By Delanee Hawkins After last week’s column was published, I received a lengthy email from a man named Peter Boots. He introduced himself with a mini-resume: “I’m a bit of an expert on both of the subjects you cover, having taught BDSM classes from 1984 to 1992 at SM Gays in London, and from 1993…
By Delanee Hawkins Inspired by last week’s cautionary tale about combining food with sex, this week’s edition will feature two riskier kinks/sexual practices, cock-and-ball torture and erotic asphyxiation, with tips on how to minimize these risks. Whether you’re a connoisseur of erotic asphyxiation or don’t consider yourself an inch past vanilla, this week’s column is…
My column for this week is going to focus on a particular sexual fetish: bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, masochism, most often referred to as a group under the acronym BDSM. This genre of kink is often the first foray of vanilla (non-kinky) people into the world of sexual fetishism. It came to mainstream popularity…
Considering that my readership may be more concerned with paying for books and rent than establishing a Domination dungeon, I talk a lot about BDSM in this column. Admittedly, the research I have done on Fifty Shades of Grey probably spearheads my engagement with the experiences expressed in the acronym. But even without my project…
Even after months of painstaking examination of the series for a research project, I am still bewildered by E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, the story (originally a fanfiction inspired by the Twilight Saga) follows Ana Steele.
On my way to work last weekend, I noticed a familiar sight. Stuck between the hands of a woman who sat across the aisle on the 84 bus, there was *Fifty Shades of Grey*, the incredibly popular erotic novel that includes sadomasochistic sex scenes.
