USC Now Offering "BDSM Club" For Kinky Sex Fanatics
Daily Trojan – Trojans have started a club to educate students looking to explore the alternative sexuality made popular by the erotic book series Fifty Shades of Grey.
One of the top-selling points of USC is its plethora of student organizations. More than 850 student-run clubs with a wide range of interests such as athletics, culture, academics, arts, politics and community service, hold countless events throughout the year, including general meetings, lectures, workshops, concerts, philanthropy events, rallies and social events, on and off campus, and all are open to any Trojan.
If students’ interests include exploring their sexuality, they might find themselves at an event hosted by the USC BDSM Club, an official USC organization dedicated to helping “kinky” Trojans who want to learn about the BDSM alternative sexuality and encouraging them to practice safely.
BDSM refers to different kinds of erotic practices that involve power dynamics, bondage and role-play, among other activities. The acronym BDSM stands for bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and sadism/masochism. The BDSM lifestyle has recently been thrust into the popular culture spotlight because of the book series — and now film — Fifty Shades of Grey, an erotic romance novel by E. L. James.
The BDSM club at USC, however, is mainly focused on education, safety and exploration of the alternative sexuality via discussions, workshops and seminars.
Cherys Fair, one of the club’s founders, said that the idea for starting the club was born out of her own conversations with co-founder Cooper Surrett.
“[In talking with Cooper], I felt like I had permission to be interested in BDSM,” Fair said. “He’s just a normal college student, but he’s also into these things. It made me realize you can do BDSM and not be a freak.”
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First things first, not to take a shot at Cherys the club founder here or anything because I admire what she’s doing, but I’m pretty sure that if you like to be tied up by someone in head to toe spandex and get bound and gagged and whipped for sexual pleasure you are a freak. Don’t even mean that in a derogatory way or anything, not judging at all, just saying I think that’s basically the dictionary definition. Sex freak: someone who likes to get tied up by someone in head to toe spandex and get bound and gagged and whipped for sexual pleasure.
But again, not judging at all. Just happy for these guys that they finally have a place to come together out in the open. This is exactly what college is for right? Experimenting, learning about yourself – how to live on your own, be an adult, your drinking tolerance, what drugs you like, if getting handcuffed to a chair and having hot wax dripped on your nipples is awesome or sucks. Me, it’s not for me personally. Call me a pussy but I like to have sex with all my limbs and appendages free and no stinging, burning or outright painful sensations on my body of any kind. But if that’s what these Trojans are into, I’m all for them making a club out of it.
PS – I love how much the BDSM club hates the 50 Shades of Grey people too.
Fair and Hannah said that Fifty Shades of Grey has perpetuated many misconceptions about the lifestyle and that members of the BDSM community do not typically endorse the books and film.
Fair said that much of the books’ impact has been seen at community “dungeons,” or commercial establishments where BDSM events are held under supervision of staff. She said that after the film was released, dungeons in L.A. were “packed.”
“But people were like, ‘We don’t want these fan girl idiots in here,’” she said.
Hannah said much of the backlash against the books comes from their inaccurate representation of BDSM.
“It definitely promotes certain abusive tendencies,” Hannah said.
Just goes to show that even in the niche world of fetish sex, people hate bandwagon fans.