CNN By Ian Kerner Could opening your relationship to others benefit you and your partner? For many couples, monogamy — staying sexually exclusive with one partner — is expected and assumed. It’s even included in many marriage vows. But as some people are increasingly realizing, monogamy isn’t for everyone. …
If you are in a polyamorous or other type of consensually non-monogamous, where all parties involved understand and agree that complete monogamy is not required, then you know how important it is that people understand what these relationships are and how they work. My name is Ryan Witherspoon and …
by Desmond Ravenstone Last weekend, I flew out of town to attend a conference where the annual meeting of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom was being held, having been invited to co-present on sex workers’ rights for the Coalition’s leaders. I took just a small backpack crammed with clothes, …
by Katie Mather Polyamory is on the rise. One in five Americans are or have been in a non-monogamous relationship or a polyamorous one. Poly relationships can be structured a number of different ways, but the classic example is that of a committed couple who are allowed to date other …
by Katie Horneshaw “SO I think I’m getting a Dom!” exclaims my friend Jodi* as we sit down for coffee. “You mean like a BDSM thing?” “Yeah! I mean, might as well see what all the fuss is about, right?” “Dom” is kink-vernacular for the dominant role in a BDSM …
It’s Sunday evening and I’m creating a profile on one of the biggest social networks for BDSM, fetish and kink communities. by Louise Joy I’ve chosen an alluring username, and now I’m uploading photos of my shoes and filling out my profile to state that I am a mistress looking for …
Until I made the conscious choice to opt-out of monogamous relationships, I had cheated on every partner I had ever been with. by Ocean DeRouchie I know how bad that might look on paper. But for the longest time, no matter how long I was with someone, no matter how …
by Julian Sanction IN SILICON VALLEY, love’s many splendors often take the form of, well, many lovers. For certain millennials in tech—as well as, rumor has it, a few middle-aged CEOs—polyamory holds especial appeal. Perhaps that’s because making it work is as much an engineering challenge as an emotional one, …
The troubling trend of men using dating apps to lure kink-curious women into abusive relationships by Jera.Brown BDSM fantasies — specifically, being dominated — are pretty common among women. According to one study, more than 60 percent of us have them. Some women turn to dating sites to start …
On Saturday evening at Kinky Kollege, NCSF will kick off our 20th Anniversary with a fun-filled charity Birthday Party to celebrate NCSF’s accomplishments. For 20 years now, NCSF has been tirelessly advocating to protect and advance the rights of consenting adults. Please ask your group or event to hold a …