My experiences on the fringe of the BDSM community does not support your suppositions, nor does what little data there is.I dont know much... but I know it's a kink of very powerful woman.
And the author ignore the fact, that submissive male are common.. and usually are very powerful people, also very directive on the pain/humiliation they want.
I still think the article fall apart if you acknowledge that submissive male exist. I don't see your data, the abstract say nothing about submission proportion in male and female.. but the : make it feel that female are under-reporting (almost half as much) about the subject than male. At least the article is right about something: people lie about their sexuality.2.2% of men, 1.3% of women said they had been involved in BDSM
The article isn't about men. It's about women. It's one columnist's insight into why women might buy a book that's ostensibly about BDSM. I do think it's interesting that even when presented with data, your inclination is to dismiss the entire article because you've decided it doesn't support a tangential hunch of yours.