Divine Kink: A Consideration of the Evidence for BDSM as Spiritual Ritual.

This paper reviews the limited empirical research supporting BDSM as a spiritual ritual that enables distinct altered states of consciousness. It expands upon Sagarin, Lee, and Klement's (2015) preliminary comparison of BDSM to extreme ritual by suggesting that BDSM bears in common with spiritual ri...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 220 - 236
Autor principal: Greenberg, Sam E.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Floraglades Foundation, Inc. 2019
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