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  • Kink, BDSM, and Care Across Contexts
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026)

    This rolling issue examines kink and BDSM across clinical, educational, and community-based contexts of care. Articles published in this issue explore how knowledge, bias, ethics, training, and lived experience shape engagement with kink- and BDSM-identified individuals. Contributions may include empirical research, theoretical analysis, practitioner reflections, educational frameworks, and community-informed perspectives that advance understanding, competence, and care across professional and non-clinical settings.

  • Opening Doors: The Intersection of Kink, Community, and Ethical Practice
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025)

    The inaugural issue of The Journal of Kink and Community opens doors to new perspectives on kink, BDSM, and their intersection with trauma recovery, community building, and social justice. This issue brings together a diverse range of research, theory, and practical insights, providing a platform for innovative discussions on the ethical practice of kink and its potential as a healing tool.

    As the first publication of its kind, this issue serves as a foundational platform for future research and discussion, offering scholarly perspectives and lived experiences that contribute to the ongoing conversation about kink, social justice, and community-building. Join us as we begin this journey of amplifying marginalized voices, breaking down stigma, and shaping a more inclusive, ethical, and healing-oriented discourse on kink and trauma recovery.

  • Beyond the Assumptions: Kink, Care, Power, and Practice
    Vol. 2 No. 2 (2026)

    What happens when we question the stories we have inherited about kink?

    Beyond the Assumptions brings together scholarship, clinical reflection, lived experience, and critical conversation examining kink through the intersections of care, trauma, power, embodiment, neurodiversity, sexuality, and therapeutic practice.

    Across this issue, contributors challenge familiar assumptions about BDSM and pathology, explore the regulatory and relational functions of pain and sensation, examine how collective trauma can reshape our relationship to practices that once offered comfort or connection, and consider what happens when Therapeutic BDSM moves from theory into practice.

    The issue also turns a critical eye toward power itself, exploring sexuality, labor, domination, stigma, and the complicated relationship between erotic practice and social structures.

    These contributions invite us to become more curious about the complexity of kink, the meanings people make from their experiences, and the contexts in which those experiences unfold.

    Beyond the Assumptions is an invitation to look again, ask better questions, and make room for what becomes visible when kink is examined with greater depth, rigor, and care.