USA – NEW YORK – An Oregon Democratic congressional candidate feared her future in politics was kaput when a video of her as a Manhattan dominatrix popped up online — but she now embraces her raunchy past, she told The Post.
Courtney Casgraux, who wants to represent Portland’s western suburbs, was horrified when a clip of her working at a Midtown BDSM dungeon was anonymously posted to Reddit on Aug. 31.
“[I was] just panicking … Then I was like, ‘Who did this?’ and I just started calling every single person that I pretty much knew from my past … I was like hyperventilating, crying,” the Huntington Beach, Calif., native recalled.
USA – How do people who participate in BDSM experience less sexual distress than those who do not? Studies from Finland have shown that those who participate in BDSM, particularly those who use sexually submissive or dominant practices, tend to experience greater levels of sexual distress, and that those who do not engage in BDSM demonstrate an average increase in sexual functioning.
Nonetheless,aceștia.com reports findings as “strong, with most as negligible, because the relatively large sample size of those participants in this study [was] published in IJIR: Your Sexual Medicine Journal.”
BDSM involvesJA/BDSM, which is a term used for “Bondage, Discipline/Dominance, Submission/Sadism, Masochism”, is a group of different sexual role-playing practices including bondage, spanking, and other forms of “pain or sensation” play in which individuals engage in communications, trust and mutual consent, and is viewed as a form of consent that is ethical in which all activities are safe, logical, and rational.
JAPAN – TOKYO – Tokyo’s Alpha Inn has provided a vital home for underground erotic expression and Japan’s BDSM community – but can this iconic space survive?
We’re walking along a road in one of Tokyo’s most exclusive neighbourhoods. Nestled between the embassies, historic publishing houses and the Tokyo American Club stands an odd, castle-like building. Quite out of step with the swanky, modern buildings of Azabu district, this grey stone structure is Alpha Inn, Japan’s only dedicated BDSM ‘Love Hotel.’ Alpha Inn’s cryptic exterior gives away little sense of what goes on inside. But open stepping into the lobby, we’re confronted with a large glass case filled with various sex toys, whips, ropes and vibrators. A giant penis statue rest on top of the lobby bar.
USA – The chaplain at the Memphis-based Rhodes College tried to organize a “BDSM 101” event on campus featuring a local dominatrix, but the event was swiftly canceled by the college.
“Chaplain Beatrix will host a local dominatrix to share wisdom on how to safely, sanely, and consensually learn about bondage, discipline/domination, sadism/submission, and masochism,” a description for the event said, according to screenshots of Instagram stories from the chaplain, Beatrix Weil, obtained by National Review. “There will be an option to ask questions anonymously.”
Dominatrix Countess Diamond has hit out at the ‘future of sex’ as she fears a Cybrothel could see its users treat real sex workers ‘like a doll’ due to online experiences
UK – A Brit dominatrix has aired their concerns regarding the ‘world’s first’ Cybrothel as she fears it could see users begin treating sex workers “like a doll”.
The Countess Diamond has spoken out on plans to open the online brothel in Berlin, which features sex dolls and live voice actors. At 120€ for 30 minutes, the “future of sex” could be online.
But giving instant gratification through virtual reality could prove problematic for those working in the sex industry as the dominatrix fears real and living sex workers could be treated like dolls.
UK – t’s 7PM on a Tuesday, and I’m scritching someone’s skull as they’re led around on all fours on a leash. I can’t see their face – it’s covered by a diamante-encrusted mask – but when they nuzzled towards me, their chin nearly bumping against my crotch, it seemed like they wanted attention. A few metres away, two women in pink latex are buffing a man’s buttocks with latex grease, and someone in a diaper is telling an interviewer what piss tastes like. Everywhere I look, outer layers are being peeled off to reveal gleaming, skimpy outfits of rubber, leather and latex. This is the scene at the UK Fetish Awards.
Known as “the kinkiest awards party of the year”, the UK Fetish Awards were created to celebrate diversity in the world of kink, support fetish workers, and help break down the taboos surrounding BDSM. Basically, it’s like the BRIT Awards, but with fire play and aerial hair hanging instead of performances by Adele.
I’ve been invited to this year’s party by Countess Diamond, a professional dominatrix who will be interviewing all of tonight’s winners. “I want a body like that,” she tells me huskily, as, on stage, a woman in a silver body harness throws her legs over a masked man’s shoulders. “I’ve had two kids though,” she laughs. Well, I’ve had none, and I wouldn’t mind a body like that either.
USA – As tech workers resist return-to-office mandates, face layoffs that cut into hard-won diversity and equity progress, and watch as their dreams of founding successful startups dry up, it’s safe to say that many might be looking for new professions. Facing sexism and discrimination in the corporate world, and driven by a desire to have a more localized, creative, and empathetic impact, a quiet subset of tech workers left the tech industry to pursue work they’d rather be doing — in the field of sex work.
Whether as erotic filmmakers, professional dominatrixes, or as more traditional escorts, these former tech workers cite a significant increase to their sense of empowerment, job satisfaction, creative license, and overall freedom in their new professions. They share a universal disinterest in returning to tech workplaces — but an underlying confidence that they could, if tech employers one day began to prioritize factors to retain diverse talent. Their stories are inspiring to anyone looking for permission to pursue their true professional aspirations, and also a notice to tech employers, who continue to lose out on the potential of some of their most motivated and capable workers.
