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"Bondage,Whipping and role-playing have always been a part of human sexuality.But it took a bunch of Victorian sexologists to set us apart.In the late 1800's sadomasochism was no longer allowed to play the role that it had in other cultures,during other times--as sacredritual,a normal part of courtship,or a variation on regular sex that some people enjoyed occasionaly or frequently.Havelock Ellis, Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, and other colleagues created labels like "fetishist" "sadist" and "masochist" as diagnostic terms that carried the stigma of pathology." |
