BDSM/Polyamory/Alternate Lifestyles
Laura A. Jacobs, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, therapy, LGBTQ, transgender, transsexual, transexual, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, gay, lesbian, BDSM, kink, gender, sexuality, HIV, AIDS, polyamory, poly, counseling, bereavement, grief
BDSM/Kink/Polyamory/Sexwork/Alternate Lifestyles
BDSM, polyamory, sexwork…
Many people are drawn to activities outside traditional boundaries. Social mores often tell us these are wrong, and many of us have internalized the negative messages we have heard. We may have been subjected to stigma even from our loved ones.
As a Kink Aware/Kink Knowledgeable Practitioner and someone fluent in the dynamics of BDSM and other activities that might be classified as kink, my approach is not to pathologize a person’s involvement in alternate lifestyles, but to view these activities as an application of creativity to the realm of sexuality, as expressions of love, as relationships and experiences that can bring us joy. Sometimes it is outside the norm where we can gain the most insight.
Our collaboration will be to help you live your lifestyle with authenticity, safety, and fun exploration.
“Bodily delight is a sensory experience... it is a great, infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge.”
“The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot physically perform.”
Boots. Copyright Laura A. Jacobs.
“The S/M subculture is a theater in which sexual dramas can be acted out and appreciated... S/M eroticism focuses on whatever feelings or actions are forbidden, and searches for a way to obtain pleasure from the forbidden... My sexual semiotics differ from the mainstream. So what? I didn’t join the feminist movement to live inside a Hallmark greeting card.”