Play, Pain and Religion - Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter - Alison Robertson
Setting the Scene
Play, Pain and Religion - Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter - Alison Robertson
Alison Robertson [+]
The Open University
Alison Robertson is a research associate with at the Open University. She is interested in the places where the lines commonly drawn between categories (such as ‘religious’ and ‘non-religious’) become blurred or ambiguous and in how such blurring affects the ways people look at the world. Her research interests, other than kink, include lived and personal religion, edgework, and self-inflicted or positive experiences of pain.
Description
Chapter 2 outlines the choice and usage of the term BDSM and its relationship to its wider context of culture, law and sex. It clarifies what constitutes the category of behaviours with which the remainder of the book is concerned and establishes some of the contextual frames within which my research participants both practice and understand their practice.