I had the pleasure to spend some time with Dr Richard Sprott, the Executive Director of CARAS (Community Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities) talking about their projects and upcoming conference in Washington, DC.
Founded in 2005, CARAS is a national-level, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports research addressing understudied sexual communities, with a current focus on BDSM/leather/kink/fetish sexualities and consensual non-monogamous relationships such as polyamory. CARAS employs a community-based research model through a network of academics, clinicians and respected members of these communities who will work directly with researchers to promote scientific and other forms of scholarly research.
It's especially cool that CARAS is researching the kinds of topics that few other researchers will touch. Check out the interview after the jump
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