Lorraine completed her PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin; where she now lectures. She is a founder and organizer of Berlin Sex Museum, whose first pop-up exhibition, “Berlin Sex Spaces,” was funded by the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. In her spare time, she writes narrative poetry about history and academic articles about literature, and makes films about sex. Her kink, academic, and artistic interests converge around the concept of “big scary emotions.” Her core values are sincerity, autonomy, curiosity, solution-orientation, good faith, and playfulness.
Have you ever heard someone say “kinkshaming is bad, but some kinks deserve to be shamed”? If so, do you agree? If you do, how do we decide? If you don’t, how do you stand up for yourself? And in either case, how do we practice kink in a way that aligns with our ethics,...
