Category: Media Updates

City Paper by Brandon Weigel Cupping is all the rage right now, thanks in no small part to a spotted Michael Phelps and other Olympians who say the therapy helps with pain relief and recovery. The Phelps connection has inspired several local journalists to try out the ancient therapy, in …

Polyamory 101: An Interview With Kate Kincaid Tucson Weekly I interviewed Kate Kincaid, a therapist specializing in counseling gender and sexual minorities, people in alternative relationship models, and issues such as infidelity, mistrust, and ineffective communication. Additionally, she provides poly/kink-awareness trainings and workshops for other counselors in order to improve …

The Daily Mail would have you believe that polyamory is all wild orgies. Think more tea and washing up rotas. New Statesman Polyamory, if you believe the news­papers, is the hot new lifestyle option for affectless hipsters with alarming haircuts, or a sex cult, or both. A wave of trend …

Your Tango by Rebecca Jane Stokes It’s the last thing I ever expected and it’s dope as hell. Living in the moment has never been easy for me. I think that’s largely because I’m an imaginative and anxious person: dreaming up the future and then worrying about it is my …

Independent Journal BY BARCROFT MEDIA 16-year-old Tallulah is the daughter of Gracie ‘X’ — a woman who is a part of the “ethical non-monogamy” community. ‘Ethical non-monogamy’ members have extramarital sex with the full knowledge of their spouses. Gracie believes being part of the community makes her a “fabulous” mom. …

VICE By Zak Krevitt When I met Pup Scrubs at the Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend (CLAW), he was non-verbal, only speaking in barks, and he sported full football pads as well as a custom-made sports jersey that read “Raptor Pups” on the front and “Pup Scrubs” on the back. At …

NewsOK by Kyle Schwab An author of sex bondage books was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for sending obscene material to a 17-year-old girl in New York who wanted to be part of his polyamorous family. Charles Michael Segaloff, 60, of Lawton, pleaded guilty in April to …

Sandy Springs Patch by Kristal Dixon A federal appeals court has come down on the side of Sandy Springs, Georgia, in its ordinance banning the sale of sex toys. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday said it was “bound” by a 2004 ruling challenging a similar ban in …

NY Post by Dean Balsamini Brooklyn has its hipsters and Manhattan its beautiful people — but nobody gets their freak on like Staten Islanders. The city’s least populous and most conservative borough leads the way in online sex-product purchases and S&M Web-site registrations, according to retail data that was crunched …