National failing education

English signals cuts to polytechs and unis

“...we’re not going to be able to keep those [Labour’s] commitments and don’t intend to.”

Polytech president resigns

OPSA Co-President Ryan Ward has left Otago Polytechnic and resigned his OPSA position, citing personal reasons. Although Gyro understands that there were heated exchanges between Ward and other members of the OPSA executive...

Porn-star interview: Bree Olson

Gyro chats openly with porn-star Bree Olson, about Porn, Bush - and Obama...

What if life was like p0rn?

Why don't people have sex in public, where other people can see them?  This is one of the great unanswered questions of life.

Now, if I'd said "Why don't you have sex in public"... you'd have some ready answers for me.  It would be gross.  You'd be arrested.  You'd be so self-conscious you couldn't, shall we say, perform.

Gyro's Field Guide to Sexual Fetishes

There are entire dictionaries full of words for all the things that give people sexual thrills.  Here’s a small selection.

Dunedin's Top 10 Pick-Up Spots

Hello again, Gyro readers, and those that found this magazine in a chip shop. Have you ever had issues with the right place in Dunedin to pick up that dream guy/girl that you’ve been looking for?  Well, if you have, keep reading.  Because I’m here to help out.

Polytech prepares for long-term screwing

In response to economic challenges including the recession and government underfunding, Otago Polytechnic is making major changes to its business model.

Cheap Eye: Homemade sex toys

I was originally going to write about affordable, home-made sex toys but  I realized my mission was, in fact, to warn against some of the extreme lengths that people have gone to.

Mad, bad or misunderstood

Marquis de Sade
The original Sadist

Interview: Queer Sexuality

Gyro talks to OPSA Acting President and Queer Support Rep Meegan Cloughley about queer sexuality

Weird Animal Sex

And you thought your flatmates were strange...

Look up!

Public nudity has been on display in Dunedin for about 130 years – but only in one place - Wains Hotel

Arts Hole: The Sleeping Room

Heather Straka
Hocken Gallery, Hocken Library
4 April–26 May 2009

Secret places: Dunedin's Sex Gardens

Dunedin was booming in 1861.  Its population had gone from about 2000 to nearly 6000 within months – an effect of the estimated 20,000 miners who’d landed here for the Otago goldfields.

Gyro Sex Quix

Gyro’s somewhat-pointless-and-really-rather-silly-but-we-bet-you-do-it-anyway Sex Quiz

Unmoved by democracy, hurt by cartoon

The Dunedin City Council (DCC) has signed the construction contract for the controversial Awatea St stadium despite massive opposition from their constituents.

Where are they now? Monica Lewinsky

If you’ve come to Polytech straight from high school, you probably heard Monica’s name a lot when you were a kid, but the grown-ups said they’d explain when you were older.

CD review: So Alive

Put together a singer from When The Cat’s Away and a guy who’s played guitar with Tim Finn and what do you get?  You get Brett Adams and Dianne Swann, or B.A.D.S. – the Bads.