The kink/BDSM community isn’t trying to end rape culture. They’re trying to eroticize it. We already have a society in which relationship role models are so thoroughly intoxicated with abuser dynamics that most people don’t even know what consenting feels like. By celebrating this state of affairs and attempting to normalize the explicit eroticization of […]
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“The kink/BDSM community isn’t trying to end rape culture. They’re trying to eroticize it.”
27 Jun 2014 at 14:08
maymay
BDSM psychology, Community, D/s dynamics, Myths and misconceptions, Politics of sex
Twist my arm.
In 2011, I gave an impassioned (and vocally angry) speech called “Re-caste-ing Alternative Sexuality: A Class Analysis of Social Status in the BDSM Scene.” As with most of my (somewhat formalized) advocacy presentations, I transcribed my own speech from video record and posted it to my blog. In response to that particular presentation, I got […]
Complicity with Abuse: 101-level Information Social Justice Hobbyists are Dangerously Ignorant Of
Before you claim to be effective in any kind of systemic anti-abuse work, you need to understand the concept of complicity. Thankfully, it’s not a very hard concept to understand. Even better, there’s a very simple test for whether or not you actually understand it as deeply as I think you need to in order to do […]
