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 …
Where: Leather Archives & Museum 6418 N. Greenview Avenue Chicago, IL 60626 When: Saturday, October 19th from 2:30-5 p.m. followed by a wine and cheese reception for the benefit of LA&M and NCSF from 5-7 p.m. Presentation is free of charge. Wine and cheese reception has a suggested donation of …
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 …
By Elizabeth Fawcett A police officer who was a bit skeptical of the idea of consent to participate in BDSM activities told me, “I don’t understand how one day it is okay, and the next day it is not; I mean, when collecting evidence from a person who has …
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 …
On behalf of NCSF, Jim Fleckenstein and Susan Wright attended the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) Annual Conference on June 5-9th in Miami, Florida. NCSF organized the AASECT Alt Sex Special Interest Group munch that took place Friday evening in the Hilton Miami Downtown hotel. Over …
Loving More Updates including the preliminary results of the 2012 Loving More Polyamory Survey. http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1411712717 Results of the 2012 Loving More Polyamory Survey Polyamory Research Survey Background From February 10th to April 2nd 2012, Loving More (http://www.lovemore.com/) ,with the endorsement of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom https://ncsfreedom.org/) (NCSF) conducted …
The American Psychiatric Association has depathologized kinky sex – including cross-dressing, fetishes, and BDSM – in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Now the paraphilias are considered to be “unusual sexual interests,” while those who have sex with children or people who haven’t consented, or …
The Elephant in the Hot Tub: Kink in Context by Russell Stambaugh The stark potential consequences of lack of empathy for the Other are illustrated by the Operation Spanner case. As a result of investigation of another case, the Manchester, England police Obscene Publications Squad came into possession of …
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 …
