Hello! I am doing a project for school on the stigma that surrounds members of the BDSM community and it's effects on members of the community. If you wouldn't mind answering a few questions for me, I'd greatly appreciate your feedback! Thanks!
1)Do you ever feel that you are stigmatized for your involvement in BDSM?
If so:
—How? (Specifically, in what ways?)
—By whom?
—Please describe a specific experience or experiences in which you felt stigmatized for your participation in BDSM.
—Do these stigmas effect you in your day to day life? How?
2)Have you ever felt like you were discriminated against due to your involvement in BDSM? If so, please specify.
3)How comfortable do you feel discussing your involvement in BDSM with each of the following: close friends, family, significant other, casual dates, co-workers and people at work, other students, teachers or guidance counselors, siblings, professionals (such as health care providers and clergy)? (If there are others you would like to include, please do so.)
4)How have you made decisions regarding your choice of disclosure or discretion?
5)If you have chosen discretion, how do you think you would be treated if you had chosen disclosure instead or if you decided now to disclose? What would need to change (if anything) for you to choose disclosure?
6)If you have ever felt stigmatized due to your involvement in BDSM, how have you dealt with those situations? (Within yourself? Existentially? Interactions with others? Political/legal action?)
7)Have you dealt with different groups of people in different ways? (Such as parents versus potential spouse.)
8)How do you think vanillas perceive BDSM and its participants?
If you ever felt stigmatized due to your involvement in BDSM, what could have been done differently (by the person stigmatizing you) to prevent that feeling of stigmatization?
9)Is there anything else you would like to say about BDSM and stigma/shame?
1)Do you ever feel that you are stigmatized for your involvement in BDSM?
If so:
—How? (Specifically, in what ways?)
—By whom?
—Please describe a specific experience or experiences in which you felt stigmatized for your participation in BDSM.
—Do these stigmas effect you in your day to day life? How?
2)Have you ever felt like you were discriminated against due to your involvement in BDSM? If so, please specify.
3)How comfortable do you feel discussing your involvement in BDSM with each of the following: close friends, family, significant other, casual dates, co-workers and people at work, other students, teachers or guidance counselors, siblings, professionals (such as health care providers and clergy)? (If there are others you would like to include, please do so.)
4)How have you made decisions regarding your choice of disclosure or discretion?
5)If you have chosen discretion, how do you think you would be treated if you had chosen disclosure instead or if you decided now to disclose? What would need to change (if anything) for you to choose disclosure?
6)If you have ever felt stigmatized due to your involvement in BDSM, how have you dealt with those situations? (Within yourself? Existentially? Interactions with others? Political/legal action?)
7)Have you dealt with different groups of people in different ways? (Such as parents versus potential spouse.)
8)How do you think vanillas perceive BDSM and its participants?
If you ever felt stigmatized due to your involvement in BDSM, what could have been done differently (by the person stigmatizing you) to prevent that feeling of stigmatization?
9)Is there anything else you would like to say about BDSM and stigma/shame?
