Between studying and spanking
“My name’s Laura,” says a girl dressed in black leather, fishnets and knee-high boots. “And I’m not as kinky as I look.” York may just be kinkier than you think.
A minute later, it’s my turn.
“Hi, I’m Nick, and I’m also not as kinky as I look.” The group chuckles: I’m wearing a blue button-up shirt [...]
Tough love: lives & times of a dominatrix
The photographer Kate Peters spent a year shooting dominatrices, or ‘doms’, in Britain and was astonished at the contrast between the ‘normal’ women she met and their leather-corseted personae. ‘I remember one session in an ordinary east London terraced house. I was chatting to the dom over tea, when the doorbell rang. I opened it [...]
Dan Savage rocks the Chan Centre
Internationally syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage rocked his sold-out show at the Chan Centre on Saturday to a mixed crowd of giddy students, thirty-forty somethings and the odd silver-haired couple.
Walking onstage into the warm light of the Chan Centre, he surveyed the crowd and, holding up a big stack of questions sent in by audience [...]
Confessions of…a domestic dominatrix
When your 42 year-old husband ups and leaves you for a 21 year-old law student, it’s big news in a tiny upper class Devonshire village.
A reputation in tatters and a ruined woman financially, I had to find a way of earning money to keep my house, car and possessions. The debtors were on my doorstep [...]
Leather family mourns ‘Mister Marcus’
Mourners from San Francisco and beyond have paused to pay their respects to Marcus Hernandez, the Bay Area Reporter’s longtime leather columnist who died last week.
In one fitting tribute, the leather flag will be flown at half-staff at Castro and Market streets beginning today (Thursday, October 15).
In another, the leather contingent at last weekend’s National [...]
When Fetish Goes Mainstream
What’s turning me on this week? Fetish. And fetish films.
It’s that time of year again. We bid farewell to summer and endless days of string bikinis and turn to a more serious time. It’s time for school to start, time to check back in to our jobs, time to realize that our sex lives are [...]
