San Diego Union Tribune By Teri Figueroa and Dana Littlefield Three people accused of conspiring to lure a 22-year-old Fallbrook woman out of her home three years ago, killing her and dumping her body in a neighboring county were convicted of first-degree murder and other felony charges Wednesday. Louis …
Religion News Service by David Gushee Recently I have had two conversations that reveal the incredible breadth of moral pluralism that exists not just in America but in the Christian population of America. In one conversation, a young lady told me that her family adheres to a very conservative Protestant …
Daily Californian BY TAYLOR ROMINE When I met Zed, he was wearing a pirate costume, restraining my friend with his faded red rope while slyly smiling at her but also with her. The smiles exchanged were heart warming — playful yet stern. I fell in love with him …
Out in SA by Marco Aquino After the housing crash of 2008, James Lowe, a former construction worker, moved to San Antonio from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. With him came Elizabeth. The two were close friends at the time and hoped to find a better life in San Antonio. …
Cosmopolitan By Cheryl Wischhover Domina Elle is a former escort and current dominatrix who specializes in balloon fetish play. (Its practitioners are called “looners.”) She is also a sex workers’ rights advocate. I like to call myself an adult play facilitator. The type of work I do is much …
Bedford & Bowery BY NICOLE DISSER When I first arrived at the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) I filed into one of the few empty stadium seats left save for the neck busters at the very front. The place was packed for The Art of Sex & Seduction: Ceremonies of …
The Daily Beast by Kate Briquelet In a clever sting operation, the feds nabbed creeps looking to buy ‘sex slaves’ for their home dungeons. In March 2014, Steven Currence gave undercover agents a grand tour of the dungeon hidden inside his Montana home. The subterranean hellhole contained a heavy …
The Huffington Post by Sandra LaMorgese Ph.D. Whenever we hear “sex education,” most people imagine a high school health class teacher outlining the basics: monthly periods, the human development cycle, birth control, and maybe an uncomfortable informational film. However, the topics in these classes barely skim the surface of the …
NY Mag By Matthew Hutson Fifty Shades of Grey has shaped a whole culture’s view of BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism). In that fictional world, a powerful man plays out his sadistic fantasies as a powerless woman indulges her masochistic ones. This narrative demonstrates what’s …
Archer By Renee Glover The wildly varied world of BDSM can provide a safe space to communicate, play, and release the pressures of everyday life. At pre-dawn on a Monday morning more than 20 years ago, two friends and I sped towards a four-hour cleaning job that had to …
