The Safe Word: Sex and Kink

If I knew someone about to get married I would tell them this: Kinky sex is to a good marriage as bus schedules are to buses. Which is to say, there might be some relationship but I don’t have good goddamn what it is. I was a late bloomer to this kink thing. Well, not so late that I wasn’t tying myself up and an inventive little masturbator from a young age, but it took me a while to come out to my partner.

Should you make your fantasies become reality?

Depending on when and where you are, friend, you are a pervert. Totally perved out, by the look of you.

Kink columnist RC McCloud talks about getting a good beat-down.

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Focusing on porn isn’t the solution. We shouldn’t be made ashamed of what we watch; we should be thoughtful about it.

I saw my first Y/N/M list about a year ago. Now I think everyone should have one.

Who isn’t sex-positive? Well, when you dig into it a little bit, not as many people as you think.

Now consider Austin, trying to keep it weird. Is this a city with its freak on? Sure, it’s gay friendly, relatively speaking, but where are the flamboyant and fabulous, the fetish folk, the poly-people, and someone to write them down, photograph them, turn them from life into art?

Anonymous nude modeling is hot. Really hot. And pretty popular, too. Digital cameras and the rise of Flickr, Pornotube, and photoblogging have turned what used to be a pastime only for serious pervs and extra spicy swinger types into a porn-lite sensation.