He was not a sex educator, a sex worker or a political figure. But to cultural historians, anthropologists, sex educators and members of the now sprawling alternative-sex community known by the umbrella acronym of B.D.S.M. Bond had long had masochistic fantasies but had never acted on them until he was 44. There’s women’s lib, black lib, gay lib, etc. Bond said later, “that we were all into different things.”

Source: New York Times May 11, 2021 14:37 UTC