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Metamour Day was created to honor the relationships between you and your partners’ partners, however that might look. It is not about forced compersion. It’s about communal appreciation within our family structures and modeling positivity to the world around us. Metamour Day is a recognition of the unique and special relationships between metamours.

Order your Metamour Day cards from Bloom Community: profits from postcard sales will be donated to OPEN (Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the polyamory and non-monogamy movement by advancing cultural acceptance, building political power, and supporting non-monogamous communities and leaders.

You can also celebrate Metamour Day on February 28th by sharing our graphics by Anna D. Hirsch in English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Maltese, German, Italian and Hebrew.

Attention art students currently in their junior or senior year! There's still ONE WEEK LEFT to apply to the National Cartoonists Society Foundation's "Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship!" The winner receives $5000!

First there was SSC, then RACK... now EPP — Explicit Prior Permission! But why the update?

In June 2021, the American Law Institute (ALI) approved the revised Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault.

The Model Penal Code is not itself legally binding, but it affects state law nationwide. This revision, the first revision to the section on sexual assault since the Model Penal Code's first publication in 1962, will guide updates to state laws. In addition it may be cited in opinions and briefs even in states where the legislature has not adopted the revised Model Penal Code.

The revision decriminalizes BDSM activities in connection with sexual penetration, oral sex or sexual contact, and establishes a framework of "Explicit Prior Permission" that reflects consent as it is practiced in BDSM communities.

Explicit Prior Permission requires that everyone involved is informed of the risks and freely agrees to specific acts and the intensity before engaging in erotic force or restraint. Also, there must be a way to stop at any time, and participants must be over 18 and of sound mind. Explicit Prior Permission prohibits serious physical injury, including permanent marks and impairment, or the risk of a life-threatening injury.

Learn more about Section 213.10 of the Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault (“Affirmative Defense of Explicit Prior Permission”) in this video:

🚨📰 NCSF Media Update

“‘Monogamish is a term that describes a relationship where the primary relationship structure is monogamy, but with some allowance for sexual activity outside the relationship under mutually agreed-upon circumstances,’ says sex therapist Shadeen Francis. ‘You can think about it as a monogamous relationship that has more negotiated flexibility.’”

// NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues and topics.

🚨📰 NCSF Media Update

“While their relationship is unconventional, Peters couldn't be happier. She insists they are all 'normal and happy' people.

“She told Newsweek: 'I now have two complete relationships that are fulfilling, and I am in love with both of them, I don't feel like I should limit them.'”

// NCSF Media Updates are a sampling of recent stories printed in US newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant mention of BDSM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or Lifestyle issues and topics.