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Women Who ‘Convinced’ Their Partners To Open Their Relationships Share How That Went For Them

NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues. Please click the image to go to the article. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between. NCSF urges you …

Celebrate Neurodiversity Awareness Month in April

For resources on accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion, check out NCSF’s Amplify Voices page! NCSF receives many different requests from people who self-identify as neurodiverse, including organizers needing assistance in setting up groups or individuals facing discrimination due to their interest in kink and/or nonmongamy. In addition, in the past …

Guest Blog: Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Kink Communities

By Victrix Grem Tenebris A Perspective on Technology, Fear, and Adaptation Recently, someone blocked me on social media because I use AI. Curious about the reaction, I posed a simple question to the masses: What does responsible use of AI look like in kink spaces? The question was intentionally framed …

‘A win for dignity’: Portland’s polyamorous families gain legal protections under new code

NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues. Please click the image to go to the article. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between. NCSF urges you …

‘Aftercare’ Is The BDSM Practice We Should Use For Vanilla Sex, Too

NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues. Please click the image to go to the article. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between. NCSF urges you …

Portland moves to extend discrimination protections to polyamorous people

NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues. Please click the image to go to the article. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between. NCSF urges you …

Guest Blog: Why Black and Kinky and People of Color Kink Communities Exist 

Context, Consent, and the Creation of Black and Kinky San Antonio   By Dr. Sean Vincent Seay, PhD (he/him) Kink and BDSM communities often describe themselves as inclusive, consent-driven, and sex positive. These values form the foundation of ethical practice. However, inclusion alone does not guarantee safety or equity, especially for Black, …

Guest Blog – Through the Leather Lens: Black, Woman, Radical

By MsDDOM There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from occupying multiple marginalized  identities within a space that was not originally built with you in mind. For Black women who  exist in Leather, kink, and BDSM communities, that exhaustion is layered — woven from threads  of anti-Blackness, gendered …