feministcurrent: Let’s just start by saying this: I really don’t care about ‘kink’ or about ‘kinky people’. It just doesn’t interest me. I don’t give a shit about your leather fetish. Really. But because I recently dared to suggest that RCMP officer Jim Brown’s sadomasochistic behaviour might, just might, be related to the fact that […]
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Guest post: National BDSM organization’s own survey admits a consent crisis in BDSM Scene
The following is a guest post by KinkInExile, originally published at the author’s blog and copied with their permission. I think it’s important enough to republish at and link from a lot of places. So far, however, KinkInExile’s been “frustrated by the systemic disregard for anything that addresses abuse in kink without being itself pre-approved […]
FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE) mentioned in NY Observer
23 Nov 2012 at 13:26
maymay
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Last week, the New York Observer published an article by Rachel R. White about the BDSM Scene’s endemic abuse problem. An excerpt: While the [BDSM] scene’s mantra—“safe, sane and consensualâ€â€”is heard so often it might as well be translated into needlepoint, violations of these maxims are common. In the last year, hundreds of people have […]
What porn companies can learn from the Giffords shooting
13 Jan 2011 at 02:49
maymay
BDSM in the media, Community, Erotica and pornography, Fantasy, Politics of sex, Rant
First, a couple important points. I hate Kink, Inc.1 2 That does not mean I want them eradicated—they have been doing a shitty job of it, but I believe have made the world a (slightly) better place on balance—it means I have incredibly negative feelings for them that are far, far stronger than mere disapproval […]
The BDSM community ghetto, and other cultural problems
02 Dec 2010 at 03:35
maymay
BDSM in the media, Community, Femdom, Male sexuality, Masculinity, Politics of sex, Writing and blogging
Some months back, while I was still using my sanitized outside voice, Alice Archer contacted me for an article she was doing about “The Changing Face of Female Domination,” slated to be published in Filament Magazine. Now that the article is out (a preview is available if you turn to page 34, and have Flash), […]
KinkForAll versus Stop Porn Culture: guess who’s filthier!
24 Jun 2010 at 13:04
maymay
BDSM in the media, Kink events, Myths and misconceptions, Politics of sex, Vanilla life, Writing and blogging
Over at the Washington City Paper, Amanda Hess wrote about her experiences at KinkForAll Washington DC 2 and Dr. Gail Dines’ Stop Porn Culture anti-porn activist briefing on The Hill last Tuesday. Her column is well worth a read, and exposes the should-be-obvious blatant hypocrisy with which fear-mongering anti-porn crusaders conduct themselves on a regular […]
