BDSM Background Information
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Reposted with the author's permission.
A Note from the author:
As a result of the increasing number of free - usually well meant - BDSM sites, chat facilities and mailing lists on the Internet, the quality of solid BDSM-safety information is decreasing rapidly, mainly due to the fact that people quite often repeat what others write, without properly testing or researching, if the information provided has any bearing. The POWERotics Foundation (http://www.powerotics.com) is committed to providing accurate information about BDSM and has been doing so for the past decade. The article below covers some of the most widely spread myths about BDSM safety: the myths as well as the real facts and solutions. All these subjects cover very basic, common, frequently occurring safety situations - the ones most BDSM-people will encounter once or more often. You may use this article free of copyrights, provided you quote the source of it (POWERotics Foundation/UrbanKink - http://www.powerotics.com).
Kind regards,
POWERotics Foundation
Hans Meijer, chairman
Many parents have questions about how and when to inform their children about their erotic power exchange emotions.
When applied with care and knowledge, impulses such as pain, stress, fear and humiliation - in the right context - can and will create a chain reaction or hormonal rush
You are either married, living together or have been long-time companions in some other form of relationship. Suddenly, you start to develop erotic power exchange emotions and fantasies. Or your partner does. Now what?
Although discriminatory legislation sometimes likes to let you believe otherwise, there are fundamental differences between erotic power exchange and domestic violence (abuse). Erotic power exchange should always be based on the VICSS-concept. Anything else is abuse.
This section of the professional information, deals with the tension between law enforcement and consensual erotic power exchange.
Since erotic power exchange is attracting more interest in society, it is only logical the phenomena gets increased media coverage. In addition, the current trend - especially in audiovisual media - to try and cover more eroticism in general contributes extra to this trend
Basic information about BDSM for legal and law inforcement in the liht of recent publicity and opening viewpoints concerning BDSM.
Is a safeword really a good safety measure? And another question: how safe is a safeword? And finally: isn't the BDSM community just a bunch of parrots, all repeating the same dogmas over and over again?
Not everything you find on the Internet, when looking for safety advice, is good information. Much of it in fact forms part of very persistent urban legends. Here is a simple list of first line safety issues: the myth as well as the facts.