A importância dos elementos simbólicos no traje da mulher dominadora na prática do BDSM

Abstract

This research consists of understanding how clothing acts as a form of expression in the clothing of the dominant woman in the practice of BDSM. To analyze which paths leather followed until finding a prominent place in the sexual practices of this culture. Fashion prints and directs different behaviors to different social groups, with this, we seek to develop research on the historical evolution of leather in fetishistic practice belonging to BDSM culture, in order to understand the mechanisms of fetishism as a language of seduction and power over the other. The methodology applied in this work favored bibliographic and documentary research, through books, monographs, theses, newspapers, cinema, music and fashion. Subsequently, a field research was carried out through structured interviews with women acting as dominating professionals in the city of São Paulo. In this way, it was possible to understand some of the symbolic mechanisms that influence the use of leather as a second skin for the dominator, as an artifact of power.