We are sick and tired of the same old pink lacey underwear and the nice but boring nights that come with it. We’ll show you everything you need to get a little kinkier.

Dominatrix and fetish/bondage model Mz Berlin, whose real name appeared in a story in the San Francisco Weekly even after she asked for anonymity, has been denied the right to visit her 8-year-old son. After her ex-husband read the article about her, err, habits he asked the courts to take away Mz Berlin’s visitation rights. He said he’s worried about their son’s safety.

As the economy goes soft, some women are seeking to earn extra cash as freelance sex workers. As it turns out, there’s a market for powerful career gals who can dominate a man’s world—literally. According to Tracy Quan’s “Kinkonomics,” recently laid off ladies are freelancing as professional dominatrixes. Although sex workers generally consider pro-domme work the most difficult sex work, these well-educated, middle-class working girls have decided to try their hand at the kinky version of the world’s oldest profession. It’s another type of economic stimulus package; this one includes bondage, verbal humiliation, and foot worship. [The Daily Beast]

What could torture a dominatrix?  Only a bad economy! It’s been a world of pain for the sex workers who have been complaining about the recession.  While prostitutes are reporting record business and lay people are doing it like bunnies, the niche market has been beaten down. 

A man and a woman have been accused to training the woman’s child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services, and photographing some of the acts. The child, who is now 20, was 12 years old when this started. [CBS News]

It costs more to send a friend one megabyte of data via text than it costs to transmit the same amount of data from the Hubble space telescope to Earth. [AHN]

I think this happens at least once a month, somewhere in the world. A woman woke up and discovered that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband. [Reuters]