Freaks and Kinks

Dick Hebdige defines subcultures as an unnatural break in a society claiming that they present a noise or interference. He further categorizes them as a commodity form, creativity and challenge “frozen” in commodities, and an ideological form, soft methods which ideologically contest phenomena that are contained. BDSM (bondage, dominance, submission/sadism, masochism) has been a subculture for quite some time now, people hiding their sexual desires for fear of kink-shaming. The BDSM community has been a minority which society has looked upon as unnatural due to the lack of knowledge regarding it. Through media, light has…