BDSM in the News

Dec 20th 2008: Tis the Season for Porn? - "Sex and violence are offered together. Women are presented in a degraded - not to say disgusting - fashion."

Dec 20th 2008: Obama Defends Invocation by Conservative Pastor - Gay rights advocates and progressives denounced the decision to associate with Warren, an outspoken opponent of abortion rights, same-sex marriage and stem cell research, immediately after inaugural organizers announced the lineup for the ceremony.

Dec 17th 2008: On handcuffs and crotchless panties - Eleanor wants to educate women about their bodies, about pleasure, and about empowerment. Opening a sex shop, she says, was fated.

Dec 17th 2008: Modern sex swings many ways - After watching Blade Runner recently on late-night television, I wondered: whatever happened to all those scientists' predictions that humans would be having sex with robots by now - or at least in the very near future?

Dec 17th 2008: Modern Sex: Flourishing With a Fetish - Fetish. We use this word with some frequency when describing someone with an "abnormal" preference or even obsession, but what is it really, and what does it mean to have a fetish? And should it have such a negative connotation?

Dec 16th 2008: Keep Warm this Winter with Kinky Knitted Bondage Gear - Cash-strapped grannies are boosting their pensions by crocheting kinky bondage gear for pervert punters.

Dec 16th 2008: Stockroom.com Presents 'A Kinky holiday Fantasy' - Hosted by fetish supermodel Masuimi Max, what is billed as "the biggest fetish dance event in America" promises fans of leather, latex, whips and chains they will be treated to graphic shows on the stage and wild action on the dance floor.

Dec 16th 2008: Bettie Page: A transformational figure - Bettie Page died last week at age 85 and it is difficult, from the vantage point of so many years, to understand how her relatively brief career before the cameras could have made such an outsized difference.

Dec 15th 2008: Cops stood down over 'bondage party' snaps - Two police officers who were photographed with scantily-clad women at the annual Northern Territory "Hookers Ball" have been stood down from operational duties.

Dec 15th 2008: Controlling pornography - The Australian federal government is about to begin a trial of its controversial mandatory internet filter.

Dec 14th 2008: Fetish club in former police station - Prison cells in the building's basement are still intact and are used by mistresses from across south Wales.

Dec 12th 2008: IWF as a legal advice service - One of the issues that has come up with the new Extreme Pornography law is getting straight answers about the legality of specific images depicting consenting adults doing BDSM that might be covered.

Dec 12th 2008: Recycle your old and broken sex toys - In the interests of helping you out Sex toy seller Dreamscapes has launched a recycling program for used or broken sex toys of all types. No they aren't sent to a third world nation.

Dec 12th 2008: Bettie Page dies aged 85 - Page came to prominence as a pinup model in the late 40's and 1950's specializing in specialist shots such as BDSM, and was hailed by many as leading the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Dec 12th 2008: Happy holidays to all the dancing bears! - Bear Night at Bacchus House celebrated its first year anniversary last Saturday night. A special thanks to the guys who continue to give bears and their admirers a place to shake their big hairy asses to the beats of DJ Jon Williams.

Dec 12th 2008: The sexual revolution... in cartoon form - Seventy-five years before the Spice Girls coined the term girl power, Betty Boop struck a blow for just such a cause.

Dec 12th 2008: Fetish club sues competitor for stealing business - Boiled down to its basics, Jordan's suit accuses Mitskevich of selling him the club and then taking actions to help its competitor steal away business, including working for the other club in direct violation of his non-compete clause.

Dec 10th 2008: Museum of Sex - Fondle the world's finest love dolls or see Donald Duck with a hard-on in the MoSex's newly spiced-up permanent collection.

Dec 10th 2008: The problem with equality - Are we shooting ourselves in the foot by being too single-minded in demanding equality? Is equality even possible? Is it desirable?

Dec 9th 2008: Sexual deviation - SEXUAL desires and behaviours are considered unusual or abnormal, i.e. beyond the normal range, when sexual gratification is achieved from experiences that are dependent on particular sexual objects.

Dec 8th 2008: Bettie Page in Hospital - The GILF who has spawned a new generation of young women to die their hair black and get a severe bang job, Bettie Page, was admitted to the hospital over the weekend after suffering from a heart attack earlier in the week.

Dec 8th 2008: The Shame Parade - Wednesday is JointheImpact's Day Without a Gay, inspired by 2006's Day Without Immigrants. LGBTs and allies are asked by Jointheimpact.com to take a day off work if possible.

Dec 8th 2008: Michael Savage on Women: - "I don't understand that part of it. I truly don't understand it because any heterosexual woman today over the age of 25 who grew up in America is basically a dominatrix."

Nov 26th 2008: Varity of Sex Toy which suit you most - Generally people are very shy to talk about their sex life and even though they are enjoying would not like to discuss with anyone for remedies. Mostly people don't try to use a sex toy in their bedroom as they have never done before.

Nov 24th 2008: Backstage at sexhibition - It's not every day you see fifty-somethings in PVC thongs taking to the streets in arctic conditions.

Nov 24th 2008: Toeing the legal line with a dominatrix - Paying for sex is illegal in most of America, but what about paying for fetish services?

Nov 21st 2008: Lickety Split celebrates pansexual smut - Amber Goodwyn wants to make the masses cum. This 26-year-old DIY fireball founded Lickety Split, a collaborative, pansexual smut zine, to do just that.

Nov 21st 2008: SEX SURVEY '08: KINKY SEX - In India, culturally, sex is still seen as a source of joy and pleasure, an act that is encouraged as long as you keep it private

Nov 21st 2008: Film Underground: 'Salo' is a mystery no longer - The film is based on The 120 Days of Sodom, a book written by the Marquis DeSade (the man who we have to thank for the word "sadism").

Nov 20th 2008: Rape or consent to sex? - A Venango County man is claiming he and a woman were engaged in consensual sex when he bound and gagged her with duct tape inside a Millcreek Township motel room on March 6.

Nov 20th 2008: Wins and losses - The leather community is going through some transitions, some good, some not so good. First of all, be advised that Bill Stadt, who has long been the "big kahuna" of the International Mr. Leather contests in Chicago has stepped aside.

Nov 19th 2008: The Story of O (Histoire d'O) on Blu-ray Disc - Originally published as a novel in France in 1954 under the pen name Pauline Reage, Story of O was an erotic novel written by Anne Desclos who later revealed that she wrote the novel as a series of love letters to her lover.

Nov 19th 2008: Letting it all hang out at Sin City - Sin City is well known for throwing sexually expressive parties for the different spheres of Vancouver's fetish scene

Nov 19th 2008: Infamous group to protest transgender mayor - An anti-gay church from Kansas plans to protest in Silverton next week after the town elected the nation's first openly transgender mayor.

Nov 16th 2008: Wrangling over psychiatry's bible - The bone of contention: whether the next revision of America's psychiatric bible, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," should be done openly and transparently... or whether the debates should be held in secret.

Nov 12th 2008: Sydney group sex parties keep neighbours awake - A website is advertising private parties for people who want to be involved in the BDSM or fetish scene, for the cost of $30 a person.

