Dallas Observer News Hardy Haberman was in his local dungeon a couple years ago, beating a friend at a “play party,” when things suddenly got weird. Wielding a soft leather flogger — a thick-handled instrument that resembles a whip, but with a dozen slender tails — he was lashing the …
Daily Mail The chancellor of the University of Northern Virginia exposed as a sadomasochistic sex-dungeon master following a school raid by federal immigration agents last month has submitted his resignation. David Lee, 64, was revealed as a man so into domination and sadomasochism that he and his girlfriend turned their …
SF Gate A San Francisco employment lawyer who specializes in sexual harassment cases has been charged with rape and other crimes for allegedly attacking three women who came to his apartment in response to his Craigslist ad for rough sex. Robert Michael Hoffman, 50, allegedly sexually assaulted a 36-year-old East …
Charlie Glickman: Adult Sexuality Education About a month ago, Kitty Stryker wrote a piece for the Good Vibrations Magazine, I Never Called it Rape: Addressing Abuse in BDSM Communities, in which she opened up a really important topic. It’s one that’s been simmering for a while and now that it’s …
SEXIS As kinky folks, most of us have heard of the risks associated with certain activities we like: rope cuts off circulation, bruises invite suspicion and speculation, infected wounds or bites just plain suck and breath play can flat out be deadly… but there’s more. Kink and Sadomasochism come with …
Monsters & Critics I was a little girl when Gloria Steinem came on the scene. My mother was an early N.O.W. member in Massachusetts, and a subscriber to Steinem’s MS. Magazine. Gloria was the sexy feminist; the one with long back combed hair, nails and was always a chic understated …
Macgasm The rumors of Second Life’s demise are apparently somewhat exaggerated as Linden Labs, creator of the popular virtual world, announced that profits are comfortably over $100M per year and that Q1, 2011 was their best quarter to date. The online 3D community that looks like a game (but isn’t …
Bluffton News-Banner We get some great emails here at the News-Banner. One last week informed me that according to the website AlterNet.com, one of the smaller towns in Indiana has the distinction of being the kinkiest city in the United States. (And it was interesting to find out just who …
Indie Wire James Franco’s latest project is making a documentary about BDSM and fetish porn site Kink.com. [Warning: Link is oh so very NSFW]. On “Conan” to promote “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” Franco doesn’t mention the Kink.com site by name. However, he briefly describes the project: “I’m …
Tampa Bay Online ST. PETERSBURG — The Florida Boxing Commission has dropped a cease-and-desist order issued in April against the Shefights.net website that features women pummeling homeless men and other male volunteers. A spokesperson for the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation said investigators determined the “pugilistic events” depicted …