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Remembering Russell J. Stambaugh: A Pioneering Professional in Sex Education and Sex Therapy

Russell J. Stambaugh, a psychotherapist, sex therapist, and researcher, was a leading advocate for professional sex education about the kink and non-monogamy communities. Despite the stigma and marginalization of this population, Russell made it his mission to educate about consent and clinical cultural competency for professionals, a group that includes …

NCSF’s Service Professionals Survey Results

________________________________ Service Professionals Survey 2024 ________________________________ Find out about NCSF’s survey of Service Professionals! Nearly 1 in 3 (30%) of kink and/or polyamory aware professionals experienced stigma that affected themselves (e.g. aggression) or their work (e.g. loss of job/referral). Only 63% of those who are alt-sex aware advertise themselves that …

NCSF Awards Bianca Laureano the Vi Johnson Liberation Award

NCSF named Bianca Laureano as our first recipient of the Vi Johnson Liberation Award. NCSF’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee awarded Bianca due to the breadth, depth, and varied ways that she has challenged the injustices and inequalities in sexuality education, presentation, accessibility, and services. For two decades, Bianca …

Legal Resources

Section 213.10: Affirmative Defense of Explicit Prior Permission in the revised Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault by the American Law Institute. Sexual Choking Why Sexual Choking Is Not as Safe as You Think: A Call to Action from Sex Researchers and Kink Educators. Deaths from Sexual Choking: A review …

Is Sexual Choking Legal?

In all but four U.S. States, consent is not a defense to choking someone. The other States and Territories regulate “strangulation” and “suffocation” differently under their Assault, Sexual Assault, and Domestic Violence laws. To “strangle” generally means intentionally impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of someone by …

April 2023 Diversity Moment -Steve Ratcliff Centering the Voices of the Kinky Disabled

While at a kink community conference a few years ago, I had the privilege of watching a masterful leader enact an incredible scene on their follower in one of the conference’s dungeons. I use leader and follower here because I don’t know which terms these folks would self-select from the …