Nov 12th 2008: Nice Girl's Guide To Talking Sexy - The good news for women with timid tongues: There are plenty of ways to get naughty phrases out without having to worry about keeping a straight face or feeling embarrassed.

Nov 7th 2008: Is it possible for gays to become ex-gay? - The group does not believe that being gay is "normal" and "biologically determined." NARTH believes gay people can be converted but does not believe that trying to do so will cause emotional distress.

Nov 7th 2008: Anatomy of a Rape Fantasy - ..."and since reliable sources tell us that over half of all women have such fantasies, I can say that on this issue at least, it's nice to be in the majority"

Nov 6th 2008: Art as porn? Or porn as art? - Rule 34 of the internet: if it exists, there is porn of it. This is a given for anyone who knows the ins and outs of the internet and has stumbled across images better left unseen.

Nov 6th 2008: Gutteral mind: Sexy parties, all the time - Keeping things safe, sane, and consensual - the three mandates of the BDSM sexual fetish community - are the most important aspects of any sex party.

Nov 6th 2008: Amazing Amateur Erotic Film Festival - Good Vibrations, the legendary destination for sex-positive products, held the Third Annual Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Festival at the Castro Theatre.

Nov 1st 2008: The MAG: Kinky Conference - The conference is the first of its kind for Sudbury, perhaps Northern Ontario. Its tag line is "Don't KNOCK it until you try it."

Oct 31st 2008: Spank him, but with permission - A lot of people on the outside view BDSM activities as violent or fundamentally unequal, but the most fundamental aspect of this kind of sexual play is consent

Oct 31st 2008: BDSM, Hot Wax, and Siegfried Kracauer - "I do believe there's one thing everyone can learn from BDSM, and that's that explicit consent is sexy. Every separate time you engage in play, you're expected to discuss your desires and your limits with your partner"...

Oct 31st 2008: Kink to the rescue - Detroit's Exotic 4 to take over Clutch Cargo's - and merge many walks of life.

Oct 31st 2008: How To Make Love Like A Zombie - If you've ever been in San Francisco for one of our famous zombie flash mobs, then you know just how sexy the undead can be.

Oct 31st 2008: Pick your pleasure - It's not uncommon for couples to experiment in the bedroom, from tying a partner up with a fuzzy pair of handcuffs to wearing a costume for role-play - especially in college.

Oct 29th 2008: Seminar To Whip Out S&M Truths - Students who have ever fantasized about being strapped down, forced into a leather gimp mask and flogged by someone in ass-less chaps will find themselves in leather-bound heaven tonight.

Oct 27th 2008: Cries the ketchup bottle: 'Smack me' - If you're sort of a kinky store going by the name Dressing for Pleasure and you cater to the BDSM (bondage, dominance and such) crowd, you face some real challenges when it comes to getting your point across to potential customers in a fun way that turns

Oct 27th 2008: Dominatrix Saves Cats - New York Dominatrix, "Goddess Haley" uses a good portion of her income to take care of stray cats.

Oct 26th 2008: Stocks and bondage - "I go to the Everything To Do With Sex Show every year for two reasons. The second reason is it's a great gauge of how our economy is doing."

Oct 23rd 2008: Sexual Politics, Political Sex - Am I a feminist? You bet your sweet candy ass I am, you little so and so. But I'm no dominatrix, though I can rock stilettos and a corset like I was born wearing them... I'm a rip-roaring, ready to go face-down and ass-up, submissive.

Oct 23rd 2008: Government tied in knots by bondage protest - "Forget the whips and chains: it's actually a lot more serious than that". This was the view of Consenting Adult Action Network Spokesperson and disability activist Clair Lewis.

Oct 23rd 2008: CineKink Accepting Submissions - Did you produce a beautiful cinematic rendering of you and your girlfriend doing it missionary-style, replete with fuzzy candlelight and cries of devotion? Keep it to yourself!

Oct 23rd 2008: The Clickable Clit - "I'm happy to tell the world that I went into Second Life, let's say, and had cybersex with twelve different partners to research BDSM subcultures, or whatever."

Oct 22nd 2008: Protest at porn laws in Westminster - Protesters gathered at Westminster on Tuesday to air their outrage at laws to make owning "extreme pornography" illegal.

Oct 22nd 2008: Columbia U Launches 'C-Spot' Sex Mag - Not to be outdone by the Harvard elite who have several sex mags, including Diamond, Columbia students entered the foray into the erotic literature business with C-Spot.

Oct 21st 2008: Bondage protest set to spice up the Commons - Today Ben Westwood will begin his protest against the Bill with the help of a "chain gang" of models and activists from the Consenting Adult Action Network (CAAN) in what promises to be a lively demonstration.

Oct 20th 2008: Tgirls and Transsexuals - When it comes to Halloween fashions, many TG's let their wilder side loose and go for a fetish look. On the other hand, many of us often prefer the sensuous feeling of leather, latex or vinyl year round.

Oct 17th 2008: It's Time to Learn About K.C.'s Leather Community - The first club to come onto the Kansas City scene was the KC Pioneers in 1974. Full members go through a pledge period and take leadership roles in the club. Associate members are friends and supporters who join the club for events.

Oct 17th 2008: Book Review: The Hanged Man - Warren is trying to change himself and settle down and yet longs for his old life back. A life where he thought he had things under control. Having control of one's own life is an illusion for many if not all as Warren is told early on in this novel.

Oct 16th 2008: Re-birth of a tradition - Coming on the heels of the recent Folsom Street Fair, it was another much-anticipated weekend in San Francisco as the 29th edition of "player" titles emerged, this time as International Leather Sir and boy contests.

Oct 15th 2008: Bondage Fair Drew More than 400,000 to San Francisco - Last month's Folsom Street Fair attracted more than 400,000 people to a 13-block area in San Francisco, according to the event's organizers - people who came to witness or participate in bizarre sex practices like whippings, sadism and self-punishment.

Oct 15th 2008: Savage Love - A Poop Fetishist Sends Photos and Your Sex Columnist Dry-Heaves

Oct 11th 2008: Decipher gay words with this glossary - A compilation of terminology widely used amongst the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender community.

Oct 9th 2008: Assume the position - For the third year in a row, Viktoria will be teaching kink-curious newbies and veterans the BDSM basics at the Everything to do with Sex Show, happening Oct. 24-26 in Toronto.

Oct 8th 2008: The fragile fall lineup - Montreal's Black and Blue festival used to receive federal spin-off cash to the tune of $50,000 a year. It hasn't since 2006, because, according to the organizers, it isn't family friendly.

Oct 8th 2008: Leather dykes revel in Unholy Harvest - It started in Montreal in the winter of 2003. Jacqueline St-Urbain was working at a women-positive sex shop and was a public face of the city's leather dyke community.

Oct 7th 2008: Partying with Dionysus like there's no tomorrow - A researcher and author whose new book has skyrocketed up best-seller's lists warns that the growing trend of hedonism may be supernaturally motivated.

Oct 7th 2008: Demystifying sex among couples - One thing is certain: it is unlikely that anybody would be disinterested in discussing sex, for sex is such an interesting topic, whether we pretend it is or not.

