#363 - Dr. Craig Webster - Munch Research
Today’s show brings Dr. Craig Webster to the mic. Webster headed an international search of Munches. These published papers represent many of the factors that make a successful munch.
A message from Dr. Webster…
The data presented in this paper are part of a data set investigating the organizers of munches and
similar events globally. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Ball
State University and by FetLife which was used to disseminate the survey. Data on the
importance of munch and similar events were gathered using a short, online survey created by
the researcher and disseminated on the leading BDSM social media internet site, FetLife. The
survey was designed to be as short as possible in order to ensure a high completion rate and only
disseminated in English, despite being an international survey of the institution. The data
presented in this summary report were collected from December 2016 to March 2017.
There are many people who helped to make this survey happen, and we would like to thank
them. The most critical people that we would like to thank are the Caretakers of FetLife.
Without their permission and assistance, we would not have had easy access to so many people
in the BDSM community.
In addition, there were many people on FetLife who assisted us in many different ways. Some
suggested improvements to the survey so that future research would be done better. Most
importantly, we are grateful for all the respondents to the survey, as without them, there would
be no data to analyze. We are also very grateful to the many people in the community who
educated us about the lifestyle so that we could ask more intelligent questions than we otherwise
would have.
There are a number of colleagues who were helpful and supportive through the process, even
when the topic seemed a bit far removed from what people expected research on Event
Management to be. As a result of all the support from colleagues here at Ball State University,
FetLife, and those in the BDSM lifestyle/community, we were able to gather data in this first
international survey of the munch as a social institution from the perspective of the organizer.
We hope that this will lead to more research on this important social institution.
Crumbs to all of you who were of assistance in this.
Munch Organizer Survey (Summary Report) link
Munch Participant Survey (Summary Report) link
Events are Bound to Happen, Spank You Very Much: The Importance of Munch Events in the BDSM Community .https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/em/2019/00000023/f0020004/art00013
Fifty Shades of Socializing: Slosh and Munch Events in the BDSM Community. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/em/2019/00000023/00000001/art00010
Fifty shades of organising kinkster events: munch events in the BDSM community.
https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJHEM.2018.092395
Kink as a Form of Leisure: Kinky Events and the People who Love Them.
https://management.viu.ca/sites/default/files/wlce-case-volume-4-2020.pdf#page=21
Kinky People Need Kinky Events: Kinkster Events and Kink/BDSM Products in Hospitality and Tourism. In Sex and Leisure: Promiscuous Perspectives. Edited by: Diana C. Parry and Corey W. Johnson.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/sex-leisure-diana-parry-corey-johnson/e/10.4324/9781003003427
Kink as a form of leisure: Kinky events and the people who love them
https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/23383
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