Self By Zahra Barnes If you immediately think of Christian Grey’s 50 Shades of Grey Red Room when you hear the word “bondage,” there’s some good news: it doesn’t always have to be that intense! (But of course, it can be if you want it to.) Even if you find …
Cosmopolitan By Angela Chen At first, Lily Zheng saw kink as a way to have great sex. “I thought of it like an escalator: First I would do bondage, then this and that, and then at the end, I would have the most fulfilling, amazing sex ever,” said the Stanford …
Huffington Post by Pamela Madsen She leans over, and opens the bag. Her sharp, “I’m Not A Waitress” red painted nails glistening in the low light of the play space — or what you might call a “Dungeon.” She is a well-shaped woman of a certain age; and her male …
Vice News By Hilary Beaumont  In 2014, when he was first accused of sexual assault and hitting women, Jian Ghomeshi said he liked “rough sex” and BDSM, calling his sex life a “mild form” of 50 Shades of Grey.  This week, the former TV and radio host is …
The Michigan Daily by Emily Miillers About 50 people attended back-to-back interactive lectures on sexual health Wednesday evening as part of the annual Sexpertise conference on sexual health, hosted by the University Health Service. The events, titled “Seeing Other People: Open Relationships, Polyamory, and More” and “Kink Outside the Box,” …
Washington Post By Lisa Bonos Rachel Ruvinsky thought she was a lesbian. As a teenager, she’d fallen into a serious relationship with her best friend. She was one of the few students at her high school to be out; she joined the school’s gay-straight alliance but quit because the group …
Fusion by Molly Osberg They were high school sweethearts, sort of: Britt and John met in middle school right outside of Houston, the kind of place where the person you end up marrying is someone you’ve known your whole life. They flirted later in the halls of one of those …
The Leather Journal by Vonn Tramel Attendees of The 2016 Alamo Leather Contest will certainly never forget!  Late Saturday evening, at approximately 1030, just a few minutes prior to the announcement of The Alamo Leather Contest’s Winners bar staff swept through the Mad Marlin’s basement and parking lot. They …
Unicorn Booty BY DANIEL VILLARREAL British magazine FK recently surveyed 1,006 gay men about their opinions on open and polyamorous relationships — that is, relationships that aren’t exclusively monogamous. In short, gay and bi guys who’d never been in an open/poly relationship tended to regard them as negative, and guys …
Independent by Chloe Hamilton I meet Blythe and Tom in a bar in Clapham. Blythe’s pastel-pink hair is easy to spot from a distance. Slim, sandy-haired Tom sits beside her. As I approach, their heads are together and they’re giggling softly. They look every inch the loved-up couple. I introduce myself …
