How do you know when a turn-on becomes toxic? How do you know when a kinky relationship becomes abusive? One domestic abuse survivor reveals what happened to him: When I was younger, I always loved getting tied up by a friend. It started as boys rough-housing. And then, one day,…
Love can blind us to bullying in unforeseen ways. You probably won’t see it until years down the line, and even then you still try and mask it with past memories—“Somewhere inside is that man I fell in love, so I’m going to keep on keeping on.” Sometimes boyfriends change…
Same-sex domestic violence doesn’t seem like a big problem to many gay men. Statistics are hard to come by; it’s hard to know the scope of the problem. Just like male rape, however, men find themselves being victimized on occasion. For men there can be the additional issue that because we…