The Science of BDSM is an academic research team out of Northern Illinois University doing scholarly work on the functioning and application of BDSM. The team’s members include Kathryn Klement, Ellen Lee, and Brad Sagarin who have published numerous papers and… Continue Reading
The New Yorker just ran a feature on the resurgent interest in Stevie Nicks, beloved icons of innumberable drag queens and self-identified witchy folks. The article begins promisingly enough, pointing out: “The cover of ‘Bella Donna,’ Stevie Nicks’s first solo… Continue Reading
The Science of BDSM is an academic research team out of Northern Illinois University doing scholarly work on the functioning and application of BDSM. The team’s members include Kathryn Klement, Ellen Lee, and Brad Sagarin who have published numerous papers and… Continue Reading
The BBC ran a report on recent research into female sexual experience specifically the genital nerve net. Apparently, the male wiring has been pretty thoroughly researched but female…not so much. Efforts to remedy that situation has yielded somewhat surprising results:… Continue Reading
Recently the academic paper “Consensual BDSM Facilitates Role-Specific Altered States of Consciousness: A Preliminary Study” was made available for free download via Dropbox. The study was undertaken by James K. Ambler, Ellen M. Lee, Kathryn R. Klement, Tonio Loewald, Evelyn… Continue Reading
Various news services including the New York Times report that Leonard Cohen passed away last night at his home in Los Angeles. New York Times reports that, “Adam Cohen, his son and producer, said: ‘My father passed away peacefully at… Continue Reading
The London Telegraph reports on a legal battle regarding the rights to profits made from the sale of a 19th century church building, erm, erected by a religious sex cult The Abode of Love aka the Agapemonites. One of the… Continue Reading
As we noted earlier this week, Liber Oz states that man has the right to: “love as he will, where, when and with whom he will.” In the best of circumstances, this opens up a wide panalopy of options, each… Continue Reading
SutraJournal.com posted the first of a three part series of essays by Dr. Stuart Sovatsky wherein he discusses the nature and effect of the sex-desire-centric ‘liberated sexuality’ based in Freudian theories and supported by modern birth control methods, which appropriates… Continue Reading
Liber Oz states that one of the Rights of Man is to: “Love as he will, when, and whom he will.” Many Thelemites would feel that this also indicates one’s right to NOT have sex with someone if it’s not… Continue Reading