B1gbear
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I've read most of the comments to this thread and think there is something we are all forgetting. I live in Colorado and a few years ago we had one of our BDSM clubs in Denver get infiltrated by the police and soon thereafter shut down. The aftermath brought many from the scene to the surface to stand their ground and defend the scene, and ultimately most went underground for some time. Why did all this occur? The club was shut down cause someone called the police and told them that there was a S/M dungeon in town that was allowing anyone to come in and engage in S/M activities and have sex on premesis for a small fee. Was it true, no...but that didn't matter. What the press and police couldn't do to our BDSM community on their own, our own more verbal members did with their attempts to bring us out of the closet and gain acceptance. All it really did was give local press and law enforcement more reason to continue the crusade to get rid of us all. Not one word of acceptance was heard, only twisted into showing how many more sick deviants were running around in our community. Why did most of us wind up going underground? Because everyone outside the BDSM community were quite eager to have us identified and our lives ruined anyway they could....eager to ensure there would not be any BDSM clubs or organizations in the greater Denver area if we gave them any reason to believe there were more of them out there.
Why did all this crazy witch hunt crap go on in a city were the BDSM scene has flurished for many years with full knowledge of local law enforcement? Simple. We are an extreme minority of society. Sure Gays and Lesbians have won mainstream acceptance, but they didn't go to the vanilla world demanding acceptance to tie each other up and engage in S/M activities. Do they do this? You betcha, as a major percentage of the scene is made up by gays and lesbians. In fact, I would go so far as to say that many of them consider this alternative lifestyle, theirs first, hetrosexual & monogomous BDSM'ers only the recent group to invade this lifestyle. Attend any major BDSM function around the country and observe who holds a leading role in running and attending those events.
Again I will state, they have won mainstream acceptance not because they claimed a BDSM alternative lifestyle, but because they wanted to have same sex relationships. To live lives like any hetrosexual in this country, but in a same sex environment. Guess what....they are just as persecuted for practicing the BDSM lifestyle as the rest of us are.
This country will not now or ever accept behavior which has only recently been removed from the mental illness list. We know our needs and desires are normal and healthy for us, but you can't expect the rest of the world to just up and accept us. If 5% of the population go out and demand acceptance to practice something that 95% of the population consider unhealthy, mentally and emotionally sick, physical abuse, psychological abuse, perverted, and the hunting grounds for preditors, guess who is going to run who out of town on a rail? Think about it......just for a few minutes and althouh I know none of you like it anymore than I do, try to accept the fact that most of us can run out and tell our employers, friends, family, community, law enforcement or the press how we wish to express our lifestyle without being persecuted or likewise being run out of town just as quickly.
All that said, why would any of us be suprised to find those of the vanilla world watching our every move for an opportunity to strike out and do us harm. Aren't there just as many of us eager to show why we should be accepted as their are them trying to prove we should not be? I suggest we simply keep this knowledge in mind as we talk in these semi-public forums. Always consider the words you speak and who they may affect. (Not that I'm suggesting anyone is doing that here.) Outing our friends and local groups in the scene is not something we have a right to do. I think its smart to notice things like the vanilla's observing us sometimes a bit too closely, but keep it in perspective and understand this is how it is in our world.....and will be for the forseeable future.
~Just One Dom's opinion.
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