TysGalilah
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{Is there an activitiy within BDSM which if engaged in by someone you would believe them to need mental health therapy?} The woman is stripped of her identity, any outside contact (isolated ) from friends/family, not allowed to learn, grow, have interests that are her own, has been brainwashed to believe she is worthless and has no choices and certainly not to leave and walk away. Serves out of fear that she has no other options in life and will be KILLED if she disobeys or leaves ... and, she IS OKAY with his power over her to kill her, maim her,make her kill herself or make her hurt others in the name of being his slave. She endures self-harm because she has been told it is devotion and serving him, but says to anyone who will listen she is weak, powerless, empty, violated, useless except to be used by him. imo slapping a bdsm label on this doesn't make it acceptable. It is mental and psychological abuse. The creation of a victim not a slave or submissive. and the creator is an abuser........with a label slapped on himself that says Owner. "consentual" isn't limited to someone who doesn't object to something happening to them. If their mental health has been altered/compromised in a way that leaves them unable to object or have a clear psychological understanding of their situation, then, imo, they are not making a consentual determination ( as we here in WIIWD define consentual). {If someone were engaging in a practice which you deem is wrong for them, would you point this out online} I would want to( but privately)...but I have watched others with much louder voices than mine attempt to help.....it falls on deaf ears. If I knew them locally and face to face? yes, I would tell them how I "see" this as harming and non-consentual abuse, every opportunity I got. And no I don't think that makes me the bdsm police. Why? because it's not bdsm or kink in my view.
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galilah .."There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. " Edith Wharton
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