2006-10-11 18:34:38 · 6 answers · asked by Bip F 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I'd say your assumption would entirely depend upon the fetish, but either way, both are often misunderstood or just plain "odd" to some people, therefore they can both be tough for some to accept.
2006-10-11 18:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by pocket68rocket 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, FWIW, as a whole, the Gay community has always been a *little* more visible than the BDSM/kink community. Not necessarily more _accepted_, but at least a little more visible, and that may have helped things a bit. That which is "seen" is not completely unfamiliar and thus can't be totally scary....
Stonewall was what?--1969?--I don't think there's been a comparable event in the Leather world (and please the Goddess, there won't be a need for that level of kickback against prejudice, although there _is_ still a lot of repression out there).
Wait a while longer----maybe another 25-50 years, I'd say----and I suspect you'll see the BDSM/kink folk in about the same place that the GLBT folk are in now. But with a lot of work, hopefully, we'll be where people are frankly not giving a whole lot of worry about WHAT consenting adults are doing with each other in bed. Myself, have about six million OTHER things to fret about....
2006-10-12 03:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by samiracat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless you're talking about the more...margin-fetishes, that statement is untrue. The margin-fetishes would be those that involve issues of consent (like, say, barnyard animals) or danger of physical harm (bloodsport probably freaks people out a lot).
Homosexuality has a whole list of condemnations thrown at it, on top of which it's often assumed that all homosexuals are also all of the other fetishes you can think of; those are just the extra gravy.
2006-10-13 02:34:20 · answer #3 · answered by Atropis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was not aware that this was the case.I am willing to bet that if I was into S&M but was hetrosexual my father would be proud and my mother wouldn't have disowned me when I was only 9 years old.
But then, I suppose it depends on what kind of fetish you mean and who you ask.Some people define morality as a extremely conservative and religious way of life.Missionary style and completely void of anything that has even the hint of lust, pleasure, and/or desire are frowned upon by those who embrace the harshest of definitions of morailty.Don't know why.Maybe they are just sexually repressed.And if that is the case then homosexualtiy is right up there with fetishes.
There are some fetishes, no matter what sexualtiy, that are just never going to be acceptable.If such fetishes deprives people of freedom or life.
2006-10-12 01:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by BuckFush 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because its hard for anyone, gay or straight to admit that they have sexual responses to feet, stockings and shoes for example, or women in girdles(1950's kind), or being dressed like a baby in diapers(only a few of the more common fetish's).
Luckily for the rest of us the BDSM and Fetish communities are alive and well all over the world and growing. People who consensually express their lifestyle choice with the addition of BDSM and Fetishism are able to enjoy the best of several worlds.
What I find odd is that both the straight and gay world seems to agree with the discrimination of BDSM/Fetishism as a valid form of sexual play and D/s(Domination/submission) and M/s (Master/Mistress/slave) as a valid form of consensual lifestyle. So that tells me that both communities have the ability to come together and agree on hating another community. What hypocrisy.
2006-10-12 07:37:37 · answer #5 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
depends on the fetish
If its buggering barnyard animals,everyone is going to think your odd
2006-10-12 01:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by salforddude 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