laughable quote (and celebrity gossip b/c i can't help myself)

[kaizoku]

"This is NOT a way of saying that practitioners of S&M are more likely to be abusers. HOWEVER, there is a dark(er?) side to this lifestyle, and it can't be wished away by lumping it in with transvestitism and homosexuality."
- Comment on this article about Rolling Stone's slandering of the transgender and S&M communities. I just find it hilarious that this person would think that SMers would get more respect by being grouped with us "transvestites." Riiight...
The article's pretty interesting actually. I'd heard that one of the Wachowski brothers (makers of the Matrix movies) had transitioned m-to-f, but I didn't know any of the specifics before reading it. I guess that explains somewhat why they decided to make "Bound" (aka the really hot lesbian bondage movie, which they supposedly made first to finance making The Matrix.)

Anyway, I found this because in the process of tagging my social bookmarks I started wondering, why Bondage&Discipline? Domination/submission and Sadism/Masochism make sense as pairs, but why pair up bondage (restraining someone) and discipline (punishing someone)? They can go together, of course, but seem just as likely not to (in my admittedly limited experience.) I've even talked to people who are into bondage, but not into discipline. In fact they both seem like more subset of the other two pairs - though I'm sure someone could like disciplining or being disciplined, or tying up/being tied up without necessarily being into the pain or power aspects (e.g. domestic discipline, maybe?) I don't know, just something I was thinking about. If I find anything out about the terminology or history of it, I'll let y'all know.

Comments

[2naonh3-cl2.livejournal.com]

O.O

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Heh. TMI?

[2naonh3-cl2.livejournal.com]

first off, love the icon. SQUEE! secondly, not so much a TMI, but more, "wow, you thought about that a lot, didn't you...?" hee. it was interesting. i just have never thought about bdsm that much.

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Hehe, yeah, I guess I did. Even my mom has asked me before why I'm so interested in sex and gender (though actually it used to be more of an obsession, now it's more casual interest.) I'm not a practitioner of bdsm, but I've always found it intriguing - and more than a little hot. ;-) I'm probably going to post a list of SGA bdsm stories sometime in the near future...
Icon is from velocitygrass. Classic John-with-tongue-sticking-out. XD

[2naonh3-cl2.livejournal.com]

gah! again with the awesome icon! concurs, v. hot, not much of a sex life to experiment with, but v. hot. *blows raspberry* see, both of us can do the TMI. ^o^

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Oh, my eyes, how scandalous! Hehe. If you're okay with the TMI, then I s'pose I am too. Now if you started telling me about, say, the potential uses of duct tape, icecream, and candlewax... I would probably be... very intrigued. ;-)

[2naonh3-cl2.livejournal.com]

not so interesting in the candlewax, but ductape and icecream are both so much fun. ohmygosh.