If you or your partner have ever wondered what a little light bondage would be like – maybe a bit of tying up, or a blindfold – you’re not alone. A YouGov poll carried out in February 2016 found that 12,727,272 of Brits have been tied up for sex, and that Penrith in Cumbria had […]
Some people think that sex toys are relatively recent, products of the Sexual Revolution and after, but all that’s really happened is that we’ve gained the confidence and maturity as a society to talk about it, Sexual pleasure has literally been around since the Stone Age, though prudish archaelogists haven’t always recognised it as such. […]
You’ve come a long way baby – the vibrator, that is. From a tool used to ‘cure’ mental illness in women, the vibrator has been reclaimed by sisters doing it for themselves, and a tool used for the suppression of women has been liberated as one for their freedom. How did we get from there to […]
50 Shades of Grey put bondage – and BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism) on many people’s literary map. This would be author E.L. James’ first published novel, and the first in a trilogy that would be one of the publishing sensations of the century, almost matched by the success of their cinematic adaptations. However, […]