The Max Mosely saga trundles on. Although I’ve never met him, I feel sorry for him. What goes on in the bedroom should remain private and for his sexual preferences to be plastered across the gutter press. His choice seems to be some variety of BDSM (the link is clean); had his preference been for sex with someone of the same gender, I doubt there would have been the same macabre interest. For one thing, papers wouldn’t want to appear homophobic and, for another, homosexuality is fairly run-of-the-mill in many parts of public life (football being a notable exception). There is still a frisson of excitement around this; I agree, though, with the headline on this evening’s London Lite:

My life of kinky sex is private

So long as it’s consensual, I don’t really care who puts what where or what they wear while doing it.

This leads me to an interesting post by Kit Roskelly at The F Word that argues that feminists should have no problem with BDSM; indeed, they should celebrate it. I tend to agree. I have often debated, internally and externally, the tension between the attractiveness of liberalism in theory and the reality of the results on society of people’s choices. I cannot help but feel that, in the case of BDSM, and so long as consent is present (I refer you to Kit’s article), the only thing that matters is that people are enjoying themselves. Some of my friends are of the kinky persuasion and what I’ve heard from them ties in (if you’ll forgive the pun) with Kit’s views and experiences.

xD.

PS – this should bring plenty of people from Google…

Posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Categories: Politics.
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