Study finds kink seems normal; Gays & lesbians more open to BDSM
”Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority…. People with these sexual interests have long been seen by medicine and the law as, at best, damaged and in need of therapy and, at worst, dangerous and in need of legal regulation.”
Professor Juliet Richters as published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Part of her study’s findings show that BDSM interests are more common among gay men and lesbians and other sexually adventurous people in general. (The Australian)
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