Thrillist by Erin Kennedy Polyamory may sound sexy on Saturday night. But on Tuesday morning, you still have multiple relationships to maintain with multiple humans with multiple real-life feelings. Polyamorous relationships can be astonishingly fulfilling, exciting, and fun. But they’re also incredibly challenging. There’s no one-size-fits-all for figuring out whom …
Hi-Fructose Charles Gatewood, the prolific San Francisco based visionary and photographer who was called “the family photographer of America’s erotic underground” died early this Thursday morning, April 28th. He had been in the ICU at SF General Hospital after suffering complications from a three-story fall that tragically ended his life …
Science of Us By Debra Soh Kinky sex has been around for eons, since long before Richard von Krafft-Ebing popularized the terms “sadism” and “masochism” in 1886 with his seminal work, Psychopathia Sexualis. But for a long time, it hasn’t really been spoken about in polite company. Only recently, with …
CKNW by Charmaine de Silva It looks like a controversial RCMP officer is no longer with the force. In a statement to Global BC, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens says Corporal Jim Brown’s carrer with the RCMP is over. Brown is best known for sexually explicit photos of himself …
Huffington Post Entertainment by Cole Delbyck If “Fifty Shades of Grey” was meant for the “mom” crowd, then Showtime’s new scripted mini-series “Submission” is for the more adventurous type. From the mind of acclaimed adult film director Jacky St. James, the six half-hour episodes debuting May 12 dive …
VICE By Adam Kovac SadistFaction’s coffee table is innocuous at first glance, but it’s actually one of the most provocative pieces of home furnishing you’re likely to ever see. That’s because, unlike the generic stuff found in your average furniture outlet, this coffee table is also great for flogging, spanking, …
See Tristan Taormino’s Keynote Speech on NCSF’s YouTube Channel Sold Out Crowd at the NCSF Consent Summit! The NCSF Consent Summit™ on April 23rd welcomed over 100 people for an all-day discussion about consent at the Center for Sex Positive Culture. The live broadcast of the event drew nearly 50 people …
Kernal By Whitney Kimball Smokey the Bear in a cheerleader outfit dances on a table; a pair of snow-white Grimm’s Fairy Tale wolves nuzzle noses, near a black dragon with motion-detecting video pupils. It’s “drag queens vs. furries” night at San Francisco’s maze-like DNA Lounge, but aside from a guy …
Canyon News by Judy Carley ”Fifty Shades of Grey” was more KINKY for some than others and I surmise those shocked were living the missionary lifestyle. Wikipedia defines the concept of KINK in a very understandable way: a deviation or “kink” in normal and standard “straight” sexual behavior. Since …
NCSF’s Incident Reporting & Response provides informational resources about kink and non-monogamy and referrals to kink aware professionals. 198 requests for help were received in 2015, compared to 184 requests received in 2014. Professionals who requested information to better serve kinky people included: academics, social services, vanilla nonprofit organizations & …
