CALL TO ACTION: Say No to the Proposed Acadia Parish Sexually Oriented Businesses Ordinance
Please take a few minutes and let the Police Jury and Media know your concerns for yourself and the community.
Category: Resources
NCSF’s Service Professionals Survey Results
________________________________ ________________________________ 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 way, with 64% of …
Decriminalizing Non-monogamy in the Military
This comment was submitted by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) to assist in the review of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) Article 134 Extramarital Sexual Conduct. NCSF objects to the lack of a consent defense for extramarital sexual behaviors such as Consensual Non-Monogamy. If a service …
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 …
