http://dir.salon.com/topics/s_m/?source=rss&aim=s_m en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT By Cary Tennis Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/22/interrupted/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/22/interrupted/index.html?source=rss I live in a small, conservative town. I'm petrified about what she may have seen! By Amy Benfer Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/02/05/domination/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/02/05/domination/index.html?source=rss Underemployed women pull themselves up by their strap-ons. By Cary Tennis Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/01/08/virgin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/01/08/virgin/index.html?source=rss I'm just out of college and want to experiment: Am I playing with fire? By Stephen Elliott Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/02/07/kink/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/02/07/kink/index.html?source=rss S/M media giant Kink.com stirred up controversy by announcing plans to move its headquarters into San Francisco's Mission District. But for Kink's performers, sex is all in a day's work. By Donna Minkowitz Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/11/29/elliott/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/11/29/elliott/index.html?source=rss In his new collection of stories, Stephen Elliott examines his experiences with torture and love through admirably clear eyes. By Cary Tennis Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/20/bdsm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/20/bdsm/index.html?source=rss I'm not sure I'm ready for what he says he needs. By Cary Tennis Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/07/10/19_year_old/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/07/10/19_year_old/index.html?source=rss We're polyamorous but I think she needs discipline more than sex. By Dave Hill Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/10/25/slavercise/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/10/25/slavercise/index.html?source=rss Mistress Victoria will slap you, whip you and intimidate you into shape -- or you'll have to lay a wet kiss on her derrière. By David Bowman Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/galleries/2002/07/22/nitke/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/galleries/2002/07/22/nitke/index.html?source=rss An interview with S/M photographer Barbara Nitke about her lawsuit against the attorney general, her art, and the thousand-yard stare. By Jeff Stark Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/04/09/piano_teacher/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2002/04/09/piano_teacher/index.html?source=rss Isabelle Huppert's amazing performance anchors an old-style Euro-art flick that knows its Freud, its classical music and -- oh, yeah -- its seamy sex. By Virginia Vitzthum Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/col/vitz/2001/02/13/juan_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/col/vitz/2001/02/13/juan_2/index.html?source=rss After months of editing S/M porn and being harassed, Juan has a "bottoming epiphany." Second of two parts. By Virginia Vitzthum Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/col/vitz/2001/01/30/juan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/col/vitz/2001/01/30/juan/index.html?source=rss A computer geek becomes the whipping boy for a gay S/M porn producer. First of two parts. By Shawna Kenney Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/10/dominatrix/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/10/dominatrix/index.html?source=rss A teenage dominatrix talks about putting herself through college by spanking lawyers, lobbyists and politicians. By Annalee Newitz Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/10/04/mind_control/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/10/04/mind_control/index.html?source=rss For mind-control erotica fans, reading about hypnotic states is the biggest turn-on. By Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/08/28/hellfire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/08/28/hellfire/index.html?source=rss By Christina Oxenberg By Christina Oxenberg Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/08/23/hellfire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/08/23/hellfire/index.html?source=rss It's Saturday night and people who are starched and pressed all day are now masturbating to S/M performances. By Michael Sragow Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/07/27/quills/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/07/27/quills/index.html?source=rss Philip Kaufman's new "Quills" pits the Marquis de Sade against Kenneth Starr in Napoleonic drag. By Jack Boulware Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/07/20/cops/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/07/20/cops/index.html?source=rss Sex club is found across from a police station in a small New England town. By Marisa Kakoulas Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/26/ehmann/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/26/ehmann/index.html?source=rss Abby Ehmann, editrix in chief of Extreme Fetish magazine, is also a feminist, a champion of free expression and "just really normal." By Amy Reiter Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/24/np0124/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/24/np0124/index.html?source=rss Yikes! John Waters is coming back and he's bringing a gerbil with him; Peta Wilson chats about lesbian S&M; place your bets: Courtney Love vs. David Geffen. Plus: George Clooney to play Dr. Feelgood? By Annalee Newitz Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/01/15/gentrification/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/01/15/gentrification/index.html?source=rss A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles. By David Bowman Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/lunch/1999/12/16/payne/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/lunch/1999/12/16/payne/index.html?source=rss "My husband was standing there holding a riding crop. 'When did we get a horse?' he asked." By Virginia Vitzthum Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/col/vitz/1999/12/14/blackrose2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/col/vitz/1999/12/14/blackrose2/index.html?source=rss At the Black Rose, leather-clad sadomasochists walk the tightrope between pleasure and pain. By Greil Marcus Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/col/marc/1999/12/13/marcus10/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/col/marc/1999/12/13/marcus10/index.html?source=rss By Virginia Vitzthum Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/col/vitz/1999/11/30/blackrose1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/col/vitz/1999/11/30/blackrose1/index.html?source=rss In a suburban Ramada Inn, 1,500 players gathered to teach and discuss the sexual art of power and pain.