The Atlantic by MERISSA NATHAN GERSON Asking your partner to tie you to the bedpost, telling them to slap you hard in the throes of lovemaking, dressing like a woman if you are a man, admitting a fetish for feet: Just a few years ago, any of these acts could be …
NY Times On a recent Friday night, a small group of people lined up in a cinder-block hallway inside an unmarked entrance to Paddles, a club on West 26th Street. Two men in their 60s were discussing real estate and a few women in their 20s were sending last-minute texts …
NCSF was asked by the DSM Paraphilias subworkgroup to respond to their proposed changes to the DSM’s consensual paraphilias. This is our Letter to the Editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior that was published on July 15, 2010. PDF papers published by the various members of the Paraphilia Subworkgroup …
Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis Help make history by signing the DSM Revision Petition now! The diagnoses in the DSM-IV-TR still subject people who practice BDSM, fetishes and cross-dressing to bias, discrimination and social sanctions without any scientific basis. We need 3,000 signatures, but we only have 2,200 now. If …
Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis! DSM Revision Petition The DSM Revision Petition is gathering signatures from individuals and organizations calling on the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to adhere to empirical research when revising the diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Statements currently within the DSM …
NCSF and the NCSF Foundation’s position on the discriminatory paraphilias section in the DSM. Because the scientific evidence contradicts the statements currently within the DSM, we must conclude that the interpretation of the Paraphilias criteria has been politically NOT scientifically based. This politically motivated interpretation subjects BDSM practitioners, fetishists and …
