You should totally listen to Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri take the piss out of David Brooks' attempt to moralize about BDSM on #IfBooksCouldKillPodcast And then, if you'd like to read something that actually takes ethics and BDSM SERIOUSLY, you should preorder MY book, #WhenWeCollide (out in March from Indiana University Press) which I am assured is nowhere near this asinine.
Image description: Screenshot of a tweet from #IfBooksCouldKillPodcast, which reads "We regret to inform you that Thursday's episode will involve hearing David Brooks encounter the fetish community." Embedded in the tweet is screenshot of text from David Brooks’ “Bobos in Paradise,” of which the final sentence is highlighted, and which reads:
“IF YOU'D like to be tortured and whipped with dignity and humiliated with respect, you really ought to check out the Internet newsletter of the Arizona Power Exchange, an S&M group headquartered in Phoenix. The organization offers a full array of services to what is now genteelly known as the leather community. For example, on a recent August 3, according to the summer newsletter, there was a discussion and humiliation session. On August 6 at 7 P.M., there was a workshop on caning. The next night the Bondage Sadomasochism Personal Growth and Support Group met with Master Lawrence, while on August 10, Carla helped lead a discussion on high heel and foot worship. A week later a visiting lecturer came to discuss "blood sports." All of these meetings were to be conducted with the sort of mature high mindedness embodied in the organization's mission statement: "Treating the S&M, B&D and D&S with experience with acceptance, caring, dignity and respect." Dignity and respect are important when you're tied up on the ground worshiping someone's boot."
