tribesoftheedge
What Is a Keyholder? Chastity Dynamics for Couples
The cage is a prop. The key is the relationship. What a keyholder actually does, how couples keep it going past October, and the safety rules no dynamic overrides.
Ryan Collison
i write because the the alternative forms of my obsessive insanity are either too destructive or decidedly less sexy.
tribesoftheedge
Locktober Explained: The October Chastity Challenge, Keyholding & Safety
A meme wrapped around a real kink. Where the October chastity challenge came from, what people actually do, what holding the key involves, and the safety rules that matter more than the lock.
tribesoftheedge
Primal Play vs CNC: Two Kinks People Mix Up, and How to Tell Them Apart
One is about instinct, the other about staged non-consent. How primal play and CNC differ, where they overlap, and how to work out which fantasy is actually yours.
tribesoftheedge
FLR Levels Explained: What Each Level of a Female-Led Relationship Looks Like
FLR levels are a map, not a ladder. What each level of a female-led relationship looks like day to day, what it costs her in time and attention, and how to pick yours.
tribesoftheedge
How to Be a Mommy Domme: A Practical Guide to Warm Authority
Most guides are about finding a mommy. This one is about being one: how to start, what to say, how to correct without cruelty, and how not to burn out.
sexscientists
What We Actually Know About Sex in 2026
Eighty years after Kinsey started interviewing people about their sex lives in an attic office at Indiana University, the honest inventory of what science has established about human sexuality fits into a surprisingly small space. Not because the questions are simple. Because the funding was erratic, the politics were hostile,
sexscientists
Who Funds Sex Research and What They're Buying
The National Institutes of Health awarded approximately $31 billion in research grants in 2024. The portion of that budget allocated to the study of human sexual behavior, outside of HIV/STI prevention, was functionally a rounding error. The exact figure is difficult to calculate because NIH does not maintain a
sexscientists
The Female Orgasm Is Still Scientifically Controversial and That Tells You Everything
The full internal anatomy of the clitoris was not mapped until 1998, when Australian urologist Helen O’Connell used MRI and microdissection of cadavers to produce the first complete three-dimensional model of the organ. The study was published in the Journal of Urology. It demonstrated that the clitoris was
sexscientists
What the AIDS Crisis Did to Sex Research
In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published a brief report noting that five young men in Los Angeles had been diagnosed with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a lung infection so rare that the existence of five cases in one city was itself a medical event. All five men were gay.
sexscientists
The Researchers Who Got Arrested
Alfred Kinsey died in 1956, exhausted and under investigation. The U.S. Customs Service had been intercepting his mail for years, seizing the erotic materials he was collecting for the Indiana University Institute for Sex Research. The IRS was auditing the Rockefeller Foundation’s grants to his lab, applying pressure
sexscientists
The Conversion Therapy Betrayal
In 1979, William Masters and Virginia Johnson published a book called Homosexuality in Perspective. The book claimed that homosexuality could be converted to heterosexuality through their standard two-week therapy protocol. The claimed success rate was extraordinary. The methodology behind the claim was, by the standards of their own earlier
sexscientists
Masters and Johnson: The Relationship That Was Also a Research Project
They spent twenty years studying human intimacy before they tried it with each other. William Masters and Virginia Johnson married in 1971, fourteen years after she walked into his laboratory as a research assistant with no degree and a talent for making strangers comfortable talking about sex. The marriage lasted