TY - JOUR
T1 - 'It started when i barked once when i was licking his boots!'
T2 - A descriptive phenomenological study of the everyday experience of BDSM
AU - Turley, Emma L.
AU - King, Nigel
AU - Butt, Trevor
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and coercive sexualities. We focus on the lived experience of BDSM participation to further illuminate these sexual practices. A descriptive phenomenological analysis of four interview transcripts was employed, with the purpose of producing a general structural experience of BDSM participation, which aims to further understanding of this complex phenomenon. The essential structures of the BDSM experience are discussed in terms of authentic fantasy, rejection of social norms and non-sexual positive outcomes.
AB - Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and coercive sexualities. We focus on the lived experience of BDSM participation to further illuminate these sexual practices. A descriptive phenomenological analysis of four interview transcripts was employed, with the purpose of producing a general structural experience of BDSM participation, which aims to further understanding of this complex phenomenon. The essential structures of the BDSM experience are discussed in terms of authentic fantasy, rejection of social norms and non-sexual positive outcomes.
KW - BDSM
KW - Descriptive phenomenology
KW - Giorgi
KW - Interviews
KW - Sexual practice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953865352&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19419899.2010.528018
DO - 10.1080/19419899.2010.528018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953865352
VL - 2
SP - 123
EP - 136
JO - Psychology and Sexuality
JF - Psychology and Sexuality
SN - 1941-9899
IS - 2
ER -