Visual Arts

Top five celebrities Mistress Saskia would sodomize if she could

Mistress Saskia, Denver’s premier dominatrix, is headmistress of Pavlovia Denver, a house of professional domination where she trains apprentice dominants, teaches private lessons for singles and couples, and offers such delightful and demented services as cross-dressing, role-play, spanking, whippings, fetish play and bondage (subjects you can learn much more about…

Visual Arts

The 10 best BDSM movies (Images are NSFW)

BDSM-themed movies, and films with hot kink scenes in them provide us with two very important things: mainstream popular-culture acceptance, and something to jerk the gerk/smack the peach to when we’re bored. See also: The best BDSM movies: Five more options for your viewing pleasure…

Visual Arts

BDSM edgeplay advice from Jay Wiseman

For people not involved in the BDSM, or kink scene (the subject of this week’s cover story), most forms of sadomasochistic or SM play would be considered edgy, but within the scene there are certain activities that are generally recognized as being high-risk, even for experienced players, and these are…

Visual Arts

Binding Barbie began my life in kink

Jenn Wohletz is the author of this week’s Westword cover story, “Field Guide to Denver Wild Life.” Here’s her first-person account of how she got involved in the the kink scene. I used to tie up my Barbie dolls. I’d strip them, smother their smiling little mouths with duct tape…

Denver Life

Geeky pick-up lines to help you out at Single Bytes

Geeks, as we all know from Anthony Michael Hall’s romance outcome in The Breakfast Club, have a hard time getting the girl. Nevertheless, they’ll get some help tonight at Single Bytes, a dinner and singles night designed by chronic personals section editor Audrey Klammer to bring geeks together and let…

Denver Life

Debate points: The Pride gets a free discussion panel tonight

Solve one set of problems, get another. That’s the central theme of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride, now playing at the Paragon Theatre, which takes a look at the relationships of three characters transposed onto different eras: In 1958, Oliver, Philip and Sylvia struggle as the two men, one closeted…

Denver Life

Five things that are cheaper than sex.com

It seems like a pretty steep price to pay for a website with terrible search engine recognition (it doesn’t even come up in the first page of results) and no current discernible purpose (it’s basically just a bunch of links right now), but the domain name sex.com sold at auction…

Denver Life

Smitten Kitten closes its Denver doors

Denver’s Smitten Kitten outlet — the local outpost at 70 Broadway of the infamous Minneapolis boutique — has shut its legs, er, doors. Between the store’s DIY pasties workshops — and others, like Treats for Your Sweets and Real Sex vs. Porn Sex with Jayme Waxman, which just took place…

Visual Arts

Stupid ad of the week: Axe’s fallen angels

Few companies blatantly exploit sex appeal for financial gain as much as AXE male scent products. Sure, almost every advertisement in history has employed some degree of sexual innuendo, but AXE forgets all about the innuendo part and goes straight for the junk. Exhibit A: Their stupid ad in which…