Newsday The professional dominatrix who recruited straw buyers to take part in the largest mortgage fraud ring in Suffolk County history was sentenced Friday to community service and probation. Carrie Coakley, 40, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty last year to her role in the scam, which was orchestrated by her husband, …
The Harvard Crimson In a recent interview with the Harvard Independent, an anonymous representative of the newly-formed group, Munch, which stylizes itself as a resource and community for Harvard undergraduates interested in the BDSM subculture (an initialism that stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism), …
Fox News Residents of a small fishing village on Mexico’s Riviera Maya are up in arms about the expansion of a hedonistic swingers club in their town. Puerto Morelos, a hamlet of just under 10,000 people located about 37 miles south of Cancun on the Yucatán Peninsula, is known as …
CBS Pittsburgh (KDKA) An alleged sex camp is causing controversy in a community in Greene County. The place is located on Edgar Hill Road in Washington Township and is known as “the dungeon,” the site of sex parties that charge members for a Bondage Domination and Sadomasochism (BDSM) experience. That …
Time Magazine “It changed my life,” my friend announced at dinner a few months ago. The “it” in question was a book, which she described as orgasmic. My interest was certainly piqued. In furtive late-night conversations and mid-day lunches over the next few months, the transformational qualities of the trilogy, …
USA Today The end of Fifty Shades of Grey has stuck with me. I’m still disturbed by the hero using a belt on the heroine. Yes, she asked him to do it, so she could “understand” what he went through as a child and therefore, presumably, understand him better. That’s …
E! Online Poorly written. Utterly ridiculous. WTF. These are just a few of the choice phrases unhappy readers are tossing around in response to the astoundingly best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Others insist the story is flawless, heartbreaking and deep despite the pornographic prose. And whether you love it …
ABC News Rachel, a 39-year-old mother and lawyer from New Jersey, specializes in medical malpractice and often asks “intimate” questions in obstetrical cases, but scenes from the new erotic trilogy, “50 Shades of Grey,” shocked even her. “I am not a prude and I am not shy,” she said. “But …
he bondage community knows to be extra-careful about sexual activity to make sure nobody gets hurt. Their advice can be useful to anyone having sex, whether or not that’s your thing. Buzzfeed BDSM has gained mainstream attention lately, thanks in part to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” a book with an …
NY Times by Maureen Dowd WHEN I was 14, I sneaked into the empty bedroom of my scholarly older brother to poke around in his bookcase. Tucked behind his law school tomes and Winston Churchill memoirs, I found the “Story of O.” I was quickly submerged in the submissive: masks, …