Oct 6th 2008: Erotic Art to be displayed in Fenland - Richard Savage is a member of The Guild of Erotic Artists, has been a figurative artist for 20 years and has never shied away from provocative topics that include: fetish, gothic, gay, lesbian, fantasy and the world of BDSM.

Oct 6th 2008: Dominatrices Unionize and Hit Back After Raids - After a number of vice squad crackdowns on Manhattan S&M clubs, some outraged dominatrices are bonding together to defend their profession, which they say has been wrongly maligned as prostitution.

Oct 6th 2008: My Mommy Is a Stripper - You may not REALLY know the fellow soccer mom that's picking up her kids at your kids' school. She may seem just like you, but chances are, she's not.

Oct 5th 2008: The joystick of sex - From the prostitutes of "Grand Theft Auto" to cutting-edge teledildonics, sex has fueled the gaming industry, as the author of "Porn & Pong" explains.

Oct 5th 2008: Debut sex expo covers up - Body painting artist Ania Kohinski says she's never had to cover up parts of her models - until she came to London. This weekend, she met "the nipple police."

Oct 3rd 2008: Facebook censors gay retailer - Michael Ain, Priape's director of marketing and sales, says Facebook is treating Priape differently than it does similar pages aimed at heterosexual audiences.

Oct 3rd 2008: Sex and the Steel City - Sue Johanson, who has been touring Canadian university campuses for over thirty years, is known by most Canadians for her frank and unabashed approach to sex education.

Oct 2nd 2008: Looking back at San Francisco Leather Week - Leather Week begins the Saturday before Folsom Weekend with a formal leather dinner followed by the Leather Walk and "Bare Chest Calendar" men auction the next day.

Oct 2nd 2008: S&M Fashion Hot for Spring - The most arresting trend to come down the runway this season was the reference to "bondage." Dresses had criss-cross bands of black ribbon with cut-outs around the midriff. These S&M elements were seen in day dresses and evening gowns.

Oct 1st 2008: Campaign for Kink - "There are lots of questions about kinky sex I'm qualified to answer. But there's one that I am frequently asked, but for which I have no ready response: "I've discovered I'm kinky - but my long-term committed partner isn't."

Oct 1st 2008: Why People Get Off on the Sex-for-Money Scenario - People don't tire of the sex-for-money fantasy. Actually, there is no one fantasy, but multiple scenarios, dynamics, and roles possible within the brothel setting.

Oct 1st 2008: Sex in the City - How do you keep sex interesting, armed only with skin and boners? Two BDSM enthusiasts - Morpheus and Kelly Walch - offer amateur advice.

Oct 1st 2008: Kinky Son-in-Law Gives Dad a Discipline Problem - "I didn't tell my daughter that I had snooped in their home and found his ligatures and spanking porn. I told her that she should talk to someone about it and said that I would not tell her mother."

Sep 28th 2008: S.F. kinky naked romp a spanking success - They held the world's biggest celebration of leather, bondage and sexual fetish in San Francisco on Sunday, and due to the event's interactive nature, many people are now walking gingerly.

Sep 26th 2008: Safety advice for 'sex dungeon' - Firemen were even asked to look into the potential hazards of games of 'waxplay' - in which burning candles are dripped on to a client.

Sep 25th 2008: Puppy play - A proud member of the leather community, Fiddick presents "Pup 101," a Saturday morning workshop at the International Puppy & Trainer Conference which will be held in conjunction at this weekend's Beyond Vanilla conference, a BDSM social weekend.

Sep 25th 2008: Dominatrix Whips Up Support for S&M Club Owner - Those cheeky Post reporters relish any opportunity to cut lose with the double entendres, and what better excuse than news about a dominatrix who's come forward to defend the owner of the S&M club where she worked.

Sep 25th 2008: Welcome to leather world! - This is it! At the risk of sounding like a braggart, this weekend in San Francisco is the world's biggest leather party.

Sep 24th 2008: Playful Torture - When getting ready for school, Indiana University junior Keith Loman puts on jeans, a T-shirt, and occasionally, a dog collar.

Sep 24th 2008: Bondage for beginners - Vanilla sex makes Jack a dull boy, but Jane can sprinkle some kink in their love life: A novice's guide to kink avenue

Sep 24th 2008: Kink dreams - When it comes to BDSM porn peddlers Kink.com, apparently size does matter. At least, that's how it seems now that the steamy studio has purchased the 200,000-square-foot San Francisco Armory.

Sep 21st 2008: Party pics: Noir Leather 25th anniversary - The go-to spot for erotic clothing and bondage material celebrated 25 years with 12 bands, entertainers, a freaky fetish show, burlesque acts and more leather than you'd find on a Wisconsin farm.

Sep 20th 2008: Sexual fetish laid bare - Kittie Klaw at The Ministry of Burlesque, London's leading school and social networking portal for aspiring burlesque artists, gives her unique insight into the world of fetish

Sep 20th 2008: Is sex addiction for real? - Dr Simon Kelly, consultant psychiatrist at celebrity rehab centre The Priory, says that even academics disagree on the subject.

Sep 19th 2008: The facts of life: fantasies & fetishes - It was the French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) who coined the term "sexual fetishism". He meant it to describe individuals with sexual interests in non-human objects such as clothing.

Sep 19th 2008: Is the law tying itself in knots - Photographer Ben Westwood has always been fascinated by bondage. But a new law could see many of his images banned and him behind bars. He makes the case for his defence

Sep 19th 2008: Shrinks: Kinky Sex is a Mental Disorder - People who engage in adventurous sex are now being labeled with a "mental health illness," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM.

Sep 18th 2008: The titles keep on coming - International Mr. Leather 2009 is eight months away, but the roster for contenders is building up rapidly. Forward-thinking contest producers are getting "their guys" out there early so they can be visible.

Sep 17th 2008: Learn the ropes - if you dare - While erotic Japanese rope bondage is well known inside the kinky scene, it's likely most of us haven't heard of it. Its roots go back 400 years when it was used to restrain and punish war criminals.

Sep 17th 2008: Leather Festival - Already raising more than just eyebrows, the 2008 Melbourne Leather Pride festival is now underway, tempting and tantalising with the sexuality and adventure of leather and fetish.

Sep 16th 2008: In praise of perversion - Few instincts are so strong or so widely shared as the urge to condemn other people for their sexual idiosyncrasies. And yet, it is when we explore the outer boundaries of our sexual desires that we become most fully human.

Sep 12th 2008: Sex advice: My wife has discovered my bondage gear - Now the secret's out a reader wants to know if he can persuade his partner that bondage is a good idea.

Sep 10th 2008: Jessica Alba's 'Shocking' Bondage Ad for Declare Yourself - Seriously, take a look at it, and tell me what is so damn shocking?

Sep 10th 2008: Boning 101 - Despite an ongoing government-supported campaign to raise a generation of disease-ridden teen parents ignorant of their own bodies and mistrustful of their own capacity for pleasure, teenagers today have unprecedented access to info about sexual activity.

Sep 10th 2008: Loving That Leather - Richard Watts and Rachel Cook find out what's on at the inaugural Melbourne Leather Pride.

