Atlanta Blackstar Just when you thought reality shows have featured almost every imaginable way of life, a new show about the obscure lifestyle of swingers will be making its way to televisions across the country. Discovery Fit & Health has reportedly given the green light to a four-part series titled, …
Accused of biting woman in kidnap, rape case Knoxville News Sentinel It was a promise never before heard in the hallowed halls of the Knox County courts. Dezayas Smith, 23, vowed Friday to give up his “Twilight” books and movies and to refrain from watching or reading about vampire-human trysts …
WBTW News 13 FLORENCE, S.C. – The Florence County Planning Department closed down a Florence swingers club after learning that it was violating a county ordinance. The Beaver Lodge on Hazel Drive was issued a “stop-work” order by the Planning Dept. after determining the business was less than 1000 ft. …
Everyone wants to know how my polyamorous family works. You’d be surprised how normal we really are Salon My family is very ordinary to me. We eat dinner together. We gather in the living room and watch movies. Last weekend, we went on a camping trip and sat around the …
All interested individuals who are involved in BDSM/Leather/Kink lifestyles are invited to participate in a survey about intimate partner abuse. The purpose of this survey is to gather information regarding the quality of experiences had by those who sought help from domestic violence service providers, or those who wanted to …
Fearless Press You may have heard that with the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (the DSM-5), the American Psychological Association had “depathologized kink;” that the paraphilias (Fetishism, Sexual Masochism, Sadism… all of the ISM’s close to our hearts) are no longer necessarily diagnosable mental illnesses. This is …
Huffington Post While the Supreme Court’s decision in the DOMA case made it possible for ACLU attorneys to question the legality of anti-gay laws, there are still some within the gay community who wonder if their kind of love will ever be sanctioned. What do a German man and …
This is a Public Service Announcement for San Francisco Bay Area Kinksters! Race Bannon, author of NCSF’s Finding Kink-Aware Medical Care will be attending the following Town Hall Meeting: Kink Health Project Town Hall Meeting #1 “Whip your doctor into shape!!! Expose yourself to your therapist!!!” Thursday, August 08, 2013 …
On behalf of NCSF, Jim Fleckenstein and Susan Wright attended the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Annual Conference on June 5-9th in Miami, Florida. NCSF organized the AASECT Alt Sex Special Interest Group munch that took place Friday evening in the Hilton Miami Downtown hotel. Over …
Is S&M dangerous? Let’s look at the evidence. Slate Earlier this year, I wrote two articles about BDSM—bondage, dominance/submission, and sadomasochism. I argued that BDSM, unlike homosexuality, was inherently problematic and wasn’t an orientation. Defenders of BDSM—Dan Savage, Jessica Wakeman, Clarisse Thorn, Jillian Keenan, and dozens of Slate commenters—wrote back, …