USA – Picture this: Things are getting hot and heavy with your partner in the bedroom and, as you do that thing they love, they whisper: “You’re such a good girl.” Maybe they’ve said these words before or this is the first time, but either way, one thing rings true: It gets you extremely hot. Sound familiar? You just might have a praise kink.
If you’ve never heard the term “praise kink” before, the label might feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Also known as affirmation play, this turn-on is nothing to feel weird about. It’s a perfectly healthy desire that a lot of people have—and one you can explore in fun, safe, and expansive ways.
If you’re curious to know if you might have a praise kink and how to experiment with it safely, WH has teamed up with those who understand it best to share all you need to know. Ahead, kink experts and sex therapists outline all the steamy (and misunderstood) details about this popular kink.
CANADA – In the rough trade she inhabited in the twilight, the attractive Frenchwoman called herself Mistress Hilda Pierce.
By day, she was Nadia Frey, 58, lovely, charming and with Gaulic sex appeal to burn.
It was the former that got her killed — and with her went a treasure trove of secrets. Secrets that detectives believed bore the kinky proclivities of the rich and famous.
On Saturday, July 26, 1997, she was discovered in her seventh-floor lair on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The dominatrix had been shot twice in the chest, once in the neck and for good measure, she had been shot in the head.
The first sex tip I received was whispered to me in the school hallway. It was passed down from a friend’s older sister who had in turn sneakily read it in a magazine under her duvet with a torch. It was all very hush-hush, illicit, secretive. We had sex education classes in school, of course, but these were scientific; they taught you the definition of sex with the end goal being a baby, and “pleasure” a secondary, if ever mentioned by-product.
As I grew up I would, like every other person born in the nineties or noughties, search corners of the internet for guidance. For a time, I foolishly thought pornography could offer some sort of enlightenment (it could not). Finally, I received my first sex tips from a “pro” in my mid-twenties, when a well-meaning maid of honour booked one for a hen do. It was a blow job lesson or, more accurately, an hour-long exercise in embarrassing the bride-to-be with a series of photographic moments involving a banana, a condom and some whipped cream. I can’t remember any useful tips from that session but I can recall the instructor advising us to use popping candy for added drama.
INDIA – A glimmer of the setting sun reveals crossing points where the rope twists around a torso. Amiya’s voice looms sanguinely above the lo-fi beats, cajoling the trussed bodies to breathe through the pain while flickering candles keep vigil. “When you do kink, you always sort of go into this space which is not reality,” Amiya observes. This altered state of consciousness or flow has been reported to induce lower cortisol levels and psychological stress in people trying out Shibari and other similar kinds of bondage.
“I want to build a community where like minded people can explore this art in a safe space.”
Amiya Bhanushali
Simply put, Shibari involves tying someone up for a healing experience that detaches them from the overworked, intellectual part of their brain and enmeshes them securely within the here and now.
Studies have proven that this Japanese underground kink is analogous to the mindfulness of yoga or meditation. “There are erotic aspects to it and other artists practise those,” Mumbai-based Shibari facilitator and freelance tattoo artist Amiya Bhanushali opines, “but I feel like Silly Hands is very much on the softer, more loving side.”
USA – Rising black metallers, Folterkammer, have signed with Century Media Records and dropped a whip wielding, BDSM inspired single “Das Peitschengedicht.” The lyric video, created by drummer and video director Brendan McGowan, is a celebration of all things femdom, naughty nun, and torture devices. What more can you ask for?
Regarding the new single, frontwoman and vocalist Andromeda Anarchia states:
“This song is our kinky ode to the whip as a torture instrument, and a celebratory hymn to the practices of BDSM, particularly femdom. The whip, a symbol of domination, pain, and humiliation, is described here not only as playful and kinky, but as a poetic enactment of pain through the depiction of female ferocity on a submissive man, whose back the domme uses like a canvas.
Lane Kwederis is a financial dominatrix whose kinky clients get ‘pleasure’ out of giving her money but they also like to be ‘humiliated’ and pay her handsomely for the service
USA – NEW YORK – A woman working as a dominatrix has revealed she makes up to $8,000 (£6,500) a day by “degrading and humiliating men” as she opens up about the “most ridiculous” thing she’s ever been paid to do.
Self-dubbed “Latex Barbie” Lane Kwederis, 38, has a second career as a comedian but her regular day job is being a dominatrix — a woman who provides men with sexual gratification by physically or psychologically dominating them. The sex worker, who lives in New York City, works particularly in the field of financial domination.
Explaining what it means in a recent chat with fellow comedian Eleanor Conway, she said: “Basically people’s kink is giving me money for the pleasure of giving me money, it goes hand in hand with that classic dominatrix stuff too.” Lane admitted before becoming one herself, she thought being a dominatrix meant she needed to have an “unrelenting urge to be mean and hurt men.”
USA – Jimmy Kimmel found a bizarre moment from one of Donald Trump’s events over the weekend ― and it involved a reference to one of the most infamous rumors surrounding the former president.
Kimmel called it “a reboot of that alleged ‘pee tape’ Russia was rumored to have of him.”
Trump spoke repeatedly of “golden showers” on Saturday at an event in Las Vegas as he referred to allegations in a salacious and discredited dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
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