Why handcuffs and submission may lead to even more LGBT liberation The Advocate The people have spoken: gay is OK. The recent election gave us political and legislative victories for the LGBT community, including same-sex marriage in three states and Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay U.S. Senator. On television …
Huffington Post What has James Franco been up to lately, you ask? The 34-year-old actor is set to publish a poetry book in 2014, but we’re more interested in a recent collaboration with San Francisco filmmaker Travis Mathews. Their film, “Interior. Leather Bar,” will premiere at Sundance New Frontiers program …
Where Ivy League kink comes from. Newsweek Last week, national media outlets were titillated by the news that Harvard University had formally recognized a student-run BDSM group (short for bondage, domination, and sadomasochism). The idea of buttoned-up Crimson coeds discussing their fondness for fetish challenged the conventional image of the …
Huffington Post … I soon received an email from Rebecca Nagle from FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a feminist activism effort that promotes awareness about rape culture, informing me that Pink Loves Consent is not an official Victoria’s Secret PINK line, but rather an effort by FORCE to promote awareness about …
Huffington Post KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman accused with her husband of forcing a teenage girl to be a sex slave for years in their mobile home pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal conspiracy charge in a deal contingent on her being sentenced to probation. Marilyn Bagley, 47, admitted …
Kansas City Star The wife of a Missouri man accused of brutalizing and sex trafficking a young woman confirmed Thursday that the woman was a minor when the sexual activity began. Marilyn Bagley made the admission in court records filed with her guilty plea to a single count of conspiracy …
Riverfront Times Marilyn Bagley, a 47-year-old from Lebanon, Missouri pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to hold a minor as a sex slave. According to the superseding indictment filed in federal court, which is one of the most lurid we’ve ever seen — ever — Bagley has admitted to the following …
SF Gate KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that lawyers for a Missouri couple accused of sexual slavery may call an expert to explain bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism to jurors. But in his ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple also said the expert won’t …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jurors need to hear why some people choose to engage in extreme and often painful sex acts so that they will be able to make informed decisions in the upcoming trial of a southwest Missouri couple accused of forcing a woman to be a sex slave for …
NBC News It’s a club where you might, in fact, use a club: Harvard University has joined the small but growing roster of U.S. colleges that have approved official student organizations devoted to kinky sex. Harvard administrators were to formally approve the group, Harvard College Munch, on Friday, The Harvard …
