Frontiers LA.com by Stephan Horbelt This past Sunday, Sept. 21, the world’s largest leather event, the Folsom Street Fair, returned to San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood for its 30th year. Bay Area residents and tourists from around the world converged on a five-block stretch of Folsom Street to celebrate …
Slate By Jordan G. Teicher These photographs contain sexual themes. Danny Ghitis became interested in the fetish, BDSM, and kink communities for the same reason he became interested in rock climbing: They both inspired a bit of discomfort, but also a bit of curiosity. In 2011, same-sex marriage had recently …
BBC News A rubber fetishist who raises money by going out in public in a bondage suit said he hoped his efforts would start a debate on stereotypes. ‘The Gimp Man of Essex’ gives £1 to Colchester Mind every time someone posts a photo with him to his Facebook page, …
Mission Local By Daniel Hirsch Danarama is a speech coach, of sorts. Here’s a sample piece of advice he gives his students: “If you can practice every sentence so that your voice goes down, you’ll sound much more dominant, that has a very powerful effect on the person you’re …
Slate By Jillian Keenan Once again, I’ve been accused of pedophilia. Well, to be technical, my sexual identity was called “somewhat pedophilic.” But we’re talking about one of the most loathsome things a person can be accused of, so why split hairs? I’m also regularly told that my sexuality is …
Salon by Tracy Clark-Flory I figuratively rubbed my hands together when I saw that Jezebel was soliciting readers’ “weirdest turn ons.” Snarky, no-shit-taking feminists revealing their deepest darkest fantasies! This should be awesome, I thought. So far, the submissions include quirky things like fake German accents, priest collars, fresh …
Westword By Alan Prendergast When Keifer Johnson headed back to school after last year’s summer break, he had reason to believe that the truly awesome part of his college experience was still to come. He was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, a Kerouac-spouting English major …
The Montreal Gazette By Stephen Maher, Postmedia News Terri-Jean Bedford brought her trademark riding crop Wednesday for her appearance before the Senate justice committee considering C-36, the new prostitution law. The retired dominatrix seemed to make the Tories nervous. They should be nervous. Bedford used to run an upscale …
The Huffington Post By Alexander C. Kaufman Starbucks baristas who’ve long been forced to hide their tattoos may soon be able to show off their ink. In an internal email to employees last week, Starbucks said that it’s reviewing its dress code, including its long-standing policy forbidding workers from displaying …
Televisa USA is adapting the book trilogy with ‘Dallas Buyers Club’s’ Rachel Winter The Hollywood Reporter by Lesley Goldberg Has the small screen found its own Fifty Shades of Grey? Televisa USA (Lifetime’s Devious Maids) has acquired TV and digital rights to Anne Rice‘s best-selling book series The Sleeping …