BDSM in the news

[amosse85]

This story hit the front page of Digg recently:

You might think that wanting to be tied up and whipped is a guaranteed sign of psychological distress, but according to a recent study, people who participate in bondage and dominance/submission play may be happier and less anxious than those with more conventional sexual tastes.

Public health researchers studied 20,000 Australians to determine that despite the stereotype that people with off-the-beaten-path sexual interests are somehow damaged, men who take part in BDSM score significantly lower on a scale of mental distress than other men.

"Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority," Associate Professor Juliet Richters and her colleagues wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

These findings coincide nicely with the recent outbreak of bondage-friendly superhero comics. When we think about how we'd feel if Wonder Woman used her lasso of truth to tie us up for some kinky bondage games, the study starts to make perfect sense.

[gagged_Louise]

My local daily has just started a series of features about alternative sexual lifestyles, and today they have a bunch of mini interviews with folks who have differeny fetishes - at least two are in the bdsm scene - and a discussion about s/m and the fact that it's still a medical diagnostic tag ("sadistic psychopath")

Slightly off topic, headline today in a tabloid here:

"Tony denied dropping in at his girlfriend's place by court order -

Neighbours filed comnplaints for too much loud late night sex"

-spankings and cries or just vanilla sex?

I also recall another case a few years ago where a woman was accosted by her ex-boyfriend, who turned up at her place - an apartment block - and pushed his way in (mixture of threat and embarrassing talk I guess) After he was in, she got spanked and abused; it happened several times. She yelled for help, but the neighbours filed with the landlord for "too much commotion and hubbub" and eventually she was evicted - those creepy neighbours didn't even realize she had been beaten up.

[Logic1]

My local daily has just started a series of features about alternative sexual lifestyles, and today they have a bunch of mini interviews with folks who have differeny fetishes - at least two are in the bdsm scene - and a discussion about s/m and the fact that it's still a medical diagnostic tag ("sadistic psychopath")

Lol yeah I read that too and to my amusement I "knew" one of the persons in that article and my girl knew another and neither of us had any idea hehe.
Goes to show just how much you know doesnt it

gotto love the "kinky news"!

[gagged_Louise]

blank (double post!)

[ishtar-astarte]

woo. go australia!

[gagged_Louise]

Yep, the Aussie study made it into some papers here too. Headline today from another tabloid:
"Kinky Sex Life Makes You Happier!

People Who Practise Bondage and S/m More Harmonic"

Woot!

[samm]

Haha, it also made the news here in Belgium.
I guess people are just more interested in kinky news these days

[gagged_Louise]

I've long had the feeling that some s/m "light" (spanking, artistic bondage, some ponyplay and erotic rp) is on its way to mainstream acceptance.

[amosse85]

I've long had the feeling that some s/m "light" (spanking, artistic bondage, some ponyplay and erotic rp) is on its way to mainstream acceptance.

Agreed. I sure hope it is, anyway.

[gagged_Louise]

Predictably, some of the letters they got for running that feature said it was "disgusting", "deeply decadent" belonging in a porno mag etc etc. Others were appreciative though.

[amosse85]

Predictably, some of the letters they got for running that feature said it was "disgusting", "deeply decadent" belonging in a porno mag

Some people only can only respond the way they were programmed to respond, sadly.

[Logic1]

soo why are some posts suddenly missing the written part of it?