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bioemerl  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is an animal’s marked intelligence really reason enough not to eat it?

    I'm familiar enough with it to know that plenty of it involves breaking the skin, risking as much infection / if not more (another partner = foreign bodily fluids, spit semen whatever, that are full of foreign bacteria).

It's still minor in comparison to cutting.





_refugee_  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How? A secondary partner ensures that blades are cleaned between use? That scissors are disinfected? Lashings from a whip are a-ok as long as someone else administers them?

bioemerl  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How? In cutting you are directly cutting yourself, multiple times with a knife blade. You can very easily hit an artery while doing so.

A whip, however, is not likely to do so, and will probably leave no more than surface scratches.

Secondly, cutting still hints at underlying issues that need to be solved. BDSM does not.

_refugee_  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nope. You're making a ton of assumptions here.

bioemerl  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because I'm sure that those who cut are happy, healthy, human beings.

_refugee_  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I'm equally sure that that can be said of all or even most individuals who practice bdsm

bioemerl  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

BDSM is something that is present in a random set of the population, you can't really pin it on a personality or state of mind.

Cutting, however, represents a not-so-stable emotional state.