updated 9/12/21 I started BED in 2018 with hopes and ambitions to grow into a comprehensive educational resource for kinksters and watched some of those dreams come true. (Visit our newly updated Libraries to see how they’ve grown.) We were going strong in 2019 until a core member of our Read more…
It’s been quite a year so far. I won’t repeat what you already know, but suffice to say all of the stuff you already know goes a long way towards explaining the abrupt interruption of updates to BED. In 2019, we lost a precious member of our Board, and just Read more…
Your editrix is finally catching up on BED business after a long break, and it’s a true pleasure to do so by announcing that we’ve just added spectacular new donations by master photographer Efrain John Gonzalez to his gallery! I think my favorite pic this time around is this. Wow! Read more…
We lost an important member of the BED family a few months ago and it’s taken this long for me to write about her sudden illness and death without shedding tears at this tremendous loss to our Community, to the BED family, and to me personally, because Raini was so Read more…
She was a little before my time, but still working — and quite notorious — when I first got into the BDSM scene in the mid 1980s. Her shows were infamous for their no-holds-barred scenes and drew a coterie crowd of international dominants, submissives, switches, fetishists and transgender players. Today, Read more…
We’re delighted to announce we just added a new piece by prolific writer, M. Christian to our Reading Library. In “Answers,” writer M. Christian describes his experience as an answer person at the San Francisco Sex Information center, where volunteers stand ready to provide evidence-based answers to even the most Read more…
Everyone knows TammyJo Eckhart, right? If not, they should. Author, teacher, historian, member-at-large of the BDSM/Fetish/Leather/Kink communities, and chocolate maven par-excellence, she is a perfect fit for the BED Educators Directory. We are happy to welcome her and wish her congratulations on her listing! She is the 37th educator listed Read more…
I had long since lost my copy of this article so it was a blessing when Vince Andrews at the NLA said he had a copy somewhere in his files. I’ve published it on my official site and it’s had so many views, I’ve decided to share it here with Read more…
We were delighted last week when friend and contributor, Efrain John Gonzalez, gifted us with a dozen new images to add to the picture gallery we created for him in this past Spring in a tribute to Pride 2019. They are beautiful additions to an already stunning archive of work Read more…
September is a great time to get into BED — and so I will be working it! September will be VERY stimulating for people who love kinky sex, myself included. I’m talking about some good, old-fashioned BDSM intellectual stimulation, of course. In the works are a few wonderful new additions Read more…