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...mantra: safe, sane and consensual. "Like every other subculture, we have a fringe, an element that doesn't follow the rules," says Susan Wright of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a BDSM advocacy group formed in 1997 that claims 34 member organizations representing 10,000 people. "But every mainstream BDSM group has a mission statement that includes those words over and over: safe, sane, consensual...
...submit--that, in a manner of speaking, she has no choice but to give up choice. But can such thorough submission truly be safe, sane and consensual? Wright says BDSM-ers debate such issues all the time. If SM is to become a more accepted part of the mainstream, those serious debates--and not just the titillating extremes of "S&M" iconography--will have to come out of the closet...
...what’s most interesting about the results of my “poll” was that a majority of respondents expressed frustration with the general direction of mainstream politics. Eleven out of 20 Radcliffe players, though they see the election as important, still feel that a Democrat in the White House won’t bring about change of the order that this country desperately needs. One scrum-half wrote that she will be “100 percent satisfied if we can just get Bush out of the White House,” but this...
Increasingly, the events that most deeply, if briefly, unite that floating mainstream are deaths: Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn. The intensity of response to the passing of John Ritter, a likable actor from a campy '70s sitcom, seemed to surprise even his fans. In a culture with few common cultural referents, the past is what we share the most. (Perhaps for the same reason, 2003's Broadway shows with broad mass appeal tended to be revivals like Long Day's Journey into Night and Wonderful Town--and the music business heaved up a slew of standards albums.) When...
...monolithic mainstream culture of the 20th century helped define what it meant to be American. But it was un-American at heart. The phrase E pluribus unum aside, America was founded on fragmentation--by people fleeing religious, political and cultural "community" in the Old World. Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that a strength of the new nation was its abundance of space. Here, unlike in Europe, the citizens could be united when they needed to and be alone when they wanted to. In an older, more crowded America, we find that space virtually--inside a screen...