THIS WEEKS LECTURE IS ON BDSM: -- Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Masochism, Dominance, Submission is entering the mainstream. There is large and growing community right here in the RTP. Although BDSM is not always about sex, some of it is and so it qualifies for inclusion into this class. The topic is so complicated with so many branches and twists and turns I felt compelled to bring in an expert to tell you about it. She has many years of experience and a lot of that in the San Francisco area which is a major epicenter of the BDSM community.
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KINKY SEX: HAVE WE BECOME MORE SEXUALLY ADVENTUROUS? A brand new article from Alternet on the growing acceptance of BDSM and kink. The link is HERE
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PERIODIC TABLE OF KINK: KINK is an expanding part of human sexuality but still deep in the closet. This brilliant chart shows the very wide variety of kinky things that people sometimes do to increase sexual pleasure and add variety to sometimes boring sex lives. Humans can be very inventive when it comes to sex play. The link is HERE
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LET'S FACE IT: VANILLA ONLY SEX IS NONNORMATIVE We are taught there is only one way to have sex, face to face, man on top etc. The reality of human sexuality is that we are incredibly inventive when it comes to "getting it ON" in terms of positions, places, states of mind, and on and on. The author shows us how "kinky" most of us really are. We just don't talk about it. The link is HERE
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SEXUAL DIVERSITY-- Map of Human Sexual Diversity is a major theme of my classes. To appreciate the wide variety of human sexual expression take a look at a delightful Map of Human Sexual diversity by Franklin Veaux at: https://www.xeromag.com/sexualinformatics/sexmap.gif BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE MAP AND MAGNIFY SO YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE VARIATIONS. I will admit that I don't know what all of them mean but you can easily get the idea that sexual activity is limitless. If you can think of it someone else has been doing it for hundreds (thousands) of years. Today with the internet you can easily find all those other people who think like you -- kinky as that may be.
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Some commentary on BDSM and Pornography.
The link is HERE
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ITS NOT LIKE WHEN WE WENT TO COLLEGE: Here is an article from Brown University on Kink, Poly, Sex, Love, and Relationships at Brown U. And I thought 60 years ago that Beer Busts were risque. What college kids do today is just a bit different :-) The link is HERE
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PRACTITIONERS OF BDSM HAVE BETTER MENTAL HEALTH: An article from Huffington Post on mental health in the BDSM community. The link is HERE
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SCREW THE ROSES, SEND ME THE THORNS. BY Philip Miller and Molly Devon A very basic primer on how to be kinky.