Author Archive
September 24, 2013 by Snarksy
I’m Presenting at CARAS!
I will be at the 6th Annual Alternative Sexualities Conference this Saturday. The lovely folks at CARAS are letting my present my research on conversations around rape within the BDSM community! If you haven’t seen my Bitch Article, Safe Words, you can get a small taste of my what my research is all about here. I […]
September 18, 2013 by Snarksy
I’m Not A Hallucinogenic Unicorn, But You Might Be An Asshole
So I think that by this point many people have seen this terrible and really insulting characterization of Gen Y’ers. I am just old enough to be an 80s baby but not old enough to remember the decade, so this article was targeting me and many people I know very specifically. This post isn’t going […]
September 13, 2013 by Snarksy
A Brief History of Kink Online: Richard Kadrey shares Usenet with Wired Magazine
This might be one of my favorite “above-ground” bits of kink history from the ’90s. In 1994, freelance writer and novelist Richard Kadrey wrote an article for Wired Magazine about a fairly new and controversial meeting place for kinksters—the alt.sex.bondage newsgroup on Usenet. The tone of his article is humerus, investigative and—importantly—respectful. (Holy Mainstream Culture, Batman! […]
August 30, 2013 by Snarksy
Kind of a Fucked Up Question, Huh?
I recently went on an overnight hike, on a trail not too far from where I live. I was stopped at one of the designated camp sites, when another hiker came by—in keeping with hiker nick-name culture, we’ll call him Dirty David.* Dirty David and I spent some time talking with each other about our […]
August 26, 2013 by Snarksy