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...make clear that the BDSM these researchers study is consensual. No one in the fledgling BDSM movement argues in favor of actual slavery or rape (though eroticized simulations of such crimes are common). Among the BDSM clubs and support groups, all the reputable ones preach the BDSM 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...
...After she left her second husband--Doc is her third--she "got tied into a very bad person," she says. One day the man told her to get into a dog kennel, and she willingly complied. But then he left her alone--a major no-no under the safe-sane-and-consensual guidelines taught at SM conferences. As it happened, the apartment building accidentally caught fire. Surri suffered burns and smoke inhalation. "I was nearly dead when the paramedics got to me," she says. When I ask what happened to the man, tears well in her eyes. "Nothing." Surri didn...
Another, more logical explanation is a wish to commemorate the late R&B singer’s body of work. Aaliyah had a beautiful voice, as any sane person, or ex-husband R. Kelly, could tell you. But no one would argue that she was a particularly significant or innovative artist of her time. Her songs were no more extraordinary than those of any number of inspirational, vocally gifted artists working in the genre at the time. Though Elliott likely realizes this on some level, she may have a stronger impression of Aaliyah’s potential than the average...
...irresponsible failure to defend the rights of the insane, the United States Supreme Court has consented by inaction to let states make mentally incompetent convicts take antipsychotic drugs so they will be sane enough to be executed. Last Monday, on its first day of session, the Court chose to let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Charles L. Singleton, who was sentenced to death in Arkansas for a 1979 murder and later became insane, could be forced to take medication, restoring his sanity and making him eligible for execution...
...That was a memo that was leaked in a rather out of context way at the time, which I subsequently very vigorously repudiated,” Summers said then. “Obviously no sane or moral person is in favor of more pollution...