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“Sadist Faction’s coffee table is innocuous at first glance, but it’s actually one of the most provocative pieces of home furnishing you’re likely to ever see.* That’s because, unlike the generic stuff found in your average furniture outlet, this coffee table is also great for flogging, spanking, and general bondage fun…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/what-its-like-being-a-professional-male-dom-for-women
“Achieving the perfect work-life balance is tough, whichever industry you’re in. But when that industry involves sex, that balance gets even tougher. From first dates to long-term relationships, is there ever a right time to tell your sex partner that you also have sex for money?…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/sex-workers-talk-about-their-dating-lives-876
“If British author L.S. Hilton had her way, her new book Maestra would come with a warning label on it. ‘It would say, “THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY,”‘ says Hilton, who spoke with The Post on the telephone from the Gritti Palace in Venice, Italy…”
link: http://nypost.com/2016/04/21/this-years-most-erotic-novel-makes-50-shades-look-like-the-bible
“Remember the opening club scene in Blade? Imagine that, but instead of men in short-sleeved bowling shirts and Kangol hats, you have guys in rubber jock straps and stilettos. Women in corsets and pasties rather than capri pants and pleather jackets…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/25-year-torture-garden
“Sex is great. Adding more partners into the mix should, on paper, make it even better. As someone already involved in the fetish world, I’ve watched the Tinder ‘dating apocalypse‘ and the ‘50 Shades of Grey effect’ collide as people younger than your classic middle-ager move into kink and swingers groups…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/young-swingers-on-their-best-and-worst-orgies
“A new biannual publication expressing fashion, art, and photography, all through fetish the lens of fetish culture, emerges in BRKFST Magazine. It’s a unique pressing with a point of view that represents various kinks and communities in a genuine and thoughtful way; real people, with real kinks, who present lust and vulnerability with innocence and genuine exhilaration…”
link: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/fetish-kink-art-culture-sex-magazine-brkfst
“My kid was laughing, watching me put on lipstick. I learned how to put on lipstick from this tutorial on ROOKIE (an amazing online magazine that I love at the tender age of 30, despite it being predominantly by and for teen girls)…”
link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ravishly/im-a-queer-femme-and-it-o_b_9620296.html
“It feels like every few weeks some article comes out asking whether porn makes us bad lovers, asking whether it’s making teen boys into cumshot-obsessed mouth-breathers, or teen girls coerced puppets who think anal is standard second-date fare…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/we-asked-couples-about-their-porn-watching-habits
“‘We live in the generation of not being in love, and not being together. But it sure feels like we’re together, ’cause we’re scared to see each other with somebody else’…”
“For many people, coming out is a process of revealing their true identity—whether it’s being gay, trans, or a Democrat in Texas. It isn’t always easy, and there isn’t a pre-written script explaining how to do it, but coming out can be freeing…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/what-its-like-to-tell-your-friends-and-family-about-your-fetish