[lbo-talk] S/M, or Operation Save America

[Curtiss Leung]

>From what I know about consensual S/M--safewords, knowing what
sorts of knots are safe or not, the extensive predetermination
of what elements can or cannot go into a scene--it seems distressingly 
wholesome.

"'Wanna Fuck?' 'Sure!'" it ain't--unless, of course, that's something
that the parties have sorted out in advance.

Just another data point against its icky-ness.

Curtiss

Yoshie on consensual S/M:
> Consensual S/M is the opposite of slavery, in that, unlike in 
> slavery, the bottom is not enslaved by the top.  S/M is a 
> role-playing game, in which practitioners freely choose their 
> favorite roles and define rules together (between S/M partners and 
> within S/M communities).  Slavery, unlike S/M, wasn't a game, and it 
> insults the enslaved to conflate the two.