Brother James Gordon and Sister Rebecca Doll have just published Mastering Erotic Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Manual for Erotic Play, Fetish, and Kink, focusing on a consent based, non-gendered approach with strong reference to science and history. Writing in clear, accessible… Continue Reading
“There is nothing new about the practice of Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM)—an umbrella term that captures polyamory, swinging, and various other forms of ethically ‘open’ relationships—but you wouldn’t be blamed for thinking it was a new fad or trend given the… Continue Reading
Written by a brother from William Blake Lodge, Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits has just been released in paperback. The name derives from a discussion group on the topic, expanding traditions to include the author’s… Continue Reading
The Earth is closest to the Sun, or at the perihelion, about 2 weeks after the December Solstice, when it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere. The perihilion this year will be January 3, 2019 at 5:19am Universal Standard Time;… Continue Reading
“Science keeps showing us that sex also doesn’t fit in a binary, whether it be determined by genitals, chromosomes, hormones, or bones (which are the subject of my research),” says Alexandra Kralick for Pacific Standard. “Skeletal studies, the field that… Continue Reading
“Every man and every woman is a star.” –AL I:3 Yesterday, December 25, was the 2nd anniversary of astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin’s death in Princeton, New Jersey (coincidentally, yesterday was also Isaac Newton’s birthday on the Julian calendar). While Rubin… Continue Reading
What’s your relationship style? Are you a person with more secure attachments, or do you tend to avoid interpersonal closeness? Do you think that might affect your sex life? Researchers Kristen Mark, Laura Vowels, and Sarah Murray also wanted to… Continue Reading
Knowing that sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional ill health, researchers Lucy Platt, Pippa Grenfell, Rebecca Meiksin, Jocelyn Elmes, Susan G. Sherman, Teela Sanders, Peninah Mwangi, Anna-Louise Crago wanted to find out why. To… Continue Reading
Oxford University Press has announced the publication of a new title: Among the Scientologists History, Theology, and Praxis by Donald A. Westbrook. The publisher’s description of this tome is: “The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new… Continue Reading
Today in “we guessed this, but peer-reviewed science makes for better citations,” researchers Brittany Croft et al. at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute learned more about how a baby’s sex is determined; it’s not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves… Continue Reading