BDSM: It's Not What You Think!
Encyclopedia
The 2008 film “BDSM: It’s Not What You Think!” is a half hour educational documentary about the stigma and stereotypes that surround BDSM
(bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) play and its practitioners. The film was conceived of in an interdisciplinary class at San Francisco State University
between the Masters in Public Health
Students and the Cinema
students. It was designed to target an audience outside the community but has been noted to be useful to those within it as well.
(The Ethical Slut, and Radical Ecstasy); San Francisco Leather Daddy's Boy XXII Jorge Vieto; BDSM Health Educator and Film Star Robert Black; Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Author Sybil Holiday; Educators Master Hines and Mrs. Hines; Community Educator Ms. Heart; Podcasters Nova and Atticus; former Officer for Society of Janus
Lord Falcon; and Educator Domina Selina Raven.
in 2008, and was given Honorable Best Mention at CineKink NYC 2009. It has also screened at Traum-Kino Fetisch Film Festival in Germany and the Pornotopia Film Festival in New Mexico.
BDSM
BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
(bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) play and its practitioners. The film was conceived of in an interdisciplinary class at San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
between the Masters in Public Health
Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...
Students and the Cinema
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
students. It was designed to target an audience outside the community but has been noted to be useful to those within it as well.
It should be noted also that the term “BDSM” is used to reference all aspects of the community in the film. Whether you are LeatherLeatherLeather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...
, KinkKink* A twist or bend in something such as rope, cable, hair or IG curveKink or KINK can refer to:* Kink , a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behavior...
or FetishSexual fetishismSexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g...
and do not consider yourself a part of the BDSM community, this film addresses common questions and misunderstandings faced in all of the above lifestyles.-Mistral of The Triskelion Society
Participants
Notable BDSM players featured include: Author and Speaker Janet HardyJanet Hardy
Janet W. Hardy is a writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press. She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green. She is the author or co-author of ten books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton....
(The Ethical Slut, and Radical Ecstasy); San Francisco Leather Daddy's Boy XXII Jorge Vieto; BDSM Health Educator and Film Star Robert Black; Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Author Sybil Holiday; Educators Master Hines and Mrs. Hines; Community Educator Ms. Heart; Podcasters Nova and Atticus; former Officer for Society of Janus
Society of Janus
The Society of Janus is a San Francisco, California based BDSM education and support group, and is the second oldest BDSM organization in the US. It was founded in August 1974 by the late Cynthia Slater and Larry Olsen....
Lord Falcon; and Educator Domina Selina Raven.
Awards
BDSM: It's Not What You Think! premiered at the Frameline Film FestivalFrameline Film Festival
Frameline is a nonprofit media arts organization that produces the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the oldest film festival devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender programming currently in existence...
in 2008, and was given Honorable Best Mention at CineKink NYC 2009. It has also screened at Traum-Kino Fetisch Film Festival in Germany and the Pornotopia Film Festival in New Mexico.
Reviews
- The Triskelion Society Review
- Traum-Kino Fetisch Film Festival – Kiel Germany
- CineKink Audience Review
- Film’s Blog Site