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The Human Rights Campaign
Posted by: | CommentsTo all my friends and supporters … a month or so ago i joined The Human Rights Campaign …. Please consider joining too … we need to be aware and support all our friends and family who have to FIGHT just for equality !!
Here is an update from August 4 … a historical day … California Supreme Court rules that banning gay marriage is UNCONSTITUTIONAL … thats a step in the right direction !
August 4 2010 ~
we have moved a step closer to full equality!!
After the first-ever federal trial on whether it’s legal to ban same-sex couples from marrying, the district court ruled that Proposition 8 violated the U.S. Constitution.
This court’s ruling will undoubtedly be appealed, so our struggle is far from over. But it was a tremendous step forward for equality and a critical win.
The two courageous couples who acted as plaintiffs in this suit opened up their lives to months of public scrutiny and helped bring about this victory, fighting alongside the legal team of Ted Olson, David Boies and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. They deserve our gratitude. Will you take a moment to thank them?
Send a quick note of thanks and support – and tell your friends to do the same.
Here is another way to get involved. Today, people in cities across the country will be gathering for peaceful “Day of Decision” rallies to take advantage of this moment and show the broad support for marriage equality among both LGBT and straight Americans. Find out if there’s a rally near you.
This case was a landmark. Over the course of the months-long trial, the plaintiffs introduced substantial testimony and evidence to finally show that Prop. 8 had discriminatory motivations – and that same-sex couples are entitled to equal rights. Because this is a district court decision and will most likely be appealed, it may not have an immediate effect on marriage bans in California or any other states. Nonetheless, it’s a significant moment. It’s a vindication of the grassroots work we’ve done across the country to give every loving couple the same rights – and a shot of momentum to continue that work.
The trial also showed that the other side remains as ferocious as ever. Not content with simply defending Prop. 8, they tried to persuade the judge to stop California state agencies from recognizing the marriages of the 18,000 same-sex couples who tied the knot in the months before Prop. 8 passed.
So without question, the forces of bigotry will appeal this ruling. After the Court of Appeals, this case could very well end up before the highest court in the land – just another reason we must fight to get fair-minded judges like Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court.
We know we will prevail in the end. Because we are on the right side of history and the law. Because public opinion is increasingly in our favor. Because even conservatives like Ted Olson – who argued for the George W. Bush side in Bush v. Gore – share a passion for this cause.
But it will take more sacrifice and more grueling hard work. It will take more people like you standing up for what you believe – and more heroes like the plaintiffs in this case refusing to accept second-class status.
Please send a quick note thanking these couples. Then spread the word.
Thanks for your continued support on this defining issue.
Sincerely,
Joe Solmonese
President
Little Hot Ones for sale on Ebay !!
Posted by: | CommentsHey my friends ~
Just listed some Sexxy Latex on ebay .. check it out … more to come !!
Link to Items on Ebay: Ebay PinkLotus8
Say goodbye to DvntDom.com.. & Hello to MasterDvnt.com*
Posted by: | CommentsGreetings Friends,
I am pleased to announce..
Say goodbye to DvntDom.com… http://MasterDvnt.com is up & running!
As most of you know, I was previously known by the name Dvnt Dom. Then around 2006, I moved on from the name Dvnt Dom & became known as Master Dvnt.
Though many years have passed, there are some that still refer to me as Dvnt Dom so I hope now to change that once & for all.
My website has been long overdue for a complete overhaul but due to a continuous flow of other projects & work, combined with much effort spent on the focus on internal growth, the overhaul has been long neglected. Following the successful completion of My beloved slave maramoon & I’s Blog website, http://slaveBound.com . I have now finally began the 1st faze of evolution of my Pro website; DvntDom.com, into what has now officially been changed to http://MasterDvnt.com !
The changes that have been made are:
-Site url moved from DvntDom.com to MasterDvnt.com
-New “Master Dvnt” Header
-Footer changed
-New updated homepage portrait foto
Though the site is now no longer known as DvntDom.com, the url will still remain an active link & any web links directed to DvntDom.com will automatically forward to MasterDvnt.com.
This is the 1st faze of a complete redevelopment of the website & the current new changes are meant to be a transitional makeover to make way for the more intense process of the reorientation the entire site. I will take this opportunity to apologize for the outdated content & the ancient foto gallery. Currently the foto gallery which is many years old is still up & due to the fact that the gallery does not rightly reflect the magnitude of my work today, I may decide to pull it down completely before it is replaced with a new & updated gallery.
