CNN By Ian Kerner Could opening your relationship to others benefit you and your partner? For many couples, monogamy — staying sexually exclusive with one partner — is expected and assumed. It’s even included in many marriage vows. But as some people are increasingly realizing, monogamy isn’t for everyone. …
by Katie Mather Polyamory is on the rise. One in five Americans are or have been in a non-monogamous relationship or a polyamorous one. Poly relationships can be structured a number of different ways, but the classic example is that of a committed couple who are allowed to date other …
by Katie Horneshaw “SO I think I’m getting a Dom!” exclaims my friend Jodi* as we sit down for coffee. “You mean like a BDSM thing?” “Yeah! I mean, might as well see what all the fuss is about, right?” “Dom” is kink-vernacular for the dominant role in a BDSM …
It’s Sunday evening and I’m creating a profile on one of the biggest social networks for BDSM, fetish and kink communities. by Louise Joy I’ve chosen an alluring username, and now I’m uploading photos of my shoes and filling out my profile to state that I am a mistress looking for …
Until I made the conscious choice to opt-out of monogamous relationships, I had cheated on every partner I had ever been with. by Ocean DeRouchie I know how bad that might look on paper. But for the longest time, no matter how long I was with someone, no matter how …
by Julian Sanction IN SILICON VALLEY, love’s many splendors often take the form of, well, many lovers. For certain millennials in tech—as well as, rumor has it, a few middle-aged CEOs—polyamory holds especial appeal. Perhaps that’s because making it work is as much an engineering challenge as an emotional one, …
by Bruce Deachman In anticipation of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman has been out in search of Ottawans — 150 of them — to learn their stories of life and death, hope and love, obsession and fear. From Feb. 2 until Canada Day, we’ll share one person’s story …
By Nicholas Thomas While the 50 Shades Trilogy has brought the mysterious world of BDSM (Bondage – Domination – Sadism – Masochism) into the mainstream, it has been highly criticized for not authentically representing the community. With a look into Denver’s BDSM scene, the true nature of the community began …
iTWire by Sam Varghese The head of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, has asked a longtime contributor Larry Garfield to leave the project soon after it became public knowledge that Garfield practises a BDSM lifestyle. In a statement, Buytaert said Garfield had been asked to leave, “because… he holds views that are …
NPR by BARBARA J. KING The word polyamory, according to this FAQ page maintained by writer and sex educator Franklin Veaux, “is based on the Greek and Latin for ‘many loves’ (literally, poly many + amor love). A polyamorous person is someone who has or is open to having more than …
