CRCJ 4002 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 9: Safeword, Blogosphere, Heteronormativity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 4002
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

A comparison of understandings of consent in fifty shades of grey and on the bdsm blogosphere- meg barker. Understanding of bdsm remain reflective of those prevalent in wider heteronormative culture. Organized bdsm communities consent occupied a place of central importance reflected in common mantra bdsm play should be safe, sane and consensual (ssc) 1980s. More recent revised risk aware consensual kink (rack) consent can be clearly and simply negotiated when it comes to bdsm. Prominent bdsm bloggers written about non-consensual behavior within bdsm communities questiong the previously accepted line that bdsm is not ever abuse much of this discussion has challenged simplistic neoliberal notions of consent which were previously prevalent in. Bdsm communities and are central to the fifty shades series due to their culturally taken-for- granted status. First section ways in which consent is understood within the fifty shades novels and how.