Trauma Healing through Kink Bibliography

Linden, D. J. (2015, March 20). The Neurobiology of BDSM Sexual Practice | Psychology Today. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-compass-pleasure/201503/the-neurobiology-bdsm-sexual-practice

Zal, F. (2024, October 18). Trauma-Informed Kink Healing. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20180.00645

Schuerwegen, A., Huys, W., Coppens, V., De Neef, N., Henckens, J., Goethals, K., & Morrens, M. (2021). The Psychology of Kink: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study Investigating the Roles of Sensation Seeking and Coping Style in BDSM-Related Interests. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(3), 1197–1206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01807-7

Bauer, R. (n.d.). Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries. https://www.academia.edu/8914920/Queer_BDSM_Intimacies_Critical_Consent_and_Pushing_Boundaries

Simula, B. (2015). Exploring Women’s, Trans*, and Queer BDSM Subcultures. Sex Roles, 73(9), 456–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-015-0520-y

Rye, B., Serafini, T., & Bramberger, T. (2015). Erotophobic or erotophilic: What are young women’s attitudes towards BDSM? Psychology & Sexuality, 6(4), 340–356. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2015.1012108

Yost, M. R., & Hunter, L. E. (2012). BDSM practitioners’ understandings of their initial attraction to BDSM sexuality: essentialist and constructionist narratives. Psychology & Sexuality, 3(3), 244–259. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2012.700028

Lantto, R., & Lundberg, T. (2022). (Un)desirable approaches in therapy with Swedish individuals practicing BDSM: client’s perspectives and recommendations for affirmative clinical practices. Psychology & Sexuality, 13(3), 742–755. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2021.1918230

Hamer, W. J. (2016). BDSM and Helpseeking: an Exploratory Qualitative Survey. Auckland University of Technology. https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/10457

Fennell, J. (2021). It’s complicated: Sex and the BDSM subculture. Sexualities, 24(5–6), 784–802. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720961303

Cascalheira, C. J., Ijebor, E. E., Salkowitz, Y., Hitter, T. L., & Boyce, A. (2021). Curative kink: survivors of early abuse transform trauma through BDSM. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 0(0), 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2021.1937599

Sprott, R. A. (2020). Reimagining “Kink”: Transformation, Growth, and Healing Through BDSM. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 0022167819900036. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167819900036

Hansen-Brown, A. A., & Jefferson, S. E. (2022). Perceptions of and stigma toward BDSM practitioners. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03112-z

Dunkley, C. R., & Brotto, L. A. (2020). The Role of Consent in the Context of BDSM. Sexual Abuse, 32(6), 657–678. https://doi.org/10.1177/1079063219842847

Hammers, C. (2019). Reworking Trauma through BDSM. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 44(2), 491–514. https://doi.org/10.1086/699370

Sagarin, B. J., Cutler, B., Cutler, N., Lawler-Sagarin, K. A., & Matuszewich, L. (2009). Hormonal Changes and Couple Bonding in Consensual Sadomasochistic Activity. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38(2), 186–200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9374-5

Brown, J. (2018, November 13). BDSM for Trauma Survivors. Rebellious Magazine. http://rebelliousmagazine.com/just-the-tip-bdsm-for-trauma-survivors/

Bauer, R. (2016). Desiring masculinities while desiring to question masculinity? How embodied masculinities are renegotiated in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM practices. NORMA, 11(4), 237–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2016.1260262

Monteiro Pascoal, P., Cardoso, D., & Henriques, R. (2015). Sexual Satisfaction and Distress in Sexual Functioning in a Sample of the BDSM Community: A Comparison Study Between BDSM and Non-BDSM Contexts. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 12(4), 1052–1061. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsm.12835

Connolly, P. H. (2006). Psychological Functioning of Bondage/Domination/Sado-Masochism (BDSM) Practitioners. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 18(1), 79–120. https://doi.org/10.1300/J056v18n01_05

Liang, M. (2022). Playing with power: Kink, race, and desire. Sexualities, 25(4), 381–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720964063

Tsaros, A. (2013). Consensual non-consent: Comparing EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey and Pauline Réage’s Story of O. Sexualities, 16(8), 864–879. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460713508903

Fanghanel, A. (2020). Asking for it: BDSM sexual practice and the trouble of consent. Sexualities, 23(3), 269–286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719828933

Bauer, R. (2018). Bois and grrrls meet their daddies and mommies on gender playgrounds: Gendered age play in the les-bi-trans-queer BDSM communities. Sexualities, 21(1–2), 139–155. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716676987

Bauer, R. (2021). Queering consent: Negotiating critical consent in les-bi-trans-queer BDSM contexts. Sexualities, 24(5–6), 767–783. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720973902

Pineapple Support. (2021, May 11). Neurobiology Of Trauma And It’s Overlap In Kink - Healing Through Kink [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92oAdX7c7Kc

Thomas, J. N. (2020). BDSM as trauma play: An autoethnographic investigation. Sexualities, 23(5–6), 917–933. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719861800

Brink, S. T., Coppens, V., Huys, W., & Morrens, M. (2021). The Psychology of Kink: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style with BDSM Interests. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00438-w

Schuerwegen, A., Morrens, M., Wuyts, E., Huys, W., Goethals, K., & Zeeuw-Jans, I. D. (2022). The psychology of kink: A survey study investigating stigma and psychological mechanisms in BDSM. European Psychiatry, 65(S1), S804–S804. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2079

Wentworth, S. (2021, September 13). BDSM can help heal from trauma. Prostasia Foundation. https://prostasia.org/blog/bdsm-can-help-heal-from-trauma/

Sprott, R. A., & Williams, D. J. (2019). Is BDSM a Sexual Orientation or Serious Leisure? Current Sexual Health Reports, 11(2), 75–79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-019-00195-x

Robin Bauer. (2008). Transgressive and Transformative Gendered Sexual Practices and White Privileges: The Case of the Dyke/Trans BDSM Communities. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 36(3–4), 233–253. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.0.0100