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...sexual preference. A social worker, she has made a career at La Red, a domestic violence support center. In her spare time, she volunteers at NELA, organizing meetings with doctors, police officers and social workers—anyone who might be likely to come into contact with BDSM and not know what it is—where she explains that SM relationships are usually consensual, not forms of domestic violence or abuse...
...Paddleboro may have actually attracted more people to BDSM activism, says Cecilia M. Tan, NELA’s media relations director...
...Mark’s vision, SHACKLE was going to be a group dedicated to supporting those students who are members of, or are interested in, the BDSM community. This was going to be a place where people who were afraid to let others know about their preference, people who worried about public rejection, could feel welcome. It was Mark’s chance to tell others—especially those just entering the scene—that they are not alone...
...safe word is what you say when you really mean stop,” Mark says. “For example, the color system. In this case, red means stop. If you say red, everything stops. There’s no misunderstanding. Communication is valued extremely highly in a BDSM relationship...
...Whatever you say about the BDSM community, they value a robust form of consent that other college students are missing,” Kelly says. “People [in BDSM] relationships talk beforehand. They can even have written and notarized contracts about what they will and will not do. Each and every step is detailed. They set boundaries that can be shrunk at any time for any reason, which is just insanely good...