The eastern tradition, being steeped in its own myth systems and of a more contemplative orientation generally (as opposed to idealized (in ...

I mimicked the Klaw style (there being no real technique) for a little while before stumbling upon John “Willie” Coutts and his Gwendolyn dr...

(Excerpted from a 2002 public lecture / demonstration) Thank you all for coming, and thanks also to A. for the invitation to speak tonight, ...

Silly me. I have always thought in my anthropologically Pollyannaish way that the possibility of such a cunning and competitive creature as ...

Props go to M. Yu at The Jade Gate for breaking the news of Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon's documentary on the Insex phenomenon, Grap...

So the last shall be first and the first shall be last. Matthew 20:16 For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:14 This image (fro...

In 1988 a tiny ad in the back of my wife's Premiere magazine introduced me to Bettie (then Betty) Page. There was no bondage evident - e...

Ages before the Pharaohs used it to construct the Pyramids, thousands of years before Oppian of Corycus described its use in fishing nets, a...

I read a scathing indictment of stalking-horse Sarah Palin by Naomi Wolf, whom I respect but whose writing I often find perversely reaction...

Much has transpired since my last entry on Insex and BS. The lovely, well-connected and ever helpful Barbara Nitke , as it happens, is a clo...

The cards and letters keep coming... I am having trouble figuring out BDSM culture... I'm very interested in collaring and wonder if you...