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 …
Slate There are a lot of things to find disturbing about GQ‘s Rihanna profile, featured in its December “Men of the Year Issue”—like how naked she is or how she appears to have used the interview to stage another meeting with Chris Brown, further evidence that the two are back …
The Irish Times MY FAVOURITE CASE: A UK sadomasochism case allows us to consider when the state should be allowed to criminalise actions between consenting adults What is your favourite case? Many years before the publication of EL James’s 50 Shades of Grey, sadomasochism was slap-bang before the English courts. …
24 Hours Vancouver The lawyer who represented families in the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry has published another blog post about RCMP Cpl. Jim Brown after the latter filed suit against him, which claims his online posts were “false and defamatory.” Lawyer Cameron Ward’s post responded to a civil suit …
Gather Rumor had it that Fifty Shades of Grey would generate a brand new baby boom that would surpass even the one created by World War II. While that remains to be seen, E.L. James’ “mommie porn” novels have spawned a bizarre new fashion line–for babies. No, that’s not a …
