By protecting the identities of people with a history of abusive behavior, FetLife.com leaves members of the BDSM community vulnerable to harm. The Atlantic by DAVID Z. MORRIS The Fifty Shades of Grey books have unleashed a wave of mainstream interest in kinky sex since their arrival in 2011. The …
Fifty Shades of Grey sparks wide interest in erotic subculture Global Times By Li Lin “I love being dominant, and the feeling of power I have in our sexual role-playing games,” says 28-year-old Ada Ling, a certified nurse who lives and works in Beijing. “[And] I love being trampled …
“It was like, here I am, outed as a supposedly sexually impulsive rich girl who’s into kink.” Cosmopolitan At 17, Alissa Afonina was a bright, studious college student. But that year, on a drive with her mother and her mom’s then-boyfriend, the car she was riding in sped around a curve and flipped three times; Afonina hit …
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Inside Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls, where anything goes except for your real name. Out BY CHADWICK MOORE Behind Manhattan’s Port Authority Bus Terminal lies a grimy, litter-strewn block of brownstones where a half dozen bums have camped outside an abandoned storefront. The tableau …
Yahoo News by Gwynne Watkins Fifty Shades of Grey has everyone in America talking about bondage and sadomasochistic relationships. But how well do Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele reflect the realities of the BDSM lifestyle? To find out, we turned to Em and Lo, a.k.a. Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey, the …
Law enforcement investigating fetish business in residential area WKMG Local News by Mike DeForest On her website, self-proclaimed dominatrix Judith DeLucenay promises customers they will reach their “pain threshold” while being subjected to activities such as flogging, torture, electrical stimulation and corporal punishment. Those fetish activities are conducted in …
CBS About 60 students say they will attend the initial BDSM club meeting at Mount Holyoke College, an all-women college in Massachusetts. Sophomore Caedyn Busche founded the organization, which will educate those who want a safe place to talk about BDSM. BDSM is a variety of erotic practices involving dominance …
The 19-year-old bio-nuclear engineering student allegedly tied his victim to his dorm-room bed with belts. The Patch By Dennis Robaugh A 19-year-old Chicago college student raped a freshman classmate after he was inspired to re-enact scenes he saw in the movie “50 Shades of Grey,” according to police and prosecutors. …
The Stranger by Dan Savage A woman lost her job after her employer—a social services org run by the Catholic Church—found out that she was polyamorous. She sued, claiming that poly is a sexual orientation and that her firing amounted to illegal discrimination, but the court found against her. Sydney …