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NCSF Media Update 
Digest
 
June 30, 2010
 
In this issue
British motor racing boss dies after BDSM session with dominatrix
Swingers, sex workers, STIs
Talking sex, with kink educators and anti-porn activists
Ewing restaurant is under investigation for having parties for 'swingers'
Hundreds turn out for zoning meeting
Exchanging partners for recreational sex
Review board: Officers should be disciplined in Eagle raid
'Epidemic' growth of Net porn cited
Have the Feds gone soft on porn?
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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 swing issues and topics. These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate or anywhere in between.
 
NCSF publishes the 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 Updates where appropriate.
British Motor Racing Boss Dies After BDSM Session With Dominatrix
NewsBlaze

It is not unusual (in the BDSM world) for customers (mainly men) to indulge in sessions that involve physical pain, but most do not push the limit of their ...
 
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Swingers, Sex Workers, STIs: Same Data, Different Day
About - News & Issues (blog)

On Friday I wrote about a study in the Netherlands of swingers STI rates. Usually when I read research that involves data and statistics I have a piece of ...
 
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Talking Sex, With Kink Educators and Anti-Porn Activists
Washington City Paper
 
Which means it's especially helpful at KinkForAll, a conference about sexuality's more intricate possibilities. Attendees, whose name tags feature blog pseudonyms or Twitter handles, deliver 20-minute presentations on everything from the logistics of orgy participation for oral-herpes sufferers to the latest in "teledildonic" technology. (Another session, about the importance of keeping one's "real life" and "kink life" separate, explains why KinkForAll participants' full names won't be revealed here.)
 

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Ewing restaurant is under investigation for having parties for 'swingers
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com

Neighbors who have long complained about alleged noise and unruly behavior now say the restaurant is being advertised on a swingers' website on the internet ...
 
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Hundreds Turn Out For Zoning Meeting
WFMZ Allentown

EMMAUS, Pa -- The possibility of a swingers club in Emmaus brought hundreds of people out to a zoning board meeting tonight. ...
 
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Exchanging Partners for Recreational Sex
Psychology Today (blog)

It seems this was to be the world's largest gathering of Swingers and they wanted something a little sexier. Eventually, I found myself in front of a few ...
 
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Review board: Officers should be disciplined in Eagle raid
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
 
Two Atlanta police officers should be disciplined for arresting a man who lived in an apartment above The Eagle while the bar was being raided last year, a panel of citizens said Thursday night.
 
David Shepherd, who worked at the bar, was off Sept. 10,  when dozens of officers arrived at the Ponce de Leon bar. But when two officers knocked on his apartment door, Shepherd, who was watching television, was told to go downstairs, according to his complaint filed with the Citizen Review Board.
 
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'Epidemic' growth of Net porn cited
Washington Times
 
Congress must ensure that obscenity laws are enforced so that children are not exposed to pornography on the Internet ...
 
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Have the Feds gone soft on porn?
Mother Jones
 
On Tuesday, a group of anti-porn activists and scholars arrived on Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress and their staffs and to call for beefed-up federal enforcement of obscenity laws. They weren't there to fret about the pornographers of old: the loveable chauvinist Hugh Hefner and his scantily clad bunnies, or even the not-so-loveable-but-occasionally-principled First Amendment crusader, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. No, they had come to alert Congress to websites like GagFactor.com, whose teasers alone are way more graphic than anything Hefner ever published, and whose content doesn't portend a spirited First Amendment defense.
 
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