he radical 18th Century libertine left a profound mark on our culture. He’s everywhere – but why does he still scare us? Jason Farago explains. BBC by Jason Farago “Either kill me or take me like this, for I will not change,” wrote the imprisoned Marquis de Sade to his …
The Daily Beast by Steve Miller Bob Bashara was a married Rotary Club president who lived in a ritzy Detroit suburb. He also had a secret love for BDSM—and prosecutors say he had his wife killed over it. DETROIT—BDSM, an alleged killing-for-hire, street-level thuggery, and a life of privilege collide …
Huffington Post by Ariel Edwards-Levy Most Americans think there’s a problem with campus sexual assault, and nearly six in 10 approve of a California law intended to combat it, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. Americans are nearly four times as likely to say that colleges and universities do a …
ABC News 7 By Lauren Glassberg There is a commercial space in the heart of Lower Manhattan that looks like a plain old office building. But inside, there’s a sex club, and police and other tenants can’t do anything to stop it. Neighbors were shocked to learn that the wild …
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. …
