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Say what you will about Jam Fran’s art-school-this approach to filmmakg, his fascatn wh the notor gay film Cisg ultimately led to this look at the film om a morn perspective. And so began a lifetime's qut to be the UK, self-motivated stratn maly exists only the most extreme S&M scene, while Ameri those aspirg to be strated prise a burgeong and divergent tribe ma up of both gay and straight men.
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Growg up ral New York State, he knew he was gay om childhood, but was only his mid-20s, while workg for the ary a top secury posn, that he disvered the gay S&M scene and a world where stratn was honoured rather than of his first boyiends was a cutter - a man who worked the herworld of the gay S&M scene, cuttg off men's tticl, nsensually and safely. The story is posted up on the web and tells how he lost his balls agast his will a gay S&M episo which went horribly wrong.
In that time he's had 5, 000 enquiri om both gay and straight men, all believg that their obssn is unique. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Rsell Reid, of Hillgdon Hospal wt London, intifi stratn fixatn as "highly disturbed behavur, maly gay men, whose self-hatred is directed towards their genals". "Y, 's te that no normal person would do that, but then given that homosexualy has always been lled a sickns, what's normal?
Gay Male SM Activists (GMSMA). The Brish group SM Gays, found later 1981 ( July) was patterned after GMSMA. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.