Reale, a town in Turin province, are in a spot of bother after the "curtains" of the changing room at their station turned out to be pictures of naked women. https://www.thelocal.it/20160420/italian-police-red-faced-over-naked-nude-women-office-venaria-turin-gaffe Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:31:43 +0200 italian-police-red-faced-over-naked-nude-women-office-venaria-turin-gaffe A 50-year-old Italian woman has lost an 11-year legal battle to get €50,000 in moral damages from her husband, who she claims never satisfied her sexually. https://www.thelocal.it/20160412/italian-woman-sought-50000-over-ex-husbands-low-sex-drive Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:22:57 +0200 italian-woman-sought-50000-over-ex-husbands-low-sex-drive Fire fighters were called to a street in the northern Italian city of Modena after a resident reported a buzzing sound coming from a rubbish bin. https://www.thelocal.it/20160318/buzzing-bomb-in-bin-was-recycled-sex-toy Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:00:36 +0100 buzzing-bomb-in-bin-was-recycled-sex-toy Porn star Rocco Siffredi, known as the "Italian stallion", has launched a petition demanding sex education become mandatory in Italy's schools and offered himself up as a teacher. https://www.thelocal.it/20151224/porn-star-siffredi-offers-to-teach-sex-in-italys-schools Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:56:04 +0100 porn-star-siffredi-offers-to-teach-sex-in-italys-schools The Italian parliament will on Wednesday begin debating a bill aimed at enshrining the legal rights of prisoners to have sex in jails, a move which one opposition party has said will "turn jails into brothels". https://www.thelocal.it/20151103/italy-mulls-allowing-inmates-conjugal-rights Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:41:07 +0100 italy-mulls-allowing-inmates-conjugal-rights Prosecutors in Sicily are seeking a 10-year prison term for a priest who allegedly extorted sex from asylum seekers in return for helping them to obtain residency permits. https://www.thelocal.it/20151020/italian-priest-preyed-on-asylum-seekers-for-sex Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:38:26 +0200 italian-priest-preyed-on-asylum-seekers-for-sex Italy's parliament began debating a civil union bill for gay couples on Wednesday, kicking off a hotly-awaited rights battle championed by Premier Matteo Renzi but expected to drag on for months. https://www.thelocal.it/20151015/italy-begins-debating-same-sex-unions-bill Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:24:15 +0200 italy-begins-debating-same-sex-unions-bill An 84-year-old woman from the southern province of Campania is seeking a divorce from her 88-year-old husband on the grounds that she is sexually unfulfilled. https://www.thelocal.it/20151006/italian-woman-84-seeks-divorces-over-lack-of-sex Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:18:28 +0200 italian-woman-84-seeks-divorces-over-lack-of-sex