BDSM Normal or Not?

I was re-reading my posts, something I tend to do since I've been known to screw up my commas and miss a word here and there, and I came across this statement in my post Choosing a Dominant for Submission … "normal vanilla relationship." In retrospect, I have to wonder at this Freudian slip. Yes, I was absolutely raised that anything remotely BDSM-like was abnormal and deviant. That it was the kind of behavior that got you sent straight to hell. I was raised by a Southern Baptist mother who m...