Event Title
Safety and Consent in BDSM Practices
Location
Diamond 123
Start Date
30-4-2015 9:00 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 11:55 AM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
The topic of BDSM has been brought into the public discourse with the book and film 50 Shades of Grey; however, whether young people obtain BDSM safety and consent information and whether they implement that information has yet to be quantitatively explored (based on an extensive literature search). Because BDSM contains some possibly dangerous and violent elements, which must exist within a structure of consent negotiation and safety rules, it is especially important to understand BDSM safety and consent knowledge acquisition and implementation (Jozifkova, 2013). This research hopes to provide a comprehensive picture of safety and consent within the relatively unexplored context of BDSM. There are three main research questions within this research project: Is there a lack of information available to young adults, regarding safety and consent in a BDSM context? If students are receiving any information about safety and consent in BDSM, where does it come from? And finally, if students do receive safety and consent information on BDSM, are they actually using it in their own lives? By asking these questions, I would like to understand my young adults acquisitions of BDSM safety and consent information.
Faculty Sponsor
Sonja Thomas
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1021
Safety and Consent in BDSM Practices
Diamond 123
The topic of BDSM has been brought into the public discourse with the book and film 50 Shades of Grey; however, whether young people obtain BDSM safety and consent information and whether they implement that information has yet to be quantitatively explored (based on an extensive literature search). Because BDSM contains some possibly dangerous and violent elements, which must exist within a structure of consent negotiation and safety rules, it is especially important to understand BDSM safety and consent knowledge acquisition and implementation (Jozifkova, 2013). This research hopes to provide a comprehensive picture of safety and consent within the relatively unexplored context of BDSM. There are three main research questions within this research project: Is there a lack of information available to young adults, regarding safety and consent in a BDSM context? If students are receiving any information about safety and consent in BDSM, where does it come from? And finally, if students do receive safety and consent information on BDSM, are they actually using it in their own lives? By asking these questions, I would like to understand my young adults acquisitions of BDSM safety and consent information.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/395