I honestly feel it is none of my business what people get up to sexually in their own private homes providing all concerned are consenting and adult.
I believe that practices that come under the category of "kink" can be fun, playful and very enjoyable for some people. I also appreciate that some practices that can be defined as “kink” can be problematic for all kinds of reasons. Like so many things this is complex. I think there is a continuum, with playful, loving experimentation at one end and dangerous compulsive behaviour at the other.
I am becoming increasingly concerned about certain psychotherapists and mental health professionals who promote their "kink aware" "kink friendly" etc. credentials.
Some of them seem to be involved in sinister sex cults that also promote sex work as a spiritual path. This is deeply concerning.
I have no problem at all with people wanting to discuss their sexual fantasies and desires with a properly qualified psychotherapist. However I am concerned that, if a therapist is involved in a sex cult or otherwise abusive cult (and many are), that the confidentiality that their clients assume is there may not exist.
The psychotherapist concerned in such a situation may be, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unknowingly, harvesting compromising, sensitive information about people’s sexual fantasies and sexual lives. This can happen if a therapist’s clinical supervisor is in an abusive cult, even if the therapist themselves are not. Given that many people have fantasies that are to some extent contradictory to their outward lives, there is significant potential for people to be blackmailed and controlled once compromised.
With the above in mind I would like to share a video with readers here.
The video is on a strange youtube channel called London Real
It has recently had content removed for providing fake information about coronavirus and 5G conspiracies via an interview with David Icke
link to news article here
www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/apple-spotify-david-icke-podcast.html
The video readers might be interested in is with the founder of the School of Life, the philosopher Alain de Botton. The School of Life ia a fascinating organisation with significant involvement from many psychotherapists of concern to me, including Valerie Sinason and her associates.
Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company notoriety was also very involved with the School of Life at one point and has connections to Sinason et al.
Anyway here de Botton talks about unusual / unconventional sexual practices and fantasies, what are nowadays referred to as "kink"
My concern is not so much with his position on unPC sexual fantasies / activities but with the company he keeps in terms of the therapists involved with the SoL and with the youtube channel London Real
Readers who would like to check out just how weird London Real is, should check out the contributions from pseudo-Taoist controversial businessman and vaginal jade egg promoter “Grandmaster” Mantak Chia.
This one on "How to Master the Vagina" is comedy cold, the man has absolutely no idea about female anatomy