Here’s part of an interesting article from East Bay Express about kink professions in California, and the legal difficulties involved in Pro-Domination there:

‘…BDSM work still exists in a legal gray area, since state law prohibits the selling of “lewd acts” — meaning physical contact with genitals, buttocks, or breasts. But many people in the scene have found ways to circumvent the law by prohibiting sex, using coded language, and keeping their brick-and-mortar addresses under wraps. Generally, they also vet the clientele fairly thoroughly, requesting references or a hefty deposit for first-timers. (“Police aren’t going to put down $50 just to make an arrest,” said one domme who does, indeed, have sex with her clients.) Such precautions have enabled them to render BDSM a viable cottage industry, and by extension, a visible subculture…’

Click here to read more of the article, including an interview with the awesome Kitty Stryker.

Here’s a funny – if rather controversial – article from Cracked.com. It’s David Wong’s list of “5 Ways Modern Men are Trained to Hate Women”. I can’t say I agree with it in its entirety. After all, fifty percent of the human race can’t be such sensitive, pathetic, knob-driven little creatures, can they? And if individual chaps are such weeping chodes, nurture rather than nature must surely be at fault, as the don’t blame me, my penis made me do it excuse should always be greeted with scepticism (and sometimes a long jail sentence) by anyone who encounters it? And aren’t fast cars, skyscrapers and other phallic paraphernalia just for the benefit of other insecure gentlemen, not ladies*?

Still, there are some very entertaining bits. To mock the male with Cracked.com, click here.

*I stopped at Thurrock services on Saturday night and its car park was filled with boys in souped-up cars, revving a lot, making their tyres smoke and admiring each other’s paint jobs. There were no women. It was dogging without the pretence of sex: just a lot of blokes showing off their possessions and prowess to other blokes.