I’d been meaning to look at Freaksexual for some time. I’m glad that I finally made the time. This paragraph from a meditation on BDSM and power should show why:
BDSM play power therefore stands in contrast to forms of power in the wider culture, which are actually nonconsensual. Working in modern culture is generally one’s only lifestyle option, and various forms of power are exerted on anyone in an employment situation. The exploitation of the lower classes is nonconsensual. Sexism, racism, and homophobia are nonconsensual, and the ideologies that support these systems of power are exerted on the populace in a nonconsensual manner. The uses to which a person can put their body are at least highly coercive in many cases. And so on. We are in fact swimming in a soup of nonconsensual power dynamics, where our personal strategies are typically shaped by sets of options that can range from mildly undesirable to downright horrific.
See Welcome to Freaksexual for context.
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