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, …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Daily Mail by By Ted Thornhill A dominatrix who whipped cross-dressing men while they were chained up and gagged has been fined for a serious breach of health and safety rules. But it’s nothing to do with the way she physically treated her clients. Lorraine White, 41, was fined £8,000 …
Albawaba Sitting outside a coffee shop in Sassine, Ziad gestures to himself and says, “Look at me. Who could guess I like to whip women? ”It’s a fair question, like other members of the clandestine Lebanese BDSM community with whom the Daily Star spoke, Ziad comes across as an average, …
Globe and Mail by Leah McLaren I n many ways, Catherine Skinner is a typical stay-at-home mom. The 37-year-old former actress lives with her family on a 30-acre farm in rural Ontario where she spends her days cooking, knitting and caring for three children. She even has a mommy blog …
Globe and Mail by ZOSIA BIELSKI “Polyamory is a challenging lifestyle to live. We are not socialized to live this way and there are very few media models that demonstrate people actively living these lifestyles,” says Dr. Danielle Duplassie, a Burnaby registered clinical counsellor and sex therapist who works with …
Many couples are finding meaning in loving, open relationships. Mail & Guardian By Rosemund Handler The Ravenhearts, a polyamorist couple, defined polyamory for the Oxford English Dictionary as “the practice, state or ability of having more than one sexual loving relationship at the same time, with the full knowledge and …
