Abstract
Chapter 3 introduced and discussed the meaning of consensual ‘SM’ ‘bodily practices’ for my interviewees and analysed the ‘subjugated knowledges’ contained within these ‘bodily practices’ and thus within the ‘life-worlds’ of consensual ‘SM’. This chapter demonstrates that representations of the label ‘Sadomasochism’ are not fixed but flexible, thus allowing for attachments with diverse signifiers. “However, temporary meanings may emerge, both contingent and partial. Sadomasochism inhabits meaning by means of incomplete and historically specific attachments with other signifiers, for example violence, martyrdom, suffering, which in turn form attachments with each other, and with other signifiers. This conceptualization of sadomasochism accords with what Derrida calls the ‘dissemination’ of the text” (Valier 1994: 1).
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