Sep 9th 2008: From Homosexual Marriage to Bestiality - One conservative's view that homosexual rights to marriage is indeed the beginning of a slipperly slope to acceptance of marriage to animals and bestiality, and believes that history has proven so.

Sep 5th 2008: 10 Gadgets That Turn Your Empty Kid's Room Into a Den of Depravity. - Sending a child off to college can be a sad, lonely time for parents. That is, until they decide to take advantage of their newfound freedom. Why not travel, take a pottery class or turn your empty kid's room into a tricked-out den of depravity?

Sep 3rd 2008: Top 10 Things Not to Say to Me - The most annoying remarks you can make to a dominatrix, explained by Mistress Matisse.

Sep 3rd 2008: Town officials issue summonses to new adult club - Two weeks ago, the owners advertised that they were offering "Long Island's only fetish and BDSM Club" night every Thursday, offering "on premises play, multiple mistresses to satisfy any submissive desires and Guest Mistresses every week."

Sep 1st 2008: Hideous kinky Kafka - So what if Franz enjoyed porn and was middle class - other authors have far better peccadilloes. Isn't it about the writing?

Aug 31st 2008: Acting out sexual fantasies - Sexual fantasies can cause a lot of confusion between couples because men and women tend to have different sorts of fantasies and have different expectations of them.

Aug 27th 2008: Sex focus of London trade show - This is a show geared to enhancing the personal lives of couples and singles, featuring products, seminars on better sex and the entertainment will be more Cirque du Soleil than Debbie Does Dallas.

Aug 27th 2008: Women's Secret Toyboy Fantasy - A poll revealed that many women would secretly love to be a dominatrix. The second most popular dream is keeping a man as a sex slave.

Aug 25th 2008: BDSM at the Cutting Room - A bustle of BDSM aficionados (a gaggle? a passel?) gathered at the Cutting Room in the Flatiron district last night to celebrate all things lusty and heinous.

Aug 25th 2008: Top 5 Randiest Sex Blogs - In an age where anyone can self-publish on the internet and everyone has been convinced of their own dramatic importance by the excesses of reality TV, a new crop of sex bloggers is emerging.

Aug 25th 2008: Bondage lovers 'not sexually abnormal' - An unusual sex survey has found that Australians who enjoy bondage and discipline are not damaged or dangerous, and might even be happier than those who practise "normal" sex.

Aug 24th 2008: Sex Change - The New Joy Of Sex brings the 1972 original, written by Dr Alex Comfort, into the 21st Century. Dr Comfort died in 2000 so Susan Quilliam, a relationships psychologist and agony aunt, led the makeover.

Aug 24th 2008: Fetish Comes Out Of The Superhero Closet - The recent appearances of two new supervillainesses is making us wonder: Have superhero comics finally grown up and become openly bondage-friendly?

Aug 24th 2008: Local Slut Discusses Ethical Sluttery - If you have ever wondered "How do I do this polyamory/open-relationship/nonmonogamy thing?" ...you are not alone.

Aug 23rd 2008: Leo Abse dies aged 91 - Leo Abse, the former Labour MP who piloted a bill through Parliament that legalised homosexuality, has died at the age of 91.

Aug 22nd 2008: Not your average psychology class - In her first solo endeavor, St. Louis-based artist Morgan Gehris explored deviant sexuality and psychology in a show that bridged fashion and sculptural art at the Des Lee Gallery on June 25.

Aug 22nd 2008: Polaroids: Mapplethorpe - Part of the genius of his oeuvre is the stylistically seamless integration of kink, which he makes look at home next to, say, Helen Marden's bats or a celebrity portrait.

Aug 21st 2008: OCZ introduces Dominatrix mouse - OCZ is introducing a new piece of hardware aimed at gamers, a mouse they are calling the Dominatrix.

Aug 21st 2008: They're Bringing Kinky Back - From the runway to the pages of magazines, fashion is experiencing a resurgence of SM-inspired style. Calvin Klein handcuffs? Check. Whip-wielding models? You bet.

Aug 21st 2008: When Does a 'Slave' Become a Slave? - The first time Jodi met Glenn Marcus, he whipped her and used a knife to carve the word slave on her stomach. During the next five years she kept coming back for more, engaging in BDSM sessions with him...

Aug 17th 2008: One in Three Brit Women Indulge in Phone Sex, Spanking! - The survey revealed that a quarter of men and a third of women have experimented with punishment sex play.

Aug 14th 2008: Leather Scene Not as Gay as Imagined - Events like Floating World make it clear that the leather/s&m/fetish scenep-which many people have always seen as being somehow exclusively or predominantly gay-is something separate and distinct, pansexual in nature.

Aug 14th 2008: Swingers shut down Des Moines sex club after neighbors complain, city intervenes - They shut down the sex club last month when they were cited for running a business without a license and threatened with fines of up to $513 a day.

Aug 13th 2008: Bringing the pain back to Tampa - For the fifth straight year, Fetish Con, a celebration of all things kink-tacular, is expected to draw more than 2,000 randy conventioneers to downtown Tampa for a series of workshops, parties and leather-clad networking.

Aug 13th 2008: ScaryMary's Pretty Perversion - You're standing onstage, handcuffed to a post, wearing a blue g-string and black leather straps over your head and chest. ScaryMary stands over you, six feet tall in her platform shoes, with a thin, manly physique.

Aug 11th 2008: Not your grandmother's convention - With both Convergence 14 going on and the pre-party for Fetishcon going on, the weekend was full of anything from the sexual innuendo down to the outright lewd acts.

Aug 11th 2008: Recently separated Salma Hayek shops at erotic bondage boutique - Newly single Salma Hayek has been consoling herself with a spot of shopping - of a distinctly sexual nature.

Aug 11th 2008: Phone sex, spanking spicing up Brits sex lives! - When it comes to love, Brits sure like it kinky a new survey has found that women in the UK are more likely to indulge in phone sex and one in three admit they have tried spanking.

Aug 11th 2008: Kinky & Proud - The television programme concentrated quite heavily on the spanking of old men's bottoms. And, so as not to be seen as sexist, old ladies bottoms got a look in too.

Aug 8th 2008: Fetish Photography at the World Erotic Art Museum - Browsing his most recent show, you get the feeling few people enjoy their job as much as photographer Loco Lochai.

Aug 5th 2008: A Troll Heads to Court - Jason Fortuny, the subject of Sunday's NYT Mag cover story, has been sued by one of the victims/schmucks from his "Craigslist Experiment."

Aug 5th 2008: Sexing Up Prime Time - Visual references to a third party voyeur, transvestites, transsexuals, threesomes, kinky sex, bondage, sado-masochism and prostitution outnumbered the same for marital sex nearly three to one.

Aug 5th 2008: Fox News Does Kinky Sex - FOXNews.com aims to take a more hardcore approach to reporting the news. On the website, Dr. Yvonne Kristin Fulbright is the network's in-house "FOXSexpert." Fulbright offers conservative news-mongers sex tips and advice that are downright raunchy.

Aug 5th 2008: Online Adult Network Kink.com Launches BoundGods.com - Fetish adult entertainment leader Kink .com enters the gay male market today with BoundGods .com, the first adult site in its new network KinkMen .com.

