This is a Public Service Announcement for San Francisco Bay Area Kinksters! Race Bannon, author of NCSF’s Finding Kink-Aware Medical Care will be attending the following Town Hall Meeting: Kink Health Project Town Hall Meeting #1 “Whip your doctor into shape!!! Expose yourself to your therapist!!!” Thursday, August 08, 2013 …
Is S&M dangerous? Let’s look at the evidence. Slate Earlier this year, I wrote two articles about BDSM—bondage, dominance/submission, and sadomasochism. I argued that BDSM, unlike homosexuality, was inherently problematic and wasn’t an orientation. Defenders of BDSM—Dan Savage, Jessica Wakeman, Clarisse Thorn, Jillian Keenan, and dozens of Slate commenters—wrote back, …
WFAA ABC News SAGINAW — The family of Alanna Gallagher, who was found murdered and wrapped in a tarp last week, addressed for the first time speculation swirling about their home life. Miles McDaniel, listed on the six-year-old’s obituary as one of Alanna’s two fathers, explained that he, Karl Gallagher …
Dirk Hooper Photography Last weekend Facebook removed dozens of BDSM-related pages from the site. The group BDSM Against Censorship lists nearly 100 groups affected by the ban, but there are unquestionably more groups and pages that have not made the list. Since last weekend a few of the groups have successfully …
Supreme Court decisions on marriage unlikely to directly impact status of polygamy, other multiperson relationships US News The U.S. Supreme Court could rule any day on challenges to two laws blocking legal recognition for same-sex marriages – the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s voter-approved Proposition 8 – but …
Chicago Sun-Times It was a marriage that lasted only three months. But it generated a seven-year legal battle so bitter it ended up in federal court. And when it was finally done Thursday evening, Gold Coast resident Kim O’Brien didn’t get a single cent out of the multi-millionaire ex-husband she’d …
What do you call it when a husband beats his wife with a paddle for disobeying him? Some would say domestic abuse. These people say he’s doing God’s work. The Daily Beast On a pain scale of one to 10, Chelsea ranks the epidural-free birth of her child as a …
Chicago Sun Times Jurors were given a peek Wednesday at a sex-slavery contract and documents outlining the basics of sadomasochism in a Gold Coast woman’s lurid lawsuit against her former husband. Kimberley O’Brien, 52, is suing 57-year-old Kevin Anderson in federal court, claiming he lured her into a violent marriage …
The Fix Being abstinent from drugs and alcohol doesn’t mean forsaking fun. A thriving community testifies that kink and sobriety go together like a fist in a leather glove. What’s the link between BDSM—the catchall term for bondage, discipline, domination/ submission, sadism and masochism—and sobriety? Can you be clean and …
Live Science Editor’s Note: With the release of the latest edition of the mental-health manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM), LiveScience takes a close look at some of the disorders it defines. This series asks the fundamental question: What is normal, and what is not? …
