Source: Grapevine.is.
ICELAND – What is BDSM? Typically considered sexual preferences and practices that include elements of control, submission or pain, it stands for bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism. It’s kink, it’s control, it’s an exploration of sexual desire. It’s pleasure and pain and pleasure derived from pain. It’s role play, power exchange and humiliation. It’s intimacy and sex.
If you’re blushing right now, you’re not alone. BDSM remains taboo for large swaths of the population – even within the LGBTQIA+ community. It’s a sexual preference. But is it an orientation? Is it queer? What is BDSM really?
“The last chair of the organisation and I, we’ve had this conversation I don’t know how many times,” says Margrét Nilsdóttir, chairperson of the Icelandic BDSM Organisation, when asked for an official line on the practice. “It’s always the question that is asked in every interview and every time we’re being talked about, but it’s so hard to define it. It’s so different for everybody.”
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