New research sheds light on the complicated relationship between sex and BDSM
“I teach and write a lot within the community, and one of the biggest things I find myself doing is defending sexual BDSM to other kinksters. I end up saying a lot, ‘it’s okay to do this for sex,’ which I find sociologically surreal, since everyone outside the BDSM subculture thinks that’s what we’re all doing in the first place!” Fennell said.