by Siouxsie Q When I was a young queer, my local coffee shop was crucial to my existence. The coffee wasn’t important; it was the community there that mattered. It was the place I took my first girlfriends on dates and the place I played music in front of an …
Patheos by Yvonne Aburrow Z Budapest’s latest hate-filled screed makes me really angry. [Update: actual link to actual comment] It was feminists like Budapest who made it hard for people, especially feminists, to come out as kinky in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. With their statements that you are …
Military Court Accepts NCSF’s Amicus Brief in Support of Consensual Nonmonogamy April 24, 2014 – Washington, DC – The Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has accepted NCSF’s amicus (“friend of the court”) brief advising the court that prosecutors are avoiding the Supreme Court decision, made in Lawrence …
The Daily Beast by Aurora Snow The James Franco-produced documentary Kink, which provides a glowing portrait of the BDSM porn site Kink.com, is now in theaters. But for some performers, working for Kink can be terrifying. “WHORE.” Her cold, thin fingers wrapped around my jaw like a Vise-Grip. I could …
Maybe it’s just the cold, clean mountain air. BetaBeat by By Jack Smith IV Next time you’re on a trip to a romantic mountain getaway, a ski vacation, or just a trip to that little cabin in the woods, don’t forget the bondage tape, ball gag and OhMiBod. Turns out, people …
Huffington Post By Katherine Brooks Forest McMullin has spent a significant portion of his photography career snapping photos of what he calls “fringe social groups.” With his camera, he offers an intimate glance into the lives of everyone from incarcerated men in New York to members of religious supremacist …
First Showing by Ethan Anderton With the forthcoming adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey on the way, if you don’t know much about the world of BDSM, then you might be interested in checking out the documentary Kink, produced by James Franco and directed by Christina Voros. The film debuted …
by Jillian Keenan Slate It’s summertime, so of course the anti-sex crowd has decided to cool down with a fresh wave of sexual hysteria. The latest panic is that kinky people will lure vanilla children into our sexual hellscape through trendy pop cultural depictions of BDSM, such as Fifty Shades of Grey. This …
The College Fix by Jennifer Kabbany Some University of Chicago students may need to add whips, collars and handcuffs to their back-to-school shopping list. That’s because the elite private college’s Risk-Awareness Consensual Kink student club, affectionately known around campus as RACK, has plans to take field trips to the local …
In case you’re only ready for 25 Shades of Grey. Cosmopolitan by Frank Cobola When you’re venturing into the world of BDSM and kink for the first time, it can feel overwhelming and frightening, like when Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion all ventured into the Haunted Forest except with …
