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EmeraldSlave2 -> RE: Do you think this life style is getting more known? (8/5/2005 9:04:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: s1nn3r
It seems alot of people here tend to think that this lifestyle is becoming more "mainstream" but Id like to differ. I dont really see it as being mainstream. Maybe more people are experimenting with some light bondage, ie handcuffed to the bed or whatnot but I dont think most people would understand the full scope of "BDSM". Power exchange and what it is like for a sub/slave to give himself/herself over completely to a Dom/me. Alot of women would look at it as oppression of a woman (Im speaking from a Dominant straight Male's p.o.v.) and her right's.
Perhaps its that we are on the inside of the circle looking out that it seems BDSM is more commonplace but if you were to take yourself out of that circle, would it not seem that this lifestyle is kept behind closed doors rather than out in the open.
Just my $.02.
-s1n
I think your post is pretty much a restatement of mine:
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I think bdsm and S&M are becoming more and more "mainstream" and "pop-culture" and becoming fairly accepted (as much as any deviant sexuality is).
I think the "lifestyle" is becoming more known as more and more people gain access to the internet and munch groups and conventions continue to flourish so information and connections are far more widely accessible than before.
Let's face it, when you can buy handcuff bracelets at local mall shops, when primetime music videos show latex and bondage, when primetime TV shows make direct references to whipping and kinky sex- I think we can assume that kink and bdsm is definitely mainstream.
However, does this translate to people understanding how a relationship works with a woman allowing a dominant to have authority over what she eats and how she dresses? No.
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