Sunday, May 13, 2007

What Happens When Fundamentalists Get Into BDSM?






Pray tell, what shall you do if you are a fundamentalist Christian who is into BDSM? Well, you change the terminology and call it "Christian Domestic Discipline". Thereafter, you declare this as an "enhancement" for your traditional marriage.

As is expected, someone has spent a great deal of time and effort building a website dedicated to Christian Domestic Discipline. The webmaster is Leah Kelley and she declares herself to be virulently anti-feminist. Not only is she proudly submissive, she declares this is God's plan.

A Christian Domestic Discipline marriage is one that is set up according to Biblical standards; that is, the husband is the authority in the household. The wife is submissive to her husband as is fit in the Lord and her husband loves her as himself. He has the ultimate authority in his household, but it is tempered with the knowledge that he must answer to God for his actions and decisions. He has the authority to spank his wife for punishment, but in real CDD marriages this is taken very seriously and usually happens only rarely. CDD is so much more than just spanking. It is the husband loving the wife enough to guide and teach her, and the wife loving the husband enough to follow his leadership. A Christian marriage embodies true romance and a Christian man a true hero.
Christian Domestic Discipline - Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage - About CDD


In other words, since the spanking is consensual, she is talking about BDSM. I theorize that she is uncomfortable being associated with an "alternative lifestyle" therefore feels the need to couch her relationship in religious terminology and decorate her site with Bibles, roses, and wedding rings. However, once you let the proverbial cat out of the bag, everything comes unloosed. Despite her deep religiosity, much of her website is (at the very least) R-rated.

I mean, she even sells her own BDSM/CDD gear. The picture above is from her set of crotchless pantaloons. She calls the colour "demure white". Clearly, this isn't just a woman who's put a lot of thought into her submissive relationship, she's seeking to profit from it too — and she probably has a clientele.





3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What do you care? If you don't like what Leah is doing with her website or her products then here's a suggestion, don't buy any! This is a woman who is in a CONSENSUAL loving marriage, they chose this lifestyle, what business is it of yours? Is it the part that she is a christian that bothers you or the part that she is in a CDD marriage, or BOTH? I mean really, don't you have better things to do with your life?

Anonymous said...

Alright, calm down, Leah Kelley, no reason to get hostile.

Anonymous said...

Seriously, what do you care? Sounds like you got a bit flustered over the thought of this. I am not the 1st or second commenter, and I'm not the Leah person who sells pantaloons. But really, is it that odd? These wives approach the subject mostly, not the husbands. Which means they trust their husband and respect their husband that much.