Abstract
In this chapter, “kinky beers”—a type of a BDSM club events characteristic to Poland—are analyzed. The structure of those events provides an opportunity for a broader discussion of the way Polish kinksters experience and narrate their practices as either innocent hobbies or perverse tendencies, depending on the circumstances. Through that, the chapter then queries the tendency to view BDSM as inherently non-normative, and asks what alternatives exist for thinking sex that do not necessarily rely on the concepts of normativity and perversion.
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I’d like to thank Ewa Majewska and Barbara Dynda for this observation.
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I’d like to thank professor Ewa Majewska for this observation.
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Szpilka, J. (2025). Normal People, Perverse Hobbies. In: BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86414-8_3
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