link]">Most sex experts estimate that ten to fifteen percent of sexually active adults regularly go in for kinky sex and in an article by Helen Roth Rosner, the tribe fits right into that population. [link]
Mainstream or not, fetishistic sexual practices can easily be at odds with Jewish sexual dictates. Jews have an elaborate code of rules and regulations to let them know what's kosher in the physical intimacy department. "As long as it's safe, sane, and consensual, there's no problem, Jewish or otherwise," says Madame Alexia, a professional dominatrix in Chicago -- who just so happens to be Bat Mizvahed and have a last name ending in "berg."

Whether it really is a hereditary inquisitiveness that leads Jews to bondage is up for grabs. A cliched explanation of this kind of fetish might trace it back to overbearing mothers, sexual guilt, and other hallmarks of the stereotypical Jewish childhood. British comic Ivor Dembina. Describing himself as "Comedian, Jew, and Sadomasochist to the Stars," has another take on it .. In a 60 minute stand up act centering around his obsesion with BDSM he derives a connection to it from his oedipal childhood marked by corporal punishment from his stereotypical Jewish mother. "I wanted great sex with the woman I love. Unfortunately, she was married to my father" [link]