This piece reflects on the contemporary scholarly juncture of bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM) and race. After a period largely marked by the invisibility and marginalization of racialized sexuality in the study of kink, scholars have recently taken up race, specifically blackness, as central not periphery to the study of BDSM. Intervening in and building upon a black feminist tradition that has historically exhibited an ambivalent relationship to topics of BDSM, pornography, and sex work in the context of black female sexuality specifically as well as an investment in politics of respectability, this work illuminates the racialized erotics of pleasure and power at the core of sexuality.

这件作品反映了当代学术界的束缚/纪律，支配/服从，施虐/受虐（BDSM）和种族的关口。在扭结研究中一个以种族化性的隐性和边缘化为特征的时期之后，学者们最近开始研究种族，尤其是黑人，作为BDSM研究的中心而非外围。干预并建立在黑人女权主义传统上，该传统在黑人女性性行为的背景下，与BDSM，色情和性工作主题表现出矛盾的关系，特别是对尊敬性政治的投资，这部作品阐明了种族歧视性的核心是享乐和力量。