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“Get ready for a little ’50 Shades’ – Boise style”

WBOI2 Get ready for a little “50 Shades” with a local twist. 50 Shades is a series of erotic best-selling books based on what can only be described as “alternative sexual practices.” Dozens and dozens are involved in the BDSM lifestyle locally. BDSM can stand for bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, …

“Students talk BDSM in Fifty Shades of Grey dialogues”

The Diamondback Students in Stamp Student Union’s Colony Ballroom last night prepared themselves for a conversation many had never before dared to discuss  in a public setting — kinky sex. The lecture and panel discussion, led by feminist pornographer and sex educator Tristan Taormino, aimed to debunk myths about BDSM …

“Support group PINS offers discussion forum for kinky sex and BDSM”

The Daily Princetonian A new BDSM and kink support group — known as Princetonians in the Nation’s Service — has attracted nearly 30 members since its creation in January. “Our written-down mission statement basically says that we’re here to provide a safe space, a community and a social space for …

“Library Association Lists Frequently Challenged Books”

New York Times Sadomasochism, gay penguins and Captain Underpants. This is what passed for controversial in American literature in 2012, according to the American Library Association’s annual list of “frequently challenged books,” released on Monday. The A.L.A.’s Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles reports on complaints filed with a library or …

“Surf City Kink Concern Gives Sparkly New Meaning to Titty Twisters”

OC Weekly We’re used to seeing women with bedazzled earrings, nose rings, eyebrow piercings and hoops, cheek piercings and hoops, lip piercings and hoops, tongue studs . . . you get the idea. But now a Huntington Beach wholesaler is hawking a new line of gold or bejeweled or otherwise …

“Bringing Sexy Mac! It’s not all whips and handcuffs: Thinking about consent in BDSM”

The Mac Weekly On my way to work last weekend, I noticed a familiar sight. Stuck between the hands of a woman who sat across the aisle on the 84 bus, there was Fifty Shades of Grey, the incredibly popular erotic novel that includes sadomasochistic sex scenes. The Fifty Shades …

“Sexual Fetishes Likely Still Included In DSM-V — But Not Necessarily As Mental Illnesses”

Huffington Post Those who hoped to see sexual fetishes removed completely from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of psychiatry published by the American Psychiatric Association, will likely be disappointed when the new edition is released in May. The DSM-V will probably still mention certain …

“Eric Holder, ‘Porn Facilitator’? ‘Dirty’ List Highlights Lull In Obscenity War”

Huffington Post Forget big banks. In the eyes of one conservative group, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed in his duty to take down big porn. Morality in Media put Holder at the top of its “Dirty Dozen List” of “top pornography facilitators” this week, placing the nation’s leading law …