ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some aspects of sexual identities. Bondage means tying, binding or restricting someone's movement. Discipline means corporal punishment, from spanking to paddling to caning. Submission is the act of lending your power of decision-making to another person for a pre-determined time, for spiritual, recreational, or sexual purposes. The author believes that the most important thing one can know about a person, after establishing his or her sex/gender, is sexual orientation. The evolution of heterosexual from perversion to taken-for-granted and 'normal' occurred slowly throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It is the 'cumulative experience and interaction of erotic fantasy, romantic-emotional feelings, and sexual behavior directed toward one or both'. Social constructionism (the nurture perspective) would argue that society has constructed dichotomized, binary sexualities and constructed the whole concept of sexual orientation in the first place.
