> So the bottom line is that is hard to look at BDSM as merely individual
> practices or individual consent without ignoring the broader social context
> and social inequalities in which this consent occurs and conditions
> individual consciousness. This is of course not to say that BDSM "causes" or
> even "contributes" to these conditions and inequalities - it merely
> re-enacts them in the bedroom.
This is offensive garbage.
Chuck