Sorry, GBLTTQ is: Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, Transgendered, Two-spirited[1] & Questioning. It's a blanket acronym to cover a lot of non-straight people.

What I mean is, say I met someone and I was jsut introducing myself and happened to say, "Yeah, I like some pretty bizzare sex. What about you?" The vast majority of people would be quite put off by something like that.

I understand what you mean about extremes. I'm an extreme person. Always have been. That's one of the more minor things I like about BDSM. I can have a LOT of power or none at all... I'm not restricted to the sort of balance that must always be present in vanilla relationships. However, the analogy with religion does not hold, because there are laws and a certain amount of social pressures to stop people from discriminating on a large scale against a given religion. Since the general public (as I percieve them) sees kink as either something the indulge in privately but apparently no one else does, so it's never talked about or else as a group of wierdos in leather that are good as punchilines as jokes, there isn't very much informationcoing from the mass media.

That, and of course we're bent on "protecting" our children from the evils of sex and debauchery, so not very much of any sexual intrest gets played up in he media.

My fantasies aren't particularily interesting, Phoenix. Really I'm more interested in a socio-political debate. I think maybve I chose the wrong topic?

1 - Two spirited is a native American idea that (as I understand it) some people are born being both gendered. It's very old and very well-respected idea.