Aug 5th 2008: A Sex Blogger Fights for Custody of his Kids - Because his ex-wife recently discovered he is bisexual, he is now fighting for custody of his kids. It's an ironic twist that the man who took as his pseudonym Jefferson, in homage to freedom-loving Thomas Jefferson...

Aug 5th 2008: Australian pleads not guilty in bondage death - A woman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to killing her partner, who prosecutors say died of asphyxiation after she left him bound and gagged during a bondage session while she took a shower.

Aug 2nd 2008: My MI5 husband DID set up Max Mosley - They are perhaps the most intriguing and unconventional couple in Britain - the crisply correct MI5 man and his wife, a whip-wielding dominatrix who purveys sado-masochistic sex to the suburbs.

Jul 23rd 2008: Feminist Porn: Sex, Consent, and Getting Off - Feminism has a love/hate relationship with sex. The "Feminist Sex Wars" rage on and not just between second and third-wavers.

Jul 23rd 2008: Judge Shuts Down Fetish Club - District Judge Valorie Vega ruled the club's owners claimed to be a movie production studio, but the storefront near Pecos and Sunset Roads was being used for another purpose.

Jul 23rd 2008: The Naked Truth: Lesbian BDSM - "A while back, a guy tried to join one of our Regional Networking groups. He was a Sub (Submissive), and wanted a lesbian Domme (Dominant). He didn't want any kind of sexual activity."

Jul 21st 2008: Barbie gets dirrty... Critics label her 'filthy' - Barbie's taking a walk on the wild side - in a black leather body suit, black boots and gloves and fishnet hose. I bet Ken's really sorry she dumped him now.

Jul 21st 2008: Spank me, but don't tell my boss - When Colin Wightman was informed by the RCMP last June that he was the subject of a sexual assault investigation, he was forced to make two very uncomfortable phone calls.

Jul 17th 2008: Would you object to a sexual orientation question in the census? - After 12 years of agitation by gay activists, Statistics NZ has published a paper acknowledging for the first time "emerging interest" in sexual orientation and behaviour.

Jul 14th 2008: Bondage psych fights bid to discipline him - A former Fremantle psychologist who used bondage and discipline role-playing to treat a 22-year-old bulimic woman has been ordered to see a psychiatrist after arguing he should not face disciplinary proceedings.

Jul 14th 2008: Has Robin been banished to ensure Batman's manliness? - In his 1955 best-seller Seducation of the Innocent, psychologist Fredric Wertham took up the idea that Batman and Robin have an unhealthy homoerotic subtext.

Jul 14th 2008: Britain's secretive S&M scene - Sex seems to be everywhere these days, yet the details of Max Mosley's privacy hearing have helped lift a veil on one type of sexual behaviour still shrouded in secrecy - sadomasochism.

Jul 11th 2008: Adventures in the world of pain - The orgy at the heart of the Max Mosley case wasn't just any orgy. It was an S&M orgy. Are sadomasochistic activities an 'affront to civilisation'?

Jul 11th 2008: Urge Leather NZ nets $800, patrons whipped - Last night's Mr. Urge Leather NZ 2008 contest at Urge men's bar on K' Road raised $800 for Body Positive, found a Kiwi contender for Melbourne's Leather Pride Festival, and provided the crowd with an interactive BDSM show.

Jul 11th 2008: Is it time to bring sadomasochism out of the dark and into legal acceptance? - Should it be legal or illegal to indulge in extreme forms of sadomasochism, that is, inflicting pain and humiliation for sexual pleasure? More4 News investigates.

Jul 11th 2008: Northbound Leather's fetish fest returns - Northbound Leather announced this week that its 12th annual fetish extravaganza will be held Oct. 25 at The Sound Academy, 11 Polson St.

Jul 11th 2008: Just A Little Harmless English S&M - David Mirich, a psychologist in Colorado, measured the intelligence of 220 BDSMers and found that they posted above-average IQ scores, "which is very unlike the criminal population of sex offenders and criminals," he says.

Jul 8th 2008: Crime and punishment - Nobody knows how many people engage in BDSM - the acronym for Bondage Domination Sadomasochism - but it is estimated that 14% of men and 11% of women have tried it.

Jul 7th 2008: 'S&M' sex trial raises fresh Mosley doubts - Max Mosley, the motorsports chief, has admitted indulging in bondage, corporal punishment and sadomasochistic sex for the past 45 years, in a UK trial that will raise fresh questions about whether he is fit for office.

Jul 6th 2008: Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival - Former porn stars, sex gurus, belly dancers and performers make an appearance at this event, filled with drag and burlesque shows, orgasm workshops, fetishism and more.

Jun 27th 2008: In praise of vanilla - These days, a new pickup line has usurped the classic cliche, "Baby, what's your sign?" The bolder, less bashful of us blaze past astrological matters altogether, serving up sexy new icebreakers like "So, what's your kink?"

Jun 27th 2008: In Madison, It's Easy to Be Kinky - Over the course of her long marriage to a classic passive-aggressive who invariably found a way to saddle her with all the tough decisions, Frances, a Middleton physical therapist, thought seldom of what used to be known as S&M.

Jun 25th 2008: 100 'Abhorrent' porn videos seized in Perth - A search of the Wembley property they were addressed to turned up another 102 DVDs believed to feature abhorrent sexual acts including bondage.

Jun 24th 2008: Corsetry more than art and illusion - Corsets have become less restricting and a popular novelty piece in the bedroom. Corsetry is a wonderful addition to any women's lingerie wardrobe.

Jun 21st 2008: Scientology: Gays and Lesbians should be quarantined - "At 1.1 on the tone scale we enter the area of the most vicious reversal of the second dynamic. Here we have promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices. People on this level on the second dynamic are intensely dangerous in the society."

Jun 21st 2008: Tennessee scholars' book delves into sexual side of the Bible - In the sanctified pages of Scripture, cosmic truth stands or falls on stories of circumcision, senior-citizen sex, outbreaks of lust, polygamy, virgin birth, celibacy and other sexual strategies and body parts.

Jun 20th 2008: Secrets in the Suburbs: I'm a Dominatrix - For most people "The Suburbs" conjures up images of white picket fences, 2.5 kids, and doting moms baking cookies and driving carpool. Well, sometimes things aren't always what they seem.

Jun 19th 2008: New laws will crack down on sex tourists - Legalising sadist and masochist sexual violence between consenting adults has also been thrown out amid fears it could leave a loophole for rapists and others.

Jun 19th 2008: Hell Bent for Leather - After watching a woman being flogged with a whip at her local lesbian S&M spot, Anna King has some fantasies of her own.

Jun 19th 2008: Desire In the Desert - Imagine if the courtyard from Melrose Place were relocated to the desert, decorated with slings and spanking benches, and populated by leatherwomen.

Jun 13th 2008: Sheree Rose, Bob Flanagan's Ex, at Apexart - Rose said that she met Flanagan, who was born in New York, at a Halloween party. "He looked like a dead person without the makeup," she said, smiling. "We had a date, and he told me he was a masochist."

Jun 13th 2008: Teaching Bondage at the Bad Dog - A story about Rope University, a group dedicated to teaching people about fast, safe and effective bondage techniques in a non-sexual environment.

