The Courthouse News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – A married couple claim in court that they both lost their jobs after another couple they met on Craigslist, seeking “like-minded couples for consensual, discreet adult encounters,” sent revealing photos to their employers, asking, “What kind of people do you employ?” James …
The Washingtonian The notion of the girl next door takes on new meaning when she’s Shamaine, a girl next door like no other. Over lunch at Georgetown’s swanky Bourbon Steak, Shamaine (“No last name, please”) blends in with the other customers. The 33-year-old is dressed conservatively, looks fit, and has …
DARK SIDE #087 – Susan Wright of the NCSF Dark Angel and KnotNice are joined by Susan Wright of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) Podcast webpage: http://www.get-teased.ca/darkside.html The link to us on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-dark-side/id… We get to hear the history of the NCSF, as well as all of …
SF Weekly For connoisseurs of BDSM porn, San Francisco’s Kink.com has built up a reputation that makes them the sadomasochistic equivalent of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Fans of the company’s sites look to them not only for high-quality porn that caters to a wide variety of fetishes, but for …
International Business Times With a place atop the New York Times bestseller list, a $5 million movie deal and endless media coverage, “Fifty Shades of Grey” has become a cultural phenomenon. Just as countless romance novels have done for decades, the book has hit a sweet spot for women from …
CNN A few weeks ago, I heard the sort of whispered murmurs in my local bookstore that are reserved solely for people who want to buy books that they don’t want other people to know they are buying. Furtive glances and giggles echoed back as happy customers walked out the …
SF Bay Guardian In my San Francisco, it’s not uncommon to know someone who identifies as polyamorous, or who participates in multiple loving and intimate relationships. In fact when I talked to Pepper Mint, conference organizer for OpenSF, he told me that the non-monagamous community in the Bay Area has …
Huffington Post A Swedish mom has a face that is 50 shades of red ever since police came across a secret sex chamber she set up at an abandoned military bunker near the town of Nordmaling. Last Friday, two fisherman came across the old bunker and discovered what appeared to …
Vanishing New York Yesterday we heard from a resident of one of the luxury condos that have recently gone up along the High Line on formerly desolate West 28th Street. He told us about how the new residents are trying to shut down the Folsom Street East festival, now 16 …
Vanishing New York Last year, when the second part of the High Line opened, I wondered how long the sex-positive Folsom Street East festival would survive on West 28th, now that the once-desolate block has become a destination for tourists and condo-buyers. Soon after, I looked at the arrival of …
