The Buffalo News By Lou Michel The victim woke up in her car parked in Buffalo, not knowing how she had gotten there. But she remembered all too clearly the horrific abuse she had just survived, allegedly at the hands of a Lewiston man now charged with a long list …
Kaleo by Roman Kalinowski More than 19 states including Hawai‘i have legalized gay marriage in the past decade due to increased public awareness and changing social views on what constitutes a romantic relationship. While this is great news, Americans are still strongly opposed to the idea of romance between more …
Syracuse.com By Nick Canedo Want to question a partner’s sobriety before giving consent for sex? There’s an app for that. It’s called Good2Go, and its launch comes days after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that defines when “yes means yes” and requires all state colleges to adopt a …
BuzzFeed by Alan White Dean and Cristy Parave, from Florida, have been married for seven years and are devout Christians. Cristy, 44, is bisexual. She indulges in extra-marital sex with the consent of Dean, 50. She told Barcroft Media: “I don’t think God would be mad at what we are …
ABC News By RYAN OWENS, BRANDON BAUR and LAUREN EFFRON As the saying goes in New Orleans, let the good times roll. And at no time is that mantra on display more than during the Naughty in N’Awlins, an annual swingers convention. Roughly 1,300 swingers from across the country, some …
The Duke Chronicle By Maximilian Tabet While tabling for my group, Alternative Sexualities at Duke, I had a conversation with a friend about sexual identity. “What is the purpose of your group?” they asked me, wondering what we covered that the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity did not. …
The Atlantic by Merissa Nathan Gerson Inside an unmarked warehouse in downtown San Francisco, a woman greets guests with a riding crop. She is not there to beat them, but to initiate them with a set of firm and binding rules. A chart posted on the wall reads: State your …
Syracuse.com by John O’Brien A master-slave relationship between the accused kidnappers of two Amish children will likely complicate the criminal case against them, a lawyer for one of the defendants said today. Bradford Riendeau, a lawyer for Nicole Vaisey, said after court today that she and her boyfriend, Stephen Howells, …
Frontiers LA.com by Stephan Horbelt This past Sunday, Sept. 21, the world’s largest leather event, the Folsom Street Fair, returned to San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood for its 30th year. Bay Area residents and tourists from around the world converged on a five-block stretch of Folsom Street to celebrate …
Slate By Jordan G. Teicher These photographs contain sexual themes. Danny Ghitis became interested in the fetish, BDSM, and kink communities for the same reason he became interested in rock climbing: They both inspired a bit of discomfort, but also a bit of curiosity. In 2011, same-sex marriage had recently …
