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Couples Speak Honestly About Open Relationships

The Atlantic Making the film was an eye-opening experience for Badia, who came to see non-monogamous relationships as an inspiration, particularly with regard to overcoming jealousy. “I was moved by the couples’ honest rapport with their partners about their individual needs,” she told The Atlantic, “and how they had a …

COUP/3 program looks at polyamory, relationship ideals

Windy City Times “It’s all about exploration and it’s all about finding your true authentic self and also to recognize that everyone’s journey is going to be impacted by stigma,” said Johnson. “Stigma’s from classism, sexism, genderism, racism, all of these various elements are going to impact how you interact …

How the Steampunk Community Was Rocked By Its Own #MeToo Scandal

Daily Beast Mach was famous not only because his conventions were some of the biggest and best-attended, but because he had a cult of personality, a well-cultivated brand. He also blogged and spoke publicly about good sexual consent practices, claiming to be a builder of safe spaces. So when Mach …

Walmart is pulling Cosmopolitan from checkout lines in response to #MeToo — but it’s an embarrassing perversion of the movement

Business Insider On Tuesday, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization, said Walmart had responded to its campaign to pull Cosmopolitan from the shelves in checkout aisles. The change will affect the roughly 5,000 Walmart locations where Cosmopolitan is stocked. “That’s over 5,000 stores where families and individuals …

Founder of the secretive self-help group NXIVM charged with sex trafficking

ABC News As outlined in the Department of Justice press release, the complaint, which was unsealed today, alleges that “in 2015, Raniere created a secret society within Nxivm called ‘DOS,’ which loosely translated to ‘Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions,’ or ‘The Vow.’ DOS operated with levels of women ‘slaves’ …

Hours After FOSTA Passes, Reddit Bans ‘Escorts’ and ‘SugarDaddy’ Communities

The great content crackdown has begun. FOSTA seriously chips away at Section 230, the federal provision that protects web publishers from being treated as the speaker of user-generated content. Proponents of FOSTA have insisted this is just a renovation of Section 230, not a demolition. But as Sen. Ron Wyden …

Checklists, Safe Words, and Interrupted Orgasms: How Directors Are Navigating Consent During ‘Rough’ Porn Shoots

Jezebel While acting as an on-set advocate for Wasteland, Rowntree once canceled a scene when a female performer seemed to be in pain while performing with a particularly well-endowed male performer. “She held her breath and closed her eyes and did a hiccup kind of thing,” she said. “I stopped …