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 …
Leaf-Chronicle by Tavia D. Green CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Kristin Wilkerson described in court Thursday how her roommate, Shirley Beck, was hung up, gagged and continuously beaten for four hours, sustaining multiple kicks, punches and strikes with a metal pole, a rod and whip-like devices at the hands of three other …
Lake Geneva News by Rob Ireland Steven Zelich allegedly told a Walworth County Sheriff’s detective that he accidentally killed the two women who were found in suitcases on North Como Road during a BDSM session. Zelich said that he met both women on an online chat site for those with …
USA Today by Will Higgins, The Indianapolis Star INDIANAPOLIS — There will be thousands of parties this weekend celebrating freedom. Most will involve fireworks. But one soiree will take a different tack: The Red, Black and Blue Ball will celebrate bondage, even servitude (and presumably may involve fireworks of a …
The Virginian-Pilot By Elisabeth HuletteMargaret Matray Police are investigating the death of a woman over the weekend and have seized recording devices and materials related to sadomasochism from the home where she was found. Officers went to the condo in the city’s Newtown section just before 9 a.m. Sunday, after …
