• Bitch Magazine’s podcast is back! And I’m on the first episode of the relaunch, talking open relationships, you can listen here.

• After my appearance at University of Maryland, The Diamondback did a great write-up:

The BDSM culture is not only applicable to kinky people, Taormino said, as some of the principles of consent and communication could be readily applied to “vanilla,” or nonkinky, relationships. Any couple looking to improve their sexual relationship could do so by putting these ideas into practice, she said.

Read it all here: Students talk BDSM in Fifty Shades of Grey dialogues

• DatingAdvice.com recently named me one of the year’s “10 Best Sex and Dating Experts“! Thanks, DatingAdvice.com!

• …and The Ultimate Guide to Kink got an honorable mention at the National Leather Association: International Awards for best non-fiction book! And congrats to winners Mollena Williams and Lee Harrington (who are also contributors to the Ultimate Guide to Kink).