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 …
American Conservative by Leah Libresco Why assume you need to make compromises to achieve connubial bliss? In an article for The Atlantic, Olga Khazan profiles several polyamorous couples and wonders whether more families should consider open (non-monogamous) marriages. Khazan argues that polyamory’s great advantage is that practitioners better divide up and …
Queerty Since San Francisco’s infamous Up Your Alley (this weekend) and Folsom Street Fair (September) are upon us, it’s a good time to get into the photographic spirit of leather, flesh, and all things BDSM. Who better to help out than a German photographer, in this case Peter Lichreich? “I call …
Film School Rejects By Neil Miller Outside of Comic-Con, there isn’t much happening in the movie world. Oh wait, there’s that 50 Shades of Grey trailer that was released this week in an attempt to bring balance to the force of nerd movie goodness. This is a different kind of nerdy, …
Local and international leather community reacts to sudden loss By Julie Cruikshank, Brandon Matheson Jon Letke, the reigning Mr Leather Ottawa (MLO), died suddenly the evening of Thursday, July 24 in an apparent suicide. Letke, 25, known in the leather community as Nizzi Greatpup, was a well-loved member of Ottawa’s queer community. …
Westword by Cafe Society Denver swingers can’t catch a break. 3090 Eden, the members-only swingers’ club that opened for business just last March, has closed, as has the Downing Street Grill, which was located in the same building at 3090 Downing Street. “It was a lot of money spent, but …
SF Weekly By Mollie McWilliams If you’re into leather daddies and BDSM — this is the event for you. Think of it as a prelude to Folsom Street Fair, or as the Up Your Alley site refers to it: “Folsom Street Fair’s Dirty Little Brother.” This little brother event is just …
Today Fifty Shades of Grey” fans, you’ve come to the right place. You saw part of the exclusive too-hot-for-morning-TV trailer on TODAY, but here’s the full trailer for you to watch now. That wasn’t all that was on the plate for “Fifty Shades” fans. As the trailer ended, they learned …
SF Weekly By Rachel Swan Domina, a Sonoma-based event planner, advice-dispenser, and proprietor of the chatty BDSM website The Frugal Domme, has hosted trailer trash parties at local bondage club The San Francisco Citadel for about a decade. According to club owners Phil Derby and August Knight, those parties have …
Polyamorous people still face plenty of stigmas, but some studies suggest they handle certain relationship challenges better than monogamous people do. The Atlantic by Olga Khazan hen I met Jonica Hunter, Sarah Taub, and Michael Rios on a typical weekday afternoon in their tidy duplex in Northern Virginia, a very …
