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In the teeth of perversion
It’s time to share a Great Moment in Science. One explanation for bdsm desire was supplied by Dr Karl Abraham, one of Freud’s disciples. It’s a snappy little theory, and we’ll get to it in a second....
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How to study doms: Lift out their brains and slice them up
Another in the Great Moments in Science series. Research carried out in the 1980s attributed “sadism” to brain damage. The basis was a research project whose study group was dead men who, when they...
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What causes bdsm? A Freudian knows!
So we’re picking up where we left off, in the series in which various scientists and psychologists try to come up with explanations for why some people are weird enough to like bdsm. We had Karl...
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Explaining bdsm again: ah, Freudians…
It’s often said that bdsm is roughly where homosexuality was fifty or sixty years ago, in terms of social, political and media acceptance. Rathbone’s textbook on bdsm, Anatomy of Masochism, definitely...
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Great moments in science: giving electric shocks to masochists
We’ve had two posts on the psychoanalyst Dr June Rathbone, and her textbook on “Masochism”. The book’s mainly interesting for its over-the-top hostility to the people she chose as her topic. Still, if...
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Psychoanalytic wibble about bdsm: 1 Jacques Lacan!
I’m nearly finished revising the bdsm book. So I’ll be a bit busy for a couple of days, getting it done. I’ll be back to Raylene’s story shortly. I know it’s stopped at a dramatic moment, but we’ll get...
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Psychoanalytic wibble about bdsm 2: Deleuze & Guattari!
Continuing our series on complete vacuous wibble on bdsm by Freud-inspired writers from twentieth century France, this one is concerned with “masochism”. Take it away, Gilles Deleuze and Felix...
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Psychoanalytic wibble about bdsm 3: Michel Foucault!
Uncle Fester “From the moment that Sade delivered its first words and marked out, in a single discourse, the boundaries of what suddenly became its kingdom, the language of sexuality has lifted us into...
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A library of filthy books 2: The bdsm case
These are the top two shelves of the (mostly) bdsm bookcase. It starts with Taschen reprints of Eric Stanton femdom fantasies. And a shiny gold book of historical erotic photos, most of which don’t...
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Whipping your way through Pompeii
I went to Napoli a few days back. The first two days I did nothing except lie in bed and cough and shiver. Ate breakfast cereal for dinner the second day because all the shops and restaurants had...
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