Well was an exciting week, NY passed a law that'll cost $2-5 million to prove fails constitutional muster, and the US District Court ruled unanimously that COPA is also unfit to be a law.

A short vignette of a newly caught slave in a modern medical scene.

I was writing up questions for an interview, and I wrote down a question I realized I couldn't answer for myself: Can you explain your fetish to us?

I realized that for most of my fetishes, I couldn't explain why they are enticing to me.

In the last couple of months, we in the US have had 3 major lawsuits dealing with obscenity. For some people it's not an issue, they either don't create erotic works, or they are distinctly 'safe' in what they do create. For other people, this ranges from worrisome to terrifying.

The Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Miller v. California sets out a 3 part standard for ruling content obscene:

1. an average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
2. the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and
3. the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Most frightening about this in conjunction with the internet is the fact that law officials have not only stated they have jurisdiction over the entire internet, but they've actually enforced it. Looking back to 2005 we have a Florida Sheriff quoting (Sheriff Judd as quoted in the Online Journalism Review)

"This might be the first [case we've dealt with] where the alleged server is out of the country," Judd said. "But it makes no difference, because if you fed that server or you could receive information off that server in this county, then it gives us jurisdiction. ... Technically I could charge someone in Kansas, if I received child pornography here, obtained a warrant and had him extradited from Kansas and tried here."

For Nikebound's first interview, I thought I would talk to someone who's of interest to just about everyone. So I wandered through my books & my bookmarked sites and found someone who shows up in just about every field of fetish and sexuality I looked at.

Born in Japan, our guest moved to the US in her teens. While earning a Degree in Psychology from UC Berkeley, she was a member of the US Army Reserves & then served active duty. She’s worked in the corporate world as well as extensive volunteer service time for non-profit and HIV causes. She is now considered one of the world’s premier speakers on Human Sexuality.

For this interview, we are going to take a personal look at Midori.

For the first of our reviews, I have chosen theMaster/Slave anthology edited by NT Morley. A collection of 60 short stories, the book is broken up into two distinct sections of 30 stories each: Master - 30 Spanking Tales from the Top and Slave - 30 Stinging Tales from the Bottom.

Some of the titles that caught my eye were; The First Time She Kneels and Instructors Fee in the Master set & I Should Not Want This and Time for a Spanking in the Slave set. Since I have seen a few of the authors in person (Cecelia Tan & Midori) I thought the book would be worth at least a read.