Talk:Power exchange (BDSM)

Totally disputed?
Ok, this might not be a perfect article, but what's so "totally disputed" about it? --Conti|&#9993; 23:31, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)


 * Nothing so much now, I put that up before I made the needed edits because I expected they might not go over well, or that I would be unable to make the necessary repairs. It seems fine now to me, so unless you think my version sux, we can leave the dispute header off. Sam [Spade] 19:24, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * That's an odd way to use this template. Anyways, the edits you made so fare are fine by me. :) --Conti|&#9993; 19:50, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)

Merge from Total power exchange
These two articles seem like they cover the same topic, but there's little text in common between them. HalJor 03:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I believe that TPE is the British term and that Master/slave is the American term. KarenCupp 21 June 2007 (CDT-US)

TPE isn't a British term (it's of American origin for a start): it was created in alt.sex.bondage as the article (which I originally wrote and which was copied to the Wipipedia before being copied here) shows. TPE tends to be used by people whose BDSM lineage goes back to alt.sex.bondage in some way - especially via the late Jon Jacobs. Other terms like Absolute Power Exchange and Internal Enslavement are talking about the same basic process as TPE.

I think we'd be better having a single Master/slave (BDSM) article, with the material from Slave (BDSM) and TPE included in subsections. Then Consensual Slavery, Slave (BDSM) and Internal Enslavement can all redirect to one article.

(The reason why the TPE and PE articles have little text in common is that the concepts have little in common: TPE as a term was invented by a critic of the idea, and the three words can't be read literally - like the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.)

Tanos 14:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Redirect
I'm redirecting this to BDSM. The term exists in the literature, but the problem is that the literature sucks: note how many of the hits in this Google search are self-published or otherwise unreliable--BiblioBazaar, Lulu.com, etc. The article has been tagged since 2007, and if it is to be a real article it needs serious work, not a bunch of Wipipedia links. Drmies (talk) 22:21, 29 October 2012 (UTC)