Gordon Fitch wrote:
>
> Anthony Kennerson wrote:
> > >It is no more inconsistent with love than more vanilla (meaning
> > >conventional) forms of sex are. Power in sex play is not necessarily a
> > >function of power in the outer world; people in B/D play are capable of
> > >respect and equality outside the bedroom.
>
> Probably more so [inside the bedroom], because the power plays are explicit,
> conscious, voluntary, and usually framed (that is, set off
> from life in general).
In other words, one can make very general statements about a given general type of sexual activity, but such statements are as far from dealing with "subjectivities" as are statements about commodity fetishism, the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, or the function of literacy in palace economies in the second millenium B.C.
Carrol