050: Fetish and the Kinky Goth

This month we are discussing what elements create a goth
identity and how we define them, we review the new album from
A Thousand Hours, and we dive into the world of BDSM and Kink
as we explore how those lifestyles and symbols relate to and
interact with goth culture.


Our guest is Victor Moregore!




News: 10:32
-Anyone Can be Goth
        
-Homology Hypothesis
         -Goth
Points


Album Review: 1:01:54
-A Thousand Hours


Philosophy Corner: 1:17:33


Goth has an older history with the S&M community than
one might think. In the 80’s these sex shops were a
refuge for goths, punks, and alternatives alike, both as
a safe space for expression and one of the few options to
buy and modify alternative clothing. S&M was also
seen in several deathrock and goth micromedia outlets,
from music videos by bands like Nervous Gender, to
transgressive publications like Propoganda Magazine, to
full blown communities like the one centered around
psychic TV. Even today, clubs that cater to BDSM
clientele often host goth nights, blurring the lines
between where goth and explicitly sexually deviant
lifestyles start and end. Both BDSM and goth share
lifestyle components, and both have seen their sartorial
style, mined by pop artists and fashion lines, in an
attempt add a darker edge to the mundanity of mainstream
aesthetic, as if goth and BDSM were simply spectacular
styles to be appropriated for similarly vacuous purposes.
So on today’s episode, I’d like to explore those
boundaries of style, community, and lifestyle, to see
where these two cultures crossover and where they
diverge.


Sinister Suggestion:


Vampire Journals


References:
-Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of
Sadomasichism
-Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality, and Style
-Playing it Queer: Popular Music, Identity and
Queer-World Making


Outtakes