And so it begins

The latest update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, put out by the American Psychiatric Association has delineated happy kinksters, who do BDSM for fun (paraphilias), in a separate category from those who do it to cause distress or harm to others (paraphilic disorders). That is the underlying message of the very specific language that they have gone to great pains to create for this event. And many are heralding it as a new beginning for kinksters.

It will be the beginning of far reaching changes in law, courts and social attitudes. Mind you it will probably take years before it pays real dividends 'cos none of those wheels turn with any great speed. In fact most of them are notably slow to change. But the seeds are about to be planted.

And where does all this good news leave those of us who don't regard this as some sort of power exchange or play and those of us who blur the lines of consent, often on a daily basis, you may be wondering? Ahh... well we are where we have always been. Just outside of the umbrella...

Mind you it does mean we can move just that little bit further away from those who call themselves kinksters...

That can't be a bad thing surely?