Thursday 10 October 2013

Thinking Kink: Is Vanilla Sex Boring? Who Gets to Decide?

A very interesting article in BITCH MAGAZINE by Catherine Scott:

"One of the reasons I didn't dare join a fetish community website, or go to a play party, 'til years after I was first curious about BDSM, was a subconscious sense that I was probably "too vanilla." I didn't dress head-to-toe in latex or own any seven-inch heels, and I didn't take my partner down to the local shops on a dog leash.

I've since realized that the scene is open to anyone who feels their sexual tastes land outside the mainstream—there's no test you have to pass. However, by labelling every non-kinky person as effectively the same, is the BDSM community just as judgmental as those who judge us?"

READ MORE: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/thinking-kink-vanilla-sex-bdsm-feminist-magazine-sexuality

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