SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Birching, Dog Collar, Signify
16 Nov 2016
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Sadomasochism remains a highly stigmatized & deviant activity. Participants continue to be regarded as mentally ill, perverted. Activity is criminalized in several counties: gb (cid:858)(cid:271)odil(cid:455) har(cid:373)(cid:859) between consenting and individuals a criminal act. 19thc conceptions of degeneracy & 20thc classification as psychopathology. Set stage for legal regulation of fm in 1960s. Criminalization resulted in legal discrimination fired from jobs if discovered or disclosed lost custody of children child services intervention rejected & ostracized by family & friends. Verbally attacked by american religious right and some feminists as immoral & perversion a sin: practices patriarchal led to feminist sex wars. Lesbians sm esp problematic for feminists: understood as sadomasochism or master/slave. & bdsm bondage, discipline, dominance & submission: an inclusive term encompassing a wide range of practices. Use of physical/psychological pain to produce arousal i. e. sexual or physical (heightened state: however, orgasm not always the goal, pain, humiliation, etc for its own sake.
