"Here's what to look for if you're seeking mental healthcare that doesn't see "sexual deviance" as deviance."

“This is no different from shutting down Backpage.”

"The BDSM subculture can be analyzed as a ‘secular religion’ by looking at the psychology of pain and power, religious ways of hurting, and BDSM as ritual."

As daily chronic pain took over my life for the last year, my typically ferocious sex drive tanked. However, an overwhelming consensus among the people I interviewed destroyed my binary thinking by affirming that kink allows disabled people to control pain and feel good in our bodies, something that might not typically happen in our daily lives. But kink spaces and practices can serve as a container with accessibility and adaptation in mind.

"We cannot survive and thrive if our lives are policed and criminalized. "