Local and international leather community reacts to sudden loss By Julie Cruikshank, Brandon Matheson Jon Letke, the reigning Mr Leather Ottawa (MLO), died suddenly the evening of Thursday, July 24 in an apparent suicide. Letke, 25, known in the leather community as Nizzi Greatpup, was a well-loved member of Ottawa’s queer community. …
Westword by Cafe Society Denver swingers can’t catch a break. 3090 Eden, the members-only swingers’ club that opened for business just last March, has closed, as has the Downing Street Grill, which was located in the same building at 3090 Downing Street. “It was a lot of money spent, but …
SF Weekly By Mollie McWilliams If you’re into leather daddies and BDSM — this is the event for you. Think of it as a prelude to Folsom Street Fair, or as the Up Your Alley site refers to it: “Folsom Street Fair’s Dirty Little Brother.” This little brother event is just …
Today Fifty Shades of Grey” fans, you’ve come to the right place. You saw part of the exclusive too-hot-for-morning-TV trailer on TODAY, but here’s the full trailer for you to watch now. That wasn’t all that was on the plate for “Fifty Shades” fans. As the trailer ended, they learned …
SF Weekly By Rachel Swan Domina, a Sonoma-based event planner, advice-dispenser, and proprietor of the chatty BDSM website The Frugal Domme, has hosted trailer trash parties at local bondage club The San Francisco Citadel for about a decade. According to club owners Phil Derby and August Knight, those parties have …
Polyamorous people still face plenty of stigmas, but some studies suggest they handle certain relationship challenges better than monogamous people do. The Atlantic by Olga Khazan hen I met Jonica Hunter, Sarah Taub, and Michael Rios on a typical weekday afternoon in their tidy duplex in Northern Virginia, a very …
Milwaukee Express By Laura Anne Stuart Sunny Megatron and Ken Melvoin-Berg visited the Tool Shed a while back to teach their popular class ZAP! Electric Play, which covers toys that use electricity for stimulation, such as neon wands, violet wands and TENS units. These items were originally designed to improve …
Ozy By Melissa Pandika  Jen Day and her boyfriend of 11 years, Pepper Mint (yes, that’s his real name), live together with their cat in a whitewashed house on a narrow, leafy street in Berkeley, Calif. They kiss and nuzzle and have date nights, like any other couple. Just …
Jezebel I knew this was coming when the cashier in Barnes and Nobles saw me looking at Fifty Shades of Grey and stage-whispered: “I bought that for my mom, and now I’m just terrified that I’m going to go home and find my dad. In a cage. Bleeding or dead.” …
Everyone asks my polyamorous family how we handle the jealousy. It’s easy, because that’s not how it works Salon by Elizabeth Stern  The first question people ask my polyamorous family is “How do you handle the jealousy?” Befuddled, we answer, “What jealousy?” I am lucky; I live with the …
