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 ...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
