[lbo-talk] Re: Pleasure, Pain and All That Jazz

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Tue Jan 9 13:57:56 PST 2007


On Jan 9, 2007, at 3:43 PM, John Thornton wrote:


>> "SM play can challenge structural social inequality." That's pure
>> wishful thinking. [Yoshie}
>>
>> I do not think so. Regular play in the dungeon can be a mind altering
>> experience. It is liberatring in the best sense (for those people who
>> are open to the possibilities).
> Too many B&D practitioners I have met were deeply conservative people.
> Sex play does not make one more politically radical. I wish it did,
> but there is certainly no evidence this is so. It is as Yoshie put it
> "wishful thinking". [JT]

Your assignment, Doug, should you choose to accept it, is to book Todd Gitlin and Norman Solomon to discuss this question on your radio show: "Acid, BDSM, and other four-letter words: Threat or Menace?"

John A



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