Mission Local The Armory Community Center is poised to host public sports, art and educational events, as well as private functions, now that the city has granted a recreation permit allowing the owner of the landmark brick structure to expand its G-rated family fare. The driver behind the project is Peter …
New York Times Sadomasochism, gay penguins and Captain Underpants. This is what passed for controversial in American literature in 2012, according to the American Library Association’s annual list of “frequently challenged books,” released on Monday. The A.L.A.’s Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles reports on complaints filed with a library or …
New York Magazine Once a week, Daily Intelligencer takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Polyamorous Woman Color Coding Her Lovers: Female, 33, work at a charity, London, in an open relationship, heterosexual. DAY ONE 10 a.m. I update my Google calendar while I’m in the …
OC Weekly We’re used to seeing women with bedazzled earrings, nose rings, eyebrow piercings and hoops, cheek piercings and hoops, lip piercings and hoops, tongue studs . . . you get the idea. But now a Huntington Beach wholesaler is hawking a new line of gold or bejeweled or otherwise …
The Mac Weekly On my way to work last weekend, I noticed a familiar sight. Stuck between the hands of a woman who sat across the aisle on the 84 bus, there was Fifty Shades of Grey, the incredibly popular erotic novel that includes sadomasochistic sex scenes. The Fifty Shades …
Huffington Post Those who hoped to see sexual fetishes removed completely from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of psychiatry published by the American Psychiatric Association, will likely be disappointed when the new edition is released in May. The DSM-V will probably still mention certain …
Huffington Post Forget big banks. In the eyes of one conservative group, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed in his duty to take down big porn. Morality in Media put Holder at the top of its “Dirty Dozen List” of “top pornography facilitators” this week, placing the nation’s leading law …
BBC Mick and Mairead Philpott shared their home with Mick’s girlfriend and 11 children in a relationship which can be described as polyamorous. Why do people live with more than one sexual partner, and are there problems that can arise with these relationships? Mairead Philpott said she was initially hurt …
Beatrice Stonebanks wants to teach you how to be a corporate dominatrix San Francisco Bay Guardian Online All too often in the workplace, women fight to hide their sexuality. In Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, the controversial feminist-treatise-of-the-moment on combating sexism in the corporate world, Sandberg references …
LiveScience.com Should a sexual fixation on shoes or a predilection for pain land you in the psychiatrist’s bible of diagnoses? Plenty of kinksters say no, but psychiatrists say yes — for now. The newest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-5, is due out in May. …