Jun 11th 2008: Ottawa works up a sweat over BDSM boot camp - What if there was a boot camp where your leather boots would always stay shiny, no matter how hard you were working?

Jun 10th 2008: A history of sex in film - A summary and timeline of some of the most influential and inspirational sex scenes that pushed the envelope in the history of film.

Jun 7th 2008: Talking SEX: Turning pain into pleasure - The term BDSM describes the activities between consenting partners that contain sadistic and masochistic elements, which involve the inflicting or receipt of pain to derive pleasure.

Jun 7th 2008: Dominatrix mounting constitutional challenge says sex is safest indoors - A woman calling herself Canada's most famous dominatrix says the best years of her life were spent spanking and tying up clients in her north Toronto bondage hotel.

Jun 6th 2008: Follow your blissful pain - The Southeast Leather Fest, a pansexual convention of members of the leather and BD/SM scenes, returns to Decatur's Holiday Inn Select for the festival's 13th year on June 13.

Jun 5th 2008: Local director is bound to hit it big with 'Mondo Bondo' - Newly transplanted to Minneapolis after a dozen or so years in Nashville, the London-born and raised director has already been pleased with the response to "Mondo Bondo" as given by viewers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.

Jun 4th 2008: Judges need a lesson in sado-masochism - For now, SM in Canada is treated by the courts the way vanilla gay sex was treated before 1969 when the Trudeau government - not the courts - partially legalized it.

Jun 4th 2008: Why Is Sex With a Stranger Such a Powerful Fantasy? - Tristan Taormino explores the possible reasons that submissions to "Best Lesbian Erotica" are now leaning towards fantasies that involve sex with people you don't know.

Jun 3rd 2008: Mosley keeps FIA job despite sex scandal - Max Mosley will remain president of Formula One's governing body, the FIA, after winning a vote of confidence Tuesday from its members following his involvement in a sado-masochist sex scandal.

May 29th 2008: Californians sweep IML 2008 - It all culminated with the selection of Gary Iriza (Mr. Palm Springs Leather) as International Mr. Leather 2008 and "Boot Dog" of the Oakland area as International Mr. Boot Black.

May 28th 2008: The Training of O Turns the Tables on a Well-Known Domme - It's considered one of the more intense sites in the industry, since the shoot itself goes on for four days, combines advanced BDSM with hardcore sex, and usually involves a lot of edgy physical and psychological play.

May 26th 2008: Japanese bondage documentary 'Bakushi' knot suitable for faint-hearted - Japanese moviegoers face the possibility of being bound to their seats by a flick celebrating one of the country's most revered and racy traditions -- rope bondage, according to Shukan Shincho.

May 22nd 2008: What's 'normal' sex? Shrinks seek definition - This month the American Psychiatric Association announced the names of "working group" members who will guide the development of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the codex of American psychiatry.

May 21st 2008: BDSM Lifestyles: A World of Sensual Etiquette and Restraint - BDSM, which stands for Bondage & Discipline / Domination & Submission / Sadism & Masochism, was for a long while considered a sexually deviant lifestyle by the psychiatric profession.

May 21st 2008: The Leather Archives and Museum: To protect and serve - The Leather Archives and Museum has been serving and preserving the fetish community since 1991, when it was formed by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase.

May 21st 2008: Foot fetishes, furry suits, bondage allow for kinky sexual exploration - Practitioners of BDSM stress that the roles of dominance and submissiveness must be well defined, and limits must be set beforehand to ensure no unintended harm comes to either party.

May 17th 2008: Bind Me, Tie Me, Chain Me To The Wall - Culled from more than 20,000 surveys of British and American adults about their sexual fantasies and supplemented by hundreds of five-hour face-to-face interviews with willing Britons, the book's findings are less surprising than Kahr's take on them.

May 16th 2008: California's top court legalizes gay marriage - Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents of gay marriage are increasing their efforts to stop gay wedding bells from ringing in the state.

May 12th 2008: Web sex is turning Brits on - THE sun may be shining, but it's the web that's getting Brits hot and bothered, according to new Fiver show Generation Sex.

May 8th 2008: Violent porn ban gets the green light - Today a new law gets the final go-ahead which will make it illegal to own violent porn. From next January extreme videos, photos and online material will be banned.

May 8th 2008: Leather museum whips up sexy side of history - An unassuming brick building stands at the end of a residential street in Rogers Park, and the only sign of what's inside are two banners with boots on them and big block letters saying LA&M.

May 5th 2008: 'It's like the State entering our bedrooms and minds' - The passing of a new British law criminalising the possession of extreme pornography is about to take the 'thought police' out of the realm of fiction.

May 5th 2008: Queer sex on the edge - Montreal couple performs, writes and speaks out about alternative sexualities.

May 3rd 2008: International Ms. Leather Auction and BDSM - This is probably your average evening at S&M dens across North America, but this is no dimly lit dungeon. This is the basement of the Holiday Inn.

May 1st 2008: Sex in CINcity - "May 1 marks the start of National Masturbation Month, so this week you get stuck meandering through a bit of University of Cincinnati masturbatory history with me."

Apr 30th 2008: Take Our Word for It - Consider yourself queer? Are you hip to the lingo, and more down with the LGBT (or GBTL, or GLTB) than Chelsea Clinton? Or did your Kinsey score leave you scratching your head?

Apr 28th 2008: Playing with the balance of power - A prize-winning independent theatre company new to Melbourne, Elbow Room, is adapting Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel, Venus in Furs, for the stage.

Apr 24th 2008: Court rules BDSM case can be heard - The BC Court of Appeal has ruled that the province's Human Rights Tribunal can resume hearing a complaint of alleged discrimination on the basis of BDSM practices to determine whether BDSM is protected from discrimination.

Apr 24th 2008: Fun with nipples and tongues - Polymorphous perversity in Neil Bender's show at Bleu Acier.

Apr 24th 2008: Event Showcases 'Fun Part of Consent' - Penis-shaped cookies in hand, members of Columbia and Barnard's Take Back the Night spent Wednesday afternoon tabling outside of Lehman Library as part of their 2008 version of the sex-positive festival Sexibition.

Apr 24th 2008: Sex, Science - and Sadism - In her new book, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach rushes breezily hither and yon to learn about that wacky biological fact we call intercourse.

Apr 23rd 2008: Literary Fiction Gets Kinky - Sex in literary fiction is going far beyond the missionary position. Witness Melanie Abrams' 'Playing.'

Apr 23rd 2008: New Song Mistress to Introduce BDSM - The Australasian Gay and Lesbian Choir has a new choir mistress. Claire King steps into the role, with an exciting set of plans to further progress the choir in its musical ambitions.

Apr 23rd 2008: The Princess and the Submissive - A new documentary short delves into the world of two bondage models

Apr 23rd 2008: Alternative lifestyle group just ordinary people - Homosexual students explain their lifestyle and Pagans dispell misconceptions about their religion

Apr 19th 2008: Walk the walk - The power dynamics of D/s - dominance and submission - are not exempt from the bedroom

Apr 18th 2008: The ABCs of sexual orientation - "Now, I understand that kink is not everyone's cup of tea, and you can take that however you wish. But it raises an important question: What is and what is not 'sexual orientation'?"

