Dear Jian Ghomeshi: Keep Your Abuse Out of My Kink

On Monday morning, I woke up to a Facebook post by Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi defending his so-called BDSM sex. As an experienced kinkster and professional dominatrix, I was deeply offended by his apology. For years Ghomeshi has hosted a popular CBC show, Q, and has had a prominent role as a cultural gatekeeper…
Vanilla Sex: A Perfectly Fine Way to Fuck

Kinky sex is back. Again. As Laura Antoniou, author of popular erotica series The Marketplace puts it, "the mainstream media 'discovers' kinky sex every 10 years or so." This time around, the discovery has been linked to more than a few sources: Rihanna, "the Internet," smartphones, and almost inevitably, the 100…
Of Course Binders Full of Women Is a Book About a D.C. Dominatrix
Lana Cordova describes Binders Full of Women, her literary masterpiece (over 3900 readers have previewed Binders on Literotica.com with a 3.8 star rating!), as such:
And Here's a Scene From James Franco's New Gay BDSM Movie [NSFW]
Here's a clip from the 60-minute art film, Interior. Leather Bar., co-directed by and starring James Franco that will premiere at Sundance this week. Just like the movie, it's all about gay sex. While the clip is definitely NSFW—not for nudity, but for the sounds of moans and slaps (you should be fine if you use…
Woman Wants Out of Her Slave/Master Marriage
After signing an explicit agreement that she would become her husband's "slave," a saleswoman in Padua is suing for divorce, claiming that her partner physically abused her during their marriage and that he's stalked her since their split. Insert your obligatory Fifty Shades life imitates art imitates porn imitates a…
Post-Fifty Shades, New Yorkers in Particular Have Really Jumped on the BDSM Bandwagon
BDSM is really big in New York, at least according to some YouPorn number-crunching, which might initially sound like a category of porn with digitally-animated numbers locked in suggestive embraces (I'm thinking of something involving 5 and 7, and I don't need to tell you how absolutely filthy such a fantasy would…
10 Shades of Stupid: Cosmo's Worst BDSM Tips
I knew this was coming when the cashier in Barnes and Nobles saw me looking at Fifty Shades of Grey and stage-whispered: "I bought that for my mom, and now I'm just terrified that I'm going to go home and find my dad. In a cage. Bleeding or dead." BDSM is like soccer and socialized medicine; fascinating, but hard for…
Anastasia and Christian are Back to Discuss Religious Backlash Against 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
I was too busy praying to Jesus to smite E.L James/crying about the demise of modern literature to write about "Fifty Shades of Grey" today, but Anastasia and Christian had such a fabulous time yesterday that they wanted to discuss Anna North's Buzzfeed piece on the Christian backlash against their torrid love…
Anastasia and Christian Bring You The Latest 'Fifty Shades' News
I was too busy buying out all of the rope in Manhattan/banging my head against the wall to write about the New York Post's groundbreaking "Fifty Shades of Grey" story today. So I asked Anastasia and Christian, the stars of everyone's favorite over-hyped BDSM tome, to cover it instead. After all, Anastasia met…
The Fifty Shades of Grey Frenzy Hasn't Even Climaxed Yet
More than 10 million copies of Fifty Shades of Grey have been sold in the past six weeks, a rate its publisher says is "unprecedented" and expects to continue "exceeding even our most optimistic forecasts." Sales even jumped the week before Mother's Day, meaning women didn't put aside their hunger for Twilight…
Sexual Harassment Lawyer Accused Of Raping Craigslist Women
This alleged Craigslist rapist has an advantage over the other ones that have dominated the headlines: He specializes in employment law, specifically prosecuting sexual harassment. Also, it at least partly involves consensual BDSM.
Exotic Animal Owner Died During "Consensual Sex Act"
More details have emerged in the death of Sam Mazzola: he apparently died as a result of a "consensual sex act" involving a seventeen-year-old boy.
Guilty Plea In Missouri Sex Slave Case
A second man has entered a guilty plea in what federal prosecutors say was the enslavement and torture of a disabled woman. The main defendant in the case and some people who knew the woman have alleged that it was consensual BDSM.
