Daily Freeman The city Zoning Board Appeals has rejected a request from a group that caters to people with “alternative lifestyles” to operate a community center in Midtown. The board voted unanimously on Tuesday against the change-of-use filed by the group Feel Me Breathe for the building at 1-11 Sterling …
Times Herald-Record S&M fetish club or adult lifestyle community center? Either way, Kingston is shutting it down. The owner of the building says he will fight to get it open again. The business, called Feel Me Breathe, is about a block from the Midtown Boys and Girls Club, a baseball …
Slate When my last essay appeared in Slate, a number of people were offended that I compared polyamory and homosexuality. The commenters’ chief objection seemed to be that homosexuality is innate, like race, and therefore “more worthy” of civil rights, while polyamory is a choice. Even a cursory examination of …
Where: Leather Archives & Museum 6418 N. Greenview Avenue Chicago, IL 60626 When: Saturday, October 19th from 2:30-5 p.m. followed by a wine and cheese reception for the benefit of LA&M and NCSF from 5-7 p.m. Presentation is free of charge. Wine and cheese reception has a suggested donation of …
Science Daily Most of the time, we try to avoid inflicting pain on others — when we do hurt someone, we typically experience guilt, remorse, or other feelings of distress. But for some, cruelty can be pleasurable, even exciting. New research suggests that this kind of everyday sadism is real …
Indiana Daily Student For more than two decades, New York photographer Barbara Nitke has cultivated an artistic viewpoint on the porn industry and BDSM communities. Nitke visited IU Thursday to talk about her photographic work in the porn industry. Her talk, “American Ecstasy: A Photographic Look Behind the Scenes of …
JTA Bud Izen wasn’t prepared for the reaction he received the first time he brought his two girlfriends with him to synagogue in Eugene, Ore. The rabbi stopped the trio in the parking lot outside the synagogue and grilled Izen’s partners about whether or not they were really Jewish. Izen …
Huffington Post Live We may not want to admit it, but as psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in his book, “Perv,” there’s a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. But where do we draw the line between kink and the type of behavior that requires a psych evaluation? Hosted …
US News NEW YORK (AP) — David Ives’ naughty “Venus in Fur” tops the list of the most produced plays nationwide during the 2013-14 season, according to the theater industry’s largest trade group. American Theatre magazine, published by Theatre Communications Group, announced the list in its October issue. Ives’ play, …
The Daily Californian Leather and latex cover some parts of the bodies at Folsom, but not the parts that society typically asks of clothing. Some folk are bound by rope and chain — others are led by their partner by collar and leash, often wearing full-head leather masks. A woman’s …