Your Rights. Your Privacy. Your Freedom.
 

Open Relationships Are Less Sexually Satisfying Than Monogamy, Study Finds

Vice Around 82 percent of people in monogamous relationships said they were satisfied with their sex lives, while only 71 percent of polyamorous people said the same.   Stepping into an open relationship can often times help people survive long-distance relationships or work through jealous feelings, but according to a …

Kink scene ‘rope master’ seeks $1.5 million from burlesque star in defamation case

Baltimore Post Examiner BY ANTHONY C. HAYES  In the dark world of kink, clear parameters must be agreed upon by all parties involved before entering a scenario in their sadomasochistic sex play. But what happens when something goes “very wrong” and one or more parties feel they have been injured? …

Who wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world

DC’s latest “Wonder Woman” movie forms a constellation from Scythia to Trump Salon by EMILY JORDAN Pop culture traces the mythic question of what makes a civilized beast. Teetering on this fulcrum of meat and mind is the goddess figure, who must hold her precarious position, bring home the bacon and …

Announcing the Launch of the Kink Knowledgeable Program!

NCSF is proud to announce its affiliation with KinkKnowledgeable.com, the first comprehensive online academy for kink curious professional counselors, social workers and psychologists. The Kink Knowledgeable Program came out of the publication of Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist. Recognizing a vacuum in the therapeutic training community for clinical professionals working …

Wonder Woman Has Always Been Queer—But You Won’t See That in the Movie

Glamour BY EMILY GAUDETTE   Though Wonder Woman has existed since 1941, no one seems to agree on what she prefers sexually. She’s dated Superman and her primary boyfriend, Steve Trevor, and she’s flirted with Batman; in recent comics, she’s alluded to sexual relationships with other Amazons. She wears bondage-style …

Is Kinkphobia a Crisis in the Mental Health Field?

Qualitative studies show that kinkophobia is pervasive in the mental health field Psychology Today by Michael Aaron Last week, I published an interview with Portland-based psychotherapist Galen Fous on the nature of the unconscious, mythology, and Jungian archetypes as they relate to sexuality and specifically, kink-related expression. While I would …

Was The Tea Party Born in This Dominatrix’s Indiana Fetish Dungeon?

In 2007, a battle with Indianapolis authorities over the legality of her basement fetish dungeon drove Melyssa Hubbard to political activism, and founding the Indiana Tea Party. Daily Beast by VINCENT CARUSO “On top there is the Goddess Diana,” she had finally revealed to me. Having just picked me up from …