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RCdc -> RE: BDSM a subset of D/s or vice versa? (2/10/2010 10:31:05 AM)
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Nobody knows how many people engage in BDSM - the acronym for Bondage Domination Sadomasochism - but it is estimated that 14% of men and 11% of women have tried it. There are a huge number of BDSM websites, with everything from sites giving advice and instructions, to personal ads, to online groups where people arrange to meet. Next month, for instance, Unfettered, a voluntary group set up four years ago to run educational workshops and promote and defend BDSM, hosts Kinkfest in London, "a whole day of non-stop salacious stage entertainment, fantastic stalls, wicked workshops, superb speeches and special guests". Is everyone at it?
Ermine Saner, writer.
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For the uninitiated, BDSM stands for 'Bondage, Discipline and Sadomasochism', a clumsy umbrella term for a vast range of sexual practices usually dismissed under the generic label 'kinky'.
Its enthusiasts complain they are stigmatised by society to the point that some of their activities, while consensual, can see them sent to prison. Worse, according to many on the scene, is the way their activities, which usually feature the use of restraints, whips and role-play involving positions of power, are chronically misunderstood by wider society. Armchair psychologists dismiss BDSM as an unnatural, unhealthy desire for humiliation, while much of the general public regard its practitioners as perverts.
xeromag.com
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Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority," Associate Professor Juliet Richters and her colleagues wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
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the.dark.
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