Take our new Consent Survey!
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Please participate in this Consent Survey! The survey will take approximately 20 minutes of your time.
NCSF will use these results to help perform its advocacy for our communities. For example, NCSF will give the results to law enforcement, prosecutors and health care professionals so they can better understand the experiences of kinky and non-monogamous people and provide better quality service. NCSF will also provide club owners and event producers with this information so they can understand the dynamics of consent incidents that happen, and thereby take steps to create a better environment for their members. NCSF provides dozens of workshops and events each year about consent, and these results will be presented to community members there.
This survey is being conducted by Susan Wright, MA and Russell Stambaugh, PhD in cooperation with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and Jessamyn Bowling, PhD and Rob Cramer, PhD at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. IRB approval has been granted by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Enter our Metamour Day Card Contest
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Are you creative? Want to show your appreciation for your metamour, or help others to do so? We’re hosting a Metamour Day Card Contest!
All accepted contest submissions will be featured on the Metamour Day page, and will be available to download to give to your metamour on February 28th. More details, including prizes, will be announced soon. Follow our social media to stay up to date with the latest news on the contest.
Guidelines for contest submissions:
1. Must be original artwork; no copyright infringement, please!
2. No personal information. We want these cards to be useful to everyone!
3. Keep in mind that there are many varieties of metamour relationships out there.
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Call for Book Proposals on Diverse Sexualities, Genders, & Relationships
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In collaboration with the publishers Rowman and Littlefield, Drs. Richard Sprott and Elisabeth Sheff invite you to submit book proposals for the Diverse Sexualities, Genders and Relationships Series. We seek books based on evidence-based approaches to understanding and serving diverse individuals, couples and families; cutting edge reports of the latest empirical research on these topics; and current reports on trends in cultural and societal developments on the status and place of diverse sexualities, genders and relationships especially as they intersect with institutions such as education, law, healthcare, religion, and public policy. Books should include an awareness of the intersections of race, culture, social class, (dis)ability, and other factors that shape the social locations and life courses of sexual, gender and relationship minorities.
This series aims to provide sound and critical resources for the continuing education of professionals in counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, healthcare, criminology, human service and education who serve diverse communities. These books will also be useful for educators teaching undergraduate and graduate level university courses, as well as educated laypeople who wish to better understand diversity among sex and gender minorities.
Click here to read on!
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See you at the Annual
Coalition Partner Meeting
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NCSF will be holding our Annual Coalition Partner Meeting on March 7th & 8th, 2020 in Houston, Texas at the Comfort Suites Hobby Airport.
The year-end reports on NCSF programs, the budget and financials, and our goals for the year are discussed and approved by Coalition Partner representatives. Along with the Board Members, NCSF Advocates and Staff, the meeting is open to all members of NCSF and its member organizations.
The Board Members are also elected at the Annual Meeting.
NCSF
has a commitment to encourage diversity in orientation, identity, race and community affiliation among our Board and staff members so we can better serve all of our constituents. If you would like to run for the NCSF Board, please contact
[email protected]
to submit your 200-word bio by February 6th, or to get more information. NCSF has a working board, with each Board Member taking responsibility for a project or program for NCSF, or exhibiting at professional conferences. Directors shall be at least the age of eighteen (18), and shall at the time of their election be either a member of at least one of the NCSF’s Coalition Partners, Supporting Members or an Individual Member.
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Guest Blog: You’re Not Sexually Broken. Discover Your Stage of Sexuality!
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by Jaiya, a Coalition Partner of NCSF
I think that people often make the mistake of thinking that their sexuality is something that is static and unchanging or should be. We put pressure on ourselves to always have high libidos and endless passion.
Stop!
Just like everything else in life, we go through sexual changes.
For vulva bodied humans these changes may be caused by pregnancy and childbirth or aging.
For penis bodied humans age and health also play a major role in their sexuality.
And there are many other factors affecting your eroticism. There are some stereotypes about human sexuality that do harm to our sense of wholeness.
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Incident Reporting & Response
4th Quarter 2019 Report
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NCSF’s Incident Reporting & Response received 39 reports & requests for assistance from individuals, groups and businesses in October, November and December 2019. This is sharply down compared to the 58 requests received in the 3rd Quarter of 2019.
