{"id":8134,"date":"2014-08-27T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sex.ncu.edu.tw\/blognews\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2014-12-30T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T07:11:06","slug":"taboo-photos-reveal-the-dual-lives-of-everyday-people-who-practice-bdsm-nsfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sex.ncu.edu.tw\/blognews\/?p=8134","title":{"rendered":"\u5be6\u8e10\u6109\u8650\u6200\u7684\u666e\u901a\u4eba\u53ca\u5176\u751f\u6d3b\u4e00\u77a5"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Taboo’ Photos Reveal The Dual Lives Of Everyday People Who Practice BDSM (NSFW)<\/p>\n

\u30102014.08.22\u3000The Huffington Post \u00a0|\u00a0By\u00a0Katherine Brooks<\/a> \u3011<\/p>\n

Note: The following photographs contain sexual content and may not be suitable for work.<\/p>\n

Forest McMullin has spent a significant portion of his photography career snapping photos of what he calls “fringe social groups.” With his camera, he offers an intimate glance into the lives of everyone from incarcerated men in New York to members of religious supremacist groups in Pennsylvania, highlighting — with a documentary lens — some often unseen fragments of American culture.<\/p>\n

Such is the case in his series “Day & Night.” In it, the Atlanta-based photographer captures portraits of men and women who live dual lives. During the day, they are mothers and businessmen in the South who lead “normal” lives — or, at least, publicly acceptable lives that conform to constructed social norms. At night, however, McMullin’s subjects are committed advocates of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism). They are swingers, dominatrixes, and dungeon masters who break through sexual taboos with pleasure.<\/p>\n

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The project began not long after McMullin moved from New York to Georgia. A few months into living in Atlanta, he came across an article in the local newspaper that described a woman in her 30s who frequented swingers’ clubs with her husband. Shocked by how “normal” she looked, and how out-of-place this progressive behavior seemed in the largely conservative South, he decided to investigate. He soon learned that not only were swingers’ clubs popular in Georgia, but bondage “dungeons” were as well.<\/p>\n

“I began thinking about trying to photograph the men and women involved in going to these clubs,” McMullin explained in a statement to HuffPost. “I contacted the owner and operator of the largest dungeon in Atlanta and she invited me to meet with her at her club. I showed her some of my previous work and she agreed to have me come back when the club was open for business and promised to introduce me to some of the patrons.”<\/p>\n

From there he met with and photographed people old and young, single and married, of various economic and educational backgrounds. Not too surprisingly, McMullin found that the BDSM identity was one of many identities or faces that melded together to create one personality and one person.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s\u2029 the\u2029 work \u2029face, \u2029the\u2029 family \u2029face,\u2029 the \u2029face\u2029 with \u2029friends, \u2029the\u2029 one \u2029with\u2029 strangers,” he explains. “Perhaps \u2029each \u2029face\u2029 is\u2029 as\u2029 discreet \u2029as \u2029a\u2029 separate\u2029 identity.\u2029 With\u2029 some,\u2029 these\u2029 identities\u2029 are\u2029 nearly \u2029indistinguishable \u2029from\u2029 one \u2029to\u2029 the\u2029 next.\u2029 For\u2029 others,\u2029 they\u2029 may\u2029 be\u2029 radically\u2029 different.\u2029”<\/p>\n

“When \u2029it\u2029 comes \u2029to \u2029sexuality,\u2029 the \u2029discussion \u2029can \u2029become \u2029much \u2029more\u2029 complex,” McMullin admits. “We \u2029may\u2029 describe\u2029 ourselves\u2029 as\u2029male \u2029or \u2029female,\u2029 straight\u2029 or\u2029 gay,\u2029 bisexual\u2029 or \u2029transgender.\u2029 At\u2029 their\u2029 core,\u2029 these \u2029descriptors\u2029 may define, \u2029to \u2029some\u2029 degree,\u2029 sexual\u2029 practice \u2029and \u2029these\u2029 practices\u2029 often\u2029 define \u2029how\u2029 we\u2029 envision \u2029ourselves,\u2029 how\u2029 we\u2029 want \u2029others \u2029to\u2029 see \u2029us, \u2029and\u2029 how \u2029we \u2029choose \u2029to\u2029 navigate\u2029 the \u2029world.\u2029 It\u2029 is\u2029 at \u2029the \u2029center\u2029 of \u2029our\u2029 identity\u2029 and \u2029yet \u2029it \u2029is\u2029 also\u2029 the \u2029most \u2029private\u2029 expression\u2029 of\u2029 that\u2029 identity.\u2029”<\/p>\n

Scroll through a preview of McMullin’s series below, a collection of images that challenges the viewer to contemplate our assumptions of normality. Let us know your thoughts on the work in the comments. For more on his photography, check out his profile on Lens Culture here.<\/p>\n

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