Is it an orientation? Previously, I argued that homosexuality is fixed (an orientation) but that BDSM is flexible (a lifestyle).
Of these, 3 percent “indicated having had previous BDSM experience.”Ģ. In the Dutch study, for instance, 448 respondents accessed and completed a BDSM survey through a website devoted to personal secrets.
In the Australian survey, the authors reported “less than 2 per cent of men and women” said they’d “had sex with a same-sex partner in the past year.” The percentage of respondents who said they’d ever had a gay sexual experience (not just in the last year) was higher-6 percent of men, 9 percent of women-and presumably the same is true of BDSM. That’s roughly equivalent to the sexually active gay population, as measured by similar self-reporting.
