Informed Agency at Cum & Glitter
[Content notice: Vague mentions of child abuse, consensual “non-consensual” BDSM scenes involving staged butchering]
This weekend, I purposefully exposed myself to something with the potential to cause a flashback: a “nonconsensual” BDSM scene. Why would I want to expose myself to scenes that theatrically emulate abuse? Why not just avoid abusive themes altogether? Wouldn’t my life be easier that way?
Not exactly. I tried that method for years. Repressed memories still haunted me. I still got panic attacks. I just had no means to cope with them. PTSD stops traumatic memories from becoming integrated with the rest of one’s psyche. Instead of merging with the background noise of memories we cart around in our conscious minds every day, they become predators that lurk in the shadows, leaping out to attack and then scurrying away.
In the interest of having a fun sexy time, and also the chance to confront some of those shadows, I attended the Folsom edition of Cum & Glitter…
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Amy, Thanks so much for sharing this post. Siouxsie and my scene was really intense. We knew we were pushing our own...
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