Does BDSM Need Its Own Rights Movement?

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I personally think that BDSM needs its own rights movement, just like what LGBT people have.

BDSM is as legitimately 'in need' of a rights movement as LGB All of these are attraction/fucking-other-people-related.

The only one different from any of these is T... which took a lot of work to get slapped onto the end of the other three, but there you have it.

And I don't think it needs a 'rights movement' so much as a perspective shift. Which will happen *on its own* with 'the next generation'. Two gen down? It's done beyond done.

People can face much bigotry if they are openly kinky, just as gay people do. I think gays & kinksters are natural allies as no only do these categories often overlap, & both are persecuted as sexual minorities.

What are your views on this?

Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Why in the name of all things that might be considered holy and/or sacred is *people having sex with one another* among them?

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Some people ought to Shut up and enjoy the discrimination, abuse and spanking that those worthless piece of shit deserve.

Mmmn, slavery. Been a while.

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There are definitely problems because a man cannot even be seen acting submissive toward his significant other. Can you imagine the crap a man would have to put up with if people knew that he was a sub?

This hits more upon men being socially trained to be total fucking jerkwads than it does anything else.

And that wasn't even feminism. That whole 'man up and take it'/'be a man!' doctrine is fucking sicking. Women get their own 'dainty little princess'/'thin like skeleton' shit... you know: I could well be considered to completely within my rights to stab every proponent of such in the eye socket with a sharp stick.

Also: firsthand. Except the man part, though I cannot say whether or not applicable individuals thought I was or was not (as I don't know...)

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I'm not sure its appropriate that sexual play need have a public dimension. Gay people have been subject to abuse for holding hands in public or for kissing in Public -something that doesn't happen for gay people. BDSM is something people do and doesn't go to the root of identity as homosexuality does. Straight BDSM people can hold hands or kiss in public with no issues.

Oh? But may I walk the dog?