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- Title
Rethinking Kink: Sadomasochism as Serious Leisure.
- Authors
Newmahr, Staci
- Abstract
Based on extensive ethnographic research in a public SM (sadomasochism) community, this paper frames SM as recreation. Drawing on Robert Stebbins’ work on “serious leisure” (1982), I posit that in order to more adequately understand SM as it occurs in this community, we need to shift from mainstream assumptions of SM as (simply) “kinky sex” to a more nuanced perspective. I explore the unique skills required in order to engage in SM, as well as the benefits and rewards that participants derive from it, in order to illustrate that SM can be more usefully understood as serious leisure.
- Subjects
LEISURE research; RECREATION; PARAPHILIAS; SADOMASOCHISM; SEX research
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 3, p313
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-010-9158-9