{"id":10990,"date":"2020-09-30T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T00:58:36","slug":"bdsm-going-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/30\/bdsm-going-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"BDSM Going Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/a-dominatrix-on-why-bdsm-business-is-booming-during-trump-and-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Dominatrix on Why BDSM Business Is Booming During Trump and COVID<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mistress Iris writes about the reasons why people are turning to dominant\/submissive roleplay during these chaotic times.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/mistress-iris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mistress Iris<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0\/dpr_1.5\/c_limit,w_1600\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1601368978\/200925-bdsm-tease_1_ynggy9\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar Wilde famously said, \u201cEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.\u201d It\u2019s a wonderfully worded quote but a bit mistaken about sex, power, and the rest. In Wilde\u2019s Victorian England, power was obvious and everywhere; sex was repressed. The world we live in today is far more suffused in sex, but a bit less comfortable with the omnipresence of power (which is why addressing privilege and oppression is commonly met with such reactionary vitriol and\/or tear gas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut why are you talking about politics, professional dominatrix?\u201d you might ask. Some people want to cordon off the sexual world, and pretend that it doesn\u2019t interact with the broader world we all live in, but in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dominatrixiris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my work as a pro-domme<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019ve often gotten to see the intricate ways that peoples\u2019 sexual fantasies reflect and respond to the stressors and freedoms they experience in their outside life. When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, I saw a surge in female, racial, and religious minorities who contacted me; people who, because of external events, were required to be unyielding and resolute in their day-to-day struggles, seeking heavy play that helped them break down within the context of a safe and trusting environment. I\u2019ve seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/a-dominatrix-on-the-surge-in-bdsm-during-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a similar response during COVID-19<\/a>, and wanted to deconstruct it a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/a-dominatrix-on-why-bdsm-business-is-booming-during-trump-and-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TDB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Beast A Dominatrix on Why BDSM Business Is Booming During Trump and COVID Mistress Iris writes about the reasons why people are turning to dominant\/submissive roleplay during these chaotic times.\u00a0 by Mistress Iris Oscar Wilde famously said, \u201cEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.\u201d It\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}