Salon magazine has an interesting article talking about sexual assaults within the BDSM community. It’s an unfortunate reality that too often hasn’t been talked about.
During a D/s 101 workshop at Vancouver’s Westward Bound conference the subject of kink and abuse came up, and the conversation that ensued is an indication that this is a topic that, justifiably, is seeing the light of day more.
Interesting food for thought, and to my mind a must read for every responsible kinkster out there.
Read the Salon article here (Scroll down to the article “When Safe Words are Ignored”)
More on this story from the SF Bay Guardian: The Bad Kind of Pain
About the Author
Reive
Reive Doig is the editor of Erotic Vancouver Magazine, a website devoted to promoting local sex positive events, spotlighting and linking to sexuality stories in the media, and offering media criticism of sex negative stories in the press.
Reive is a sex positive activist, polyamorist and a proud bisexual man. He is an active member of Vancouver’s kink community. He is also a partner in the monthly fetish night NOIR Fetish Ball and sits on the board of PACE.
With 19 years of experience in kink, he’s presented numerous seminars on BDSM and sexuality, spoken at Douglas College, SFU, and UBC, and has been featured in articles in The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Province, and Whiplash Magazine among others. He has been a source for several documentary and news producers, and was very thankful to end up on the cutting room floor for the series Kink. Reive has worked as an SM technical advisor, most recently on Smallville, and in the past for The L Word, and the unreleased short film Bondage.