Apr 17th 2008: Success! We love success! - There can be no less than tons of accolades for the local coordinating committee of the 12th annual Leather Leadership Council. It took place in San Francisco last weekend at the Holiday Inn on Van Ness Avenue.

Apr 16th 2008: Unique fetishes prove there's something for everyone - A column by Natasha Arce with some insights about some very uncommon fetishes.

Apr 16th 2008: Minnesota filmmakers at the festival - Ropes, cuffs, nipple clamps, and all the miscellaneous tackle of America's most persistent sexual taboos are the underdog protagonists of Mondo Bondo, Cane-Honeysett's immensely entertaining documentary about American bondage and its participants.

Apr 16th 2008: Christians Promote Holy, Hot Sex in Marriage - More evangelical couples - once embarrassed and prudish about sex - are now leaving their Christian inhibitions at the bedroom door.

Apr 13th 2008: S&M: just part of the social order - Why should a man wish to beat and be beaten? If you want to undertand Max Mosley, look no further than animal behaviour.

Apr 12th 2008: Carnal Confusion - Despite the barrage of girls going wild, prostitution scandals and paparazzi crotch shots, it appears we're still stumbling, no more knowledgeable about sex than we were when modesty carried the day.

Apr 12th 2008: Benefits boss is dominatrix on the side - A top-ranking town hall benefits boss in Britain awarded herself a spanking great pay rise - coining a fortune as a kinky dominatrix on the side.

Apr 11th 2008: UCLA Hosts the Annual LGBT Conference - "Viva la Queerevolucion!" This is the battle cry of this year's Western Regional LGBT Conference hosted at UCLA the weekend of April 18 through 20.

Apr 11th 2008: Max Mosley's Nazi S&M Orgy - Max Mosley is facing calls to resign as president of Formula One after News of the World published an expose about his sex life.

Apr 10th 2008: Submit to Mighty Jill Off - It's bound to be one of the more notable offbeat, indie, retro, lesbian-BDSM-themed jumping games of the year.

Apr 10th 2008: WTF is feminist porn? - The whole notion that a girl can get off watching porn, be in it, make it, and view sex work as positive - and be feminist - remains confusing for many.

Apr 8th 2008: Canada panel may rule if sex practices protected - A Canadian man who claims he was discriminated against as a pagan who practices a form of sadomasochism will get to take his complaint to a human rights tribunal.

Apr 8th 2008: Andelloux, Dominatrix and Foot Fetish Model - "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Orgasms" was the theme of the Erotic Justice event held at The Fred Pfelil Community Project last Wednesday, April 2 , featuring special guest speaker Megan Andelloux.

Apr 1st 2008: Can Online Sex Heal Emotional Trauma? - A new book on fantasies makes us reconsider our cybersex daydreams.

Mar 29th 2008: New Indiana law causes controversy - Governor Mitch Daniels signed a new law that requires businesses who sell "sexually explicit" material to register with the state.

Mar 28th 2008: Mass Resistance declared a hate group - In the most recent issue of its Intelligence Report the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks hate groups across the country, added Mass Resistance to its list of anti-gay hate groups.

Mar 27th 2008: Dominatrix Offers Bear Stearns Staff Discount - MISS Victoria X is not insenstive to bankers' needs and the dominatrix is offering Bear Steans staff a share-tracker discount.

Mar 25th 2008: The ties that bind - Whether you're an active proponent or a passive admirer, bondage has an intrigue all its own. Notorious bondage master Van Darkholme spoke to Garrett Bithell.

Mar 24th 2008: Legal Bondage - An examination of morals legislation in the United States after Lawrence v. Texas and Elliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal.

Mar 24th 2008: 'Sex Play and Social Power' Subject of Lecture March 28 - Margot Weiss, assistant professor of women's studies at the College of William & Mary, will present a lecture, "Sex Play and Social Power: Race, Gender and the Politics of SM," at 7 p.m. Friday

Mar 23rd 2008: 'Montel' and all those sex museums - Friday's episode of the "The Montel Williams Show" focused on secret sex lives. Amid the topics addressed were "feederism" (gaining weight for sexual pleasure), a suburban dominatrix and a new trend called "the girlfriend experience."

Mar 18th 2008: Then They All Got Naked - Author O. Kay Jackson releases a book exposing how real swing clubs work, and dispels some of the myths and misperceptions about them.

Mar 12th 2008: Interview: Joel Tucker of Stockroom.com - The first inception of the business was when he was 21-years-old, and was still in college, and went to a local sex shop with a girlfriend of his to buy some really basic bondage gear.

Mar 6th 2008: Spring into leather - An update of recent Leather titles and a brief summary of the 2008 Leather title season so far by Mister Marcus.

Mar 6th 2008: The (Off)Center for Sex & Culture - After a struggle, the nonprofit plans for a very sexy future in San Francisco, again

Mar 5th 2008: Lick my wheels: a bondage extravaganza - Dark Star, who is disabled, said that part of the BDSM forum was to show that people with disabilities can do things people traditionally think they're incapable of.

Mar 4th 2008: Tokyo bureaucrats clamp down hard on nipples - Japan's racier weekly magazines - and the careers of the sexy pin-ups queens who pose for them - are in a bitter fight for survival, thanks to a new prudish regime in charge at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Mar 4th 2008: Seeing is Believing - Sounding (or "cock-stuffing," in layman's terms) is the practice of inserting foreign objects into your urethra.

Mar 4th 2008: Cybersex - Taking on a Whole New 'Life' - Want to be a dragon, a superhero, or a member of the opposite sex the next time you have sex? In the world of virtual intimacy, you can.

Mar 2nd 2008: Revealed: The sweet face of Dita Von Teese - In 1990, her senior year at University High School, 18-year-old Dita - or Heather Sweet as she was known back then - posed for her high school yearbook.

Feb 29th 2008: Contrada warns of trans apocalypse - For the past week Contrada has been unveiling chapters in what purports to be a 75-page report on the dangers a transgender rights bill.

Feb 29th 2008: Spanking May Lead to Sexual Problems Later in Life - An analysis of four studies by Murray Straus found that children who suffer physical punishment in the form of spanking, hitting or slapping are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior as adults.

Feb 28th 2008: Death shines light on dangers of sex play - Although S&M has long been considered a deviant or underground form of sexual behaviour, statistics have shown that up to 10 per cent of the North American population has experimented with some form of it.

Feb 26th 2008: Deviance in the Time of Abstinence - Originally a popular six-part online series of the same name, America Unzipped refers to the millions of average Americans unzipping themselves from religious, societal and familial restraints by carving out formerly forbidden sexual paths.

Feb 22nd 2008: Nude bondage images are centrepiece of German art show - Bondage photographs showing Japanese women tied up in various states of undress are the centrepiece of an art show set to open Friday in the German city of Hanover.

Feb 21st 2008: CineKink Announces Kinky Line-Up - CineKink NYC returns for its fifth annual appearance on Tuesday, February 26th, bringing with it a specially-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality.

