Bay Area Reporter More than 400,000 people from around the world attend the Folsom Street Fair each year, making it the largest leather/fetish event in the world and the third largest outdoor one-day event in California. Only San Francisco’s Pride celebration and the Rose Parade in Pasadena top it in …
Daily Beast An Italian man is on trial for the death of his girlfriend during a Japanese bondage scene. Barbie Latza Nadeau on what happens during ‘Shibari’—and why extreme sex is on the rise. Apparently monogamous sex gets tedious even when you’re tied up with rope. Italian engineer Soter Mule, …
ABC News A New York assistant attorney general who has brought lawsuits against Bank of America and Royal Bank of Canada has come under fire for her salacious personal life–one that involves whips, dominating, and S&M. Alisha Smith, 36, who won a $5 billion combined settlement from the banks through …
New York Post A well-respected lawyer in the state Attorney General’s Office spends her days toiling in securities fraud — and her nights moonlighting as a dominatrix, The Post has learned. Alisha Smith, 36, who dresses demurely as a buttoned-down prosecutor, turns up the heat when she becomes perky persecutor …
News OK A bizarre case reached its conclusion when a bondage master accused of kidnapping and choking his slave pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and walked away with no jail time. Richard B. Wise, 43, whose first trial ended in a mistrial after a juror turned up drunk, pleaded …
Upper Darby police have yet to close their inquiry into last month’s odd death of engineer Peter Stelzenmuller. That is partly due to how and where Stelzenmuller was found: clad in a scuba suit in the corner of his attic. Investigators are also intrigued by the bizarre history of Stelzenmuller’s …
The Daily News An Arkansas weatherman didn’t predict he would wake up in a hot tub with a naked dead man, but that’s exactly what police say happened. Now authorities are trying to determine what killed Dexter Williams, whose body was found with a “dog collar” around his neck, according …
ABC News An Arkansas weatherman woke up in a bathtub with a dead body this week after an evening of alcohol and drugs, according to a police report. The meteorologist’s friend Dexter Williams, 24, was found dead, wearing nothing but a dog collar. Brett Cummins, 33, is a meteorologist for …
Brooklyn Eagle S&M sex master John Hopkins appeared in court this week and will proceed to trial next month. Hopkins, 45, was arrested in February after allegations arose that he had enslaved a 27-year-old woman who had responded to his Craigslist ad for S&M sex and then traveled from Wisconsin …
Denver Westword Arts It’s a jungle in there. The lighting is dim, but you can still spy the wild life scattered across the landscape. Writhing, naked slaves are shackled to crosses, their desperate wails punctuated by the “thud…thud…THUD” of leather floggers meeting tender skin. A dispassionate domme watches her collared …
