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The Cut

Are You Actually Kinky?

The Cut

New York Magazine

Personal Journals, Documentary, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Celebrities like Armie Hammer and Marilyn Manson have tried to deny allegations of abuse by excusing their behavior as just kink. So what is kink? And why is it considered either a super scary taboo thing or a nerdy pastime? Writers Lux Alptraum, R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell, and Roxane Gay weigh in on the power of kink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Lately, there have been some truly salacious stories in the news about powerful celebrity men who've crossed some lines with women they were dating.

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And these have been sort of aftershocks of the Me Too movement, where these new accusations,

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I'm thinking of Army Hammer and the allegations of abuse and cannibalism or Marilyn Manson's rape room,

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brought back this important conversation on the ways that power and fame can be abused.

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