SF Gate KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that lawyers for a Missouri couple accused of sexual slavery may call an expert to explain bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism to jurors. But in his ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple also said the expert won’t …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jurors need to hear why some people choose to engage in extreme and often painful sex acts so that they will be able to make informed decisions in the upcoming trial of a southwest Missouri couple accused of forcing a woman to be a sex slave for …
NBC News It’s a club where you might, in fact, use a club: Harvard University has joined the small but growing roster of U.S. colleges that have approved official student organizations devoted to kinky sex. Harvard administrators were to formally approve the group, Harvard College Munch, on Friday, The Harvard …
Huffington Post Harvard University, home to the best and the brightest, now has an official club for the kinkiest. Harvard College Munch for the BDSM set will be approved as a student organization on Friday, the Crimson reported. The expected go-ahead by the Committee on Student Life will entitle Munch …
Kansas City Star Without an expert witness, Kansas City jurors might not understand how someone could consent to some extreme sadomasochistic behavior, a lawyer told a federal judge Thursday. U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple said at the end of a hearing that he would rule soon on whether the court …
Huffington Post What do General Petraeus and Christian Grey have in common? Clue: it’s not a predilection for complex bondage knots, unless that’s another security secret yet to be revealed. Nor is it the know-how to work a uniform to nefarious ends, unless you count Christian’s Ken doll-dressed-by-Calvin-Klein-style as a …
Los Angeles Times On Monday the New York Observer ran a sensational story about BDSM sex clubs popping up in the Ivy League. They can be found at Harvard, Columbia and Yale — all Ivies — as well as Tufts, MIT and the University of Chicago. The group at Harvard …
The Dispatch KC Playroom, a swingers club that stopped holding its private parties in a Shawnee industrial building last month, apparently has returned under “new ownership.” And Mayor Jeff Meyers, for one, said the news “disgusts me.” “We have some great friends who are taking over the KC Playroom so …
Huffington Post San Francisco may be getting ready to shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing. City lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would prohibit nudity in most public places, a blanket ban that represents an escalation of a two-year tiff between …
NY Observer “Sometimes my friends and I stop each other mid-sentence and say, ‘Oh my god, you guys. We go to Harvard. This is so weird,’” Maria, a junior, said recently over Skype chat. Harvard had been Maria’s dream school for years. (She requested a pseudonym, but not because she’s …
