> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>> 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
I don't think so. It makes sense to me. Looks to me like there is a good deal of repetition compulsion in bdsm, except of course in an environment in which one can control the event, which obviously has its therapeutic value.
Joanna