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 …
NY Post by Alexandra Klausner No one can accuse aristocrats in China’s Han Dynasty of being prudes. Long before actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow was selling “magical” Yoni eggs — meant to balance chi and enhance female health and pleasure — the ancient Chinese were inserting kinky doodads in …
Metro UK by Rebecca Reid Valentine’s day is fast approaching, meaning that the world is about to be filled with overpriced roses and love. But what if v-day isn’t about dinner with the one you love. What if you could fill a dinner party with the people you’re involved with? …
The Gaily Grind On the heels of last weekend’s Women’s March on Washington, a gay activist in New York City has set in motion plans for a National Pride March on Washington on June 11, which he hopes will draw hundreds of thousands of people. David Bruinooge, 42, a Brooklyn, …
iDiva by Prachi Gangwani One of the most commonly used tools to assess and understand personality is something called the Five Factor Model of personality. This model suggests that our personalities can be ultimately reduced to a combination of five traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. The big five …
Kotaku by Cecilia D’Anastasio Kinky at face, Ladykiller in a Bind is not fucking around about fucking. But it’s also not kidding about consent. Yesterday, developer Christine Love removed sex from a potential plot branch after players expressed discomfort. Ladykiller in a Bind is an uncensored, queer, BDSM sex game that …
The Guardian by Sam T Levin A handful of leather straps, sex toys and other bondage equipment were scattered throughout the mostly empty studios of Kink.com on a recent Thursday. Peter Acworth, founder and CEO of the BDSM porn empire, walked through the dark basement corridors of the San Francisco …
By Nathalie Rupert The ubiquitous fantasy that you meet a dark, mysterious stranger who makes you do things you find sexy but you never really dared to do before has become very popular in the past few years, almost mainstream, you could say. This fantasy has a number of variants, …
