YourTango By Ky Henderson Everything you wanted to know (but were afraid to ask) about S&M. Even if you’re not sure what S&M actually entails, the letters alone probably conjure up vivid images: Whips and chains, leather and latex, a tubby guy named The Gimp tugging on his leash as …
Edmonton Journal By Fiona Buchanan EDMONTON – An unusual Edmonton group is seeking to raise awareness about their unique formula for blissful romance. Polyamory Edmonton is a group of people that practise consensual, non-monogamous relationships. They are in the process of becoming a non-profit organization and want to educate …
Time by Denver Nicks Can a survey of one dating app’s users be explained by the Big Apple’s kinkiness? More than Chicagoans, more than Houstonians, more than Los Angelenos, single New Yorkers are on the hunt for long-term relationships. (News to us, yes!) That’s according to a …
By Scott Adkins A 32-year-old Seymour, Indiana man is accused of raping and beating his wife after forcing her to sign a “slave contract,” WFIE-TV reported on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Harden is accused of 38 counts of battery, criminal confinement and rape. He reportedly married the woman just over a …
Washington, DC – NCSF is disappointed with the decision against Gregory T. Miles, Lance Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, by the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, which upheld the convictions of consensual attempted sodomy and indecent acts. As NCSF previously stated in its Amicus brief, accepted by the Court in …
by Siouxsie Q When I was a young queer, my local coffee shop was crucial to my existence. The coffee wasn’t important; it was the community there that mattered. It was the place I took my first girlfriends on dates and the place I played music in front of an …
Patheos by Yvonne Aburrow Z Budapest’s latest hate-filled screed makes me really angry. [Update: actual link to actual comment] It was feminists like Budapest who made it hard for people, especially feminists, to come out as kinky in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. With their statements that you are …
Military Court Accepts NCSF’s Amicus Brief in Support of Consensual Nonmonogamy April 24, 2014 – Washington, DC – The Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has accepted NCSF’s amicus (“friend of the court”) brief advising the court that prosecutors are avoiding the Supreme Court decision, made in Lawrence …
By Eric Jett, NCC, LPC Working crisis intervention with adolescents was an area as a counselor I grew to love because of the diversity of clients I would get to interact with on a daily basis. Several years ago my passion for working with children and the area of crisis/trauma …
The Daily Beast by Aurora Snow The James Franco-produced documentary Kink, which provides a glowing portrait of the BDSM porn site Kink.com, is now in theaters. But for some performers, working for Kink can be terrifying. “WHORE.” Her cold, thin fingers wrapped around my jaw like a Vise-Grip. I could …
