Rethinking Kink: Sadomasochism as Serious Leisure |
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Authors: | Staci Newmahr |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA |
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Abstract: | Based on extensive ethnographic research in a public SM (sadomasochism) community, this paper frames SM as recreation. Drawing
on Robert Stebbins’ work on “serious leisure” (1982), I posit that in order to more adequately understand SM as it occurs
in this community, we need to shift from mainstream assumptions of SM as (simply) “kinky sex” to a more nuanced perspective.
I explore the unique skills required in order to engage in SM, as well as the benefits and rewards that participants derive
from it, in order to illustrate that SM can be more usefully understood as serious leisure. |
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