“Controversial S&M club seeks St. Louis approval” St. Louis Post Dispatch In an old brick warehouse on Gravois Avenue, a local businessman is laboring to open what he says would be the state’s first legal for-profit bondage and sadomasochism club. Joe Kriegesmann says he wants a place where St. Louis …
Femdom Magazine …Having BDSM “depathologized” is one of the many projects on which the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is working. According to its website (www.ncsfreedom.org), “NCSF is committed to creating a political, legal and social environment in the US that advances equal rights for consenting adults who engage in …
Kink community worried about state legislator’s attempt to curb domestic violence San Diego City Beat It’s not as if California’s gimps, leather daddies and dominatrices are going to march on the state Capitol, but the kink and fetish lobby will send a letter to Sen. Christine Kehoe, a Democrat who …
Riverfront Times As we reported last week, Kendra Holliday, the woman behind one of St. Louis’ raciest blogs, The Beautiful Kind, is facing what she calls "the worst thing imaginable" since revealing her true identity in a Riverfront Times profile. Holliday’s ex-husband is suing to modify the custody agreement they …
Submissive kinky women are far from the shrinking violets that BDSM’s critics have characterized them as being. Often they’re women who know exactly what they want. AlterNet by Alex Henderson BDSM has come a long way in the last 20 years. A subculture that was once very underground has been …
Questions About Accuser Surround Sex Slave Case AP The allegations in the indictment were shocking: A young woman had been held captive for years as the sex slave of a Missouri couple. She had been locked in a cage and subjected to electrical shocks. Parts of her body had been …
"Consent counts: National Coalition for Sexual Freedom aims to decriminalize BDSM" Examiner Where does consent begin and end in the eyes of the law when it comes to rough sex involving dominance and submission play? Should adults engaging in consensual sexual behavior be subject to criminal laws including assault and …
NSFW: The St. Louis mom behind sex blog the Beautiful Kind is outing herself Riverfront TimesKendra Holliday is a total slut. Go right ahead and say it — she does. She’s not hiding from it anymore. In some ways, she’s always been honest about it. She’s unflinchingly blogged every detail …
Folsom Street Fair poster image draws inspiration from The Usual Suspects San Francisco, CA – Monday, May 10, 2010 – Folsom Street Events has released poster designs for their annual events: Bay of Pigstm, Up Your Alley®, Magnitude®, and the Folsom Street Fair®. This year, the official Folsom Street Fair …
Kinky Sex: When Did BDSM Become So Wildly Popular? AlterNet DSM-IV, which was published in 1992, defined kinky behavior as a “paraphilia,” a fancy word for any path to sexual arousal that’s not standard foreplay. The language of DSM-IV “is unclear and sometimes contradictory about whether a paraphilia is a …
