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Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/39793 Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters Bakker, Terri M. saskiawolfaardt@gmail.com Wolfaardt, Saskia, Maryke Sexuality BDSM Sadomasochism Foucauldian discourse analysis Poststructuralist theory Social construction theory South Africa UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. BDSM (bondage, discipline/dominance, submission/sadism and masochism) has recently gained greater visibility in dominant discourses around sexuality. However, these depictions are often constructed in rigid ways to typically exclude experiences of sexual intimacy. Despite this apparent exclusion, constructions of subspace (an altered mental state induced through BDSM encounters) on online blogs intrigued me to consider it as an alternative to widely accepted notions of sexual intimacy. Using a poststructuralist theoretical framework, I conducted an online ethnographic study in which I explored the varied ways in which self-identified South African BDSM individuals construct meaning around sexual intimacy. Through a Foucauldian discourse analysis, I consider how constructions of intimacy in the BDSM community might have been silenced through exclusionary definitions in dominant discourses. I identified four discourses in the text: A discourse of romantic vulnerability, a discourse of knowledge, a discourse of difference/sameness and a discourse of role differentiation. The findings suggest that BDSM practitioners, in constructing meaning around intimacy, at times comply with dominant discourses and at other times subvert normative ideas around sexuality, gender and sexual intimacy. I conclude with implications for gender and sexuality studies as well as the discipline of psychology in its engagement with BDSM identities and practices. Psychology Unrestricted 2014-05-14T08:10:25Z 2014-05-14T08:10:25Z 2014 2014 Mini Dissertation Wolfaardt, SM 2014. Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39793> M14/9/131/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39793 en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Sexuality BDSM Sadomasochism Foucauldian discourse analysis Poststructuralist theory Social construction theory South Africa UCTD Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters |
| title | Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters |
| title_full | Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters |
| title_fullStr | Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters |
| title_short | Submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy? Online constructions of BDSM encounters |
| title_sort | submitting to the discipline of sexual intimacy online constructions of bdsm encounters |
| topic | Sexuality BDSM Sadomasochism Foucauldian discourse analysis Poststructuralist theory Social construction theory South Africa UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39793 |