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When Your Parents Are Polyamorous

When parents tell kids they've decided to become consensually nonmonogamous, the kids will have questions. Children living in polyfamilies offer these 5 tips for navigating the change.

Fat and Sexy: How Body Positivity Is Smashing Fat Phobia

Tips for clinicians who want to provide culturally competent care for fat clients.

The Truth About Breath Play and Choking During Sex

What is the difference between choking or strangulation and breath play? A few answers: legality, execution, and risk.

How Women Are Transforming "Public" Sex

While public sex is nothing new, the ways in which women are taking charge of their own public sexual interactions are transforming the public sexual landscape.

Women Transforming Public Sex

While public sex is nothing new, the ways in which women are taking charge of their own public sexual interactions are transforming the public sexual landscape.

Queer Families Need Planning for Loved Ones’ Deaths

Dealing with death can be tricky, but even more so for queer families whose relationships might not be legally recognized. Planning makes a huge difference.

Sex Positivity as an Antidote to Shame

Sex positivity can help to counter the impacts of shame.

What's the Hierarchy in Multiple-Partner Relationships?

Hierarchy is hard to escape completely in consensual nonmonogamous relationships, as it pops up even if partners say it's not there.

Consensual NonMonogamies and Pride

Some question if CNM qualifies as queer and should be included in Pride festivities, which could help with visibility, rights, and protection from discrimination.

What to Know About the World of Group Relationships

Some consensually nonmonogamous relationships, like polygamy, group marriage, polyamory, and relationship anarchy, focus on the group as the center of the relationship.