Pleasure Bodies of Sadomasochism and Transgression of Citizenship

In order to inquiry the sexual citizenship of sadomasochistic cultural communities in Taiwan, this study makes a research question derives from the national citizenship encompasses the particular categories of gender and ages. First of all for pointing out the foremost historical context, because of the supremacy discourses of human right and institutions for protecting women and children invented by the mainstream women''s movement and nation, the dissent sexual cultures were constricted by the universal human right and the hierarchies of human rights also shaped the development of public practice and intimacy of sadomasochistic cultural communities.
According to the chapter 1, I constructs three approaches for studying the sadomasochistic cultural communities in Taiwan: nation, public practice, private intimacy. The chapter 2 explores the public norms and subjects of gender equality that must defend the sadomasochistic obscene effects originated from the operation of national obscene criminal and education of bodily autonomy, its governs profoundly affect the imagination of sexual cultures in public spaces and private bodies, the juridification of sadomasochistic cultures explicitly claims its visuality of obscene will harm the social morality, then becoming an absolute threaten to the rights of women and children that already be an internalization of social collective common benefits.
The chapter 3 discusses the public advocate and movement for claiming the rights of sadomasochistic practices, the juridical dichotomy of obscene/art limits the public sadomasochistic movement and lead to "closet spaces" conceal the sadomasochistic sexuality that often been mistaken, stigmatized and unacknowledged, this dilemma is also a "politics of reticence". The chapter 4 complements the shortage of previous two chapter''s content through the individuals'' life stories, the bodily sensing and intimate relationships of sadomasochists suggests although the public realm is the space for creating actions and collective identities, but the private space is also important for empowering individual autonomy and diversity.
The final chapter suggests we should advocate the democratization of private realm and mobile the bodily and life experiences to the public realm then deepening the sexual citizenship that beyond the norms of national public/private realms.