NCSF’s Annual Meeting of Coalition Partners |
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Thank you to the Coalition Partners, Board Members, NCSF Advocates and volunteers for attending the 24th Annual Meeting of the NCSF Coalition Partners on March 6-7, 2021. The meeting was all virtual, allowing more people than ever to participate without having to travel.
The Coalition Partners elected the new Board Members (image right) and discussed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the alt-sex communities. We also discussed new and ongoing projects, like the work being done by our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee to better NCSF and help our member groups. The CPs also approved the financial statements for 2020 and the 2021 budget, and reviewed the Annual Reports on each program, including the Education Outreach Program and Consent Counts.
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Exciting news from the APA’s Division 44 Committee on Consensual Non-monogamy |
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The APA's Consensual Non-monogamy Committee's initiative for inclusive therapist directories continues to deliver, as Psychology Today has updated their directory so people can search for therapists who are experienced in relationship diversity and alternative relationship styles and structures.
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month #SAAM |
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Check out this video about the hand signal that can be used if you're in danger and need to speak privately. |
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High Risk Ice Cream: A NCSF Benefit Project |
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A collection of kinky encounters. Some are true events. Others are merely fantasy. Each one is indicative of the longing that so many secretly experience: to feel desired, or important. To be touched. To let go control, or to take it, completely. To watch someone in their pleasure or to be the one being watched. To feel small and safe and protected, even if the expression of that safety looks, to outsiders, like a strange game. Or even to play at the edges of that safety, with no net to catch you. This book is a small offering that celebrates the creativity of the erotic mind and all that it can conjure up. If you don’t find a reflection of your own dark desires within these pages, know that, whatever they may be, you are welcome here. All profits go to the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. |
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Guest Blog: Slut Shame and Kink Shame
The Experience of Trying to Live Authentically in World of Sexual Bullies
by Dr. K – The Submissive Next Door
Sex is part of who we are as humans…let’s start with that. Every human is here as a result of a sexual act happening in some way. Our society is the result of successful procreation for centuries and yet American culture is simultaneously obsessed with purity, while in the shower or behind closed doors they are engaging in self-pleasure, imagining the next-door neighbor bent over the sofa or getting flogged at a dungeon (for some of us anyway).
Yet, it is this very obsession with purity and continuation of a “should” mentality as a society (i.e. how we think a lady “should” behave, or how we “should” act in polite society, for example. This is also where we get gender and identity stereotypes) that is perpetuating a “shame first, ask questions later” mentality.
As we have spent more time at home, we have seen the world of sex and kink education become more mainstream. We see this in the multitude of online sex, kink, and BDSM classes now being offered, and the least expected people starting an Only Fans profile. There is explosive growth in lingerie ads, adult brands, sex and tech toys, BDSM training and technique books, and more. But yet…we have the world of TOS (Terms of Service) changing in ways that limit us even more on the very platforms we are finding all these new things (ahem, Tiktok). Something doesn’t add up.
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Incident Reporting and Response
1st Quarter 2021 Report
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NCSF’s Incident Reporting & Response received 68 reports and requests for resources and referrals from individuals, groups and businesses in January, February and March 2021:
- 23 Groups
- 18 Criminal issues
- 17 Civil matters
- 6 Professionals
- 4 Child Custody for kink and non-monogamous parents
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NCSF Thanks You!
1st Quarter 2021 Donations
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NCSF thanks James Dunyak, NCSF’s New England Advocate, for donating $600 to the NCSF Foundation from January to March, 2021.
Thank you to the Holy Fire Conference for donating $500 in January.
NCSF thanks the Old Dominion Chapter of the Red Dragon Riding Club for donating $250 in January.
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NCSF thanks Kaleidoscope of Western NY for donating $135 in December, 2020! To raise this donation, KWNY worked with the owners of the Oxbow Campground in Westfield NY who allowed the use of their eighty-acre property to have a safe, socially distanced event. We would also like to credit The Jamestown Area Kink Society, Masters and slaves Together (MAsT), and The Wolf Pack of Franklin, Pennsylvania for their help in collecting and organizing donations for the auction that was held. NCSF appreciates your support! |
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Looking for a virtual party? Go to NCSF's Events Page powered by ML Ticketing where you can find Coalition Partner sponsored events and search for parties in your area and around the world!
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Celebrating Metamour Day on February 28th! |
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In honor of interpersonal relationship diversity, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) celebrates Metamour Day every February 28th!
Metamour Day is a way to appreciate the special role of a metamour, your partner’s partner, and to acknowledge the supportive and beneficial impact of non-monogamy on our collective lives. It’s about communal appreciation of our family structures, rather than forced compersion (the opposite of “jealousy” or a positive emotional reaction to a loved one’s other relationship).
Check out the Metamour Day page to find more information and how you can participate, including our new Metamour Day image in English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Maltese, German and Italian as well as Metamour Day Cards by Anna D. Hirsch with PositivelyPolyAnna.com. You can also see our new What is a Metamour? video.
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¡El 28 de febrero es el Día del Metamor!
En honor a la diversidad de las relaciones interpersonales, la Coalición Nacional para la Libertad Sexual (NCSF) celebra el 28 de febrero como el Día de Metamor.
l Día de Metamor es una forma de apreciar el papel especial de un Metamor, la pareja de tu pareja, y de reconocer el impacto benéfico y de apoyo de la no monogamia en nuestras vidas colectivas. Se trata de una apreciación comunitaria de nuestras estructuras familiares, en lugar de una compersión forzada (lo opuesto a los celos, es una reacción emocional positiva a la otra pareja de un ser querido).
Consulte la página del Día de Metamor para encontrar más información y cómo puede participar, incluimos la descarga de nuestra nueva imagen del Día de Metamor y las Tarjetas del Día de Metamor de Anna D. Hirsch con PositivelyPolyAnna.com. También pueden ver nuestro nuevo video ¿Qué es un Metamor?.
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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. For the past several months, we've been holding our CP Town Halls every month. 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 or 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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