Actually it does, and there are plenty of BDSMers who aren't afraid to stand up and admit it, at least in the appropriate forums. We're a small community but vociferous and quite activist-y.
Case in point is that the BBC article originally referred to "the so-called BDSM community", and now doesn't - almost certainly because a bunch of us emailed in to complain!
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Actually it does, and there are plenty of BDSMers who aren't afraid to stand up and admit it, at least in the appropriate forums. We're a small community but vociferous and quite activist-y. Case in point is that the BBC article originally referred to "the so-called BDSM community", and now doesn't - almost certainly because a bunch of us emailed in to complain!