Tag Archives: BDSM

petition to revise the DSM

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom has set up a petition to get the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to take kinky sex out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder. The DSM is the guidebook for mental health professionals and at the risk of oversimplifying the issue, if something is listed in it, […]

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It’s official- BDSM players are normal

The Journal of Sexual Medicine recently published some Australian research showing that BDSM practitioners are no more likely than their vanilla counterparts to have been coerced into sexual activity and are no more likely to be unhappy or anxious. In fact, men who engage in BDSM scored significantly lower on a scale of psychological distress […]

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