power

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Fri Dec 6 03:25:02 PST 2002


Quoting Anthony Kennerson <maroondog244 at lycos.com>:


> B/D stands for bondage/discipline or bondage/domination; it is a particular
> kind of sexual power play that is common among sexually unorthodox people.

unorthodox? doesn't orthodox mean following carefully a set of rules to which you ascribe. i could go look it up to be certain, but i'm fairly sure that's right. which makes b/d pretty fucking orthodox (huh and i love every dimension of that pun)


> It is no more inconsistent with love than more vanilla (meaning conventional)
> forms of sex are.

Certainly


> 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.

Also certainly, but it is definitely still real "power"


> It's simply another form of consensual sexual
> variation.

even its most difficult form of consensual non-consensual sexual variation

Catherine



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