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Posted inArt Review
Between the flesh and the machine
Skin and stone, organic and sterile, hard and soft: juxtapositions aren’t new in art. This push-and-pull tactic has been done, and done again, but it’s not always executed well. New York-based artist Hannah Levy manages to push and pull her viewers in the right direction for her new solo exhibition, “Hannah Levy: Surplus Tension,” now […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Kinky or killer?
During a trial over a grisly murder, prosecutors and journalists alike traded in homophobic, sex-negative tropes that some say do a disservice to the victim and the BDSM community.
Posted inNews & Politics
Gay bathhouses were barely surviving. And then came COVID-19.
Can these queer havens survive another pandemic?
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago’s gay grandaddy of tattooing
How Cliff Raven changed the city’s ink culture forever
Posted inArts & Culture
Cybersex and sex work in Second Life
The virtual world is still a sanctuary for folks leaning into their sexual fantasies.
Posted inCity Life
Bonded together in crisis
The local sex worker community, hit hard amid the pandemic and ignored by social safety nets, is no stranger to mutual uplifting during tough times.
Posted inArts & Culture
‘Restrain’ appears static, but the works (and the viewers) dance
Brendan Fernandes’s bronze sculptures congeal pain and pleasure.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How not to be that professor
Dan Savage reads the riot act to a professor sleeping with former students, and more.
Posted inFilm
CineKink is back with another lineup of raunchy films
The sex-positive film festival is making a stop at the Leather Archives & Museum.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Teach your children well
Advice for parents of precocious bondage enthusiasts, and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Breaking boundaries
Is a stealth act of barebacking forgivable? Plus: an autistic sub seeks advice on his open marriage.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The seven-year yawn
Dan Savage advises a married young woman what do about her boring vanilla sex life and hankering for BDSM.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Interested in prostate play and faced with a hard pass
Are there health benefits to prostate stimulation? An expert addresses this and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Uncle Dan’s guide to sticky situations
What to do if you’re jealous of your fiance’s best friend—who happens to be his ex—and more.