National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Bay Area Reporter David Ortmann is a San Francisco-based psychotherapist, sex therapist, and author. His areas of clinical focus and study include the sexuality of the BDSM, kink, fetish, and leather communities, concepts and theories of masculinity, and the processes of human attachment and differentiation. He speaks locally and nationally …

KMOV Two suspects face charges of indecency after a secret sex society was apparently exposed inside a St. Louis bar. Police say they received an anonymous letter that the Red 7 Club on South Broadway was hosting a party for STL Adult Connections, a group for swingers. Swinging is not …

Riverfront Times If you were to visit one of the newest businesses licensed to operate in St. Louis, you wouldn’t see people having sex. Not that.   But you might see a person getting florentined: They’d be cuffed standing, facing a wall, with a person behind them wielding a pair …

Riverfront Times If you were to visit one of the newest businesses licensed to operate in St. Louis, you wouldn’t see people having sex. Not that.   But you might see a person getting florentined: They’d be cuffed standing, facing a wall, with a person behind them wielding a pair …

YLE Transvestism, sadomasochism and fetishism are not going to be officially considered diseases in Finland for much longer. The National Institute for Health and Welfare is removing them from Finland’s lists of diseases because there is no proper medical basis for classifying them as such. An analogous change to the …

Fox News Northwestern University students will not be offered a course on human sexuality during the upcoming school year following an explicit after-class demonstration involving a woman and a motorized sex toy in February, school officials announced Monday. Professor John Michael Bailey, who has taught psychology at the Illinois university …

Chicago Sun-Times Northwestern University will no longer offer a popular course on human sexuality that made national news after the professor who taught the course allowed a live demonstration with a motorized sex toy. The class, taught by Professor Michael Bailey, has been dropped from the psychology department’s curriculum next …

Mercury News Dear Miss Manners: I have several friends in open or polyamorous relationships. Because I’m happy for their happiness together, I would like to make sure that I’m not excluding or slighting any partners. If I am sending them an invitation to a gathering, how on earth do I …

NY Post Notorious “orgy” organizer Palagia has been banned from throwing her monthly sex bashes at the Chelsea Hotel. After throwing wild parties at the iconic location for 11 years — allegedly attended by actors, musicians and TV personalities, as well as some hotel residents — the 37-year-old Greek Madonna …