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BDSM Marriage: A Liturgy for a D/s Collaring Ceremony
This collaring liturgy is based on a basic Christian marriage liturgy, and is structured based on the marriage version by the Reformed Church in America, a Presbyterian denomination.1 However, the ceremony can be altered to whatever denominational preferences of the participants. Annotations discussing background information related to the BDSM community, commentary, and context will be bolded. […]
OVER-SEXUALIZATION OF THE BLACK BODY IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS DATING APPLICATIONS.
“Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hyper-masculine assertion.” – Bell Hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Disclaimer: It should be noted that in an effort to get reliable and unbiased responses from the individuals used as the “sample population” […]
Visualization of the Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study
In 2014, the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan think tank, conducted its second Religious Landscape Study, in which they interviewed over 35000 Americans from all 50 states in order to understand the varying religious, social, and political views that are upheld by the people of the nation. For my final project in Sexuality in World […]
Interlocked / Interfaithed
“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being — neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.” […]