Refinery29 by SOPHIE SAINT THOMAS If you’re unfamiliar with the BDSM scene, you might think it’s all whips, handcuffs, and pleasurable pain, but there’s one important element that BDSM practitioners have built into their sex lives to make sure that everyone involved feels safe and cared for after play time is …
Mr. International Leather 2015 wants to show you the ropes with the first online BDSM database. The Advocate BY ALEXANDER CHEVES Thousands of people every year, all over the world, learn that they’re kinky. This happens through small, private, erotic acts of discovery. They stumble across a porn site where …
A Boise convention brings polyamory out in the open Boise Weekly By Harrison Berry Tyson Downey has fallen in and out of love numerous times during the span of his nearly 20-year marriage to his wife. “My wife, my longest partner, we’ve been together for 18 years, made a …
Men’s Health BY ALISA HRUSTIC Here’s your excuse to try something kinky tonight: After polling more than 400,000 OkCupid members, the dating website found that 62 percent of women enjoy rough sex. Why? Being bitten, scratched, or spanked increases your blood pressure and heart rate in response to the …
CNN by Sara Ashley O’Brien Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100 men have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to have sex with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular dating app for gay and bisexual men, because of it. According to the complaint, …
CNN By Ian Kerner Could opening your relationship to others benefit you and your partner? For many couples, monogamy — staying sexually exclusive with one partner — is expected and assumed. It’s even included in many marriage vows. But as some people are increasingly realizing, monogamy isn’t for everyone. …
by Katie Mather Polyamory is on the rise. One in five Americans are or have been in a non-monogamous relationship or a polyamorous one. Poly relationships can be structured a number of different ways, but the classic example is that of a committed couple who are allowed to date other …
by Katie Horneshaw “SO I think I’m getting a Dom!” exclaims my friend Jodi* as we sit down for coffee. “You mean like a BDSM thing?” “Yeah! I mean, might as well see what all the fuss is about, right?” “Dom” is kink-vernacular for the dominant role in a BDSM …
It’s Sunday evening and I’m creating a profile on one of the biggest social networks for BDSM, fetish and kink communities. by Louise Joy I’ve chosen an alluring username, and now I’m uploading photos of my shoes and filling out my profile to state that I am a mistress looking for …
Until I made the conscious choice to opt-out of monogamous relationships, I had cheated on every partner I had ever been with. by Ocean DeRouchie I know how bad that might look on paper. But for the longest time, no matter how long I was with someone, no matter how …
