When you trade in your Bible and all you get in exchange is John Stuart Mill, you’re bound to end up with baloney like Mr. Cook here.
You’ve heard the expression “to damn with faint praise”? This article sounds like an attempt to approve with faint criticism.
Cooks calls BDSM and its supporting uitilitarian ethic “bankrupt” “ominous” and “(ethically) collapsing,” and says “Some things are so terrible that they are always wrong.” Doesn’t sound to me like he’s damning with faint praise, or praising with faint damns.