Macomb Daily Bob Bashara’s mistress frequently tried to end their relationship because of his constant lying but time and time couldn’t resist his aggressive pursuits, she testified Thursday. Rachel Gillett and other witnesses also testified on the fourth day of Bashara’s preliminary examination for his wife’s murder about the couple’s …
Houston Chronicle by Bill Draper (AP) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A southwest Missouri man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Wednesday for holding a young woman captive as a sex slave for six years. Edward Bagley initially faced 11 federal charges accusing him of enticing an underage girl …
Detroit Free Press Time after time, Bob Bashara was caught in lies. He didn’t tell the truth about having a gun. He lied about a golf outing to Florida. And he never confessed about an affair when asked by his family. That’s what witnesses, who testified Monday during the first …
It’s a neo-conservative nightmare: In Iran and China, Western sexual values are bringing about real change Salon When Iranian American anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi first visited Tehran in the summer of 2000, she expected to encounter the Iran she grew up imagining. Her family remembered violence and extremism, and these were …
Slate In the course of defending their right to treat gay people as second-class citizens, conservatives have frequently deployed slippery-slope arguments: “If we accept same-sex relationships, what will we have to tolerate next? Bestiality? Pederasty? Polygamy?” While these arguments are stupid, the people making them are not, or at least …
Huffington Post If you’ve been brought up in Western society your first exposure to polyamory probably occurred through pop culture. Vicky~Christina~Barcelona immortalized the triad relationship in an impossibly beautiful Caucasian Hollywoodesque fantasy, with the implicit warning that such an arrangement is unstable for the long term. Sitcoms like Friends throw …
The Virginian-Pilot Six months into a long deployment to the Middle East last year, the top enlisted sailor aboard the Navy ship Gunston Hall jotted a Web address onto a Post-it note and handed it to a lower-ranking female sailor. “SwingerLifestyle.com,” it read. Command Master Chief Petty Officer Kelly Smith …
Organizers of the Touch of Flavor Festival filed a lawsuit for contract breach when the venue’s new management abruptly canceled the event in May. Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) August 23, 2013 TTB Ventures LLC today announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Coppermine Field House LLC, the manager of the …
BBC News Two Kenyan men have signed an agreement to “marry” the same woman. The woman had been having affairs with both men for more than four years and apparently refused to choose between them. The agreement sets out a rota for Sylvester Mwendwa and Elijah Kimani to stay in …
It’s not my business how many partners people have, but let’s not pretend that this will bring sexual equality to relationships The Guardian Polyamory is the latest subversive and a la mode sexual practice to receive extensive media coverage. It appeals as a subject for to those interested in alternative …
