How to Be a Mommy Domme: A Practical Guide to Warm Authority

Most guides are about finding a mommy. This one is about being one: how to start, what to say, how to correct without cruelty, and how not to burn out.

What We Actually Know About Sex in 2026

Eighty years after Kinsey started interviewing people about their sex lives in an attic office at Indiana University, the honest inventory of what science has established about human sexuality fits into a surprisingly small space. Not because the questions are simple. Because the funding was erratic, the politics were hostile,

Who Funds Sex Research and What They're Buying

The National Institutes of Health awarded approximately $31 billion in research grants in 2024. The portion of that budget allocated to the study of human sexual behavior, outside of HIV/STI prevention, was functionally a rounding error. The exact figure is difficult to calculate because NIH does not maintain a

The Female Orgasm Is Still Scientifically Controversial and That Tells You Everything

The full internal anatomy of the clitoris was not mapped until 1998, when Australian urologist Helen O’Connell used MRI and microdissection of cadavers to produce the first complete three-dimensional model of the organ. The study was published in the Journal of Urology. It demonstrated that the clitoris was

What the AIDS Crisis Did to Sex Research

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published a brief report noting that five young men in Los Angeles had been diagnosed with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a lung infection so rare that the existence of five cases in one city was itself a medical event. All five men were gay.

The Researchers Who Got Arrested

Alfred Kinsey died in 1956, exhausted and under investigation. The U.S. Customs Service had been intercepting his mail for years, seizing the erotic materials he was collecting for the Indiana University Institute for Sex Research. The IRS was auditing the Rockefeller Foundation’s grants to his lab, applying pressure

The Conversion Therapy Betrayal

In 1979, William Masters and Virginia Johnson published a book called Homosexuality in Perspective. The book claimed that homosexuality could be converted to heterosexuality through their standard two-week therapy protocol. The claimed success rate was extraordinary. The methodology behind the claim was, by the standards of their own earlier

Masters and Johnson: The Relationship That Was Also a Research Project

They spent twenty years studying human intimacy before they tried it with each other. William Masters and Virginia Johnson married in 1971, fourteen years after she walked into his laboratory as a research assistant with no degree and a talent for making strangers comfortable talking about sex. The marriage lasted

The Sex Therapy Empire

The pivot happened because the data pointed at a door and the door led to money. Masters and Johnson had spent twelve years watching people have sex in a laboratory and mapping what the body does when sex works. They had accumulated thousands of observations of functional sexual response. They

Human Sexual Response and the Body That Surprised Everyone

The book was designed to be unreadable. William Masters made this decision with full awareness of what he was doing and why. Human Sexual Response, published in April 1966 by Little, Brown and Company, was written in the densest possible clinical prose, loaded with medical terminology, structured like a pathology

William Masters: The Doctor Who Decided to Watch

William Masters was not a rebel. He was a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist at Washington University in St. Louis, a man whose professional life was organized around the careful accumulation of institutional respectability. He published in the right journals. He attended the right conferences. He wore the right ties. His

The Attack on Kinsey Never Really Ended

Kinsey has been dead since 1956. The attacks on him are healthier than ever. Every decade produces a new campaign to discredit his research, defund his institute, and retroactively erase his findings from the scientific record. The campaigns fail; the data survives; the institute continues; the findings hold. Then the