If Christian and Ana inspired you to get kinky in the bedroom, experts say you’ll want to loop your doctor in, stat. Cosmopolitan By Michelle Konstantinovsky ix years ago, whips and chains were anything but mainstream. But thanks to literary juggernaut-turned film phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey, everyone and their …
Campus Reform by Anthony Gockowski The University of North Florida has cancelled several workshops that were to be held at its annual “Sex Week,” conceding that they only served to distract from the event’s original educational intent. Workshops discussing “ethical non-monogamy as an alternative to cheating” and offering sex toy tutorials …
Heat Street By Ian Miles Cheong For students looking for more “ethical” ways to cheat on their partners, the University of North Florida appears to have a solution: a workshop on polyamory. It’s all part of the school’s annual “Sex Week,” which also advertised sessions on kink and BDSM. Per …
Variety by Dani Levy Though the cast emphasized the dark tone of the next installment of the erotic romance series, Thursday night’s “Fifty Shades Darker” premiere was anything but. The mood was positively titillating on the Ace Hotel’s red carpet in Downtown Los Angeles, while screams and hollers filled the theater …
Groundbreaking new research challenges stereotypes about BDSM participants. Psychology Today by Michael Aaron, Ph.D. First, a caveat: We are not advocates of the ill-informed works of Sigmund Freud or E. L. James, author of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, nor do we consider them authorities on sex and sexuality. …
The Globe and Mail by CHARYN PFEUFFER They’re back, and ready to tie up some loose ends: Fifty Shades Darker, the highly anticipated sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, opens in theatres next Friday, Feb. 10. Whether you loved, hated or ignored the first movie or the 150-million-copy book trilogy that …
Cosplay by Luke Plunkett There’s always been a bit of a stigma attached to hentai, a highly sexualised form of Japanese anime and manga. Ditto for any associated cosplay, which can often be explicitly pornographic. Despite this, a German couple is finding some surprising mainstream (for the cosplay world, at …
NY Post by Alexandra Klausner No one can accuse aristocrats in China’s Han Dynasty of being prudes. Long before actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow was selling “magical” Yoni eggs — meant to balance chi and enhance female health and pleasure — the ancient Chinese were inserting kinky doodads in …
Metro UK by Rebecca Reid Valentine’s day is fast approaching, meaning that the world is about to be filled with overpriced roses and love. But what if v-day isn’t about dinner with the one you love. What if you could fill a dinner party with the people you’re involved with? …
The Gaily Grind On the heels of last weekend’s Women’s March on Washington, a gay activist in New York City has set in motion plans for a National Pride March on Washington on June 11, which he hopes will draw hundreds of thousands of people. David Bruinooge, 42, a Brooklyn, …
