DrDJ

"Social Problems Associated with Sexuality: Can a Sex-Positive Approach Help?" (Williams, Prior, & Wegner, 2013) is now published in the prestigious academic journal Social Work (summer 2013 issue).

I have a new academic paper on professional BDSM that is published in the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality. It can be viewed at www.ejhs.org. The paper is coauthored with my friend, Erika Storm, who is a retired professional dominatrix in Calgary. I welcome feedback on it!  

I have a chapter titled "Playful Deviance" published in a new academic book, Critical Essays in Applied Sport Psychology (Human Kinetics, 2011). There is a section in the chapter on "What BDSM can teach us about sport psychology." Pretty deviant stuff for a sport psych text!

All knowledge is made up of various forms of stories. There are are scientific and realist stories, others are religious stories, there are cultural and personal stories. Stories always overlap with other stories, and each may be told differently. Every story is meaningful and valuable, yet no single story or combination of stories can ever provide an objective truth. Each person has unique subjective truth and knowledge...What are your BDSM stories? What is your truth?   

No, being a switch does not mean I'm a fence-sitter and can't decide whether I'm Dominant or submissive. Nor does it mean that I must Top and bottom in each session. Sometimes I need to exert my natural Dominance. At other times and places I must express my submission.

Perhaps being a switch more accurately reflects a flexible sexuality and BDSM style that is consistent with the other complex aspects of me and my world. I don't fit neatly into categories in BDSM or any other aspect of my life--and that works for me though it's difficult for many to understand.

Many people comfortably understand themselves through traditional socially-constructed categories--which is perfectly ok. But, others understand differently. Isn't diversity healthy and positive?