Settling down in my small apartment, in the heart of Athens, I felt a sense of surreal calm cascading over my spirit. Today was Wednesday - a day, like any other to most, but a day of foundational significance to my current polyamorous relationship. My fingers dance across the keyboard, recounting e...

I am Mariposa, a 23-year-old, Mexican-born, non-binary tantric yoga instructor. My name, bestowed upon me by the wind-kissed hills of my hometown, means butterfly, an emblem of transformation and new starts. My spirit dances amidst the energies of cosmos, softening the world's hardness into somethin...

So there I was, standing in front of a room full of people, stark naked. The class had brought out their charcoals, their easels, all there for one purpose - to capture my body in black and white, lines, and shades. Something about the thought of being drawn, detailed, preserved on paper was intense...

Life as a relationship coach is a dichotomy of worlds in the most peculiar way. It's a curious dance between holding the most intimate of secrets and treading a path of detachment from the very fabric of the same secrets. However, one case, one woman, shattered this professional bubble I maintained,...

As a Greek female fetish fashion designer in her mid-fifties, my life is an intricate tapestry of shrouded fantasies. It's a world where the contours of human desire unfurl in threads of leather, latex, and lace. One thing I've learned is that the thrum of sensuality is not merely a straightforward ...

As I sit in my Kataal studio, nestled in the heart of Istanbul, uncharacteristically quiet because of the late hour, I find myself consumed by the sheer intoxication of freedom. Let me confess something, "freedom" was never a word I understood; not until I dove headfirst into performance a...