Out in SA by Marco Aquino After the housing crash of 2008, James Lowe, a former construction worker, moved to San Antonio from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. With him came Elizabeth. The two were close friends at the time and hoped to find a better life in San Antonio. …
Cosmopolitan By Cheryl Wischhover Domina Elle is a former escort and current dominatrix who specializes in balloon fetish play. (Its practitioners are called “looners.”) She is also a sex workers’ rights advocate. I like to call myself an adult play facilitator. The type of work I do is much …
Bedford & Bowery BY NICOLE DISSER When I first arrived at the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) I filed into one of the few empty stadium seats left save for the neck busters at the very front. The place was packed for The Art of Sex & Seduction: Ceremonies of …
The Daily Beast by Kate Briquelet In a clever sting operation, the feds nabbed creeps looking to buy ‘sex slaves’ for their home dungeons. In March 2014, Steven Currence gave undercover agents a grand tour of the dungeon hidden inside his Montana home. The subterranean hellhole contained a heavy …
The Huffington Post by Sandra LaMorgese Ph.D. Whenever we hear “sex education,” most people imagine a high school health class teacher outlining the basics: monthly periods, the human development cycle, birth control, and maybe an uncomfortable informational film. However, the topics in these classes barely skim the surface of the …
NY Mag By Matthew Hutson Fifty Shades of Grey has shaped a whole culture’s view of BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism). In that fictional world, a powerful man plays out his sadistic fantasies as a powerless woman indulges her masochistic ones. This narrative demonstrates what’s …
Archer By Renee Glover The wildly varied world of BDSM can provide a safe space to communicate, play, and release the pressures of everyday life. At pre-dawn on a Monday morning more than 20 years ago, two friends and I sped towards a four-hour cleaning job that had to …
Gay Iceland by OLAV VEIGAR DAVÍÐSSON Iceland is the only Nordic country that still lists BDSM as a mental illness. A clear example of thoughtlessness, says the chairman of the Icelandic BDSM association. Members want the government to acknowledge BDSM as normal sexual behaviour. Not categorize it as a sickness. …
PopSugar by Maya Jordan I was once a little girl too with little girl dreams. I wasn’t always a sex-positive, independent diva of the highest order. I just happened to have some divergent imprinting at an early age that suggested that the traditional family dynamic (married to a dude with …
Philly.com by Dr. Timaree Schmit When asked about the uptick in reporting on polyamory, Kari Collins of West Philly tells me that she is “ambivalent.” It’s exciting to not have to explain what polyamory means over and over again, but the representations are really limited. “A lot of …
