Martinez Katherine
a Institute for Women's Studies and Services , Metropolitan State University of Denver , Denver , Colorado , USA.
J Homosex. 2018;65(10):1299-1324. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2017.1374062. Epub 2017 Sep 28.
This mixed-methods study of BDSM investigates the nuances of BDSM participants' role identities, role frequencies, and role fluidities-shifts in identities and play across time, location, scene, and play partner. Data were gathered from 202 online surveys and 25 semistructured interviews about participants' roles given their gender and sexual identities. These data reveal that men tend to self-identify as Dominant, Master, Top, or Sadist (DMTS) and always perform dominant roles, while women tend to self-identify as Submissive, Slave, Bottom, or Masochist (SSBM) and always perform submissive roles. Although this would seem to support the theory that BDSM reinforces gendered dominant/submissive binaries, further analyses indicate that women and queer/pansexual individuals disrupt this binary through their Switch identities and roles. Switching and queer identities, thus, offer the possibility for transforming dominant/submissive and other binaries.
这项关于BDSM的混合方法研究调查了BDSM参与者角色身份、角色频率和角色流动性（即身份和玩法随时间、地点、场景及玩伴的变化）的细微差别。通过202份在线调查问卷和25次半结构化访谈收集了有关参与者基于其性别和性身份的角色数据。这些数据显示，男性倾向于自我认同为主导者、主人、上位者或施虐者（DMTS），并总是扮演主导角色，而女性倾向于自我认同为顺从者、奴隶、下位者或受虐者（SSBM），并总是扮演顺从角色。尽管这似乎支持了BDSM强化性别化主导/顺从二元对立的理论，但进一步分析表明，女性以及酷儿/泛性恋个体通过其转换身份和角色打破了这种二元对立。因此，转换身份和酷儿身份为改变主导/顺从及其他二元对立提供了可能性。
