Tracing Sexual Otherness in Sweden
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چکیده
Using Gayle Rubin’s (1984) classic distinction between “good sex” and “bad as a springboard, this article explores ideas of sexual normalcy otherness in Swedish context through the lens multi-method case study kink platform darkside.se (established 2003). The focuses on how norms beyond Darkside have shifted time, particular takes shape an ambivalent borderland new forms public visibility lingering stigma. Within histories sexuality feminism Sweden, BDSM quite consistently been relegated to domain illegitimacy (or bad sex). At same waves queer politics, well cultural mainstreaming kink, simultaneously point other directions. To understand (digital) formations I thus develop less binary conceptual framework, one which holds ambiguity contradiction. end, by building discussions “opacity” postcolonial theorizing, discuss tactical uses terms “kink opacity”. Opacity provides way thinking tensions platform, revealing concealing, openness secrecy, offering resistance idea that legitimizes otherness. Uses here challenge normalizing exposure, instead open up for modes obscure expression.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Lambda nordica
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1100-2573', '2001-7286']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.868