teach BDSM in the schools
2016-09-01 23:59:09.087086+02 by
Dan Lyke
2 comments
The Journal of Sex Research: Participating in a Culture of Consent
May Be Associated With Lower Rape-Supportive Beliefs
With the recent national focus on rates of sexual violence, many interventions
have been proposed, including those that focus on affirmative consent (e.g., “Yes Means Yes”
campaign). The goal of the present study was to test whether individuals within a subculture
with long-standing norms of affirmative consent—the bondage and discipline/dominance and
submission/sadism and masochism (BDSM) community—report lower rape-supportive attitudes
compared to individuals not from within this subculture. BDSM practitioner participants,
adult participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and college student participants
completed measures of hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance, victim
blaming, expectation of sexual aggression, and acceptance of sexual aggression. BDSM
practitioners reported significantly lower levels of benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance,
and victim blaming than did college undergraduates and adult MTurk workers. BDSM
practitioners did not differ significantly from college undergraduates or adult MTurk workers
on measures of hostile sexism, expectations of sexual aggression, or acceptance of sexual
aggression. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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#Comment Re: teach BDSM in the schools made: 2016-09-03 13:58:37.085033+02 by:
meuon
I often look at the world through BDSM goggles. Protocol is real in that community, breaking it
gets you punished or removed. The social hierarchy, role playing, Dom/Sub behavior are all in
the non-BDSM world, just not as well defined and understood by the parties. More interesting
in this case, they understand boundaries and permission. The mundane world gets in trouble
because it doesn't and these issues are rarely addressed or talked about.
#Comment Re: teach BDSM in the schools made: 2016-09-06 23:08:47.368474+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Yep. So much gets made explicit that we normally just fumble around with interpreting
implicitly. Or ignore.
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