ABC News Robert Dunlap, a certified sex educator from California, gets three or four requests a day from couples expressing an interest in and even seeking coaching for the latest trend in kink — BDSM, an overlapping acronym for bondage and discipline; dominance and submission; sadism and masochism. “It’s such …
The Daily Beast During a pivotal scene in The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s engrossing psychological drama based (in part) on the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the charismatic mystic Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is gazing at himself in the mirror. His cunning wife, Peggy (played by the …
ABC News Advocates for people who engage in rough but consensual sex say they fear an abuse case unfolding in Missouri ultimately could criminalize their lifestyle. Ed Bagley faces a federal trial early next year on 11 counts of abuse against a woman authorities say he groomed to be his …
Huffington Post There may be a less obvious reason so many women are swooning over 50 Shades of Grey. A speaker at last week’s adult toy show in Las Vegas described how women may not be so interested in the sex in 50 Shades of Grey, but instead in the …
Huffington Post Although media coverage of the Fifty Shades series has died down, the book remains at the top of bestsellers lists. But the readers driving the series’ popularity may surprise some. While shopping in a bookstore recently, one of us watched a mother and her young teenage daughter giggle …
Orange County News I was wondering what you think about the Folsom Street Fair, the annual gay leather/fetish/BDSM street fair in San Francisco. Do you think it is still a socially relevant display? Or do you think that in this time when we are fighting for civil rights and equality …
Ottawa Citizen Newly unsealed court documents reveal that a rare criminal libel investigation launched against a New Westminster resident this summer relate to alleged defamatory statements made online against an RCMP officer mired in a scandal over sexually explicit photos and other members of the force. The B.C. Civil Liberties …
LA Weekly Mistress Cyan first encountered BDSM at a party in the early ’80s, following months of correspondence with the hostess, whose PO Box she found in a personal ad in a long-defunct fetish magazine called Encore. “It was like, wow,” she recalls. “There’s loads of people tied up. They’ve …
Golden Gate XPress The 29th annual Folsom Street Fair will be an exhibition of kinktastic fun, filled with leather daddies, eager submissives and more than 250 vendors and exhibits displaying all that the Bay Area has to offer in BDSM. But don’t strap on your ball gag just yet — …
Vice … While the mainstream BDSM community has always drawn lines over what is and is not OK (drinking blood, for instance, isn’t cool because of the potential to spread diseases), the definition of edge has changed over time. In the 80s and 90s things like scat play, age play, …
