Don’t call her a dominatrix!
by Beth Divine • 18 Feb 2019
While the BDSM community is as flourishing as ever – perhaps even more so! – some of the terminology has crossed over into mainstream usage. As often happens when niche or fetish activities are brought to the attention of the ‘vanilla’ (those who like heteronormal sex) these terms have been ever so slightly skewed. Thus the impression of a dominatrix is an angry nymphomaniac who secretly hates ...
Should men be ashamed of having sex toys? Sex dolls
by Beth Divine • 18 Feb 2019
If you were to ask this question even up to just a few years ago, the answer would have been a clear and unequivocal ‘yes’. Because early sex dolls were awful: crude female facsimiles with a bunch of vaguely anatomical holes into which a man could hump, basically masturbating himself to orgasm against the unyielding fabric, plastic, latex or rubber. The very first sex dolls were invented, it is...