Feb 20th 2008: Violent porn flick prompts apology - Sex Week at Yale ran into more controversy Saturday night when porn director Paul Thomas, on campus to participate in the event, screened a graphic porn film that featured violent sado-masochism.

Feb 17th 2008: Sadism, hurtful or playful, is integral part of our culture - Some researchers and clinicians fiercely defend the original meaning of sadism as seeking and experiencing sexual pleasure in the suffering of others. But most of us therapist types specify this as "sexual sadism."

Feb 17th 2008: Fetish shame due to "Victorian" culture - "I think it's a shadow of our Victorian past - anything sexual was dirty, dangerous and something that needed to be controlled."

Feb 16th 2008: DVD Review: Liberty In Restraint - Review of Liberty in Restraint - Behind the Eyes of a Fetish Photographer that encapsulates the life and work of fetish photographer Noel Graydon.

Feb 16th 2008: Whips and handcuffs anyone? - College Times reporter gives an account of their first Fetish Ball attendence, and the lovely perversions and fetishes she encountered.

Feb 15th 2008: Whip it! Whip it good! - A Calgary University newspaper sheds a positive light on BDSM activities.

Feb 15th 2008: County Offers Couple $15,000 to End Suit Over Bondage Site - In 2005, the county unsuccessfully brought up charges against them for operating a bondage website near a school.

Feb 13th 2008: Court strikes down Texas ban on sex toys - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the ban in the Texas penal code on selling or promoting obscene devices violates the right to privacy under the 14th Amendment.

Feb 13th 2008: The Queer Heterosexual, Redux - Advances in sexual freedom and expression have led to greater dialogue and diversity within LGBT communities. But they have also ushered in a new identity: the Queer Heterosexual.

Feb 13th 2008: Sexual Vigilanteism at the 'New York Post' - Paying for erotic favors is okay, as long as your tastes are generic. That, in a nutshell, is the sexual ethic of the New York Post.

Feb 8th 2008: Bash Back! Convergence is Seeking Workshop Proposals - In just two short months trannies, queers, anarcha-feminists and allies will converge on Chicago for the antiRNC Bash Back! Convergence.

Feb 7th 2008: 227 days to Folsom - In anticipation of the fair's 25th anniversary, forward-looking individuals are embarking on shaping San Francisco's Leather Pride Week.

Feb 7th 2008: Left Breathless in anticipation - From bondage to swinging, private sex club caters to those 'who like it kinky'

Feb 7th 2008: A vagina's fight against injustice - If a vagina could talk, what would it say? That was just one of many philosophical musings at the fifth annual production of "The Vagina Monologues" at Northern Kentucky University Feb. 4.

Feb 5th 2008: Sex Workers' Art Show sells out at W&M - Tickets to the shows went fast, with the 450 for the 9:30 p.m. performance selling out in less than half an hour. The allotment for the 7 p.m. show was gone within an hour

Feb 5th 2008: Fetishism 'changing technology use' - People seeking sexual thrills through their computer are helping to inspire new and innovative technologies, an expert has said.

Jan 29th 2008: Plea deal for Westchester dominatrix - A self-described dominatrix who plied her trade out of a Victorian home on a four-acre Westchester County estate has struck a plea deal with authorities.

Jan 28th 2008: KSEX.com TV Adds "The Rev Mel Show" to Monday Lineup - Free spirited and uniquely kinky, "The Rev Mel Show" explores the humor, as well as the passion, of great sex and the BDSM lifestyle.

Jan 28th 2008: The Naughtiest Fetish Comics - Some of the wildest adult BDSM comics take place in elaborate future dystopias, where society has broken down and fetish-wear is the survivalist uniform of choice. Often, the backstory of these sexy post-apocalypses includes plagues, and killer cyborgs.

Jan 27th 2008: Medical students get the most sex - About 25 per cent of respondents said they had tried sado-masochism and 40 per cent said they had had a one-night stand.

Jan 25th 2008: Leather fundraiser combines cookies, BDSM - When you're producing an event that is by nature outside the box, it's important to be creative, so they made sure their offerings were distinct from the goodies found at something hosted by, say, a PTA.

Jan 24th 2008: "Pet" girl kicked off bus for wearing leash - A British bus company has apologized to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.

Jan 24th 2008: 'Kinky U' group at U. Minnesota promotes sexual awareness - College students are sometimes known for their adventurous sexual exploits, and one University of Minnesota campus group is trying to make sure those experiences stay safe and don't get out of hand.

Jan 20th 2008: Women's bisexuality an 'identity,' not phase - Bisexuality among women isn't just a phase, according to new research that followed 79 non-heterosexual women for a decade and found that bisexual women continue to be attracted to both sexes over time.

Jan 20th 2008: North MP hot under collar at fetish mistake - A NORTH MP was left red-faced last night after accidentally giving his support to National Fetish Day.

Jan 19th 2008: Ottawa gets kinky - Ottawa has long been a stage for trade shows of various kinds, from typical bridal and antique shows to more eclectic vintage fairs. But this month, for the first time ever, Ottawa will become the site of a kinkier affair.

Jan 18th 2008: Britain: Matters of decency - The parliamentary debate on 'violent pornography' is in danger of allowing personal tastes to overshadow compelling, factual arguments, writes Julian Petley

Jan 17th 2008: Label Free - Mindy Chateauvert identifies as a ''leather dyke'' when asked about her BDSM orientation. But her involvement among D.C.'s leather scene has been mostly about defying labels.

Jan 17th 2008: The Next Generation - The leather community evolves with the exuberance of youth and the wisdom of age.

Jan 17th 2008: Overcoming Perversion - In doing research for the book 'Battling the Spirit of Perversion: To Prevail and Conquer' the author found that four out of the five married couples she interviewed were experiencing a perverting spirit at different levels.

Jan 15th 2008: A Library Exhibition Not for the Children's Room - "Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret," which opened at the National Library in Paris last month, offers a peek at its secret archive of erotic art.

Jan 15th 2008: Pucker Up Turns 200 - Celebrating a gala anniversary with a look back at a near decade of debauchery

Jan 14th 2008: Playing with fire at a Seattle sex club - The new book 'America Unzipped' takes readers on a wild ride.

Jan 13th 2008: Sex-toy trade show sports a global face - There was plenty of the standard trade-show fare: the nametags, the maps of area restaurants, the eager entrepreneurs. But this, it was clear, was no standard trade show.

Jan 11th 2008: Candian Women's Sex Survey - A new survey has revealed intimate details of the sex lives of Canadian women, including the fact that half admit their body image interferes with sex and a quarter say they routinely fake orgasms.

Jan 10th 2008: VibraExciter turns your iPhone into a vibrator for men. - There are several features lacking from iPhone, including 3G and video recording. Oh, and it doesn't come with a buzzing cock-ring attached, which is a pretty serious omission.

Jan 10th 2008: Rough Trade, Rough Rules - "A bawdy house is any place used regularly for prostitution or 'the practice of acts of indecency.' BDSM could fall into either category," Kara Gillies says.

Jan 8th 2008: Dita Von Teese says British men are "kinky" - The burlesque star - who split from her goth rocker husband Marilyn Manson in December 2006 after just a year of marriage - doesn't agree with the stereotype of British men being sexually repressed.