Fetishology

  Dedicated to my boi kusi, my man Sami.   Duality is an inevitable aspect of life. With beauty to be admired, the undesired is looked down upon. As for strength, weakness is the indicator. Happy ending for Cinderella would mean tragic outcomes for her stepmother and stepsisters. Good and bad are the drives for every story to go forwards and that also serve as mirrors to reflect our values at the end of our own stories. For the stories of our community; LGBT+ and kink, Pride has become the happy ending of the battle against constant shaming from the conformed world. Yet, can we truly, as individuals and communities, base our values solely on our own pride?   Our civilization, for the most part, was built, non-ironically, on the domination of a few and the submission of the masses. The ruling power strategically employed fear of the divine to form the governing rules. This led to set expectations of duties and respect for conformity; preventing unrest and rebellion. Nowada...