PBS BY CORINNE SEGAL An Oregon circuit court has ruled that a resident can change their legal gender to “nonbinary,” a gender identity that is neither male nor female. Jamie Shupe, who lives in Portland, Oregon, filed a petition on April 27 for what the court designates a legal “sex …
Note from NCSF on the following story: Dangerous Insiders are kinky people who tip off the media or local authorities about a kink event to try to shut it down. They are the worst of the worst, using the stigma against us that keeps us afraid of exposing ourselves, and …
Why should fetishes be irresponsible? Ad Week By Angela Natividad Ever want to play 50 Shades of Grey, but can’t swallow the thought of all that leather and man-pandering? There is hope. Bijoux Indiscrets—the Spanish sex-toy retailer that recently gave us an online orgasm library—just launched Maze, a collection of …
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/what-makes-people-kinky AlterNet By Carrie Weisman If the 125 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey that have been sold haven’t made it obvious, kink is pretty cool. Some readers feel the book helped introduce them to kinky sex, while others feel it gave them the permission they needed to pursue …
Ynaija.com by Edwin Okolo Last night, for the first time in five years I took time to explain what it meant to be polyamorous. Flushed with spirits and happiness, with the need to run my fingers through your hair, I felt myself burble like a fountain, explaining to this tiny, …
Quartz by Lila MacLellan American health and sex journalist Michael Castleman has compared BDSM to the child’s game of “trust,” when one child stands in front of another and falls backward, waiting to be caught. It’s a bonding experience, Castleman says, “When the falling player trusts the catcher enough to …
Met Media By Cheyenne DeChristopher The boom that was Sen. Bernie Sanders political revolution ended like a monstrous bonfire, consuming too much fuel and burning itself out. yet, despite it’s resolution, the David and Goliath narrative remains prevalent in the minds of Sanders supporters. For supporter Misty Plowright, the love …
Glamour Magazine BY SUZANNAH WEISS Disrespect for boundaries and consent is so normalized that even presidential nominees can dismiss advocating assault as mere “locker room talk.” But members of one group seem to know more about consent than the average person: those in the BDSM community. A survey of 185 people …
“I’m not concerned about robots. I’m concerned about human behavior.” Inverse by Yasmin Tayag Within the first ten minutes of HBO’s Westworld, we witness the prelude to rape. A tall man in black, played menacingly by Ed Harris, drags Evan Rachel Wood’s screaming Dolores towards an empty barn by the collar …
In his newest, Simone makes a sincere, reasoned case for polyamory and the pitfalls of monogamy. Seattle Weekly by MARTIN DOUGLAS Though it’s one of the most socially progressive art forms in terms of examining life on the short end of racial and economic privilege, hip-hop is sometimes maddeningly conservative when …
