Dayton City Paper By Claire D. Lune According to another member of both FetLife and the Dayton community, it’s incredibly important to be involved. “If you are not going out and letting people see that you are real then you aren’t making connections,” a self-employed, single mother says. “That’s what …
The Real Deal by Christopher Cameron “I’m building community living environments under the brand HACIENDA,” he writes. “Through these projects, I seek to inspire change by raising the visibility of the sex-positive movement in mainstream society. I like to think of the real estate I develop as building blocks, or …
AutoStraddle by Danielle For Anna, another self-identified brat, this plethora of options allowed her to find her place in BDSM. “I started out identifying as a submissive, but I was always so frustrated in scenes!” she told me. “I started to think that maybe I was a dominant, but I …
GQ BY SOPHIE SAINT THOMAS “Spanking must have a terrific PR person. Though frowned upon as a punishment for children, spanking is currently a super-popular, super-sexy method of “punishment” between two consenting adults. The spanking spectrum covers a lot of ground. At one end are the playful taps you do …
Fembot by Stephanie Watson “A woman who radically expresses her own sexuality, is a scary thing indeed. Knowing yourself well enough to know what your sexuality should look like means knowing your body. Knowing your desires, your fetishes, your wishes. That ultimately leads to knowing yourself, owning your past and …
New York Business Journal by Anthony Noto “The most important thing,” Dubno added, “is New York is losing a lot of its flavor and diversity. This is a city where we tolerate different views and perspectives, and when you start restricting access to information and closing down small businesses, that …
The Brussels Times by Andy Sanchez In Flanders, there are 27 000 people who define themselves as “polygamous”, people who have a romantic relationship with more than one person at a time. Frederik Swennen, professor in family law at the University of Antwerp, argues for there to be a legal …
WJCT By RYAN BENK After just over a year in business, downtown Jacksonville’s only worker-owned coffee shop is expanding for the second time. The Coniferous Cafe co-op wants to position itself as a safe haven for the free exchange of ideas. University of North Florida students know …
Electronic Frontier Foundation Action Alert There’s a new bill in Congress that would threaten your right to free expression online. If that weren’t enough, it could also put small Internet businesses in danger of catastrophic litigation. Don’t let its name fool you: the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) …
Maxim by ZEYNEP YENISEY Ahoy, my kinky mateys! Remember when we told you about that straight-up sex cruise, Desire Cruise, where you can sail your horny ass around Europe and indulge every one of your wildest erotic fantasies? Well, since one giant orgy in the middle of the ocean is …