Iva Roze

GlobalPost

Iva Roze Skoch is GlobalPost's global sex correspondent and proud winner of the site's “most enviable job title” award. She splits her time between New York, Prague and the rest of the world. In her GlobalPost column, Wanderlust: Sex Around the World, Roze has covered sexuality and gender relationship issues in dozens of countries, including Eastern Europe's booming gay porn industry and the erotic allure of the Peruvian butt pad. Roze also witnessed the first public royal kiss in Bhutan (on the lips!), learned from plastic surgeons in South America how to differentiate labia cuts of more than 100 “designer vaginas,” and made it past the “face control” bouncers of Moscow’s hottest club. Her past Wanderlust assignments have included spending an evening in an all-you-can-sex club in Berlin, hanging out with lesbian prostitutes in Prague, and trying out a collection of new Japanese sex toys. No, she is not currently looking for a research assistant.

Before Roze found her inner sexpert, she was a respectable journalist writing decidedly asexual articles for Newsweek, Slate, The Smithsonian Magazine and many others. She holds a Master’s Degree in Magazine Writing from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she also received the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship in 2009, which helped fund the travel for a book she is writing on crashing weddings around the world. Her parents still can't believe how effectively she has been able to waste her Ivy League education.

In Iran, it’s always Movember

The rise of moustaches among Iranian males has nothing to do with drawing attention to men’s diseases. Unless, of course, chronic rebellion and acute masculinity count.

In Iran, it’s always Movember

Peeing while standing? How medieval of you

Peeing while standing? How medieval of you

Parisians on love: Remove those padlocks, you naïve fools

Parisians on love: Remove those padlocks, you naïve fools

India: Vaginal brightening is so 2011. Now, it’s all about tightening. (VIDEO)

India: Vaginal brightening is so 2011. Now, it’s all about tightening. (VIDEO)

Controversy: Chinese man chooses to save drowning wife over mother

Controversy: Chinese man chooses to save drowning wife over mother

New penis size survey: U.S. ranks 11th. Right behind Japan

Put your stereotypes away, folks. The largest survey to date sheds a whole new light on how males worldwide measure up.

New penis size survey: U.S. ranks 11th. Right behind Japan

Tomboyism. There’s a cure for that now.

A scientist warns of prenatal use of steroid to help with “sex normalization” in the U.S.

Tomboyism. There’s a cure for that now.

Parisians required to keep clothes on in city’s parks

French “moral police” have warned Parisians to dress appropriately when sunbathing or face fines and even imprisonment.

Parisians required to keep clothes on in city’s parks

Sex survey: One in five British women under 30 plan to have unsafe drunken sex on vacation this summer

To use the glass half-full approach, four out of five British women under 30 don’t plan to have unsafe drunken sex on vacation this summer.

Sex survey: One in five British women under 30 plan to have unsafe drunken sex on vacation this summer

Japan: Revolutionizing the art of masturbation

Tenga and other Japanese male masturbation tools are taking over the world, one synthetic vagina at a time

Japan: Revolutionizing the art of masturbation

Friends with benefits: the new form of dating

A new study suggests that exclusive romances that evolved from casual sex aren’t more likely to fail than relationships committed from the start.

Friends with benefits: the new form of dating

Desperately seeking bigger breasts

As the British “boob job family" defends spending $77,000 on plastic surgeries, an Ohio woman hits the streets to beg for breast enlargement.

Desperately seeking bigger breasts

Study: After three-hour sex, squid are left too exhausted to fight for survival

For the first time, scientists study the energetic costs of mating in squid. (And find their three-hour sex sessions frankly aren’t worth the effort).

Study: After three-hour sex, squid are left too exhausted to fight for survival

Nude cruising. Not just for daring Europeans anymore

Move over, Germany. Carnival’s nude cruise to Panama is expected to be the largest gathering of nudists in the world.

Nude cruising. Not just for daring Europeans anymore

On Israeli women. And their weaponry

Israel is considering ending mandatory military service exemptions to ultra-Orthodox Jews. But that’s not the news that’s making headlines around the world.

On Israeli women. And their weaponry