A friend of mine who moved from the very religious community she was born in to a very non-religious community overseas says the BDSM community provides the same sort of social support network that church did when she lived in the US.
I’ve never been too closely involved in the community but from my limited observation BSDM groups also have failures modes just as bad as religious communities.
Certainly they seem to have failure modes (not personally involved in the community but have friends who are) but I″m curious what failure modes you think are just as bad as religion. I’ve never for example heard anyone from such a community advocate an anti-epistemology as a fundamental community norm.
A friend of mine who moved from the very religious community she was born in to a very non-religious community overseas says the BDSM community provides the same sort of social support network that church did when she lived in the US.
There’s something delicious about that.
I’m going to quote that to my religious friends if a suitably related topic comes up. :P
I’ve never been too closely involved in the community but from my limited observation BSDM groups also have failures modes just as bad as religious communities.
Are these the failure modes common to most social groups, or something special?
Certainly they seem to have failure modes (not personally involved in the community but have friends who are) but I″m curious what failure modes you think are just as bad as religion. I’ve never for example heard anyone from such a community advocate an anti-epistemology as a fundamental community norm.
BDSM tends to attract a higher-than-usual proportion of openly misogynistic and otherwise abusive men.
Yes, but it’s not the stuff the dominatrices make you eat.