Portland is spearheading the alternative sexual lifestyle. Willamette Week By Sophia June In Portland, you can take your coffee with a splash of semen. Well, kind of. Food and drinks aren’t actually allowed in the dungeon, as a paper sign informs visitors. But you can sit with a latte and …
Man’s best friend just might be a man in a puppy mask. Metro by JOSEPH DARIUS JAAFARI On the fourth Friday of each month, the first floor of The Eagle — a gay leather-themed bar in Chelsea — is crawling with puppies. At any given moment, a handful of puppies will …
If Christian and Ana inspired you to get kinky in the bedroom, experts say you’ll want to loop your doctor in, stat. Cosmopolitan By Michelle Konstantinovsky ix years ago, whips and chains were anything but mainstream. But thanks to literary juggernaut-turned film phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey, everyone and their …
Campus Reform by Anthony Gockowski The University of North Florida has cancelled several workshops that were to be held at its annual “Sex Week,” conceding that they only served to distract from the event’s original educational intent. Workshops discussing “ethical non-monogamy as an alternative to cheating” and offering sex toy tutorials …
Heat Street By Ian Miles Cheong For students looking for more “ethical” ways to cheat on their partners, the University of North Florida appears to have a solution: a workshop on polyamory. It’s all part of the school’s annual “Sex Week,” which also advertised sessions on kink and BDSM. Per …
Variety by Dani Levy Though the cast emphasized the dark tone of the next installment of the erotic romance series, Thursday night’s “Fifty Shades Darker” premiere was anything but. The mood was positively titillating on the Ace Hotel’s red carpet in Downtown Los Angeles, while screams and hollers filled the theater …
Groundbreaking new research challenges stereotypes about BDSM participants. Psychology Today by Michael Aaron, Ph.D. First, a caveat: We are not advocates of the ill-informed works of Sigmund Freud or E. L. James, author of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, nor do we consider them authorities on sex and sexuality. …
The Globe and Mail by CHARYN PFEUFFER They’re back, and ready to tie up some loose ends: Fifty Shades Darker, the highly anticipated sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, opens in theatres next Friday, Feb. 10. Whether you loved, hated or ignored the first movie or the 150-million-copy book trilogy that …
Dick Cunningham, NCSF’s legal counsel, has been selected for membership in the American Law Institute. The ALI is the American law profession’s elite organization for the study of important current legal issues and the drafting of “model laws.” The model laws drafted by the ALI, often in a process, are …
Cosplay by Luke Plunkett There’s always been a bit of a stigma attached to hentai, a highly sexualised form of Japanese anime and manga. Ditto for any associated cosplay, which can often be explicitly pornographic. Despite this, a German couple is finding some surprising mainstream (for the cosplay world, at …
