Mr. Leather Toronto starts tonight… so here’s the second instalment of “Abuse Among the Kinky, *originally posted in April 2007. Again, if you’re in town and interested in exploring the question further, come to the workshop that Ariel and I are giving on Saturday afternoon entitled “Lighting the Fire: BDSM and Abuse.” Details in the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
abuse among the kinky, part 2: 10 things to do to reduce abusive behaviour in the s/m world*
November 27, 2008
finally, a one night stand
November 25, 2008
I must begin this post with a sincere apology to the fine folks at Fatale Media. They kindly sent me some free porn so that I could review it here… but they sent it in July. And now it’s, what, practically December? Yeah, I totally suck. I bet I’ll never get free porn again. Talk [...]
abuse among the kinky, part 1: 6 ways to think about abuse*
November 20, 2008
It’s a snowy, sunny Thursday and life is good.
I have two notices for you today.
First, for those in Toronto, there’s a panel about gender inequities in health care taking place next Tuesday night (November 25) at the Gladstone. All details are posted below. I find it quite interesting that the description of the event mentions [...]
the wrong reasons for same-sex marriage (or, that’s not the stonewall i knew)
November 18, 2008
Just a few days ago, I got a notice from the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), an American organization that, in their words, “advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities.”
If I [...]
an incomplete timeline of sexual diversity – part 2* (and apologies, and dessert)
November 13, 2008
Did I skip my usual Monday post? I totally did, didn’t I? Yeesh. Well, it’s been a stupidly busy week that kicked off with a drive back from Kinsgston (after establishing that the Mamas and the Spawn and the brand-new wriggling pink squeaky sweet Spawnlet would be just fine if we left), a 12-hour stop [...]
