Feature image of Lily Liqueur by Sincere Photography.

Kia Samuel via curvesincolor

+ Porn “addiction” isn’t neurologically like addiction at all and we should all stop saying it is:

“For therapists that treat porn consumption on an addiction model and for religious groups like Focus on the Family that are invested in maintaining a concept of ‘porn addiction,’ the research undermines the clinical language they used in their approach to the controversial medium. But conclusive evidence for ‘sex addiction’ and ‘porn addiction’ continues to prove elusive.

Today, Prause, Steele, and their team of researchers are back with a new study, published in the journal Biological Psychology, that only reaffirms their previous findings: ‘porn addiction’ and ‘sex addiction,’ as we understand them, may not be real.”

via rodeohs

+ How do you play with sensation when part of your body doesn’t have any? At the Unlaced Librarian, Leandra Vane writes about BDSM and physical disability:

“My favorite kinks that fall into the category of sensation play on the more pain intense side of the spectrum include spanking, electricity play and light flogging. But I’ve learned a lot about my body from lighter forms of play as well. Even though I can’t feel a lot of my body, when I play with certain toys like vibrators or electric wands on areas I can feel, I have sensations in places I cannot feel. I have also discovered ultrasensitive places, like the crook of my elbow, I would have never even thought of as being arousing if not for sensation play. Therefore, I try to participate in as much of it as possible, so I can continue to learn new things about my body and what turns me on and feels good.”

via curvesincolor

+ You can make your own strap-on harness out of rope (and it looks awesome).

+ Sex should never hurt. It should not. (The parts involving genitals anyway. Follow your kinky hearts for all the other things.)

Jamie Clayton via Nadia Itani

+ Jaclyn Friedman and Tristan Taormino discussed whether rape fantasies can be feminist on The Yes Means Yes Show.

+ At MediaShift, Shine Louise Houston and Jiz Lee discussed the SNAPSHOT crowd funding campaign.

via drawnwithcurves

+ Don’t really understand fetishes? Mic addresses seven myths about them, including ideas that fetish and kink are the same (they aren’t), fetishes are rare (they aren’t), fetishes involve power play (not always) and more. Also:

“Of all the buzzy sex terms out there, ‘fetish’ is perhaps the most misunderstood. It carries a certain connotation, as adjectives like ‘weird,’ ‘strange’ and even ‘dirty’ often precede it. The result: endless jokes, stigmas and popular myths about what a sexual fetish is and isn’t.

But it doesn’t have to be so misunderstood, or complicated for that matter. Gloria Brame, a sexologist, author and member of the fetish community herself, put it this way to Mic:

‘A fetish is an intense erotic fascination with an object or part of the body that may give the fetishist as much (or more) arousal and satisfaction as a straight sex act.'”

+ Splendor in the Grass, a new installation at the Museum of Sex, is “an erotic campground.”

via reflect and wonder

+ Erotica writers are threatening to leave Amazon after a new payment plan would consider pages read instead of downloaded.

+ What do you do about sex when you have dementia?

Kelsey Lu McKunkins via the What’s Underneath Project via stylelikeu

+ There is a new sex pill meant to treat women who have hypoactive sexual desire disorder, and this is how it works:

“Women with HSDD seem to experience erotic situations differently than women with normal sexual function.

Some researchers think this happens because they can’t easily dial down the activity of certain parts of the brain. One 2009 study of women with HSDD found that the parts of their brains that were responsible for monitoring internal emotional states were overactive when they watched erotic videos–as if their brains were focused on judging whether their reactions were appropriate, instead of living in the erotic moment. Flibanserin helps to change the balance of active circuits in the brain by acting on the neurons that are normally controlled by two neurotransmitters: serotonin and dopamine.”

Liu Wen via thelingerieaddict

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