SF Weekly For connoisseurs of BDSM porn, San Francisco’s Kink.com has built up a reputation that makes them the sadomasochistic equivalent of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Fans of the company’s sites look to them not only for high-quality porn that caters to a wide variety of fetishes, but for …
International Business Times With a place atop the New York Times bestseller list, a $5 million movie deal and endless media coverage, “Fifty Shades of Grey” has become a cultural phenomenon. Just as countless romance novels have done for decades, the book has hit a sweet spot for women from …
CNN A few weeks ago, I heard the sort of whispered murmurs in my local bookstore that are reserved solely for people who want to buy books that they don’t want other people to know they are buying. Furtive glances and giggles echoed back as happy customers walked out the …
SF Bay Guardian In my San Francisco, it’s not uncommon to know someone who identifies as polyamorous, or who participates in multiple loving and intimate relationships. In fact when I talked to Pepper Mint, conference organizer for OpenSF, he told me that the non-monagamous community in the Bay Area has …
Huffington Post A Swedish mom has a face that is 50 shades of red ever since police came across a secret sex chamber she set up at an abandoned military bunker near the town of Nordmaling. Last Friday, two fisherman came across the old bunker and discovered what appeared to …
Vanishing New York Last year, when the second part of the High Line opened, I wondered how long the sex-positive Folsom Street East festival would survive on West 28th, now that the once-desolate block has become a destination for tourists and condo-buyers. Soon after, I looked at the arrival of …
I’m worried about this country. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the No. 1 best seller? Is this another example of the dumbing down of America? The Wall Street Journal I don’t read romance novels anymore, so until the “Fifty Shades” trilogy became the fiction du jour, I was unaware of …
The Australian The power couple of Australia’s increasingly open polyamorous community, Rebecca and James Dominguez, have made Senate submissions urging the legalisation of same-sex marriage, as they promote greater acceptance of multiple-partner relationships. The couple have led the way in publicly outlining their own journey from monogamous marriage to one …
Winnipeg Free Press For an estimated two per cent of the population, that classic one-liner has an automatic — and quite serious — retort: “OK, as long as you take mine.” In the 1950s, the media dubbed it “wife-swapping.” Today, it’s known by the less male-centric term “swinging.” Or just …
Brand Channel With libraries reporting waiting lists in the thousands and retailers reporting over 10 million copies sold in just a month and a half, the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey and its siblings 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed has not only dominated The Hunger Games trilogy …
