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Is BDSM becoming a mainstream/majority practice? Thanks to Dr. Justin Lehmiller for his blog article, which supports the idea of a convergence or merger into a new hybrid of sexual behavior. (UPDATE: This landmark study is even stronger, clearer evidence to support the mainstreaming of kink, at least in the U.S. Vanilla-Kink
A Book On Desire The work of Katharine Angel, Unmastered: A Book on Desire Most Difficult To Tell, stands apart in its level of intimacy, vulnerability and courage. It sketches out an emotionally and physically aware psychology of heterosexual feminine desire, loosely but perceptively journaled in the context of an
Research That Helps Therapy I’m slowly digesting the results of the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (“Natsal 3”) conducted in Britain. I note below two written passages from Natsal 3, and one bar chart that stood out for me. These findings connect to views of sexuality that I
As a relationship and couples therapist, I am interested in what partners in different relational and sexual experiences are learning from their sexuality together. Monogamists, polyamorists, sexual traditionalists and kink practitioners are joined by a simple truth: we can recognize each other’s skills and learn from one another. In this
I believe that this proposed sexual disorder was in fact a value-laden attempt to pathologize and scapegoat a certain type of human sexuality. The Problem In addition to the lack of validating research, the problem that its backers could never work around was that if you have two or more
