Philly.com Jimmy Fallon played a rousing round of “Mirren, Mirren on the Wall” Monday, which resulted in Helen Mirren endorsing some light BDSM. “Whips and chains are not my style,” the Oscar-winning actress said when asked about “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “But who doesn’t love a jolly good spanking once …
The Week By Damon Linker Polyamorists believe their time has come. But the fact is that Americans continue to see infidelity as an evil. When the fight for gay marriage began to gain traction back in the early years of the last decade, social conservative critics usually went beyond denying …
The Chattanoogan A man told police a woman who had agreed to take $2,000 in exchange for taking part in an explicit video in which her head would be shaved took off with the cash before the cameras rolled. Daniel Robertson said the woman had answered a Craigslist ad and …
As a professional dominatrix, I tie people up, spank them or humiliate them. Their joy is to submit to me; mine is the power rush of that control The Guardian I’m grateful for Fifty Shades of Grey. It is low-grade, escapist smut, filled with misconceptions and wildly inaccurate portrayals of …
WTOV9.com OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — A Washington County, Pa., couple could soon face indecent exposure charges in Ohio County after neighbors say a woman was walking a naked man on all fours on a leash. It happened Tuesday morning around 9:30 near Roney’s Point in Ohio County. Sheriff’s deputies say …
Monogamy is rare, no matter what we might tell ourselves. We need a new currency of commitment. NewStatesmen by Rosie Wilby Back in April, Helen Croydon’s New Statesman article entitled “Screw The Fairytale” sparked quite some heated debate from vociferous defenders of the ideal exclusive lifelong partnership. I too have …
The Local by Alex Dunham The small Valencian village of Vilafranca, with only 2,500 inhabitants, would have gained notoriety on Friday had the opening of Spain’s first BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and masochism) hotel gone ahead. “With the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon in full swing, I saw …
American Conservative by Leah Libresco Why assume you need to make compromises to achieve connubial bliss? In an article for The Atlantic, Olga Khazan profiles several polyamorous couples and wonders whether more families should consider open (non-monogamous) marriages. Khazan argues that polyamory’s great advantage is that practitioners better divide up and …
Queerty Since San Francisco’s infamous Up Your Alley (this weekend) and Folsom Street Fair (September) are upon us, it’s a good time to get into the photographic spirit of leather, flesh, and all things BDSM. Who better to help out than a German photographer, in this case Peter Lichreich? “I call …
Film School Rejects By Neil Miller Outside of Comic-Con, there isn’t much happening in the movie world. Oh wait, there’s that 50 Shades of Grey trailer that was released this week in an attempt to bring balance to the force of nerd movie goodness. This is a different kind of nerdy, …
