Fort Worth Weekly I guess I’m a little behind the curve in the whips-and-handcuffs department — wait, is there an unintended pun in there? Despite weeks of media fanfare over “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the Twilight fan-fiction series turned sadomasochistic romance trilogy, it wasn’t until I inquired about a large …
ABC News A Florida county is putting the racy romance trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” back on its library shelves. The Brevard County Library System had pulled 19 copies of the best-sellers from its bookshelves earlier this month. County officials said the decision was made after they read reviews of …
Business Week In early May, at a suburban home in Chattanooga, Cindy Faulkner began unpacking one of several boxes, removing lingerie, blindfolds, massage oils, and dildos to display for the half dozen women gathered. Faulkner is a sales consultant with Ohio-based Pure Romance, the Amway of vibrators, and she was …
Hotel Chatter Ball gag, anyone? It’s that time of the year again, when thousands upon thousands from the LGBT and leather/BDSM communities come together for International Mister Leather, a long weekend convention in Chicago that’s part tradeshow, part beauty pageant and mostly party. This will be the 34th annual if …
The country’s biggest leather fetish convention is at odds with a major hotel workers’ union. Buzzfeed A major national union may picket an unlikely venue this weekend in Chicago: International Mr. Leather. The hotel workers union UNITE HERE has demanded that the convention abandon a hotel in the midst of …
The New York Times It did not escape the notice of Tim Cole, the collections manager for the Greensboro Public Library in North Carolina, that “Fifty Shades of Grey” was “of mixed literary merit,” as he put it with a heavy helping of Southern politeness. He ordered 21 copies anyway. …
ABC News Swingers, like polyester leisure suits, seemed to have their heyday in the ’70s. But couples who openly swap partners for a night of passionate sex with strangers, are becoming a growing trend in a sort of new sexual relationship revolution — and those who swing say the rest …
The New Yorker Over at Babeland, a New York sex shop, the best-selling trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” has shifted from erotic fiction to how-to guide. On a recent Friday, a hundred or so women, four men, and one Chihuahua crowded into the SoHo store for a class inspired by …
Part 1 KATC It’s a book that’s topped the New York Times best sellers list for more than a month. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a romance novel with a twist. The book is filled with racy themes that are getting some women to open up about their sex lives …
Naples News When Joy Behar, a host of “The View,” asked President Barack Obama, “What’s the controversial sex book that’s on millions of womens’ bedside tables?” Obama responded, “I don’t know that.” I was immediately reminded of President Bill Clinton‘s statement, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” …