After watching movies like Taken and Trade, and reading the real-life details of the ongoing Pickton inquiry, it’s hard to think anyone would be a sex worker voluntarily. We assume that all sex workers are somehow coerced into the trade because a life of selling your body for profit is unimaginable for most of us. But a ...
There’s a line where self-defense ends and the attacked becomes the attacker. Olga Zajac, a 28-year-old Russian salon owner not only crossed that line. She trampled all over it, slashed it and threw it out like a dirty trash bag. When 32-year-old Viktor Jasinski tried to rob her salon, being learned in the art of ...
A man in Oklahoma is being charged with kidnapping, domestic abuse, and a misdemeanor domestic abuse case. He says it was all consensual, he didn’t do what they say he did, and it’s discrimination against his bondage/dominance/sadomasochist (BDSM) lifestyle. It is true that BDSM is not well understood. To most of us the idea of inflicting pain on ...
Kidnapped at age 11 and missing for 18 years, the story of Jaycee Dugard is one that terrified parents across the world. During her time in captivity she was repeatedly raped by her captors and bore them two children. To some this sounds like a tragedy but to Shane Ryan it sounds like the plot ...
Dear Madame X, My wife and I are like to play games where I tie her up and she is my slave. It’s good stuff but a little vanilla for me. We’re going away next weekend and I want her to be my slave all week. I want to put a collar around her neck ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
