"Power Exchange, Energy Exchange: Conscious Inequality, Dominance, and Submission" Slides

These are the slides for Lee Harrington's class, "Power Exchange, Energy Exchange: Conscious Inequality, Dominance, and Submission."

Power permeates our every interpersonal interaction, from how we interact with the grocery clerk to our play in the bedroom, and there is a difference between unconscious and conscious power use. However, in a variety of alternative spicy populations, these concepts are romanticized often glossing over the context where these consensual power plays come from. These slides examine where power arises unconsciously or through oppression in culture, various types of power exchange dynamics, and why people would want to engage in them (for an evening, a long-term connection or between lifetimes). This will include conscious and unconscious roles, bonding within relationships, and even destructive behaviors. Power is power, but inequality is not inequity, so let us look at this together with eyes wide open.