“Doormattdave” is a 67 year old man, on a fortnightly basis he has a family friend come to walk along his body, she brings with her a selection of shoes varying from flats to metal spike platform high heels. He is trampled in his bedroom for approximately five minutes. He re-appears from the carpet, smiling.

Dave who has been unable to have an erection since the age of 26 informs me trampling is not a release of the sexual, this has been a compulsion for him since he was in secondary school. 

“I just want to know my place, I want to feel like I am the street, the rubbish beneath womens feet.”

Commercial/non-commercial BDSM practitioners and clients of sex-work have a social world hidden from the habitual, there is a whole new language to learn and a strict social etiquette to uphold. 

By looking at the places and relationships which form through BDSM practices inform my audio-visual research. Locating the interior spaces as a photographic cue rather than confining someone to my own ineffective understanding of their sexual/non-sexual pursuits. Within this body of work I wish to step away from psychopathology of sexual practices. Here I hope to offer a phenomenological viewpoint held by the individual which surpasses sex as merely sexual function. 



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