Want to know more about consent for kink? Watch our video about the new Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault, which creates a legal framework for consent to BDSM activities in connection with sexual contact.
Section 213:10 of the model law deals with consent for BDSM activities, defined as “explicit prior permission” for “use of force or restraint.”
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NCSF collaborated with the American Psychological Association's Division 44: Committee on Consensual Non-monogamy to update our brochure that includes:
- Defining CNM
- Common Topics Addressed in Therapy
- Recommendations for Supporting CNM clients
- Institution/Systems-related recommendations
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Check out our updated Got Consent brochures:
With Best Practices for consent to kink, negotiation questions, and a Kink vs. Abuse list of behaviors.
With questions to ask, Best Practices for consent to non-monogamy, and a Sexual Freedom Bill of Rights.
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This updated guide aims to help you find a great therapist!
- When do you Need a Kink or CNM specialist?
- Websites to find therapist listings
- Questions to ask when choosing a therapist
- Suggestions for shopping around for a therapist
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Save the Date:
Annual Coalition Partner Meeting
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The year-end reports on NCSF’s programs, the budget and financials, and our goals for the year are discussed and approved by Coalition Partner representatives. New Board members are also voted in. For more info:
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NCSF's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion expectations state that e very month, a Board Member is tasked with providing additional educational opportunities at the Board meeting by discussing information that highlights a diversity issue (e.g., Ted Talks, books, interviews, resources, data) from our personal experience.
You can see the Diversity Moments presented by NCSF Board Members: Steve Ratcliff, Ruby B. Johnson and SK on our Amplify Voices page.
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You can also view videos from previous months including Diana Ryan: Let's Define Kink and Abuse for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. For Consent Month in September, we posted 3 videos: |
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Tuesday, November 23, is Polyamory Day – a day celebrated every year around the world by people who consider themselves to be polyamorous, who are in a polyamorous relationship, or who support polyamory as a valid relationship orientation or choice.
On November 23, we ask: If you agree that polyamorous people are entitled to the same rights, privileges, and governmental accommodation as others, please share a Polyamory Day image or meme on your blogs, email lists, and on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
You can use an existing image or create a new one. Find Polyamory Day images by searching #polyamoryday on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. New Polyamory Day images will be released on social media on or before November 23.
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Dr. Charles Moser is Awarded the
Race Bannon Advocacy Award!
Guest Blog by Russell J. Stambaugh, PhD
This article details how the contribution of one man; Charles A Moser, MD, PhD, challenged the clinical assumptions that had pathologized consensual kinky behavior for over a century before he started working to overturn them. It is a story of the struggle to make psychiatric diagnosis abandon conventional and uncritical thinking and garden variety politics, for diagnosis based upon scientific evidence, logic, and thorough observation. Today, the most recent revision of the psychiatric manual regards a much wider variety of sexual expression as potentially healthy than in the 1980s because of Dr Moser’s work, which first saw fruition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals 5th major revision in 2013, but continues as consensual kinks are delisted from the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as it is individually modified and adopted by the United Nations 193 member nations. Charles Moser, PhD, MD is not recognized for this contribution by the American Psychiatric Association, but his work established the intellectual foundation for the DSM changes and inspired and international movement that is manifesting in the ICD-11 revisions.
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Incident Reporting and Response
3rd Quarter 2021 Report
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NCSF’s Incident Reporting & Response received 39 reports and requests for resources and referrals from individuals, groups and businesses in July, August and September 2021:
- 16 Criminal issues
- 15 Group issues
- 4 Professionals
- 3 Civil issues
- 1 Child Custody for a Kinky parent
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NCSF Thanks You!
3rd Quarter 2021 Donations
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Leather SINS donated $5,000 to NCSF at Kinky Kollege Homecoming on October 8-10th in Chicago.
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Russell J. Stambaugh donated $3,000 to facilitate Spanish translations of NCSF brochures.
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James Dunyak, NCSF’s New England Advocate, donated $600 to the NCSF Foundation from July to September, 2021.
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The Turkish Towel Company donated $250 to NCSF in July.
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A Special Announcement from Leather SINS
"Leather SINS is pleased to announce registration is open for Kinky Kollege Spring Break, March 11-13, 2022, held near O'Hare Airport, Chicago. This month, at KK Homecoming we were proud to have eclipsed $500,000 in donations to charities like NCSF over our 18 years. Please join us as we raise more funds for NCSF!"
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This year's conference included novel and perhaps sometimes controversial sexual medicine discussions on ethical issues, inclusion and LGBTQ considerations, pregnancy and infertility, genital cosmetic surgery, voiding dysfunction, genital anatomy and pain, lifestyle, in addition to its customary courses. SMSNA's objective is to promote, encourage, and support the highest standards of practice, research, education, and ethics in the study of human sexual function and dysfunction.
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Susan Wright, NCSF Executive Director, presented on behalf of NCSF at MsC Worldwide 2021 on Labor Day Weekend, Sept 3-6. A discussion of the new Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault's new legal framework for BDSM was included in two panels: Authority Differential Dynamics vs. Intimate Partner Violence, and M/s & the Law. |
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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. We talk about the current impact of the pandemic on groups, clubs, businesses and the people in our lives, and create resources for our members. For example, one of our CP Town Halls was the basis for our new Key Concepts for Clubs. Join NCSF today and take advantage of all that 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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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.
You can sign up to receive our emails CLICK HERE and check our BLOG.
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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
ncsfreedom@ncsfreedom.org
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