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Press Release – 2nd Annual Sex Positive Journalism Awards

Award deadline March 31st For immediate release: March 6, 2009 Contact: Susan Wright, 917-848-6544 or Miriam Axel-Lute, info@sexies.org For more details: www.sexies.org Read anything in your local (or national) paper that reported on sex in a surprisingly informed, non-hysterical way? The Sex-Positive Journalism Awards want to know about it. Last’s …

NCSF Statement on NYC Pro-doms

NCSF Statement on Professional Dominatrices in New York February 11, 2009 NCSF has been contacted by over a dozen concerned members of the BDSM community in New York about the arrests of dozens of professional Dominatrices in Manhattan that started in early 2008. The pro-Domme community in New York City, …

Press Release – Sweeden Takes Sexual Behaviors Off Their Disease List

Sweden takes sexual behaviors off their disease list November 25, 2008 – The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare is declassifying sexual behaviors as mental illnesses to avoid strengthening prejudice against the behaviors, the Swedish news service Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported last week. The diagnoses which will soon disappear from …

DSM Revision Petition

Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis! DSM Revision Petition The DSM Revision Petition is gathering signatures from individuals and organizations calling on the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to adhere to empirical research when revising the diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Statements currently within the DSM …

DSM Revision White Paper

NCSF and the NCSF Foundation’s position on the discriminatory paraphilias section in the DSM. Because the scientific evidence contradicts the statements currently within the DSM, we must conclude that the interpretation of the Paraphilias criteria has been politically NOT scientifically based. This politically motivated interpretation subjects BDSM practitioners, fetishists and …