Or maybe just loyal. I light of the many and disturbing revelations being made these days under the general rubric of "torture," I...

Consider the ethical dilemma of meat-eating on page 310 of Michael Pollen's brilliant Omnivore's Dilemma : "To (Benjamin Frank...

Sometimes it takes another species to humanize us. It's one of those weird paradoxes of my fondness for binding lovely lasses that I mus...

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

In a hilarious example of editorial resistance to the way things actually are, the Washington Post published this feature on the findings of...

Every now and again I can't resist giving props here to the flashes of genius that are erupting all the time all over the web, only a ve...

“Can you imagine old age? Of course you can’t. I didn’t. I couldn’t. I had no idea what it was like. Not even a false image. No image. Nobod...

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

I don't generally cross-post here, but every now and again someone will nail it so well that I have to prostrate myself in the direction...

I'm into this idea that all one's drives in life converge to produce the bizarre amalgam that ends up being the unique contribution ...

Dear J., Following our most recent exchange I am very thoughtful about the whole matter of man qua dom and its characterization (both from w...

A little while back I had a very fruitful exchange with a woman relatively new to BDSM and interested in bondage. She is fiercely intelligen...

Not so long ago, when I thought I knew something, I was wont to suggest that, once I’d relieved her of use of her extremities, the one remai...

This is picking up on the thread with which I started this blog of a lengthy email interview I did with a sociologist a while back. As I am ...