“I have been a card-carrying member of NYC-PAH since last summer. That stands for ‘New York City–Pups And Handlers’; it’s a social group for people who identify as Human-Pups or Handlers, or those looking to learn more about the practice. I had been playing fetch and barking to receive belly rubs in private for months, and as many do, I decided to seek out like-minded individuals…”

link: http://www.vice.com/read/playing-fetch-with-members-of-nyc-pah

“Ultimate Surrender, an 11-year-old sex-wrestling site owned by Kink.com, got a fascinating profile in Vocativ on Tuesday. In each video posted to the site, two women fight with a combination of traditional wrestling holds and sexual maneuvers…”

link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/12/23/why_wrestling_porn_fills_an_important…

“Throughout history, people have been turned on by things beyond just other peoples’ junk. From the common interests, like bondage and role playing, to the more obscure ones, like watching people slowly sink into quicksand, there are fetishes for just about everything…”

link: http://www.vice.com/read/we-asked-people-how-they-discovered-their-sexual-fetishes-511

“My dom once stopped a scene to make sure I was still breathing.

I wasn’t mad or anything. I was really glad she checked, because if I hadn’t been, it would have confirmed all my mom’s fears about the dodgy, catacomb-ish sex dungeons she thinks I frequent…”

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ja-rock/talking-about-kink-and-co_b_8765446.html

“Sex workers—including porn performers, cam girls, strippers, escorts, and many more—have formed such a vibrant, vocal part of the internet that it’s hard to imagine an online world without them. And with that visibility has come a reduction in the stigma related to sex work…”

link: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/twitter-has-made-it-impossible-to-ignore-the-reality-of-sex-work

“‘People fundamentally have a lot of shame around hooking up,’ explains digital developer and entrepreneur Carl Sandler. ‘We live in a culture that teaches us that to hook up with someone is bad’…”

link: http://review.gawker.com/the-man-who-wants-to-bring-the-kink-community-out-of-th-1727620070

“Americans are probably more educated, informed, and enthusiastic about sex today than we’ve ever been, and yet we can still sometimes feel closed or uncomfortable expressing our sexuality in certain ways. BDSM — a world I stumbled into, learned to understand, and have grown to love — is definitely one of those uncomfortable areas…”

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandra-lamorgese-phd/turn-bedroom-into-red-room_b_8691676.html

“Chronicling the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe — one of the 20th century’s most controversial artists famed for his black and white photographs of New York’s BDSM subculture in the 60s and 70s — Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures is the first biopic on the artist since his death in 1989…”

link: https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/the-first-ever-robert-mapplethorpe-documentary-is-coming-to-hbo

“Imagine being a voyeur as you watch looners being spanked by MILFs who are wearing butt plugs. That would certainly be a sight to feast your eyes on. While many of the kinky fetishes people enjoyed in 2015 usually don’t intertwine in the way described above, one thing that most fetishes have in common, is they are a growing community…”

link: https://filthygorgeousmedia.com/2015/kinkest-fetishes-enjoyed-2015

“Business is booming for Mistress Odette. The 26-year old was living in New York and working in a dungeon with a number of other dominatrixes, and eventually, like many New Yorkers do, she grew tired of the stresses that came with sharing space. She moved out to Austin, Texas four years ago to try and make it as an independent mistress…”

link: http://jezebel.com/youre-a-dirty-gentrifying-tech-bro-and-you-need-to-be-1741424849