The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.
The Center for Sex & Culture is a San Francisco based educational non-profit that maintains a sex-related library and archives; hosts adult classes, workshops, salons, and hands-on skills-building events for individuals, couples, and professionals of all orientations and lifestyles; holds cultural events related to sexuality; and supports community-based sex research. Co-founded by Carol Queen, Ph.D. and her partner Dr. Robert Lawrence, CSC maintains an Internet presence that includes an event calendar and a library listing at sexandculture.org.
The Coalition for Positive Sexuality began in New York as a response to the Chicago Public Schools' failure to educate its students about sexuality and safe sex. Its first action was the production and guerilla distribution of a publication called Just Say Yes. Now a national, virtual education and action group who website gets tens of thousands of visits from all over the world, CPS continues its education work with the unusual attitude that "a young person's decision to be abstinent must be supported and validated, but so must her or his decision to be sexual. To do otherwise is not simply to omit information: it is to enforce an ideology that discriminates against young people."
Miriam Axel-Lute is a freelance journalist and editor who recently served as the news editor of Metroland, the alternative newsweekly in Albany, NY. While at Metroland, Miriam edited the paper's annual sex issue and covered topics that included a gay hook-up spot and nude beach threatened by development and a bed and breakfast whose owner was under fire for hosting swinger parties. She is also the winner of a first place 2006 Altweekly Award for column writing for her biweekly column "Looking Up." The winning columns included a critique of Northwestern University's study of male bisexuality and a commentary on our society's acceptance of violence as a response to sexual jealousy.
Doug Henwood is the founding editor of Left Business Observer, a contributing editor of The Nation, and host of a radio weekly program on WBAI (New York). He is the author of Wall Street (Verso 1997, now available for free download); The State of the USA, a social atlas; and After the New Economy.
Babeland is recognized around the world as a friendly place to shop for sex toys, books, and videos. It is the premier bi-coastal, women-friendly sex toy store with a new shop in Los Angeles, two locations in New York City, a flagship store in Seattle, and a website. Founded in 1993, Babeland has received numerous honors in its thirteen years of business, including a Zagat Survey Awards for "Top Service" in New York City in 2003 and 2006. It was voted "Best Place to Buy Sex Toys" by The Village Voice, New York Magazine, New York Press, Miami New Times, Seattle's The Stranger, and The Seattle Weekly. Co-Founders Rachel Venning and Claire Cavanah have been hailed as "new generation sex gurus" by Self Magazine.