Los Angeles Times by Alison Bass In early January, law enforcement in the Seattle area seized thereviewboard.net, a website where local sex workers posted advertisements and clients reviewed their services. In related police raids, people who ran and moderated the site were among those arrested and charged with promoting prostitution, a …
The New York Times By ZACHARY WOOLFE The OkCupid message Mollena Williams received in December 2013 was, in some ways, standard. It was complimentary: “Wow — your profile is great.” It was confident: “I am an artist, very successful (probably member of the top 10 or 20 in my genre …
Comics Alliance by Elle Collins This past Saturday, February 20th, would have been the 123rd birthday of Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She’s not exactly what you’d call famous, but you’ve probably guessed who she is from the headline and illustration above. Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a psychologist, and the wife of …
Maxim by ZEYNEP YENISEY A lot of people spend their time worrying whether or not their sexual desires and practices fit in with what society deems “normal.” Well, fret not my friends, because that’s a hot load of garbage. Some of the allegedly “taboo” sex acts society savagely judges and …
Autostraddle by Tovah “I’ve had people think weird things about my sexuality that are absolutely connected to my disability, but the experience was not that I had no sexuality — it was that I had a fucked up sexuality,” says Lyric Seal aka Neve Be, a queercrip writer, performance artist …
Self By Zahra Barnes If you immediately think of Christian Grey’s 50 Shades of Grey Red Room when you hear the word “bondage,” there’s some good news: it doesn’t always have to be that intense! (But of course, it can be if you want it to.) Even if you find …
Cosmopolitan By Angela Chen At first, Lily Zheng saw kink as a way to have great sex. “I thought of it like an escalator: First I would do bondage, then this and that, and then at the end, I would have the most fulfilling, amazing sex ever,” said the Stanford …
Huffington Post by Pamela Madsen She leans over, and opens the bag. Her sharp, “I’m Not A Waitress” red painted nails glistening in the low light of the play space — or what you might call a “Dungeon.” She is a well-shaped woman of a certain age; and her male …
Vice News By Hilary Beaumont In 2014, when he was first accused of sexual assault and hitting women, Jian Ghomeshi said he liked “rough sex” and BDSM, calling his sex life a “mild form” of 50 Shades of Grey. This week, the former TV and radio host is …
The Michigan Daily by Emily Miillers About 50 people attended back-to-back interactive lectures on sexual health Wednesday evening as part of the annual Sexpertise conference on sexual health, hosted by the University Health Service. The events, titled “Seeing Other People: Open Relationships, Polyamory, and More” and “Kink Outside the Box,” …
