Contact: Alan Penrod International LeatherSIR 2011 alan@southeastlsb.com April 13-15, 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the Atlanta Eagle as well as the third annual Atlanta Leather Pride celebration. Alan Penrod, the Atlanta Leather Pride Coordinator, had the support of the brothers and sisters of Panther Leather Levi Club as a …
Roiphe casts feminists as moralising killjoys policing women’s fantasies of sexual submission. I’ll submit – that she’s way wrong The Guardian Katie Roiphe has been exploring her fantasies again, and I wish she’d stop. I don’t mean the one about being tied up and spanked – not a thing wrong …
NY Daily News Katie Roiphe’s Newsweek cover story “The Fantasy Life of Working Women” hit the web yesterday, prompting a collective facepalm from sex-positive feminists everywhere. If you’re not familiar with Roiphe’s other work, which includes gems such as “My Newborn Is Like a Narcotic,” then lucky you! Just like …
The Nation Katie Roiphe has written a link bait-y Newsweek cover story making an interesting claim: that the pop culture appearance of submissive female sexual fantasies, in shows like Lena Dunham’s “Girls” and pulp fiction like Fifty Shades of Grey, is somehow a backlash against women’s increasing economic power. I …
What is a woman’s ‘proper role’? Newsweek Magazine Ripples of mirth greet David Henry Hwang’s canny, hilarious Broadway hit Chinglish. It’s rather more chilling to read news accounts of a strangely parallel narrative of intrigue and corruption running now in China, a murder case in which an important Chinese politician’s …
Sandy Springs Patch It’s not something most folks often come upon everyday. Still in March, the Sandy Springs Special Investigations Unit, and Code Enforcement were at the Harbor Pointe apartment of a transgender dominatrix. Following up on a complaint, investigators learned about the website www.twistedredheadtv.com run by “Mistress” Regina Twist, …
Spanking Goes Mainstream Newsweek Magazine If every era gets the sadist it deserves, it may not be surprising that we have ended up with Christian Grey, the hero of the runaway bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey. He is not twisted or frightening or in possession of a heart of darkness; …
Newsday The professional dominatrix who recruited straw buyers to take part in the largest mortgage fraud ring in Suffolk County history was sentenced Friday to community service and probation. Carrie Coakley, 40, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty last year to her role in the scam, which was orchestrated by her husband, …
The Harvard Crimson In a recent interview with the Harvard Independent, an anonymous representative of the newly-formed group, Munch, which stylizes itself as a resource and community for Harvard undergraduates interested in the BDSM subculture (an initialism that stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism), …
Fox News Residents of a small fishing village on Mexico’s Riviera Maya are up in arms about the expansion of a hedonistic swingers club in their town. Puerto Morelos, a hamlet of just under 10,000 people located about 37 miles south of Cancun on the Yucatán Peninsula, is known as …
