Riverfront Times After months of wrangling with the city, the south-city BDSM venue known as “The Facility” is legally in the clear to operate, proprietor Joe Kriegesmann says. “We are approved for educational seminars,” says Kriegesmann, who is also known as “Satan’s Master.” He tells us he received a letter …
Sunday Mercury A WEDDING suite doubles as a seedy swingers’ club where strangers meet for illicit encounters, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. The 1,000-seater Million Dollar Suite in Bilston, in the Black Country, is popular with Asian couples who hold huge reception parties. The recently refurbished venue boasts a stage, …
KMOV Soon, a controversial club will be opening in the St. Louis area. Missouri’s first legal for-profit bondage and sadomasochism club will open in the 3100 block of Gravois. St. Louis issued the club a permit as an education facility. It will be required to close at 1 a.m. on …
Dallas Observer News Hardy Haberman was in his local dungeon a couple years ago, beating a friend at a “play party,” when things suddenly got weird. Wielding a soft leather flogger — a thick-handled instrument that resembles a whip, but with a dozen slender tails — he was lashing the …
Daily Mail The chancellor of the University of Northern Virginia exposed as a sadomasochistic sex-dungeon master following a school raid by federal immigration agents last month has submitted his resignation. David Lee, 64, was revealed as a man so into domination and sadomasochism that he and his girlfriend turned their …
SF Gate A San Francisco employment lawyer who specializes in sexual harassment cases has been charged with rape and other crimes for allegedly attacking three women who came to his apartment in response to his Craigslist ad for rough sex. Robert Michael Hoffman, 50, allegedly sexually assaulted a 36-year-old East …
Charlie Glickman: Adult Sexuality Education About a month ago, Kitty Stryker wrote a piece for the Good Vibrations Magazine, I Never Called it Rape: Addressing Abuse in BDSM Communities, in which she opened up a really important topic. It’s one that’s been simmering for a while and now that it’s …
SEXIS As kinky folks, most of us have heard of the risks associated with certain activities we like: rope cuts off circulation, bruises invite suspicion and speculation, infected wounds or bites just plain suck and breath play can flat out be deadly… but there’s more. Kink and Sadomasochism come with …
Monsters & Critics I was a little girl when Gloria Steinem came on the scene. My mother was an early N.O.W. member in Massachusetts, and a subscriber to Steinem’s MS. Magazine. Gloria was the sexy feminist; the one with long back combed hair, nails and was always a chic understated …
Macgasm The rumors of Second Life’s demise are apparently somewhat exaggerated as Linden Labs, creator of the popular virtual world, announced that profits are comfortably over $100M per year and that Q1, 2011 was their best quarter to date. The online 3D community that looks like a game (but isn’t …
