Word: bdsm
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...most important item he came upon as he built his collection was his single-tale snake whip, the implement he says epitomizes BDSM. “The whip represents all the extremes of BDSM,” he says today, taking the snake whip from out of his closet and lightly flicking it toward the center of the room...
...going somewhere, I say to a friend, ‘If I don’t call you by this time, and say this exact phrase, call the police, I’m in danger,’” he says. “The BDSM community focuses a lot on safety...
Mark also found support at the New England Leather Alliance (NELA), a BDSM advocacy group. During an internship there last summer, Mark got to know NELA’s board members, including Sandra J.M. Santiago, who he used as a sounding board...
...months later, Santiago became a BDSM activist, joining a movement that had been underway for a decade before Paddleboro made the fight more urgent...
Following the pattern forged by BGLT activists before them, BDSM advocates created groups like the NELA and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) in response to what they call widespread social and legal persecution. Like BGLT activists, they made the courts their battleground and education their weapon...