Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity???

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fencerpet19 -> Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 3:12:41 AM)
I just got back from the theater after seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. There was one scene where Angelina is acting as a domina and hitting some guy with a riding crop. It was very cool. But this got me to thinking about just how many references to BDSM I have seen on TV and in theaters recently. (I think there was a post about this earlier but I could be wrong) For example: In Sin City (which is one of my all-time favorite movies now next to Fight Club) one of the hookers, Gail, has a handcuff collection and specializes in tying people up. Not to mention the fact that all the girl's costumes lean towards the leather/latex side. In the TV series Queer as Folk, there was a whole episode about one of the characters exploring D/s in which he attends a BDSM/leather party and is later restrained and whipped. It seems that society is becoming more accepting of kinky stuff like this... or at least I hope it is. Has anyone else noticed this? btw: Secretary is on Oxygen Saturday at 9:00pm (8:00c). If you haven't seen this movie, you HAVE to! It's great! One of my favorites. Check it out: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0274812/

suberic101 -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 4:26:07 AM)
It seems like they kind of treat it with a silly kind of acceptance. Like, "Oh, there are people into this so lets put it in a movie..."

EmeraldSlave2 -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 8:13:29 AM)
Of course bdsm is gaining popularity, look at the populationo f websites like these booming? More and more bdsm groups forming across the country? More and more conferences and event every month? More and more "fetish and kink" nights at clubs and bars? Now, whether it's a very accurate perception, whether it's the full perception of wiitwd, is another question. But kink references are definitely becoming common and light kink at least is becoming quite popular.

subcheryl -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 8:17:07 AM)
I was wondering that too, Master and I have picked up on that in a couple of shows, quiet things like perhaps a collar, or a tatoo, just little things, that perhaps if were not into the Lifestyle we might not have even picked up on. But than again was it just a fashion statement? I did see the csi show the othernight of the Dungeon Mistress and how one of her girls killed 3 people, that was the least threatening one that I have seen as far as shows go. Have seen others where they did not cast the Lifestyle in a very good light. But yes think it seems to be popping out more whether for good or bad who knows at this point.

mnottertail -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 1:45:49 PM)
I think the word that needs to be inserted here is again. The pendulum is once again swinging and you are starting to see the arc. Lets face it, people fuck. Most have some obsession with some little(or large) psychological part of it. Males have been males and females have been females and androgynous have been androgynous throughout recorded history. Some have been dominant in all ways and some submissive, throughout recorded history. I suspect most of these things have been true in un-recorded history as well. As a young child, I remember that Dad hid the playboys (that didn't mean shit) and magazines like Saga and others with the scantily clad and bound big-titted woman 'I was a Nazi pleasure slave for 40 years until I was rescued (and raped) by the 101st Airborne' kinda layed around the house with popular mechanics and life magazine. Very acceptable, don't you know. So homo sapiens have always been here in recorded and un-recorded history........I think they will do so beyond my demise, and I think the pendulum of accepted mores will swing. Ron

ginger21 -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 2:19:18 PM)
I'm having a hard time thinking of exactly how I want to put this, so let me try as best I can... I agree with suberic101 in that it's gaining a silly acceptance. I don't think the mainstream media will ever accept it fully- I tend to see it used (when I see it on TV and in movies) in a more comical sense rather than taken 100% seriously. I think people recognize it as risque and think they're adding edginess when they add BDSM into the program... I don't think it's being accepted nor will it ever fully be.

mnottertail -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 2:28:41 PM)
Moulin Rouge, The Birds Cage................even (well i will tone this down and say it in hushed tone) the difference in people cause they are of colour...............these things are brought up in polite society as first a peculiar abberation, then as a reason for jocularity and ad nauseum......until they become accepted mores. Dave Chapelle.......Richard Pryor ............Lenny Bruce.........Lewis Black ......these things have to happen in this fashion because the populous would lose it......consider the actual reality of the statement of Tommy Lee Jones (as K) and Will Smith (as J) when he (J) fires the gun in public...........lotta insecurities out there......... LMAO, (but deadly serious) Ron

proudsub -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/11/2005 7:15:10 PM)
quote: (I think there was a post about this earlier but I could be wrong) Here you go: BDSM in vanilla movies

dixiedumpling -> RE: Recent movies. Is BDSM gaining popularity??? (6/12/2005 1:47:06 PM)
I agree with you ginger21. In mainstream movies only the Dominant female is shown. It's decidely un-PC to show a man hitting a woman. There have been a few episodes of CSI that included a Domme who owns a "house" that offers female domination. The last one I saw depicted two Doms who were murdered. What's the message there?

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