On from April 16, 2016 until Sunday, 12 March 2017, the Victoria and Albert Museum will display skivvies from the 18th Century until today: corsets, bras, hosiery, jock straps, girdles, thongs, and more. The exhibit explores how undergarments both shaped and… Continue Reading
Allison Elkin attended the Subspace Easter Fetish Ball at the Great Hall in Toronto, and reports about it in Vice. Featuring fetish bunnies, crucifixion fantasies, naughty priests, spankings, a St. Andrew’s Cross, and more, the party doesn’t allow penetrative sex, but is all about… Continue Reading
At this year’s Pantheacon, Anna Pulley attended the BDSM workshop, and in Vocativ reflects on the mix of paganism and kink. She notes: “BDSM actually has a storied history within Paganism. Both BDSM and Paganism, in varied forms, have been around… Continue Reading
Did you know that you can review sex toys for a living? You can! At Blowfish, you can buy toys, supplies, accouterments, storage and furnishing, and even guides. They tell us, “We review the products we sell, and we sell… Continue Reading
The Advocate ran a piece about Mississippi’s House Bill 1523 which purports to protect the exercise of “religious freedom” while implying that, legally, one’s genital identity at birth is unchanging. The article notes: “The first-of-its-kind law will take effect in… Continue Reading
Born out of frustration at the limited amount of data available about transgender people, the Digital Transgender Archive includes materials from over twenty collections of documents and other materials. It is the largest collection of its kind. Smithsonian tells us, “The term… Continue Reading
Eric Schulze of Ask Smithsonian tells us, “More than half of men and woman in a survey said they’d called it quits because of a lame first kiss.” Obviously, kissing is important to human beings. But did you know it’s not… Continue Reading
In his “Rights Of Man” the Prophet of The Lovely Star laid out a list of human rights, pointedly in monosyllabic words so the list would be comprehensible to folks at every level of literacy. One of these rights was… Continue Reading
It is we of Thelema who truly love and respect Woman, who hold her sinless and shameless even as we are; and those who say that we despise Her are those who shrink from the flash of our falchions as… Continue Reading
Anyone who has seen the Washington Monument in the US capital, Washington, DC, probably realizes that it is a phallic symbol. It can also be considered a symbol of Freemasonry in that many of the marble blocks were donated by various… Continue Reading