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 …
NCSF’s Annual Coalition Partner Meeting will take place March 4-6, 2016, in San Jose, CA. “The annual meeting gives NCSF’s Coalition Partners the opportunity to tell the board where our focus should be in the coming year,” says Chairman Kevin Carlson. “It’s also their time to give us feedback …
WMBF (Myrtle Beach, SC) University of Alabama and University of Central Florida researchers surveyed over 800 kinky people recruited by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and found they were mentally and emotionally healthy. “I was curious about the stereotypes from a mental health standpoint and we …
University of Alabama and University of Central Florida researchers surveyed over 800 kinky people recruited by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and found they were mentally and emotionally healthy. “I was curious about the stereotypes from a mental health standpoint and we found that these kinky people are …
NCSF Newsletter3rd Quarter 2015 www.ncsfreedom.org edited by Julian Wolf In this issue NCSF Membership Drive a Success Incident Reporting & Response Winner of Consent Month Photo Contest Guest Blog – “What if You Get Squicked?” NCSF Thanks! Daily Flogger Satire Castle Treue’s “Cigar, Bourbon, & Leather Evening Fundraiser” Coalition Corner: …
By Liz Harrison Running a BDSM group is a time-consuming endeavor that requires two levels of communication and diplomacy – one within the kink community, and one with the municipal authorities where the group actually meets. That is assuming that the group in question does engage in quasi-public kink …
By Russell J. Stambaugh, PhD, DST, CSSP Pink Therapy is a British kink education and therapy group. They have been known to attend the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities annual conference, which will next meet immediately prior to the 2016 Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, September 24. …
The Elephant in the Hot Tub By Russell Stambaugh For Kink Aware Professionals. Like everything on this blog, context matters. So if you find yourself acutely uncomfortable with a client’s material, what you do depends on when, where, and how it comes up. Some of these suggestions will not be …
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom launched the Consent Violations Survey in 2014 to gather details about consent violations in a BDSM context. We asked about: the severity of the violations, who is being violated, where they were violated, the relationship and intent of those involved, the power dynamic at …
Leather & Grace, a Coalition Partner of NCSF, has begun a campaign to amend the nondiscrimination rule of the Unitarian Universalist Association to include kink-identified people as a protected group. “We believe we can achieve the petition requirements to put this on the agenda for the next General Assembly,” …
