BDSM practices: a Batesonian reading
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This paper represents an attempt to read certain aspects of transgressive sexuality and BDSM, which include a wide range of consensual activities classified as 'play', through the theorisation of Gregory Bateson. Starting from the author's premise, according to which no behaviour can be explained except within the context in which it occurs, the connotation of 'play' and that of 'consent', distinctive of BDSM, become the matrix of meaning of sexual bargaining, through which S&M acts are transformed into play. In other words, in BDSM the definition of 'play' and consent determine a context of non-violence. Without specifying the context, the practices themselves would be identified as sadistic events.
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