NCSF maintains the confidentiality of those who come to us for help, however we balance that need with the need to report the services we are providing and to provide the community with a record of where the need is the greatest.
- 13 requests for resources and information involving criminal legal matters
- 12 groups or people dealing with groups requested resources
- 6 requests by professionals or for referrals to kink and polyamory aware professionals
- 4 reports regarding civil matters
- 4 reports involving child custody
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NCSF Thanks!
4th Quarter 2019 Donations
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NCSF thanks Coalition Partner
Leather SINS
for donating $10,000 to NCSF at their October Kinky Kollege Homecoming conference. Kinky Kollege is 100% volunteer run, and thus, donates all of the proceeds to sex positive organizations like NCSF. This makes a total donation of $20,000 to NCSF in 2019!
Thank you to
Fetish Friday Indy
for donating $5,000 to NCSF in October from their Fetish Friday 2019 fundraiser. Fetish Friday Indy is a Supporting Member of NCSF!
NCSF thanks
Dick Cunningham and Judy Guerin
for donating $2,162 to the NCSF Foundation in December!
NCSF thanks
MSDB
, a Coalition Partner, for donating $1,323.64 to NCSF that was raised at this year's Silent Auction as part of their 20th Annual Bizarre Bazaar.
NCSF thanks
Jaiya
, a NCSF Coalition Partner, for donating $1,100 to the NCSF Foundation during the fourth quarter of 2019!
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NCSF at Kink Out 2! in Atlanta
NCSF Director, D. Choc Trei - Ms SELF 2018 & 2019, was excited to present at Kink Out 2!
Planned Parenthood Southeast Young Leaders created a sexy night of KINK, CONSENT, and REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS on Sunday, October 27th from 7-10 PM at Argosys in Atlanta.
Photo – Halley, Miriam & Choc
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OPEN Fundraiser for NCSF – The Castle Erotica Party
On Saturday, November 2, our NCSF Coalition Partner, OPEN – Organization for the Practice of Ethical Non-Monogamy, held its first annual fundraiser for NCSF. $960 was raised through donations made by attendees of the Castle Erotica Party, a sex positive social event held in a private home just outside Phoenix. This consent-based gathering entertained approximately 50-60 members with dedicated 'play' areas, a cuddle space, massage table, and interactive ice breakers such as Let Down Your Drawbridge Bingo.
Established in September of 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona, OPEN is a MeetUp based group (https://www.meetup.com/OPEN-Organization-for-the-Practice-of-Ethical-Non-Monogamy/) founded by Brooke Streech and NCSF's Western Region Polyamory Advocate Matt Connolly. In just over year, OPEN has grown to 650+ members who are supported by regular educational, support and social OPEN events such as Women's, Masculinity and LGBTQ+ support meetings, educational dinners and social gatherings. OPEN is focused on building a community for all those practicing any form of ethical non-monogamy and is proud to continue to partner with NCSF to make that happen.
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The Benefits of Coalition Partner Membership
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NCSF hosts a Coalition Partner Town Hall online every Quarter to discuss important issues facing our communities today. This month, we are talking about serving your neurodiverse members and clients.
At our last CP Town Hall, we talked about regulations and laws that impact on clubs, including Sexually Oriented Business laws. Look for a new Key Concepts for Clubs coming soon on our website under our Resource Library! This webinar was recorded exclusively for Coalition Partners. Join NCSF today and take advantage of all our Coalition offers.
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Show your support for NCSF and your appreciation for consent culture with products from our NCSF and Consent Counts shops! Every purchase helps us work harder and spread our message to more people. There's a wide variety of merchandise to choose from, highlighting NCSF or the Consent Counts logo.
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Media Updates and Web Features
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NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues and topics. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between.
NCSF publishes the Media Updates to provide readers with a comprehensive look at what media outlets are writing about these topics and to urge everyone to make comments that dispute stereotypes about alternative sexuality. NCSF permits and encourages readers to forward these Media Updates where appropriate.
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NCSF is a grassroots coalition run by volunteers.
Your donations go directly to our advocacy efforts.
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Get In Touch!
822 Guilford Avenue
Box 127
Baltimore, Maryland
21202-3707
(410) 539-4824
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