Limerick Leader by Anne Sheridan A SWINGERS’ club in Limerick city, pitched as “the home of Irish erotica”, has been “inundated” with job applications, with many highly skilled professionals seeking part time work at the club. The club, called i-kandi in the Eastway Business Park, is advertising for a ‘shift …
Daily Mail by By Ted Thornhill A dominatrix who whipped cross-dressing men while they were chained up and gagged has been fined for a serious breach of health and safety rules. But it’s nothing to do with the way she physically treated her clients. Lorraine White, 41, was fined £8,000 …
Albawaba Sitting outside a coffee shop in Sassine, Ziad gestures to himself and says, “Look at me. Who could guess I like to whip women? ”It’s a fair question, like other members of the clandestine Lebanese BDSM community with whom the Daily Star spoke, Ziad comes across as an average, …
Globe and Mail by Leah McLaren I n many ways, Catherine Skinner is a typical stay-at-home mom. The 37-year-old former actress lives with her family on a 30-acre farm in rural Ontario where she spends her days cooking, knitting and caring for three children. She even has a mommy blog …
Globe and Mail by ZOSIA BIELSKI “Polyamory is a challenging lifestyle to live. We are not socialized to live this way and there are very few media models that demonstrate people actively living these lifestyles,” says Dr. Danielle Duplassie, a Burnaby registered clinical counsellor and sex therapist who works with …
Many couples are finding meaning in loving, open relationships. Mail & Guardian By Rosemund Handler The Ravenhearts, a polyamorist couple, defined polyamory for the Oxford English Dictionary as “the practice, state or ability of having more than one sexual loving relationship at the same time, with the full knowledge and …
Daily Life by Matty Silver A client came to see me recently to talk about an issue that was upsetting her. She is 39 years old and has been married to a man the same age for about 15 years. Neither had had many partners before they got together. They’ve …
Manitoban With all the recent hoopla about the Fifty Shades of Grey movies currently in the works, now is an important time to discuss some of the biggest problems with the E.L. James novels – specifically, their damaging misrepresentation of BDSM, (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism). Never mind the laughable prose; …
The Indian Express In a predominantly dark photograph, a young man raises his arms as if to fight off an approaching horror. His fingers are fanned out, his wrists handcuffed, and his torso bare. This could be an image of hostility — except that the man’s look, even in the …
BBC News Two Kenyan men have signed an agreement to “marry” the same woman. The woman had been having affairs with both men for more than four years and apparently refused to choose between them. The agreement sets out a rota for Sylvester Mwendwa and Elijah Kimani to stay in …
