Huffington Post/50 by Sandra LaMorgese Science fiction fans keen on Star Trek will know a different version of subspace than what we’re talking about here, but, just like in the show, “subspace” in BDSM refers to a specific kind of space with its own rules, texture, and properties — a …
Refinery29 by SAMIA MOUNTS Here’s how it normally goes down. I meet a guy who has something special in his face, a soulfulness that resonates with me. There’s this firecracker moment when our eyes connect for the first time and bing — we want each other. It’s more than …
SF Gate By Daily Dish DAILY DISH Carmen Electra: ‘I like a little S&M” By Daily Dish on February 25, 2016 at 10:03 AM 4 Actress Carmen Electra attends the eighth annual Fighters Only World Mixed Martial Arts Awards at The Palazzo Las Vegas on February 5, 2016 in …
Los Angeles Times by Alison Bass In early January, law enforcement in the Seattle area seized thereviewboard.net, a website where local sex workers posted advertisements and clients reviewed their services. In related police raids, people who ran and moderated the site were among those arrested and charged with promoting prostitution, a …
The New York Times By ZACHARY WOOLFE The OkCupid message Mollena Williams received in December 2013 was, in some ways, standard. It was complimentary: “Wow — your profile is great.” It was confident: “I am an artist, very successful (probably member of the top 10 or 20 in my genre …
Comics Alliance by Elle Collins This past Saturday, February 20th, would have been the 123rd birthday of Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She’s not exactly what you’d call famous, but you’ve probably guessed who she is from the headline and illustration above. Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a psychologist, and the wife of …
Maxim by ZEYNEP YENISEY A lot of people spend their time worrying whether or not their sexual desires and practices fit in with what society deems “normal.” Well, fret not my friends, because that’s a hot load of garbage. Some of the allegedly “taboo” sex acts society savagely judges and …
Autostraddle by Tovah “I’ve had people think weird things about my sexuality that are absolutely connected to my disability, but the experience was not that I had no sexuality — it was that I had a fucked up sexuality,” says Lyric Seal aka Neve Be, a queercrip writer, performance artist …
Self By Zahra Barnes If you immediately think of Christian Grey’s 50 Shades of Grey Red Room when you hear the word “bondage,” there’s some good news: it doesn’t always have to be that intense! (But of course, it can be if you want it to.) Even if you find …
Cosmopolitan By Angela Chen At first, Lily Zheng saw kink as a way to have great sex. “I thought of it like an escalator: First I would do bondage, then this and that, and then at the end, I would have the most fulfilling, amazing sex ever,” said the Stanford …
