Kinky Thought of the Day

This quote is from a reading I had to do in university in Sexuality Studies...gotta love talking about kinky sex in class!

"Indeed, the outrage of S/M is precisely its hostility to the idea of Nature as the custodian of social power: S/M refuses to read power as fate or destiny. Since S/M is the theatrical exercise of social contradiction, it is self-consciously against Nature, not in the sense that it violates natural law, but in the sense that it denies the existence of natural law in the first place.
S/M performs social power as both contingent and constitutive, as sanctioned neither by fate nor by God, but by social convention and invention and thus open to historical change."

- Anne McClintock, "Maid to Order: Commercial S/M and Gender Power