In a post from Psychology Today, sex educator and therapist Niki Davis-Fainbloom explains how sexual fetishes develop. Some may come from repeated exposure to ordinary objects in contexts where they are connected with sexually alluring figures (classical Pavlovian conditioning), but often they emerge out of a single first-time sexual experience that is particularly exciting when […]
Make Politics Sexy Again
Chris Gallant, an openly gay and self-described “kinky” Democratic congressional candidate challenging Republican incumbent Nick LaLota in New York’s 1st Congressional District, is responding like it “ain’t no thang” after old BDSM-themed modelling photographs of him resurfaced in the media. The photographs were taken around 2010 for Mr. S Leather, a fetish apparel company, during […]
Naughty Robot in Custody
German police have seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl and made sexually suggestive thrusting movements toward her on a busy street in Cologne on October 10, 2026. The robot’s 16-year-old owner and his 19-year-old companion allegedly filmed and livestreamed the incident, and investigators are examining whether its movements were remotely […]
Reproductive Rights and Healthcare on the Ballot
In the upcoming November mid-term elections in the U.S., voters in three states (Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia) will vote on measures meant to protect abortion rights while voters in one state (Missouri) will vote on an anti-abortion measure that would undo the right to reproductive freedom previously established by a state ballot measure. The Guttmacher […]
Are Democrats Retreating on Trans Issues?
American Academic and trans rights activist, Dorian Rhea Debussy, recently explored how some Democratic candidates ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections are distancing themselves from transgender rights to appeal to moderate and undecided voters. Candidates in states such as Texas and Ohio have adopted more conservative positions on issues including transgender participation in school […]
The Troubling New Trend in CSAM
A recent report from CNN examines the growing trend toward web-camming of underage children, some of them as young as five. This form of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in contrast to traditional digital media, is difficult for authorities to trace or document, since it disappears from devices as soon as the session is concluded. […]
Consent Confusion, Male Shame, and the Sex Recession
The murky circumstances around the recent Cornell group sex scandal, which featured conflicting statements about consent from the victim and evidently false assumptions about the intoxicated victim’s availability to all from the young men, suggests to some the urgent need for more sex education about consent. But could the way consent education is already taught […]
Gay Bar in Taipei Raided Ahead of Pride Parade
On October 3, 2026 in the late afternoon around 30 Taipei police officers conducted a raid on Commander D, an established BDSM-themed gay bar in the Ximending district on the island of Taiwan. Law enforcement detained 51 patrons and arrested the bar owner over alleged public decency violations. Authorities have been criticized for aggressive actions: […]
False Accusations Are Themselves Sexual Harrassment
In a civil suit over a Title IX claim, a federal jury found in favor of a male University of Maryland student who was falsely accused of sexual assault in 2020. After a 10-month investigation by the University in which his family paid over $100,000 in legal fees, he and another accused male student were […]
New Post-AIDS Drama
Log Boy, a play by Anthony Nocera, examines queer grief, community, and collective memory through the story of the character of Anthony, who is mourning his partner’s death from AIDS. Rather than reproducing the familiar conventions of AIDS-related productions, which often centres on the suffering and death of gay men, this play explores the ongoing […]