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Sexual sadism controversies
Sexual sadism controversies have been visible within already marginalized online communities such as the MAP community, and among Zoophiles. They typically revolve around the inclusion or exclusion of sadistic individuals from the larger group. Similar dynamics have been seen with biastophilic (rape) and necrophilic individuals, and historically with BDSM culture and trans people in the LGBT community.
Much of the controversy relates to realpolitik, i.e. public image, assimilation, optics, or the idea that identities intersecting sadism with already marginalized traits, might pose the potential of social harm via callout, name-and-shame campaigns and cringe/lolcow fora used for doxing of paraphilies and trans people. Pedosadism (a term once used by Anonymous) is a classic example of such an intersectional identity, although very few sadistic MAPs identify as pedosadists.
The sexual sadism debate is further complicated by the fact that sadism typically refers to pleasure derived from the act of causing harm, rather than simply the idea. Terms such as "Zoosadophilia" (as opposed to the highly loaded Zoosadism) have emerged in online communities, although some self-identified Zoosadists still refuse to adopt this terminology.
Another question invariably raised by sexual sadism controversies, is whether a sadistic interest in, for example, animals or children is a form of zoo- or pedophilia. Or whether these traits automatically qualify a person as part of the Zoo or MAP communities. It is often pointed out that sadism is not inherently sexual, and many sadists would not wish to be described as Zoophiles or Pedophiles.
Within the MAP community, pro-c groups, while generally inclusive of sadistic individuals, tend to be open to the idea of intersectional harm spanning from the linkage of sexual sadism with e.g. attraction to minors. Since this would appear to support the pattern already familiar in popular stereotyping of MAPs as violent sexual offenders, pro-c groups of MAPs and Zoophiles tend to be skeptical towards Pedosadism and Zoosadism, at least as identity. Anti-c groups tend to be more divided, with the older groups wanting nothing to do with sadistic individuals (or to subject them to stringent behavioural controls), and the younger groups such as NNIA offering a safe space to self-identified anti-c pedosadists and zoosadists.
See also
- Paraphilia
- Big 3 (Paraphilia)
- Assimilationism
- Essay:MAPs, Paraphiles and Fascists - A cautious approach to mobilising social adjacencies.
- Essay:MAPs, Zoophiles and Transids - Same author makes the case for an alliance.