BitaTruble -> RE: What do you consider sick? (10/6/2006 10:16:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WhiteRadiance Is there anything we can do within the "lifestyle" that will not be accepted? Accepted as what? A healthy choice? There are, clearly, several activities which some folks do not accept as healthy. How those folks make such a determination, I have no clue, yet it happens every day. The ones who really throw me for a loop are those who make statements which base things on someone's age. If you are 50 and do XYZ to someone who is 18, you are sick. If you are 30 and do XYZ to someone who is 28, well, that's OK then. We don't need the state police determining what is or is not healthy for someone else as we get enough of that outside of BDSM. What we do need is to cultivate a culture which encourages education so the risk of damage is minimized and when people do make choices which have the potential to harm them, they do so with the full and knowledgeable consent. Making arbitrary statements as if they are facts does more harm than good and such things are almost always subjective rather than objective and are based on a personal feeling rather than a fact. The harm with making such statements in a public venue is that it has the potential to close minds, especially minds which are newly discovering the possiblities of BDSM. I think there are already plenty of closed minds both inside and outside of BDSM. We don't need any more of them closing up, shutting down and getting ever more Anita Bryants on the bandwagon trying to fight a 'bad' fight. quote:
Do kinksters have the right to say they dislike certain activities, find them distasteful, abusive, or damaging? Unless someone took away the 1st ammendment while I was sleeping, they certainly have the 'right' to say damn near anything. It's a right which, ideally, will be excerised infrequently and backed up by logical and sound reasoning, especially when placed in context with 'abusive' which is a hot button swirling around in the BDSM vats. Before someone makes claim that something done by or to someone else is 'abusive', facts should be lined up and the case about it be proven. Just because I don't 'like' XYZ or XYZ is distasteful or has the potential to harm, it doesn't make it abusive. My right to speak out on such an issue ends when it slides into accusation or dissembling against any group of people. I think it should be noted that when someone is talking about a particular person doing a particular thing, it may become 'personal' to those of us who do that exact same thing. Human nature. John Dom is a sick fuck because he does "X". Well, I do "X" as well, so I can only read that as someone believes I am also a sick fuck for doing "X". To come back and say, "Oh, I didn't mean you", is a back peddle which does not hold water. I do take exception to that because doing "X" doesn't make me a sick fuck. I do "X" because I'm educated on how to do it, I enjoy it, I've studied it and find it acceptable and don't believe that "X" is going to do me or those with whom I engage in "X" any sort of harm, either physically or mentally although there are always risks that it may, of course. Nope, doing "X" doesn't make me a sick fuck. It's doing "Y" which makes me a sick fuck. [;)] Celeste
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