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Hattiesburg American A poster promoting a show at a Hub City bar drew the ire of some University of Southern Mississippi students and faculty members as being “degrading to women,” prompting school officials to pull copies down around campus Friday. “There is a pervasive hatred of women in our culture, …

Huffington Post Thanks to its recent cover story, The Fantasy Life of Working Women: Why Sadomasochism is a Feminist Dream, millions of people can thank Newsweek for unfulfilling sex and a cynical undermining of feminism’s attempts to change that. Instead of substantively considering the gendered nature of shame in our …

As usual, Katie Roiphe misses the point. Women aren’t the only ones who find escape in submission Salon What about men? That was the first thought that came to mind after reading Katie Roiphe’s Newsweek cover story on the BDSM-themed “Fifty Shades of Grey” phenomenon, in which she controversially speculated …

Bondage girl jailed for rape lies The Sun PRETTY sales assistant Kirsty Sowden was jailed today for crying rape in shame over her kinky sex session with an older stranger. Kirsty, 21, had met her “victim” online after advertising herself as a sexy “BDSM Princess” – standing for Bondage, Domination …

Contact: Alan Penrod International LeatherSIR 2011 alan@southeastlsb.com April 13-15, 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the Atlanta Eagle as well as the third annual Atlanta Leather Pride celebration. Alan Penrod, the Atlanta Leather Pride Coordinator, had the support of the brothers and sisters of Panther Leather Levi Club as a …

Roiphe casts feminists as moralising killjoys policing women’s fantasies of sexual submission. I’ll submit – that she’s way wrong The Guardian Katie Roiphe has been exploring her fantasies again, and I wish she’d stop. I don’t mean the one about being tied up and spanked – not a thing wrong …

NY Daily News Katie Roiphe’s Newsweek cover story “The Fantasy Life of Working Women” hit the web yesterday, prompting a collective facepalm from sex-positive feminists everywhere. If you’re not familiar with Roiphe’s other work, which includes gems such as “My Newborn Is Like a Narcotic,” then lucky you! Just like …

The Nation Katie Roiphe has written a link bait-y Newsweek cover story making an interesting claim: that the pop culture appearance of submissive female sexual fantasies, in shows like Lena Dunham’s “Girls” and pulp fiction like Fifty Shades of Grey, is somehow a backlash against women’s increasing economic power. I …

What is a woman’s ‘proper role’? Newsweek Magazine Ripples of mirth greet David Henry Hwang’s canny, hilarious Broadway hit Chinglish. It’s rather more chilling to read news accounts of a strangely parallel narrative of intrigue and corruption running now in China, a murder case in which an important Chinese politician’s …