Is Camming the Job For You?

By Metta May [ A guest post by Metta May, founder of Wellness4Hoes and instructor at The Mistress Academy] There’s not really an orientation to attend for this gig, so if you’re new or on the fence, here’s a bit of a glimpse at what you’re getting in to!  Be You! – This is the […]

The Mistress Academy

By Lady Lovage  The Mistress Academy is a finishing-program in St. Louis aimed at those in the sex work industry who are looking to incorporate BDSM and power exchange aspects into their personal or professional lives.  This program is taught by Lady Lovage, a Dominatrix with seven years of experience both as a lifestyle Femdom […]

Sex-Positive Christianity

Note: This is reposted with permission from Bitter Blush. It was originally published at Bitter Blush blog, a platform that strives to create an open community to discuss topics that traditionally make us **blushhh. This piece is by Anonymous. The Christian point of view regarding sex is perhaps one of the most “sex-positive” perspectives out […]

Facing Your Fears

A guest post by one of our members: Fear keeps us in chains. Break FREE We all have at one time found ourselves living a fearful life. What do you fear? Fear strangles you. It matters not what that fear is, you can’t relax, it holds you back and robs you of peace of mind. Are you […]

On Being Intersex… Or, I Am Not a Unicorn

by Leon Augustus Braxton, Jr. Many do believe that intersex people are like unicorns: a mythical creature that is rarely seen. Like unicorns, intersex has been largely unseen mainly due to the veil of secrecy and shame that intersex people feel. However, unlike the unicorn we are not a myth – we exist. Intersex people are […]

Play Parties: What’s In It For Me?

A guest post by Henry Lee (This article is based on a talk I gave on March 16, 2014 at Shameless Grounds.) So what is a play party? Some people might say it’s just a nice term for an orgy, but it can actually mean a lot of different things. A play party is any […]

What We Talk About When We Talk About Vanilla

by The Vanilla Life My blog is to thank for getting the chance to write this guest post.  That little piece of the internet is about sex as I experience it and issues related to that.  More specifically, I write about what it’s like to be both vanilla and not; vanilla in the sense that […]

Jealousy and . . . Violence?

by RunSilent RunDeep We have all probably heard of people who have gotten violent, or who have threatened violence, when they have discovered that their “significant other” has been in contact with someone who is not monogamous. Being reasonable and compersive people people, we have probably said to ourselves, “What in the world could possibly be up […]

Sex and St. Louis: 1976

by guest author Henry Lee ed. note: check out Henry Lee’s story Service in Show Me: an erotic anthology It’s easy enough to locate books and articles on conventional St. Louis history. Subjects such as the 1904 World’s Fair, the cholera epidemic of 1849, and the rise and fall of the big breweries have been […]

Play Piercing 101

Ed Note: This is a guest post by Courtney, a professional piercer at TRX Studio on S. Grand in celebration of International Body Piercing Day (June 28)! Body piercing has long been used by humans as a way to decorate our skin.  Be it to identify ourselves with a group, express our individuality, or to […]

Nudism, Sex and Me, Part 3

This is a guest post by Magnum Chlenov, a Russian-American computer programmer living in St. Louis. In addition to being a sex-positive nudist, he is a fan of Doctor Who, Harry Potter and the Big Bang Theory, a stamp collector, an amateur author, an alternate historian and a fantasy hockey manager. He is happily engaged […]

Nudism, Sex and Me, Part 1

This is a guest post by Magnum Chlenov, a Russian-American computer programmer living in St. Louis. In addition to being a sex-positive nudist, he is a fan of Doctor Who, Harry Potter and the Big Bang Theory, a stamp collector, an amateur author, an alternate historian and a fantasy hockey manager. He is happily engaged […]