- 1. Album Of The Week: Girlpool Gives Taxicab Confessions Vibes On 4th LP "Forgiveness" ...
- (Music)
- ... Both Tividad and Tucker bare their destructive kinks (hypnotizing opener “Nothing Gives Me Pleasure”) and dance with classic car-driving devils (the NIN-esque “Country Star”). But it’s not all hedonistic; ...
- Created on 20 July 2022
- 2. Yola Takes a Stand: The UK Soul-Singer Discusses Her New Album, "Stand for Myself," and How She Melds Pop and Soul Together to Make Music That Expresses Both the Joy and Harshness of Life ...
- (Music)
- ... and the twang of Americana—not surprising since she often notes her love of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and Dolly Parton. But she also digs the Kinks and Mary J. Blige, gospel, disco, and blues. It’s ...
- Created on 08 November 2021
- 3. Pretenders' Seminal First Two Albums Remind Us Why Chrissie Hynde is Rock Royalty
- (Music)
- ... Get Spanked,” are here along with hit singles “Message Of Love,” “Talk Of The Town,” and the soothing cover version of The Kinks’ classic “I Go To Sleep.” There’s groovy extra tracks including single ...
- Created on 01 November 2021
- 4. Nancy Sinatra Launches Archival Series Reissuing Albums From Her Legendary Body of Work
- (Music)
- A special 7-inch featuring the trippy 1967 hit “Some Velvet Morning,” backed with the previously unreleased Kinks cover “Tired Of Waiting For You”—out in November for Record Store Day—is just the beginning ...
- Created on 10 February 2021
- 5. Genya Ravan’s “I Who Have Nothing” Melds Gold, Gravel, And Guts
- (Music)
- ... it’s sex, drugs, and rock and roll—after all, the Gingerbreads were touring with the likes of the Stones, the Beatles, the Animals, and the Kinks! I asked Ravan about performing during a time in history ...
- Created on 05 February 2021
- 6. Wish You Had More Orgasms? This Guide To Arousal Could Help
- (Sex)
- ... erection (penile, clitoral: whatever you got and whatever you call it). The way engorged tissues interact with your nerves changes the feeling of a touch, a kiss, the slide of a finger—and, as kinksters ...
- Created on 27 August 2020
- 7. Virginia Hair Discrimination Law Now In Effect, Leaves Only 44 States Left To Go
- (Living)
- In March, Virginia passed The CROWN Act and became the fourth state to do so. Other states that have passed the CROWN Act are California, New York, Colorado, New Jersey, and Washington. The CROWN Act ...
- Created on 07 July 2020
- 8. This Needle-Wielding Queen is Embroidering Blackness into the Crafting Conversation
- (Living)
- ... and an occasional pop-culture reference—just screams whiteness. Enter Krystle Collins of Create the Culture Embroidery (@createtheculture_embroidery). Capturing the textured kinks, coils, and curls in ...
- Created on 27 April 2020
- 9. What's Your September Horoscope
- (Sex)
- ... pushing you to attend a sex party, a consensual BDSM soirée, or a make-out event aimed to expand the mind while embracing your inner kinkster. Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Mercury and Venus connect ...
- Created on 03 September 2019
- 10. How Do I Navigate BDSM While Remaining Safe, Comfortable, And Feminist?
- (Sex)
- ... of the play, since after all, some kinksters just love yelling those words—it feels cathartic and powerful. Now, especially in this day and age, anyone ought to check in if they hear a “no,” so I’m not ...
- Created on 28 January 2019
- 11. "Brand New Old Love" Is An Honest Dramedy About The Pressures Of Adulthoo
- (Movies)
- ... in his room—a perfect example of their inability to compromise like actual adults. Brand New Old Love starts to lose narrative momentum after the establishment of the kinks and corners of Hannah and ...
- Created on 15 November 2018
- 12. What's Your September Sex Horoscope
- (Sex)
- ... because Aug. and Sept. are your months to shine in the bedroom. The solar eclipse on Aug.11 could be especially good for bringing kinks to your partner’s attention, and they’ll be psyched to play. Known ...
- Created on 31 July 2018
- 13. What To Know Before You Go To Your First BDSM "Munch
- (Sex)
- ... you put one toe in the water, since attending a munch is no guarantee that you will decide to go full kinkster, unless that’s a path that truly appeals. There are solid reasons why a munch is a nervous ...
- Created on 20 June 2018
- 14. Fever Ray On "Plunge," Dating Apps, And Protecting Queer Se
- (Music)
- Last October, a mysterious teaser video surfaced on Fever Ray’s website, hinting—with ghoulish imagery, explicit lyrics, and a personal ad on some made-up dating site called “Karma Kinksters”—that ...
- Created on 03 May 2018
- 15. Goddess Aviva And Sophie Saint Thomas Answer Questions You've Always Wanted To Ask About BDSM And Consen
- (Sex)
- ... simply from exploration and growing into your sexuality. What about the function that role reversal plays in BDSM? It seems that sometimes people's kinks are so far from their actual lives, like the ...
- Created on 13 November 2017
- 16. 5 Natural Hair Products That Work Black Girl Magic
- (Style)
- It wasn’t long ago that black women rocking kinks and curls were hard-pressed to find quality products. Thankfully, today there is a virtual sea of shampoos, conditioners, and stylers made for natural ...
- Created on 25 August 2017
- 17. I Was A Professional Dominatrix — Until Having A Baby Changed How I See BDSM
- (Sex)
- ... Pre-children, I was adamantly out to my social circle. I felt a duty to challenge the mainstream perceptions of sex workers and kinksters, but as a new mother, I hesitated to risk scrutiny of my children. ...
- Created on 22 February 2017
- 18. BDSM 101: A Safe, Consensual (And Fun) Guide
- (Sex)
- ... you messages, overt or not, that he’d welcome being the recipient of the rough stuff. BDSM isn’t like oral sex, where it’s often expected and welcome for each partner to do it to the other. Some kinksters ...
- Created on 18 January 2017
- 19. Pissed Off: 3 Things More Important Than Pee From The Buzzfeed Report
- (Feminism)
- ... as an opportunity to kinkshame or denigrate sex workers. Consensual sex acts, however icky you find them —or the person carrying them out— are not the problem here. The real issue is why Trump did this— ...
- Created on 11 January 2017
- 20. Writer Jillian Keenan On Spanking, Shakespeare, And Privacy: BUST Interview
- (Sex)
- ... with nonnormative sexual identities.” I think there is a difference between that kind of privacy and the boundaries we sometimes need to make for ourselves as writers (and/or as kinksters). How do you ...
- Created on 02 May 2016
