Kink Aware Lifestyle Resources
These are the kink aware resources we point our own customers toward. The kink, leather and BDSM world is held together by organizations that have spent decades defending sexual freedom, preserving community history and teaching people how to play safely. Every organization below is real, active and worth your time.
Advocacy & Sexual Freedom
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) — the leading US advocacy organization for consenting adults in the BDSM, leather and fetish communities. Their consent resources and incident-reporting tools are the standard. Power Play Studio is a Supporting Member.
Free Speech Coalition (FSC) — the trade association for the adult industry, defending the First Amendment rights of adult businesses and performers and leading the fight against age-verification laws that threaten lawful adult speech.
Sexual Wellness Professional Alliance (SWPA) — the Free Speech Coalition’s alliance for sexual wellness professionals and businesses, sharing resources and advocating for the people who make, sell and teach about sexual wellness products.
Woodhull Freedom Foundation — a national human-rights organization working to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.
Education & Research
TASHRA — The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance studies the health and wellbeing of kink-involved people and educates clinicians.
CARAS — the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities supports scholarly research on alternative sexualities and keeps an excellent public resource list.
Leather History
Leather Archives & Museum — the Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) is a library, archive and museum in Chicago. Founded in 1991 by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase, it preserves history, art and artifacts related to leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish communities, organizations and individuals.
The Carter/Johnson Leather Library — a traveling library of leather history, books and artifacts that appears at events across the country.
Leather Hall of Fame — honoring the people who built the leather community.
Community Organizations
The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) — founded 1971 in New York, the oldest BDSM education and support organization in the United States.
Society of Janus — San Francisco’s BDSM education society, running since 1974.
Threshold — Los Angeles’ pansexual BDSM community organization.
ONYX — the national brotherhood for men of color in the leather community, with chapters across the country.
Leather Uniform Club of Las Vegas — a 501(c)(3) charity since 1998, known for the Leather Prom and Leather & Lace fundraisers.
Las Vegas boys of Leather — a boys of Leather chapter, raising money for local causes.
Alternative Community Educational Society — Kitsap-area community education and social organization for the kink community.
Black Rose — One of the oldest pansexual SM support and education organizations in the Washington, D.C. area.
NM-REAL — New Mexico BDSM and kink community organization.
OhioSMART — Ohio kink, BDSM and leather community organization.
Portland Leather Alliance — Portland, Oregon leather and kink community organization, home of KinkFest.
The Crucible — Bay Area members-only club offering educational and social kink events.
SF Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District — The world’s first city-recognized Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District, based in San Francisco.
Folsom Street Events — Community organization behind the Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley, San Francisco.
Bi’s in Biz — Resources for Bisexual Business Owners & the Entire Bi+ Community.
Social Network & Community
FetLife — the world’s largest and most popular social network for the BDSM community, Kink community, and Fetish community.
Finding Kink-Aware Professionals
When you need a therapist, doctor or lawyer who understands the lifestyle without judgment:
Kink and Polyamory Aware Professionals (KAP) — NCSF’s directory of therapists, physicians, attorneys and other professionals who have asked to be listed as kink-aware.
AASECT Referral Directory — certified sexuality educators, counsellors and therapists.
Psychology Today — Sex-Positive & Kink-Allied filter — searchable by state and insurance.
Blogs
SEX ADVICE
Dr Dick Sex Advice — Sex advice with an edge from Dr Richard Wagner, a sex-positive, kink-aware clinical sexologist with more than 40 years in practice. He is the author of books including The Gospel of Kink, and his site holds years of columns, interviews and podcasts on sex, kink and relationships.
Industry & Trade Press
AVN — the adult industry’s trade press since 1983, reporting business news, product launches and the industry awards. AVN covered the launch of Power Play Studio.
XBIZ — the adult industry’s trade publication. Its retailer directory lists Power Play Studio.
About Power Play Studio
Power Play Studio is an online retailer shipping throughout the United States in plain, discreet packaging. Our range covers BDSM gear, fetish and latex wear, sex toys and apparel and clubwear across more than 280 brands.
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