Bay Area Reporter by Race Bannon San Francisco’s Pride 2014 weekend is now just a memory, but I remember it fondly. I especially cherish being able to yet again march with the Leather Pride Contingent in the parade. The contingent is a microcosm of why it’s so great to be …
Not only is BDSM far more common than you might think, it’s also far less of a red-flag when it comes to health and psychology Smithsonian Magazine by Rose Eveleth Would you let somebody you were in a relationship with tie you up? If you said yes, you’re not nearly …
Huffington Post Live If the success of “50 Shades of Grey” tells us anything, it’s that there are plenty of people fascinated by the combination of pleasure and pain. But how does one explore the world of whips, toys and bondage? HuffPost Live asks the experts. Originally aired on December …
Huffington Post Live We may not want to admit it, but as psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in his book, “Perv,” there’s a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. But where do we draw the line between kink and the type of behavior that requires a psych evaluation? Hosted …
Fearless Press You may have heard that with the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (the DSM-5), the American Psychological Association had “depathologized kink;” that the paraphilias (Fetishism, Sexual Masochism, Sadism… all of the ISM’s close to our hearts) are no longer necessarily diagnosable mental illnesses. This is …
Rumpus While working diligently on my historical novel and watching sales of Fifty Shades of Gray skyrocket and take over the mainstream consciousness, I started wondering what in it, beyond the S&M relationship, was so compelling. What did it take to find a breathtakingly large readership—and could I, too, dig …
Fox 45 Baltimore An erotic conference planned for this weekend has been cancelled. Organizers of the “Touch of Flavor” event says its vendors are losing thousands of dollars for an event they describe as adult-only and educational. “When you do kink, it’s bondage, role play and power exchange – those …
Details.com This May, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will publish its first update since 2000; it is the DSM-5—the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It may not seem like a big deal to the layperson, but the new edit will forever change the definition …
‘None of my clients know who I am completely. There’s always an air of fantasy and mystery.’ The Atlantic Miss Georgia is mad, so she grabs David by his face and starts pushing him. He looks genuinely scared, and can only stammer a bit as Georgia presses him for an …
NY Magazine You can probably predict most of what’s written in today’s New York Times story on the mainstreaming of kink. Fifty Shades of Grey made it so that everyone and their mom (especially their mom) could feel safe owning up to their desire to tie one another up, which …
