Long before the acronym BDSM was in use, long before people recognized that many of their fantasies and fascinations qualified them for a clinical diagnosis as a sadomasochist, pulp fiction offered all the erotic thrills of today’s BDSM fiction.

One could factually argue that the biggest difference between pulp readers of yore and BDSMers of today is that we abide by “safe, sane and consensual” while such concepts were unknown in pulp fiction, which often included violent, terminal (fatal) fantasies.

But, to my mind, the most fundamental difference between the BDSMers of the middle decades of the 20th century (from the ’30s to the ’80s, primarily) and contemporary BDSMers is that we have a word (acronym, actually) to describe ourselves, a word that doesn’t carry the connotation of evil or wrong.

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