Miami’s Irresistible Sex Spell

Miami was recently rated the second sexiest city in America by the venerable travel site Orbitz. A title we’ll gladly claim. Because no other city really exudes sex like Miami.

Tell people around the country you’re from Miami and you don’t always become better looking. But you ALWAYS become sexier. Because once that word comes out of your mouth visions of hot, late nights and hedonistic, sun-soaked days jump into their minds. And you are the physical embodiment of that fantasy world.

That’s why people come here. To feel just as sexy as the life they imagine Miami to be.

Just Being Here Makes You Feel Sexy

When people come to our city, they fall under its sex spell.  They can feel it as soon as they get off the plane. It’s in the air, that blanketing humidity that mildly reminds them of their bedroom during their best all-night marathon.

Miami puts a sex spell on you the moment you arrive

The beach bombards them with underwear commercials come to life, perfect people strutting in almost nothing, seemingly saying “This is what you came here for. To have sex with someone who looks like me.” They spend the night in our clubs and bars that serve them until they’re drunk enough not to care. And under the anonymity of a vacation town, sex on vacation becomes the rule rather than the exception.

Sex: Miami’s Inescapable Presence

Everything about this place screams “Sex.”

In Hollywood, if you want to make a movie sexy you place it Miami. Look no further than the names. ‘Wild Things.” “Bad Boys.” “Miami Vice.”

The drug associated with Miami? Cocaine, of course, the sexiest drug known to man.

We have half naked women on our buses. We have condoms on our billboards. We have men with six packs grinning back at us from public benches.

Every neighborhood has a strip club, and every strip club gives you a chance to view and buy sex at almost any hour.  

Miami is to a sex addict what New Orleans is to an alcoholic.

We have been called the Swingers’ Capital of America and boast a club - Miami Velvet – dubbed numerous times the best swingers’ club in the country. Even Miami’s monogamous are constantly searching for new thrills.

We are the second-largest porn-production locale behind Los Angeles. We have fashion models doing their laundry next to us in our apartment buildings. We have Latin American TV and film stars in front of us in line at Publix. Even if you try not to have a wandering eye, the only way to really accomplish it would be to render yourself blind.

The Culture of Anything Goes

But it is more than aesthetics and humidity that make Miami so sexy. Our culture is one of unwavering permissiveness. Wear anything. Do anything. Do anyone. Partying in excess is overlooked and even encouraged. And rampant sex is as much a part of partying as drinking and drugs.

The Latin culture has a sex appeal of its own, its gyrating hips and seductive looks a theme woven through everything this city does. People dance, people drink, people end up in bed together. That’s just the way Miami works.

In Miami, sex isn’t hidden — it’s part of the atmosphere.

It’s hard not to feel sexy here. When everyone is wearing less than they should and constantly checking each other out, the result is perpetual sexual tension. And on vacation, even those who don’t normally feel sexy suddenly want to get drunk and dance with a stranger.

So it should come as no surprise that sex on vacation in Miami is part of the experience. The city casts a spell that’s hard to resist — and infinitely more fun when you don’t.

Editor’s Note: Originally published on February 27, 2012. Updated in 2026 with new photography; Matt Meltzer’s original writing remains unchanged.