As most of you know, I am of the breed that simultaneously exists as a Pro-Dom, fetish performer & also respected as Master in the Lifestyle as well. The re-orientation of http://MasterDvnt.com will be reflective of this by shifting from its current focus of being primarily a Pro site to being more broad based, equally balanced between both realms of Pro & Lifestyle. Also as many of you know, I have been seriously entrenched in the path of Zen Buddhism for several years now & the site will obviously reflect this spiritual orientation & approach to BDSM & Power Exchange as well.
Some projected changes to the website will be..
-New site design & reorientation
-Articles by Master Dvnt section
-Up to date & improved foto gallery
-Video gallery
- Interactive Blog section
-up-to-date events & performance section
-Other goodies
If you want to keep up to date, you can sign up for updates on all House DVNT websites, which currently include MasterDvnt.com & slaveBound.com at – http://twitter.com/housedvnt
Thanx all & I hope these site improvements to be beneficial to all & this beloved community that I love so much!
With Mind, Body & Heart… may we each walk freely,
-Master Dvnt
It’s here! The March 12 Compassion and Health Campaign
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Dear F/friends,
There is a book, written by Dr. Will Tuttle, called The World Peace Diet. It helps you understand the power of food, and the cultural mentality reinforced by our practice of food, for many levels of healing-–physical, psychological, cultural, ecological, and spiritual.
Many people have called it a revelation, and one of the most important books of the 21st century.
Today, Friday, March 12, Dr. Tuttle is coordinating a special offer for this critically-acclaimed book called “The March 12 World Peace Diet Compassion and Health Campaign.” It is my recommendation that you get a copy of The World Peace Diet today.
Many generous and caring sponsors have donated excellent bonus gifts and prizes to anyone who buys The World Peace Diet (today only).
There are downloadable audio books, recipes, music, e-books, discount coupons and the chance to enter drawings for some terrific prizes! There are over 50 gifts and prizes, all told, and anyone who buys the book on March 12 (only) is eligible to receive them. Here’s the link to this special campaign: http://worldpeacediet.org
You can help strengthen the forces of health, truth, transparency, sustainability, and peace by buying a copy of The World Peace Diet today (for yourself or to give to a library or friend). It’s a great way to help animals, the Earth, hungry people, and all of us, and spread the message we believe in.
This is the page to go to – http://worldpeacediet.org – everything is explained there.
Sincerely,
maramuuuun
P.S. – You are more than welcome to share this special offer with your friends and colleagues, and encourage them to do the same. This is not an exclusive offer. The more of us who participate, the better it will be for everyone. This is a one-day offer–March 12 only. Thanks.
~i just bought O/ours!!!
Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis!
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Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis
NCSF is proud to announce that 3,241 people have signed the DSM Revision Petition from June 2008 to December 2009. The petition is now closed and has been sent to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the members of the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V). Thanks goes out to everyone who participated in this historic effort!
The diagnoses in the DSM-TR-IV subject people who practice BDSM, fetishes and cross-dressing to bias, discrimination and social sanctions without any scientific basis. NCSF often sees individuals who suffer distress and impairment in their social and occupational lives (ie. interpersonal difficulties) because their desires conflict with current societal standards. These standards stem in a large part from the DSM. itself: pathologizing unusual sexual interests has led to more discrimination and discouraged individuals from seeking treatment for physical and mental health problems. This codification of “cultural aversion” was the same reason that ego-dystonic homosexuality was included in the DSM, and then removed when it was finally recognized as such by the APA.
Some of the comments made on the petition include:
#604: “BDSM is no more an illness or dysfunction than boxing, skydiving or participating in any extreme sport.”
#1680: “I am all for removing these biases from legitimate psychiatry. It has ruined a friend of mine as for 8 years he has felt ashamed, depressed and self destructive because some “therapist” diagnosed him as sexually deviant and egodystonic and told him to repress his urges.”
#1902: “Psychiatry should serve human wellness, not police human diversity.”
#2224: “Historically, diagnoses of insanity have been used to marginalize those with unusual sexual preferences. This has to stop.”
#2566: “I just had an acquaintance lose custody of her child to her now-vengeful ex due to “kink” and a bad judge. It’s time to take more bias out of the DSM.”
