Already in the 1990s, Prague had become a famous – or perhaps infamous — destination for stag parties and sex tourists. Today, the side streets of Wenceslas Square are riddled with bordellos catering to straight and gay men alike. But while sex clubs continue to do a brisk business largely thanks to the tourist trade, prostitution has steadily moved into the living rooms of private residential apartments, to cater to Czech clients.

Currently, sex education is taught in Czech schools along with a few related subjects, such as biology. A small but influential advocacy group, the Committee for the Defense of Parental Rights (VORP), which helped stop the country’s first-ever guidebook on the subject from being part of the national curriculum, argued before the Senate on Tuesday that there can be no “uniform approach” to teaching children the facts of life.

The Czech Republic’s ‘first private art academy’ — the brainchild of conceptual artist Evžen Šimera and Ondřej Brody, half of the “conceptual neo-dadaistic artistic couple” Brody and [Kristofer] Paetau — is to open early this year. The artist want to apply their iconoclastic and contrarian tendencies to the teaching of art at Scholastika, to be housed within an iconic building, already home to renowned artists and designers like Maxim Velčovský and Umělec magazine.

Czech MP Kateřina Klasnová (VV) came up with a novel way of getting the full attention of councilors from the Prague 1 district at a recent meeting. Convinced a company renting city-owned property is not only operating a gay sauna and gym but also offering sexual services, she got her message across by projecting shots of in flagrante delicto gay sex (albeit with the naughty bits censored).