This also appeared on CarnalNation.com.
As some of you may know, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association. It serves as the official list of how we define mental health and mental health disorders. In a nutshell, if it’s in the DSM, it’s officially a [...]
Once again, Folsom St. Fair was a lovely time. The crowd was (mostly) lots of fun, the costumes outfits were impressive, the weather was perfect, and there was the usual array of spectacle. Plus, it seemed like people had amazing hair this year. I saw everything from multi-colored, waist-length braids, a bouffant bleach job, mohawks, [...]
The Folsom St. Fair is coming up on Sept. 27 and I have a few tips for anyone coming to enjoy the spectacle. Folsom is an amazing experience and a great opportunity to have fun, if you’re interested in queer, kinky, leather, sexy folks. (You can pick any combination of those adjectives to describe most [...]
We’re all pretty excited about the screening tomorrow night of “BDSM – It’s Not What You Think!” The film’s participants, as well as producer Erin Palmquist will be there for Q&A, and so will Dr. Carol Queen, Ph.D who will be hosting the event.
What’s more, Dark Garden — who makes amazing corsets — will be [...]
My latest article “The Case for Kink” just got posted on Carnal Nation. Here’s the opening, but you’ll have to go to the site for the rest of it (the link is below).
One of the criticisms that gets leveled at BDSM players is the claim that BDSM is violence and that it reinforces social oppressions [...]
One more post for today.
The new Leather Archives & Museum exhibit is gathering community input in order to develop a library of the best BDSM-related books. Clarisse Thorn (who, by the way, has a fab blog that I highly recommend) has created an online poll to make it easier to make sure that nothing gets [...]
Question: What is “Top” and “Bottom”? Does it apply to any kind of sex?
Great question! The terms “top and bottom refer, most broadly, to the “do-er” and “do-ee” of an erotic experience involving at least two people. Most people have never learned to use the words this generally, though; most often they’re used in [...]
<full disclosure> I’m on the Advisory Committee for the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS) </full disclosure>
CARAS is conducting an online survey to assess the educational needs of the BDSM community. The goals of the project are to identify what educational needs people have, determine what practices educators and organizers have, and increase [...]
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been participating in some blog discussions about the nature of kinky sex and how it relates to issues of sexism. Some of those conversations have been on some radical feminist sites like this one and while I think that there’s some really great stuff that can be found [...]
A Few of My Favorite Bondage Things
(from GV’s Info Desk: Sexual Health/Product Info)
Bondage, even with its kinky rep, has a totally charming sort of cross-sex-cultural cachet. For many people, it’s both sincerely perverted, yet sinfully delightful. No wonder it’s part of many, many fantasies.
These days, having the desire to tie up and tie down your [...]
A common complaint I hear from porn viewers is that they want to see S/M mixed with sex — but the combination is nearly impossible to find. It’s easy to think that pornographers just don’t “get it,” especially considering how they handle and produce bisexual and female-penetrating-male porn.
BDSM is a sexual practice, and porn is [...]
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You know times have changed from the days Good Vibrations opened our doors over 30 years ago. Today, sex toys are PICTURED on a popular mainstream website Oprah.com. This is big news in sexual pleasure land over here at GV. A world where sex toys are freely displayed without shame, and talked about as an [...]
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