ABSTRACT
Gender, race, and ableism play a part in this chapter, which explores disability and sex (which is not supposed to mix, according to the discourse); disability and kink is considered even less. Kink and disability both position the bodymind as uncivilized – in opposition to normative expectations of the civilized able body – but kink gives participants tools, including making pain and communicating pain, and space to enjoy sexual or erotic contact. I use Newmahr’s four reframings of pain (transformed, sacrificial, investment, and autotelic) to understand participants’ narratives, and critically crip pain in kink spaces.
