Here is a brief that Prof. Stacey Litam, the speaker, wrote for the American Counseling Association which spells out her views, and she is definitely pro-BDSM. The event is hosted by a "center for women", no less.
Posting here on the small chance that anyone here is in that university or is from Cleveland and would like to attend and perhaps ask critical questions.
I would love to go and if it were local I would, but I would have a few choice words for this speaker and I suspect they'd just throw me out.
This community is for the analysis of BDSM, fetish and other sex practices which cause harm to the participants, especially from a feminist perspective.
Many of these practices coincide with or evolve into abuse.
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Rules are explained in the stickied post, "Read This First"
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