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Bound To Be Free: The SM Experience

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Final Book Project Many people have heard about the term BDSM before however many people don’t know what it stands for or what it really means or entails. Dr. Charles Moser and JJ Madeson, The authors of “Bound to Be Free: The SM experience” wrote with the expressed purpose to educate people on the ‘SM’ part of ‘BDSM’ and explain what it is and what it isn’t and where it comes from and how much it has changed. The book opens with the origins of the term “sadomasochism”. The concept has always been something that researchers were fascinated by. The whole idea of pain and love having correlation is not unfounded, but it also isn’t completely understood by many. The term Sadism, which is the first part of Sadomasochism, was coined describing …show more content…

The term Sadomasochism was coined in 1938 by Sigmund Freud as one term, before that people believed that sadism and masochism were two characteristics that were complimentary to each other in humans but combining the words implies that both traits can lie within the same individual. Although the authors lived almost 100 years apart from one another, their work and their names will be forever married to each other forever as scientists continue to learn more and dive deeper into the concepts behind …show more content…

Even though it isn’t a new theory it is not researched very often and as far as its presence in literature goes, its frequency is fairly new. The most prominent statements on it were uncovered in the 18th and 19th century with a lot of evidence between research and lovers writing. Research on it went rampant up until the beginning of World War II. Many sexologists at the time were Jewish and studying all aspects of sex including SM and how a body reacts. However, since there were so many Jewish people in the field of study it was labeled a “Jew Science” and disregarded and much of the research was lost. Sexology wasn’t streamlined again until the 1970s when sex research was picked up once again. Reflecting on sexology it started out with very different views on Sadomasochism. At first the words Sadist and Masochist were designed to be diagnosed pathologies, or diseases, based off of Krafft Ebbing’s writings and were grouped with such terms as ‘pedophilia’ ‘homosexual’ and ‘transsexual’ which are all terms that were considered to be controversial and scandalous. discoveries shaming those who had such sexual interests. The main issue was that it was, and still is, hard to find willing participants in a non-biased study in SM foreplay and

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