Slate You can read about the origins of this series in the first entry. Today, the distinction between swingers and polyamorists—the groups overlap, but there are important differences—and a few neologisms invented by polyamorists to discuss their relationships. There are probably neologisms like these among swingers, too; I’m just not …
Concord Monitor A Merrimack County Superior Court judge yesterday stared down from his bench and addressed perfunctory questions to the lawyer for Pembroke business owner Larry Preston. “Could these handcuffs be used for anything else?” Judge Richard McNamara asked, his voice stern. And later, “Where else would whips be sold?” …
Dirk Hooper Photography Last weekend Facebook removed dozens of BDSM-related pages from the site. The group BDSM Against Censorship lists nearly 100 groups affected by the ban, but there are unquestionably more groups and pages that have not made the list. Since last weekend a few of the groups have successfully …
NY Times On a recent Friday night, a small group of people lined up in a cinder-block hallway inside an unmarked entrance to Paddles, a club on West 26th Street. Two men in their 60s were discussing real estate and a few women in their 20s were sending last-minute texts …
Huffington Post Although media coverage of the Fifty Shades series has died down, the book remains at the top of bestsellers lists. But the readers driving the series’ popularity may surprise some. While shopping in a bookstore recently, one of us watched a mother and her young teenage daughter giggle …
Las Vegas Weekly … Women aren’t just reading the books, rolling over and going to sleep, however. If sales figures are any indication, they are also going shopping for the various accoutrements mentioned in the novel, from blindfolds and riding crops to the “pleasure beads” that play a prominent role …
New Jersey.com The handcuffs are flying out the door. So are the floggers. Whips and rope? Forget about it. “Things that were selling out in a week are selling out in a day,” said Nick Smerecki, manager of Adult Playtime Boutique in Edison, where sales are up 400 percent over …
Huffington Post It seems that no one is immune to E L James’ controversial novel, 50 Shades of Grey. Television shows, magazines, popular blogs, even side conversations outside the school pick-up line are filled with talk about how hot it is — and how it may be solely responsible for …
ABC News Rachel, a 39-year-old mother and lawyer from New Jersey, specializes in medical malpractice and often asks “intimate” questions in obstetrical cases, but scenes from the new erotic trilogy, “50 Shades of Grey,” shocked even her. “I am not a prude and I am not shy,” she said. “But …
DIG Boston To peruse the General Laws of our fairest commonwealth is to journey back to a Puritanical yore, to a time when “crimes against chastity” apparently weighed so heavily on the legislative conscience as to make matters like fornication and adultery fit for fines and imprisonment (up to three months …
