by Desmond Ravenstone Last weekend, I flew out of town to attend a conference where the annual meeting of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom was being held, having been invited to co-present on sex workers’ rights for the Coalition’s leaders. I took just a small backpack crammed with clothes, …
By Nathalie Rupert The ubiquitous fantasy that you meet a dark, mysterious stranger who makes you do things you find sexy but you never really dared to do before has become very popular in the past few years, almost mainstream, you could say. This fantasy has a number of variants, …
by Liz Harrison Out in vanilla world, the concept of consent, while hotly debated from time to time by policy makers, is at its core cut and dry – either the person acted or spoke affirmatively and sexual activity occurred, or the person didn’t speak or act in an affirmative …
KAP Directory Featured Member By Inara de Luna, Guest Blogger Have you ever received an injury from a kink scene, but didn’t want to go to your doctor for treatment? Maybe you needed to see the doctor for some other reason, but delayed the appointment until the marks from your …
By Inara de Luna, Guest Blogger We hope you’ve been enjoying our Featured Member series. Today, I’d like to introduce you to another member of the Kink Aware Professional Directory. When many people think of our directory, they think of lawyers and therapists, but our directory is for professionals of …
by Carrie Jameson, LCPC So, your best friend tells you they are kinky and/or they practice BDSM (Bondage and Discipline [BD], Dominance and Submission [Ds], Sadism and Masochism [SM]). Whether it is your best friend, a sibling, parent, or child, you may want to be an ally, but simply don’t …
Kink Aware Professionals Featured Member By Inara de Luna, Guest Blogger We’ve started a new series here on the NCSF blog. We will be speaking with a selection of professionals from our Kink Aware Professionals Directory to understand a little more about them and the work they do, specifically in …
By Liz Harrison This November, beyond voting for president, it appears that the residents of Georgia will be deciding whether or not they want to add a new tax. Normally, this sort of thing wouldn’t be mentioned around here, but this one is directly related to kinky sex. Some politicians …
by Dr. Marty Klein “What do you suppose would happen if the whole country were flooded with free porn?” What sounded like a crazy idea in the 1980s became a reality just a few years later. We now know exactly what would happen. In the year 2000, broadband internet brought …
by Elisabeth Sheff Recently I wrote a couple of blogs on Psychology Today about factors that can either discourage (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201609/protective-features-curb-abuse-in-polyamorous-relationships ) or encourage (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201609/adverse-features-contribute-abuse-in-polyamory ) abuse in polyamorous relationships. Before I published them I considered mentioning the link between polyamory and kink, and including a caveat about consensual power exchange possibly involving behaviors …
