Huffington Post by Susan Wright There are plenty of things I like about Fifty Shades of Grey. It’s a hot romance novel, which is always good, and it has kinky sex in it, which is even better. But E.L. James fell into the classic stereotype by making Christian Grey the dominant …
The success of Fifty Shades has opened a Pandora’s box of curiosity into edgier sexual practices, leading some in the kink community to argue that that it’s crossroads in a civil rights struggle The Guardian by Kim Wall Blindfolded on a chair, the woman tenses visibly as the knife flicks …
Huffington Post talks about the way kink is misrepresented in popular culture – with NCSF’s Susan Wright along with Robert Rubel, Nichi Hodgson and Ummni Khan. http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/fifty-shades-of-grey-bdsm-/54d5150078c90a4fc90005ad
Erotica stores and sex-freedom groups see a surge of interest when film version of best-selling book opens next month NY Daily News BY JUSTIN ROCKET SILVERMAN Bondage is the new black. Good news for those who made a New Year’s resolution to heat up the bedroom — 2015 is …
The Atlantic by MERISSA NATHAN GERSON Asking your partner to tie you to the bedpost, telling them to slap you hard in the throes of lovemaking, dressing like a woman if you are a man, admitting a fetish for feet: Just a few years ago, any of these acts could be …
Pacific Standard by Jillian Keenan Responsible BDSM practitioners realize, perhaps more acutely than anyone else, that “yes” is not enough. We could all learn something from this stigmatized community, if only we’d talk more openly. • The first time I learned about safe words, I’d just been spanked. “If we …
Huffington Post Live by Ricky Camilleri This week several women came forward and accused radio host Jian Ghomeshi of sexual assault. But the Canadian star insists they were all consensual BDSM encounters. Does his defense have merit? We take a closer look at consent and kinky sex. NCSF’s Susan Wright …
CNN by Emanuella Grinberg Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi has interviewed some of pop culture’s biggest names, from Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Dan Rather to Lena Dunham and Zach Galifianakis, and that’s just in the past few months. His CBC Radio show, “Q with Jian Ghomeshi,” is one of …
Slate by Jillian Keenan This weekend, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sparked a national sex conversation when it dismissed popular radio host Jian Ghomeshi. In a Facebook post, Ghomeshi claimed he was fired because his participation in consensual BDSM had come to light and corporation executives “said that this type of …
Substance.com by Rachel Kramer Bussel When women in pop culture stray from the prescribed “good girl” into the most extreme bad girl—the sex addict—their interest in BDSM is typically equated with their addiction. By contrast, men are usually portrayed as hopelessly addicted to XXX images, preferring porn to people. Are …
