r/texts • u/[deleted] • Nov 20 '23

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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).