Time Magazine By Amanda MacMillan Is sex addiction real? It depends who you ask: Hollywood stars and industry heads who’ve cited it in defense of reported sexual indiscretions—ranging from infidelity to harassment to rape—may argue that it is. Over the last decade, celebrities including David Duchovny and Tiger Woods have …
A Position Statement from the Center for Positive Sexuality (CPS), The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance (TASHRA), and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) Approximately a year after the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists’ (AASECT) position statement on sex addiction was published, three more professional organizations …
NCSF Newsletter 3rd Quarter, 2017 Edited by Julian Wolf In this Issue Disaster Relief Funds French Connection Events Stay Connected! In Memory: David Stein Narritive Project The Woodshed Lawyers Are Coming Coalition Corner Spotlight Consent Month Photo Winners NCSF Thanks! Incident Reporting & Response Celebrating 20 Years of Successful Advocacy …
NCSF Newsletter 2nd Quarter, 2017 Edited by Julian Wolf In this Issue Naughty in N’awlins Poly Dallas Millennium Stay Connected! Saying Goodbye to Chuck Renslow Narritive Project The Red Chair, NCSF Coalition Partner Kink Knowledgeable Program Incident Reporting & Response Celebrating 20 Years of Successful Advocacy with NCSF! Nauttiboy September …
NCSF Newsletter 1st Quarter, 2017 Edited by Julian Wolf In this Issue NCSF Annual Coalition Partner Meeting Stay Connected! DSM Revision Project 30-year Timeline Pick up one of our new postcards! Incident Reporting & Response Celebrating 20 Years of Progress! Celebrating 20 Years of Successful Advocacy with NCSF! NCSF Thanks! …
Huffington Post by Ruby Bouie Johnson LCSW “Compliance is not consent. Compliance is a product of coercion. Coercion is the leverage of power of social, economic, and status to manipulate, exploit, and deny another of the civil liberties and human rights. Acquiescing is not a sign of “asking for it.”
Mashable “Yes, you can state that you’re in an Open Relationship, but I am not. I am as seriously and exclusively committed to two boyfriends as I would be to one. You can state that “It’s Complicated,” but in this case, and in many, many polyamorous relationships, it is not …
Bustle “On the night I went to Touchpoint, the main topic that won the most votes was trust and transparency: What’s the balance between honesty and personal privacy in a partnership? Over the two hours, people took turns swapping stories with the crowd, a diverse group of men and women …
Allure And while being kinky still comes with social stigmas, Stephanie*, a 25-year-old woman involved in the New York City kink scene, says kinks are increasingly viewed as mainstream. “I always thought you couldn’t have an unconventional lifestyle and fall into success. Now I know you can live a kinky …
The Sacramento Bee At the oral argument in the 9th Circuit on Oct. 19, Judge Carlos Bea asked a key question: “Why is it illegal to sell something that it’s legal to give away?”
