The newest Department of Energy hire is a genderfluid kink enthusiast with a penchant for leather puppy play and public displays of BDSM.
In January, Sam Brinton was quietly shuffled in as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Brinton holds a degree in nuclear engineering from MIT, but what should have been a relatively benign bureaucratic selection has the internet abuzz with confusion.
Brinton, who identifies as genderfluid and uses they/them pronouns, seems to have a rather public history related to his pro-kink lifestyle.
In 2016, Brinton was profiled by Metro Weekly in a piece called Puppy Love. Brinton was photographed with his leather “pup,” another adult male who was photographed with what appeared to be an anal plug “tail.”
In the article, Brinton is one of many fetishists interviewed on his experience in the leather pup lifestyle. He is quoted as describing his relationship with “Nubi,” his human dog.
“I tell people that if you’re going to be a good handler, you have to listen well,” Sam says. “I can hear when Pup needs something faster, because of the difference in the grunts or the moans,” Brinton says, also noting: “I actually have trouble when we transition from pup play to having sex. Like, ‘No, I can’t have you whimper like that when we’re having sex,’ because I don’t want to mix that world. It’s interesting, because he doesn’t have to come out of pup mode to have me fuck him. I personally have to bring him out of pup perception for me. But then I’m still treating him as a submissive to me.”
According to the National Pulse, Brinton has also given lectures at Universities on LGBTQ kink and BDSM.
An archived article from The Polytechnic, the campus newspaper of the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, reveals Brinton gave a kink seminar there in 2017. The lecture was titled “Ropes, Whips, & Kinks, Oh My!!” The Polytechnic notes that Brinton discussed various sexual fetishes, including adult babies, diaper play, humiliation, degradation, and more. He also reviewed “how to safely choke [a] partner” and demonstrated various rope bondage techniques on students.
In 2018, Brinton gave a similar talk at the University of Nebraska, a photo of which was shared on Instagram showing Brinton in a dress and high heels standing over three kneeling men in leather gear.
Brinton has also given a seminar on kink at the University of Wisconsin where, in 2018, he offered “live demonstrations” on the “tension forces of bondage, thermodynamics of wax play, physics of impact, and circuits of electro play!”
In addition to his kink advocacy, Brinton is also a drag queen who goes by the stage name Miss Radio Active.
In 2020, Brinton spoke at an LGBTQ+ event hosted by two Emerson College organizations, during which he claimed minors should not be challenged on their gender identity, stating: “When you question our gender identity or our sexual orientation, you are literally questioning whether you should exist. That’s how you get really young youths potentially considering suicide.”
Brinton has also loudly declared support for trans privileges, including allowing biological males to compete on women’s sports teams. In 2020, he told Reuters, “Supporting women means supporting all women — and transgender women are women.”
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