“The politicization of sexuality is common in this country,” says Leigha Fleming, Board Chair of NCSF. “There is no basis in scientific fact for the categorization of BDSM and affiliated behaviors as inherently pathological or unhealthy. Social conservatives shouldn’t be allowed to carry their agenda into the DSM. It wasn’t appropriate when homosexuality was classified as a disorder by the APA and it’s not correct now for the DSM to classify consensual adult sexual expression like BDSM, cross dressing, etc. as disorder. The DSM was never meant to be a political weapon used to marginalize sexual minorities. The overwhelming response by our constituents necessitates our involvement in this critical issue.”
To see the hundreds of comments that petitioners made on the petition, click here: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/DSMrevisionpetition
To find out more about the DSM and the Paraphilias section, read the NCSF & ITCR: The Foundation for NCSF’s “White Paper on the DSM Revision” at www.ncsfreedom.org
For more information, email: susanw@ncsfreedom.org
February 2, 2010
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The APA Paraphilias Subworkgroup Agrees:
Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis
In the new proposals for the DSM-V, alternative sexual behavior has been depathologized. The American Psychiatric Association’s Paraphilias Subworkgroup’s DSM revisions acknowledge that you can be a fetishist, transvestite, sexual sadist or sexual masochist without having a mental disorder.
NCSF has worked very hard with its DSM Revision Project to make sure these changes take place, and will continue to strongly advocate for clear language of what exactly constitutes a mental disorder. Susan Wright liaisoned with the work group and supplied data that NCSF has gathered about the real-world discrimination and persecution that takes place against BDSM-fetish practitioners because of the DSM-IV-TR. The DSM Revision Petition was also extremely useful in generating comment from community members and mental health professionals urging that the current diagnoses be changed.
To see the proposed changes, go to:
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevisions/Pages/SexualandGenderIdentityDisorders.aspx
Read the “Rationale” section under each diagnosis to see their thinking on the paraphilias. The work group makes it clear that “non-normative” sexual behavior is practiced by healthy people:
“The first broad change follows from our consensus that paraphilias are not ipso facto psychiatric disorders. We are proposing that the DSM-V make a distinction between paraphilias and paraphilic disorders. A paraphilia by itself would not automatically justify or require psychiatric intervention. A paraphilic disorder is a paraphilia that causes distress or impairment to the individual or harm to others. One would ascertain a paraphilia (according to the nature of the urges, fantasies, or behaviors) but diagnose a paraphilic disorder (on the basis of distress and impairment). In this conception, having a paraphilia would be a necessary but not a sufficient condition for having a paraphilic disorder.”
“These revisions will affect everything-child custody, job discrimination battles, and even help change the way society views us,” says Leigha Fleming, Chairperson and Director of Incident Response. “I think of all the people over the years who have had the DSM used as a tool of discrimination and punishment, and I’m proud of NCSF for continuing the fight to change it. This is the first step towards decriminalization of BDSM, which NCSF is pursuing with our Consent Counts project.”
The Paraphilias Subworkgroup is now reconsidering what constitutes “clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning” when determining a mental disorder. The DSM must make it clear that people do suffer distress and impairment because of the societal stigma against alternative sex, but that doesn’t mean they are suffering distress that is generated internally.
As part of the development process, the preliminary draft revisions to the current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric diagnoses are now available for public review and comment until April. Personal comments about discrimination and persecution are welcome additions to this commentary to continue to urge the work group to differentiate between sexual minorities and sex offenders.
Just as Norway recently joined Sweden and Denmark in removing consensual paraphilias entirely, NCSF continues to urge the complete removal of these paraphilias from the DSM. However like the incremental removal of homosexuality (to egodystonic homosexuality and then finally taken out in 1987) this is an important step for the BDSM-leather-fetish community.
NCSF needs your support to continue important projects like the DSM Revision Project that directly impact peoples’ lives. Please join NCSF to show solidarity! We do so much for very little money, and we need your help.
Please donate to NCSF now!
February 16, 2010
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National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF)
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances the equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual and relationship expression. NCSF advances the rights and advocates for consenting adults in the SM-Leather-Fetish, swing, and polyamory communities. We pursue our vision through direct services, education, advocacy, and outreach in conjunction with our partner organizations to directly benefit these communities.
Office: (410) 539-4824
Media: (917) 848-6544
media@ncsfreedom.org
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