El sadomasoquismo a debate: aproximación al estado de la cuestión en las ciencias sociales y objeciones feministas a los principales argumentos de su discurso

Lydia Delicado Moratalla

doi:10.3989/isegoria.2023.69.11

Authors

Lydia Delicado Moratalla Universidad Pública de Navarra, Dpto. Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación - Instituto Universitario de Investigación Social Avanzada I-COMMUNITAS. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8545-4831

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2023.69.11

Keywords:

feminist theory, sadomasochism, masculine power, consent, sexuality

Abstract

This paper presents a conceptual research that has two objectives: to approach the state of the art of the social sciences’ academic debate regarding sadomasochism (SM); and to detect and discuss the most structural arguments of its intellectual rhetoric. The method is based on a feminist interpretative analysis of the literature reviewed. The idea that SM is an alternative sexuality from the patriarchal model is problematized. Consent is interrogated in order to study its fragilities as a legitimizing element of SM. Some objections are also presented to the rationale that positions SM within an ontological category. The main conclusion of this research allows to render account that SM is constituted of a celebration of violence and masculine domination and that it reproduces the political layers of masculinity and femininity within sexuality.

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