By Sarah Sloane
Everybody has to start somewhere. For most of us, we begin to present classes and workshops because we’re known for a particular skill set or a certain type of knowledge, and we teach what we know. Eventually, though, many of us come to the conclusion that we don’t want to just teach the same thing, over and over
By Sea
This article is second of a three-series article that explains what BDSM is, and why people enjoy it. It would be helpful to those with or without an interest in BDSM who wish to know more about the terms and origins of interest, and those into BDSM who are looking for ideas for how to explain it to others.
By lunaKM
I’m not a new fat person, I’ve been fat since my pre-teens. I’ve been ridiculed and laughed at, shunned and ignored more times than I care to reflect. But as an adult, I have begun to hear some of the most insane things about large women, especially having to do with sex.
By Richard Wagner
Nothing gets my goat like some know-it-all jerk who decides to muck around with the sensitivities of impressionable young women.
Here’s 22-year-old Elyse. She’s got one of those guys in her life…
By Nina Love
I’ve noticed that fetish fashion tends to be timeless. Let me explain. I’ve been in “the scene” for just about ten years. Fashion – main stream fashion that is – has changed, changed again, and again…and then changed back.
By Shanna Katz
This month’s Out of the Box identity is another look at a different person’s Queer identity. Krystal Marie is a recent college graduate who has been kind enough to share with us her take on her Queer identity, as well as the intersections that come with her other identities.
By Jay Morgan
The dance floor was filled with pumping legs, gyrating hips, short spandex skirts, and high heels. Booths and tables were littered with an array of couples; some young, some obviously in the “looking to spice things up” phase of their relationship.
By Erin Fae
There must have been something in the coffee in Austria at the start of the last century. Maybe the models were different in their poses, inspiration and influence. Whatever it was, so much of the work produced by members of the Vienna Secession makes me swoon.
How I Became a Sex Educator without Really Meaning To
By Robin Mandell
Looking back, it seems that I was always destined to become a sex educator. If my interest in sex wasn’t enough of an indication, my passion for social justice and equal access for all people should have given me a clue. I remember, as a high school student, being baffled by homophobia. It just didn’t make sense!
and the Mostly-Monogamous Conundrum that Affects Us All
By T.M. Bernard
Medically speaking, we all knew it was bound to happen; new strains of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection, have developed that are non-responsive to antibiotic treatment.