Are we the new sexual revolution?

[Marquis]

It's us, isn't it?

Do we have any competition?

 

[MasterPhoenix]

Interesting take, and I do think you are on to something...

I do think that as the lifestyle has broadened its appeal and come out of the shadows a bit, it has had a liberating effect.

 

[WriterDom]

We're on the cutting edge. But the unwashed general board pukes are going to stone you over this.

 

[GentleSub_Ivy]

Well, I can only speak from my little universe. Coming from a background of religious puritanism that says sex is just for procreation to getting involved with feminazis who claimed to be part of the sexual revolution back in the day, it seems that a woman who says that she enjoys sex AND enjoys being dominated is revolutionary thinking indeed.

I think there is a sexual revolution that says "Government and religion stay the fuck out my bedroom, I'm gonna do what I want" that isn't necessarily all about BDSM, but this lifestyle is part of it. JMHO.

Ivy

 

[Netzach]

Hm.

I think the internet is, actually.
I think it might be BDSM it might not, but the internet has opened up the sexual sphere to people who never would have braved it before because of the ease and anonymity.

 

[His_pita]

I agree with Netzach. The Internet gives people the freedom to indulge their most erotic, kinkiest sexual thoughts and desires that they can come up with. Hell because of the Internet I now have sexual interests that I never would have thought of. It certainly took BDSM from being a slap and tickle bedroom play to how I now live my life.

I also think Marquis is on to an idea about us being the new sexual revolution. When I started living a D/s life I told my teenager about what I was doing and was shocked to find out that she already knew the watered down version I was giving her. She was delighted to enlighten me with her wealth of BDSM knowledge. Although unlike me, she is no submissive.

 

[likemags]

the success of the sexual revolution has to be dedicated to the media.. ith the internet even a 12 year old child has access to adult content....

 

[KuriousTina]

I reckon BDSM isn't a revolution, but the internet is because it brought it out of the shadows and all... 16th century monarchs like Louis XIIth were kinky!

 

[Marquis]

More and more I see myself as not necessarily a BDSMer, but a part of a bigger sexual revolution.

We need a name.

 

[KuriousTina]

The Horny Revolutionaries?

 

[Marquis]

That's awesome.

We could have a magazine called The Revolutionary Horn

 

[Quint]

...........

 

[Evil_Geoff]

I'll start a band called "Rage Against the Fucking Machines." Will that help?

Shouldn't that be "Rage FOR the Fucking Machines"? ? ?

 

[satindesire]

"Rage WHILE fucking machines"?

 

[Ice2000]

I think your on to something Marcuis. The net is really expanding our lifestyle.

 

[Marquis]

"The internet" can't be the new sexual revolution.

The internet is the new EVERYTHING revolution.

It merely enabled BDSM to flourish, like electric washing machines did for feminism.

 

[Netzach]

"The internet" can't be the new sexual revolution.

The internet is the new EVERYTHING revolution.

It merely enabled BDSM to flourish, like electric washing machines did for feminism.

Yeah, but I think the big three are:

instant worldwide info
everyone can be a journalist

and middle class women can have weird sex

Yeah, guys are feeling the impact too, but really, anonymity and safety is allowing women to access sexual info they would not touch decades past. I have a strong suspicion that the demographics of the public SM scene to a hetero-predominant one would NEVER have even happened without the 'net.

I don't know if BDSM is really it - I meant I'm sure there's a bigger surge in swinging, wife-sharing, same-sex experimentation among people who would not have GONE to where the cruising was, use of sex toys, expectation of good sex among boys and girls alike, and viewing of porn.

People who would never have rented a video are watching porn. Hell, I first rented a video of porn for a film study class when I was 22 and we know I'm not mainstream material.

 

[Marquis]

I don't know if BDSM is really it - I meant I'm sure there's a bigger surge in swinging, wife-sharing, same-sex experimentation among people who would not have GONE to where the cruising was, use of sex toys, expectation of good sex among boys and girls alike, and viewing of porn.

People who would never have rented a video are watching porn. Hell, I first rented a video of porn for a film study class when I was 22 and we know I'm not mainstream material.

All true.

I tend to find that kinksters of one sort often have some involvement in another variety, or at least awareness.

There's a storm a brewing, I can say that much.

 

[intothewoods]

I'm watching a special on the History Channel about hippies. Yes, I know it's Friday night!

Anyway, some similarities in terms of the sexual freedom, counter culture. And the backdrop of an unpopular war. I don't know, this thread just made me wonder...

 

[Nameless_Rose]

Let's take it one revolution at a time! There's still a battle going on over gay rights. I get the feeling that people who can't tolerate the sight of same sex couples would positively faint if they saw some of the stuff that goes on behind closed dungeon doors. *shakes head sadly* Americans take a lot of time to adjust to new things. Picture the response to a 20,000 strong march on Washington made up entirely of people clad in the BDSM costumes of their choice. Bill O'Reilly would have a hissy fit. I do think that the internet has increased tolerance to a certain degree, though. (This is me being a cynic)

 

[incubus'_sub]

No, we of the Sixties Generation were the ones who revolutionized sex, without the the Net.

Things were actually a lot freer & easier then. No AIDS for a start. That has been the biggest nasty of them all. It was also a NICER time, for whatever reason.

I look back on this time, which shaped my sexuality, with great fondness. It was just as kinky, but we lived without the vast shadow of the law, the diseases & the predators. And of course our music was the BEST.

 

[Marquis]

Actually, I agree.

The revolution will not be televised.

It will be webcasted.

 

[Netzach]

No, we of the Sixties Generation were the ones who revolutionized sex, without the the Net.

Things were actually a lot freer & easier then. No AIDS for a start. That has been the biggest nasty of them all. It was also a NICER time, for whatever reason.

I look back on this time, which shaped my sexuality, with great fondness. It was just as kinky, but we lived without the vast shadow of the law, the diseases & the predators. And of course our music was the BEST.

OK, granted.

But AIDS is well on 25 years now. It never occurred to me to fuck someone I didn't know the health status of as well as I know mine without protection because I am of the generation I'm of.

There's also a lot of theorizing, within the gay community, about SM actually coming into its own as an outcropping of a need for safer intimacy - something to do to get off without the emphasis on genital contact. Definitely not everyone's outlook, but a sizeable subculture in a subculture.

I am definitely in agreement re: the sixties (seventies if you're not straight) but the backlash has been so intense that I think something else has to happen.

 

[cobblestonefog]

I reckon BDSM isn't a revolution, but the internet is because it brought it out of the shadows and all... 16th century monarchs like Louis XIIth were kinky!

Yeah. BDSM has been around for quite awhile in some form or another but now it's getting a lot more light than it has in the past because of technology.

 

[Xelebes]

It's a lot more common than people think.

The formalised stuff - well, that's somewhat new.