Characteristics of Successful Personal Ads in a BDSM On-Line Community

Gangs in the Era of Internet and Social Media

“…An example of research using social media data in a way that may reflect less careful ethical development was conducted by Denney and Tewksbury (2013). The researchers developed a sample of participants from a social networking site designed to connect members of the Bondage Discipline Sadism and Mascochism, or BDSM community together online.…”

“…The researchers developed a sample of participants from a social networking site designed to connect members of the Bondage Discipline Sadism and Mascochism, or BDSM community together online. This site operates on the Deep Web, as user profiles cannot be accessed without creating a user account on the site (Denney & Tewksbury, 2013). They utilized this feature as a way to test the factors associated with an increase in contacts on the site.…”

Pleasure, Community, and Marginalization in Rope Bondage: A Qualitative Investigation into a BDSM Subculture

“…Weiss (2011), for example, identifies the end of World War 2 as the beginning of the (mostly gay, leather) SM scene in San Francisco, which was developed by returning veterans in the 1940s, and the 1980s as the emergence of the new pansexual scene 22 . Denney and Tewksbury (2013) argue that BDSM as an organized activity and subculture began in the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S. in connection to the gay leather scene, while Chaline (2010) describes the 1950s as the beginning of the leather subculture in the United Kingdom, which grew to a pluralization of gay SM and the emergence of large bisexual and heterosexual SM social worlds in the late 1990s. Gayle Rubin (2012Rubin ( , originally published 1984 argues that the 1940s-1960s were a time of particularly harsh treatment of erotically different individuals, specifically gay people.…”

“…Similarly, Simula (2019) posits that racialized kinksters and queer women are more likely to play in private and therefore not become subject to the gaze of academia. Likely due to this lack of visibility/access, or possibly because it was seen as more deviant, participation in BDSM activities has generally been understood in sociological and criminological research as an exclusively or mostly male homosexual activity in previous decades of research (Denney & Tewksbury, 2013). This subset of scholarship has been critiqued for its almost singular focus on kinky men (Plante, 2006); even contemporary researchers who have difficulty finding non-male participants assume that this is due to their lack of participation in BDSM 25 (e.g.…”

“…Indeed, the bulk of social science research on BDSM begins by asking research questions related to sexual behaviour and desire (e.g. Chaline, 2010;Denney & Tewksbury, 2013;Ernulf & Innala, 1995;Faccio, Casini & Cipoletta, 2014;Nordling et al, 2006). However, recent research described previously in this chapter suggests that these approaches to BDSM as a sexual behaviour, while not necessarily inaccurate, cannot alone capture the complexity of BDSM experiences, motivations, and associated desires.…”