Category: Media Updates

Vice by Simon Davis In February, Robert McGarey’s partner of 24 years died. It was the most devastating loss McGarey had ever encountered, and yet, there was a silver lining: “I had this profound sadness, but I don’t feel lonely,” McGarey told me. “I’m not without support, I’m not without …

Salon by JILLIAN RICHARDSON I was definitely at the right address. Tara Indiana, a professional dominatrix, emailed it to me earlier that day. Yet all I could see was the back entrance to a Japanese restaurant and some kitchen workers on their smoke break. There was no way that the sex …

Vanity Fair BY TONI BENTLEY The life of Catherine Robbe-Grillet makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like a Disney movie. In 1951, she became the mistress of the writer—and accomplished sadist—Alain Robbe-Grillet, whom she later married. Today, an 83-year-old widow, she is France’s most famous dominatrix. Visiting the 17th-century château …

Not all therapists take the gentle approach. The Atlantic Whips, chains, collars, gags, blindfolds, handcuffs, knives… My eyes roam the soundproof room in which we are enclosed. The subject of our conversation is BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Sadism, and Masochism), a discipline that includes a wide variety of consensual power-exchange activities …

SBS Three women have defied deeply conservative trends in Brazil by celebrating a polyamorous civil union.   The happy trio, who reportedly have shared a bed for years and say they want to raise a child, took an oath of love in early October in the presence of Rio de …

Boise Weekly by Harrison Berry Contrary to what you might have been told as a kid, vampires are real. At least according to DJ Williams, director of the social work program at Idaho State University anddirector of research at the Center for Positive Sexuality in Los Angeles. Williams argues not …

New York Times By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW One wife, many husbands.   That’s the solution to China’s huge surplus of single men, says Xie Zuoshi, an economics professor at the Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, whose recent proposal to allow polyandry has gone viral.   Legalizing marriage between two …

San Diego Union Tribune By Teri Figueroa and Dana Littlefield Three people accused of conspiring to lure a 22-year-old Fallbrook woman out of her home three years ago, killing her and dumping her body in a neighboring county were convicted of first-degree murder and other felony charges Wednesday.   Louis …

Religion News Service by David Gushee Recently I have had two conversations that reveal the incredible breadth of moral pluralism that exists not just in America but in the Christian population of America. In one conversation, a young lady told me that her family adheres to a very conservative Protestant …