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Thinking Kink: Gay S&M in Pop Music, Then and Now

Sex and Sexuality post by Catherine Scott on August 3, 2012 - 10:45am; tagged Adam Lambert, BDSM, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Gay men, LGBT, queer, Relax, S&M.
Back in 1983, Frankie said "Relax" and a media unsettled by gay S&M did the exact opposite. A generation later, we pride ourselves on being a little cooler with queerness and BDSM, but I suspect there are still some double standards when it comes to gay men getting kinky....
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Thinking Kink: Moving Beyond Abuse with BDSM

Sex and Sexuality post by Catherine Scott on July 25, 2012 - 10:04am; tagged BDSM, rihanna, S&M, Spanner Trial, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Last post, I looked at how BDSM can be used to work through abuse. But what of those who want to use BDSM to move on from, not replay, traumatic pasts? Today, I'm thinking about the difficulty of shedding the "victim" label when an abuse survivor chooses to be kinky...
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Thinking Kink: Did Sex and the City Get BDSM Right?

Sex and Sexuality post by Catherine Scott on June 22, 2012 - 10:31am; tagged BDSM, bondage, La Douleur Exquise, S&M, sex and the city.
Samantha (R) defends kink as a bemused Miranda looks onSex and the City broke serious ground in the late '90s when it was lauded for its frank and open discussions of sex—by women, no less!—without taking itself too seriously. But did it ever manage to move beyond the media's often cartoonish portrayals of BDSM?
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Whee! #2

Here’s to Roseanne’s succinct feminist history lesson... Seventeen is actually giving good advice these days. Question: "I masturbate often. Am I normal?" Answer: "Completely normal... 3rd Rock from the Sun may be a wholly silly show that underuses the comic talents of Jane Curtin and overuses the familiar aliens-on-earth premise... We never thought we’d see a classic of masturbation literature on national tv...
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