LafayetteLady
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Joined: 5/2/2007 From: Northern New Jersey Status: offline
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So let's see, the BAU, during the profile stated how "under normal circumstances, the submissive consents and knows "The Company" is just a fantasy." Seems to me they are quite aware that people openly engage in those activities. Movies/Television shows about human trafficking often have a BDSM undertone, and the reality is that there is a serious D/s element to those types of things. Sadly, far too many people who choose to participate in BDSM look everywhere to be "vilified" for their actions. Apparently, they themselves have some unresolved issues with how they choose to live. But if you honestly think that shit like this doesn't happen, it is spoken about on these boards all the time. Not too long ago, there was a young "slave" here who openly talked about how she had been "trained" to not think for herself, was put out to turn tricks for her "master," how he often talked about selling her or swapping her, and upon his death "deeded" her to someone else. Anyone with half a brain could have read her posts and seen there was some serious problems there, much like what this episode portrayed. Yes, we consent to the activities we partake in, but many do not and instead are literally beaten into submission, guilted into doing things in the name of being a "good and true submissive/slave," and there are more than enough nutcases on this site that tell them their "dominant/master" is correct and only trying to make them "better." Luckily, there are also enough people who rightly tell them that limits are a good thing that need to be discussed, and at the end of the day, the whole M/s and D/s is a fantasy that two (or more) people agree to play out, but if it suddenly becomes more than a person "signed up for," then no one can make them continue.
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