lecture 11

Question 1

The first records of BDSM: 3000 BC

Answer 1

Ancient sumerian goddess inanna invented the first “safe word”

Belief that servants would come to inanna and asked to be flogged in an ecstatic state

Through this whipping, they would enter into an alternate state of consciousness

Question 2

2010:APA announced that it would be changing the diagnostic codes for BDSM

Answer 2

Before you are BDSM you could have your children taken away, lose your job, now APA said they’ll be overturning this

Question 3

2011: 50 shades of grey

Answer 3

sold over 150 million copies worldwide by october 2017

Question 4

SSC

Answer 4

safe, sane,consensual

Question 5

Risk-aware consensual kink (rack)

Answer 5

we know we are willingly engaging in risky behavior, but we are choosing to anyways, making it consensual, and it is under the umbrella of kink

Question 6

PRICK

Answer 6

personal, responsibility, informed, consensual, kink

Question 7

Rituals

Answer 7

create a scene and a space to meet each other as a new being

Rituals are a powerful way to signify a shift into play

Question 8

Why engage in BDSM?

Answer 8

Exchanging power (through which they experience a sense of freedom)

Seeking novelty or intensity through a new sexual experience

Increasing connection

Question 9

Trauma play

Answer 9

A person learns to transcend his or her past rather than repeating it and stunting growth

Question 10

3 steps in trauma play

Answer 10

1)predictiability in negotiation: dom asks about the traumatic experience and details and telling the person what to expect

2)rewiring trauma: allows memories to be transformed to something new
A scene is a willing to rupture, BDSM invites us into our bodies in a controlled “high stress” situation

3)aftercare and repair: coming back on the other side and seeing you’re safe

Question 11

common sexual fantasies

Answer 11

1)group sex
2)sadomasochism
3)novelty, adventure, and variety

less than 1/3 have acted out their biggest fantasy

Question 12

When is sexual behavior abnormal?
statistical defintion

Answer 12

frequency of occurrence
Rare behavior

Question 13

Sociological approach

Answer 13

deviance
Sexual behavior that violates norms of a culture

Question 14

Legal approach

Answer 14

breaks laws

Question 15

Psychological approach

Answer 15

causes distress or impairment

Question 16

Medical approach

Answer 16

Paraphilias

Question 17

when does something become a fetish

Answer 17

when the object becomes a necessity

Question 18

Fetishistic disorder

Answer 18

nonliving objects or non-gential body parts

Question 19

Autonepiophilia (paraphilic infantilism)

Answer 19

Impersonating or being treated as an infant

Question 20

Sthenolagnia

Answer 20

muscles

Question 21

utogynephilia

Answer 21

a male’s paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought/image of himself as a female

Question 22

1)bondage and discipline

Answer 22

Physical and psychological restraint

Question 23

2)dominance and submission

Answer 23

Behaviors, customs, and rituals relating to the giving and accepting of dominance

Question 24

3)sadomasochism

Answer 24

Pain, degradation, and humiliation,
Hypermasculinity (use of dildos and enema), administering and receiving pain(hot wax,whip), physical restriction(handcuffs), and humiliation(insults, face slapping)

Question 25

Pre-play negotiations

Answer 25

Identify what participants is sane

Question 26

Bottom sets limits

Answer 26

Submissive person sets what happens