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International Media Update: “Sex Toys Craze Sweeps Russian City After Release of ’50 Shades of Grey'”

The Moscow Times Residents of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg have flocked to local sex stores to stock up on whips, handcuffs and other S&M toys following the release of the erotic film “50 Shades of Grey,” a news report said Thursday.   The U.S. film, which follows the foray …

International Media Update: “Fifty Shades of Grey and the legal limits of BDSM”

The Conversation by Thalia Anthony Christian Grey knows exactly his hard limits in sadomasochism and he may also know a thing or two about his legal limits. The Dominant character Grey in the fantasy fiction Fifty Shades of Grey is bent on alluring his coprotagonist, Anastasia (Ana) Steele, to become his …

International Media Update: “National Taiwan University delivers blow to kinky bondage club”

The China Post TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s top university took the dominant role this past Wednesday when it gave a firm “no” to students who wanted to start a school-sanctioned club centered on BDSM, the broad range of erotic practices mostly identified with bondage and dominance role-play. A committee made …

International Media Update: “‘Gimp Man of Essex’ aiming to spark debate while fundraising”

BBC News A rubber fetishist who raises money by going out in public in a bondage suit said he hoped his efforts would start a debate on stereotypes. ‘The Gimp Man of Essex’ gives £1 to Colchester Mind every time someone posts a photo with him to his Facebook page, …

International Media Update: “Hypocritical politicians have reason to fear a retired dominatrix”

The Montreal Gazette By Stephen Maher, Postmedia News   Terri-Jean Bedford brought her trademark riding crop Wednesday for her appearance before the Senate justice committee considering C-36, the new prostitution law. The retired dominatrix seemed to make the Tories nervous. They should be nervous. Bedford used to run an upscale …

Military Court Accepts NCSF’s Amicus Brief

Military Court Accepts NCSF’s Amicus Brief in Support of Consensual Nonmonogamy April 24, 2014 – Washington, DC – The Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has accepted NCSF’s amicus (“friend of the court”) brief advising the court that prosecutors are avoiding the Supreme Court decision, made in Lawrence …

International Media Update: “Spanish town fights ‘Fifty Shades’ bondage hotel”

The Local by Alex Dunham The small Valencian village of Vilafranca, with only 2,500 inhabitants, would have gained notoriety on Friday had the opening of Spain’s first BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism and masochism) hotel gone ahead. “With the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon in full swing, I saw …

International Media Update: “Limerick swingers’ club ‘astonished’ by job applications”

Limerick Leader by Anne Sheridan A SWINGERS’ club in Limerick city, pitched as “the home of Irish erotica”, has been “inundated” with job applications, with many highly skilled professionals seeking part time work at the club. The club, called i-kandi in the Eastway Business Park, is advertising for a ‘shift …