BDSM News, AOD Updates and Announcements.
“‘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
“If you were where I was in the initial hours of Easter morning, you might have thought you had slipped down a literal rabbit hole. Not a proverbial one—an actual one, punctuated by neon-colored flashing lights while a shirtless DJ played industrial to a room full of bouncing, scantily clad bondage bunnies…”
link: http://www.vice.com/read/photos-of-bondage-bunnies-and-kinky-jesuses-at-an-easter-fetish-ball
“Patterns in dating have remained relatively stagnant over the years. We meet and we connect, or not. If all goes well, we start looking toward the future. But there’s been one big change in recent years in how we define the term ‘meet’…”
“This one is for all the thrill seekers out there.
If you’re the type that likes to push boundaries, gets bored of the same old routines, and wants something new, taboo, and exciting, then I have two words for you: Edge Play…”
link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandra-lamorgese-phd/edge-play_b_9473490.html
“Growing up, Olivia Troy dreamed of being just like Xaviera Hollander—the high-class call girl who ran 1960s New York’s busiest brothel and wrote a best-selling memoir called The Happy Hooker. When parents and teachers asked her what she wanted to do when she grew up, she said madam…”
link: https://www.vice.com/read/this-bdsm-consultant-teaches-famous-actors-how-to-use-whips
“Besides the interesting free speech and due process holdings, the federal district court’s decision in Doe v. Rector & Visitors of George Mason Univ. also discusses whether there is a constitutional right to engage in consensual BDSM sex. No, says, the court, rejecting the view that Lawrence v. Texas creates a general constitutional right to adult noncommercial sexual autonomy…”
“John Doe was a freshman at George Mason University when he started seeing Jane Roe, a student at a different university (both subjects have been anonymous in media accounts and court documents). The two young people formed a relationship and frequently met at Doe’s GMU dorm room to have BDSM sex, with Roe as the submissive partner…”
link: https://www.vice.com/read/we-asked-a-law-professor-if-bdsm-could-be-legally-banned
“‘Lick Ass’ is not your typical brand name, but it’s the English translation for Lambe Culo, the alias for genderfluid visual artist and fashion designer Roy Martinez. In Martinez’s artwork, clothing designs reclaim old school cultural terms like ‘Brown Pride,’ lucha libre masks substitute gimp masks in BDSM-inspired photoshoots, and harness sculptures are made with the traditional patterns of the Mexican serape…”
“Today’s Bad Bitch Award goes to Karmenife Paulino, a 22-year-old graduate of Wesleyan University. Raped at a fraternity during her freshman year, she reasserted her sexual agency in a photoshoot entitled ‘Reclamation,’ where she poses as a dominatrix on fraternity grounds…”
link: http://jezebel.com/wesleyan-alum-poses-as-dominatrix-at-fraternity-where-s-1764674590