Polyamory & Discrimination By Christine Thomas Though I’ve been a self-identifying slut for my entire adult life, I’m pretty darn new to the practice of polyamory. For some reason, I’d always been wary of the concept, thinking that there must be something fundamentally wrong with the sort of person who’d …
Care2 Is kinky sex on the curriculum at Harvard now? Earlier this month, Harvard University formally recognized a student-run BDSM group (short for bondage, domination, and sadomasochism). Now, in addition to the French Club and the Mathematica Club, and about 400 other student groups, freshmen at this Ivy League university …
Include Kink in Nondiscrimination and Diversity Education Reposted for NCSF Coalition Partner Leather & Grace: The Board of Trustees is the top governance body of the Unitarian Universalist Association, overseeing administrative operations, and setting policy in between General Assemblies. Leather & Grace, an education and advocacy organization for UU kinksters, …
Please contact The Advocate and protest their removal of their Op-Ed by Jill D. Weinberg entitled “Kink as The Next LGBT Rights Frontier: Why handcuffs and submission may lead to even more LGBT liberation” posted on December 17, 2012. The comments were very negative against kinky people and demanded …
By Tiffany D. Jones, M.A. In BDSM, a slave/master contract is an important element to ensure that parties know and understand their respective rights and responsibilities within the context of their consensual relationship. Further, as experienced practitioners of BDSM well know, the drafting, negotiation, execution, and enforcement of such contracts …
by Bo Blaze On June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC, a group of gay customers took a stand against police harassment and the Stonewall Riots began. These riots, are now largely regarded as the catalyst for the LGBT, civil rights movement in the United States. …
Prosecutors plan to use Ed Bagley’s consensual sex acts against his own wife as evidence that he abused women. KSPR ABC News A federal court case against a man from Lebanon gravely concerns those who practice an alternative sexual lifestyle nationwide and here in the Ozarks. Ed Bagley is charged …
Washington Post Kinky has gone mainstream with the popularity of the “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy as sales of sex toys have skyrocketed. But there’s a fine line between kinky and criminal – and it’s called consent. That important distinction may get lost with a federal court case in Kansas …
ABC News Advocates for people who engage in rough but consensual sex say they fear an abuse case unfolding in Missouri ultimately could criminalize their lifestyle. Ed Bagley faces a federal trial early next year on 11 counts of abuse against a woman authorities say he groomed to be his …
