Huffington Post by Jed Ryan Within the incredibly diverse LGBT community, the worldwide Leather/fetish/kink family is undoubtedly one of its most close-knit subcultures. Leathermen, Leatherwomen, and their allies have created a large and diverse — yet simultaneously intimate — network from Amsterdam to New York City. Throughout the year, there …
Broadly by Alice Sanders Finding a therapist can be a major problem for anyone who’s into BDSM or fetish. The most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, updated in 2013, is the first version in the 62-year history of psychiatry’s diagnostic bible that does not …
Narratively By Stefanie Iris Weiss | Photos by Jonathan Alpeyrie They met on the dance floor at Burning Man. Michel Madie, a 57-year-old French Jew of Algerian descent, a former veterinarian, and a real estate mogul in New York City. Rasmus Foyer, a 27-year-old Swedish civil engineering student with an …
NCSF Newsletter 4th Quarter, 2015 edited by Julian Wolf In this Issue Save the Date for the NCSF Coalition Partner Meeting! Message from the Chair Save the Date for the NCSF Consent Summit! Incident Reporting & Response NCSF sponsors BDSM Writers Con Results of Mental & Emotional Health Study NCSF Thanks! …
Broadly by Steven Blum A new study suggests our nation’s children would be better off learning about consensual sex from dungeon masters than their awkward gym teachers. After measuring rates of “hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance, victim blaming, expectation of sexual aggression, and acceptance of sexual aggression” in …
Fox News by Andrew Hasbun PHOENIX (KSAZ) – In the middle of a major spring snowstorm, the streets of Denver seem deserted, but it’s a celebration of love, at the National Loving More Convention in the Denver suburbs. Here a wife may be dancing with her boyfriend, and her husband …
The Washington Post By Britany Robinson I wasn’t sure what I was looking for the first time I attended a Meetup for polyamorous people. But when the group leader asked me if I wanted to hang out sometime, I knew that I did. So I said yes. He already had …
See the Panels and Plenary on NCSF’s YouTube Channel NCSF Consent Summit The goal of the NCSF Consent Summit was to bring people together across cultural lines to discuss consent in order to help promote consent in our own communities. Now you can watch the Plenary and Panel discussions online! …
NCSF’s Incident Reporting & Response provides informational resources about kink and non-monogamy and referrals to kink aware professionals. 198 requests for help were received in 2015, compared to 184 requests received in 2014. Professionals who requested information to better serve kinky people included: academics, social services, vanilla nonprofit organizations & …
by Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. In the fall of 2009, I started Bay Area Open Minds a clinician networking group for psychotherapists and psychotherapy students who affirm that sexual and gender diversity are natural expressions of the human experience. Our psychotherapy practices welcome and serve clients who engage in consensual sexual …
