McCain and Humiliation Play?

Fair warning. My political attitudes will be clearly displayed in what follows. If you don't want to get into political "stuff," or if you are offended by the expression of definite liberal views, you may just want to move along your reading list.

I know that there are those in our lifestyle who take part in "humiliation play." Consensually, these folks "play" with words, names, and activities that are intended to push the psychological envelope. Danae went out and rounded up this list of definitions:

• to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes : mortify


• to make someone feel ashamed or lose their respect for themselves


• loss of dignity: the feeling or condition of being lessened in dignity or pride


• lessening of somebody's dignity: the act of damaging somebody's dignity or pride


• The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission


• state of disgrace or loss of self-respect* strong feelings of embarrassment

For those who play this way, name calling and the use of words that might be considered vulgar otherwise, can be a source of great eroticism.

It makes me wonder if perhaps, that is what John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was up to when he referred to his wife, Cindy, as a "cunt" in 1992. It is interesting that most of us never, ever heard about it, even though it was done in a press conference, right in front of the press and broadcast media folks. Maybe it is just that McCain was at the cutting edge of bringing our lifestyle into the public eye and attempting to de-stigmatize what it is that we do. Do you think?

Here's a funny bit, done by Public Service Administration, that parodies the way the news media MIGHT have handled that incident:





Hehehehehehe!
swan