Don’t kink-shame Amy Coney Barrett

But she also needs to leave her freak at home.

Her mouth says, “no” but her eyes say, *unhinged screaming*. (Photograph: AP)

I was raised a Catholic in San Francisco. So I know both Catholicism and serious kink. Amy Coney Barret does not practice a lifestyle recognizable as Catholicism, but she’s definitely kinky. And hey. No judgement, judge. However you get off is fine as long as everyone involved is consenting adults.

Barrett and her husband belong to this group called “People of Praise,” which is described as a Catholic group but reads far more as a fetish lifestyle group. I’m kind of grossed out that they’re using Catholicism to explain their fetishes but I really don’t want to judge people in how they find pleasure. Barrett’s clearly into roleplay.

The group has a strict social and financial hierarchy in which only men are admitted to the higher levels and to which women must inevitably “submit.” So, again, really trying not to kink shame here, but that is explicitly NOT Catholicism. I can see how there would be a bit of confusion with the medieval history of Catholicism, but if Amy Coney Barrett were originalist both in law and religion she wouldn’t “submit” to her husband.

But submission does play a central role in various BDSM relationships. In fact, it made the acronym. Some BDSM relationships or play doesn’t even make it out of the bedroom…