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Relationship Satisfaction Entails Playing By the Rules

Psychology Today by Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D.  The so-called “standard” type of relationship in which both partners in a couple are monogamous doesn’t work for everyone.  In some of these alternative relationships, one partner may engage in sexual activities outside of the couple but not let the other partner know. …

Dallas Symposium Puts Polyamory On Center Stage

Dallas Observer BY PAIGE SKINNER During Marla Stewart’s presentation of “Being Black, Poly and Kinky: Navigating Power, Equity and Anarchy in Alternative Relationship Modalities,” she encouraged members of the audience to think about their polyamorous relationships. The lecture was just one part of the third annual, three-day PolyDallas Millennium this …

Kinky Sex Is Easier to Find Than Ever, and That May Not Be a Good Thing

The kink community isn’t thrilled about the deluge of new apps that lower the bar for entry. VICE ByMARK HAYandLARRY FITZMAURICE inkD is an app promising to help users “fulfill their golden shower fantasies.” Essentially Tinder for kinky folk, the app’s developers see their creation as an innovative platform for …

The Surprising Conclusion From the Biggest Polyamory Survey Ever

It’s a win-win all around. Inverse By Tanya Basu  Historically, polyamory has been seen as a surefire sign of a failing relationship: If your partner is sleeping with others, even with your permission, your relationship is fizzling towards its demise. If you couldn’t satisfy your partner, your relationship was doomed. …

Polyphobia

Anti-polyamorous prejudice and discrimination. Psychology Today by Elisabeth A. Sheff, Ph.D., CASA, CSE Prejudice is making judgements about a specific kind of person based on stereotypes, assumptions, and incomplete or actively faulty information. Usually the person being judged is part of an assumed-homogeneous mass of others who are different in …

Missoula legislators, state leaders celebrate reforms of state rape laws

Missoulian by Jayme Fraser For the first time in decades, Montana made comprehensive updates to its sexual assault law, drawing Gov. Steve Bullock, Attorney General Tim Fox, several legislators and advocates to Missoula for a signing ceremony.   “Most of these laws were passed in the 1970s when we had …

Nude Orleans!

More than 1,000 kinky couples arrive for NAKED speed dating and erotic dancing at world’s largest SWINGERS convention in Louisiana Daily Mail More than 1,000 polyamorous couples have descended on New Orleans for the world’s largest swinging convention. The annual Naughty in N’awlins event, held in the world famous city …

Women accuse employer of discrimination after over their polyamorous relationship

TWO women in a polyamorous relationship with a man say they have been punished with the sack for their unconventional lifestyle. New.com.au Married woman Laura Frost says she was fired from her job at a BP service station west of Melbourne after her bosses found out she had invited younger …

This Gay, Muslim SoCal Native Is Busting Boundaries in the Leather Community

LA Weekly BY MICHAEL CIRIACO June 26, 2017, was a grim day for religious tolerance in America. On that date, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold parts of the Trump administration’s travel ban, which restricts people from six predominantly Islamic countries from entering the United States, lending credibility to the …