By Dr. Lee Kinsey Trends in young adult sexuality are poorly tracked. Because many in the United States are squeamish about studying sexuality there is not much we know about what emerging adults do and do not do with their sexuality. However, some researchers who study sexuality have noted a …
At the end of the 1980’s, the nascent world of open, above ground BDSM was facing very hard times. Pansexual BDSM groups had come aboveground shortly after the 1969 Stonewall Riots, and local groups had burgeoned in major cities during the early 1970s. The Leathersex communities’ titleholder events had become …
By Erez Benari For people who practice polyamory, one of the many challenges stems from the fact that the majority of the world does not have a legal framework for a multi-partner relationship. This causes both legal challenges and philosophical/ethical ones. On a philosophical/ethical level, marrying one of your partners …
By Erez Stoller My name is Erez, and this is my story about ethical non-monogamy (ENM), also known as Polyamory. Like most people, I was raised with the notion that monogamy is the only way to love. One man, one woman. However, as a kid, I read a lot of …
Dr. K – The Submissive Next Door Sex is part of who we are as humans…let’s start with that. Every human is here as a result of a sexual act happening in some way. Our society is the result of successful procreation for centuries and yet American culture is simultaneously …
By Eve Rickert and Carrie Jenkins Early this month, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced that unmarried romantic partners of Canadians would be allowed to cross the border and, after quarantining, finally see their loved ones. For many, this is desperately welcome news. The headlines proclaimed “tears of …
By Anna D. Hirsch, MFA, MS with LiveLikeLove Sex and sexuality geeks are the people who make a habit and even a career out of studying sex and sex culture, and sex savvy communities have become increasingly well versed on the subject of pleasure as an epicenter of healing and …
By Bob Hannaford with Naughty Events Years ago, when Tess and I started looking into swinging, we had no idea how to find other people “like us”. We started in AOL chat rooms and talked to more fake people, kids and married men, pretending to be couples than we ever …
By Joel Gleason Without going into detail, several years ago I assisted a client of mine who had planned on putting on a large event in a major U.S. city in September 2020. His organization wanted to purchase event cancellation policy. Fast forward to Spring 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic, …
By Libby Sinback We are up to four Google Docs going between my household and my partner’s household. That feels like a lot, and also there may be more. We are using the docs to share our household procedures for coming home from the grocery store, whether or not we’re …
