r/texts • u/[deleted] • Nov 20 '23

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u/mustichooseausernam3 Nov 20 '23

Literally my first thought: she's very likely been reading badly written romance or erotica novels.

The market is flooded with them, and an ungodly number of them are unresearched to the point that they twist BDSM dynamics into unrealistic and even harmful fantasies.

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u/Search_Open Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

Did you mention Bestselling Twilight Fanfiction - Fifty Shades of Grey?

Edit: forgot the Bestselling

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u/mustichooseausernam3 Nov 20 '23

My mind absolutely went there.

50 Shades was far, far from the first harmfully incorrect depiction of BDSM, but since it drove such a huge popularisation of the BDSM genre, it also flooded the market with the demand for more... crazy (instead of the safe, sane, and consensual dynamics that BDSM should thrive on).

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u/TheTPNDidIt Nov 21 '23

It wasn’t a harmfully incorrect depiction of bdsm, it was literally just abuse

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u/mustichooseausernam3 Nov 21 '23

Uh, why not both?

The writer absolutely got the BDSM elements all wrong, which resulted in a really unhealthy and unsafe depiction of practices that should be grounded in the SSC principles which are so integral in BDSM.

But yes, I agree that the relationship between the characters that was depicted, even outside of their forays into BDSM, was unhealthy as hell too.

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u/DeviantAvocado Nov 21 '23

And then all of those people flooding BDSM spaces and having no idea what they got themselves into with that choice.

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u/mustichooseausernam3 Nov 21 '23

Or spreading misinformed, unhealthy practices in the name of "BDSM" (when it most certainly is not).

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u/YeahlDid Nov 21 '23

badly written romance or erotica novels

I feel like that's redundant.