

Weirdness Normalized:
"... Although a personal interest in BDSM has long been pathologized, and often presumed to be the result of childhood trauma or abuse, empirical studies have repeatedly found that BDSM practitioners have non-remarkable psychological profiles." (Weille, K-L. (2002). The psychodynamics of consensual sadomasochistic and dominant submissive sexual games. Studies in Gender and Sexuality)