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Mark, chubby and pale, stood just a little shorter than average height. When he first met up with others in the SM scene, they were often taken aback by his round baby-face and glasses...
Mark considers SM a sexual orientation, something that has always been a part of him. He prefers women as partners, but says that the partnership could only work within certain parameters—the parameters of what is known as the “BDSM” scene...
...BDSM community’s definition, SM combines sadism—pleasure from inflicting pain—and masochism—pleasure from receiving pain—into one word, a combination intended to suggest you can’t have one without the other, members of the community say. The person being whipped wants to be whipped as much as his partner wants to whip him. That is why they leave out the ampersand...
...American Psychiatric Association has a different definition. By their standards, as published in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), SM is a disorder—or rather, two disorders: paraphilia 302.83 (sexual masochism) and paraphilia 302.84 (sexual sadism...
...SM, in Mark’s eyes, deserves the same treatment; like homosexuality, it is a sexual orientation, not a disorder or deviance...