Nat and Kevin continue The Why We're Gagging Ball with the following categories: Captured Executive Realness, Hate the Game, Tie Up a Player, and Captured by the Screen.

• In Fetishism and Culture: A Different Theory of Modernity, Hartmut Böhme explains how everything and everyone in modern society can be considered fetishes or fetishists because of the prevalence of materialistic and consumerist culture. So, even though kinksters likely understand our fetishes as sexual, people with fixations, superstitions, and rituals that are more accepted in the normative world could be other kinds of fetishists because mass culture breeds fetishism.
• This relates to how ballroom categories reflect performances that appear acceptable to the heteronormative world because members perform and get evaluated on how well they imitate the m ...