What is it Like to be a BDSM Player?
This extra intellectual and fresh perspective on the experience of those that engage in BDSM was written by three folks from Italy (Faccio, E., Sarigu, D. & Ludici, A.) and published in 2020. The full title of the article is What is it like to be a BDSM Player? The Role of Sexuality and Erotization of Power in the BDSM Experience . These researchers set out to explore what happens if we consider BDSM a sexual orientation. The introduction reminds us that the terms included in the acronym BDSM are medically originating and therefore pathologizing in their nature. The authors prefer the term Erotic Power Exchange (EPE) to describe the concepts of BDSM to participate in neutralizing marginalization that has occurred to this community. Furthermore, the legitimization of EPE as a form of erotic expression makes it no longer "alternative". I italicize erotic because a concept that I described in an earlier post that differentiates the erotic from the sexual is especially rele...