This “GLOW” Is Better Than Your Shade: BDSM Consent Done Right
BDSM is not just about the safeword.
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The Pleasure Dome: The Highs, Lows, and Blows of Casual Sex
Orgasms, dating apps, pleasure, healing, and identity—let’s talk casual sex.
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New Memoir "Sex With Shakespeare" Explores a Fetish and the Bard
“I’ve spent most of my life thinking about two things: Shakespeare and spankings,” says author Jillian Keenan.
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This Is What Consent Looks Like at a Kink Festival
At the Folsom Street Fair, BDSM aficionados pose with stickers that say “Ask First.”
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Oh Joy Sex Toy: BDSM Safety Basics
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, guest artist Abby Howard gives us the rundown on some BDSM basics.
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Does Kinkphobia Color Criticism of "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
After nearly three years of writing about kink, feminism, and pop culture, I’m so tired of talking about a certain novel that I now make a point of only referring to it as “that book.” Criticizing Fifty Shades of Grey on either feminist or literary grounds is pretty much like... Read more »
Oh Joy Sex Toy: 50 Shades of Grey
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week, artist Erika Moen reads 50 Shades of Grey.
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Popaganda Episode: Sex Work is Work
Discussions of sex work often get mired in a couple basic questions: is it “good” or “bad”? Are sex workers empowered or not? But sex workers are a diverse group—their experiences aren't all good or bad. On this show, we try to reframe the issue by exploring the legal and financial... Read more »
Oh Joy Sex Toy: DIY BDSM
In Oh Joy Sex Toy, intrepid comics artists experiment with an aspect of sex and illustrate the result. This week: The couple behind Try It, You’ll Like It shares some... Read more »
Safe Words: The history of anti-abuse activism in BDSM
illustrations and buttons by Caroline O'Grady
For years I would jokingly explain to my confused, nonkinky friends that the site FetLife “is just Facebook for us perverts.” Then, in the summer of 2012, I began seeing FetLife's name in the headlines of blogs that for the most part barely... Read more »
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