Normally I agree with a lot of what Andrea Zanin and Franklin Veaux (tacit) have to say about alternative lifestyles and how to make them work, but last winter I became aware of a growing trend among the "popular" poly writers to adopt what was coming across to me, at least, as a kind of dismissiveness or denigrative attitude toward those people in the ( Read more... )

The recent Slutwalk event is driving an increased public awareness of the idea of "not blaming the victim" when it comes to people subjected to unwelcome interactions scaling from undesirable interest all the way up to outright sexual attacks. I'm all in favour of wide-spread education about boundaries and the shared lexicon of what's effective and ( Read more... )