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But women’s complicity in this new brutal sex is not just a bid to catch up with the men. Since Fifty Shades of Grey, violent sex attained glamour, associated with Audis, penthouses and ice-cold white Burgundy. S&M—whips, cuffs, restraints, spanking—was parceled up and marketed as a luxury lifestyle.

Now that you mention it, BDSM is probably more common among the upper-middle-class, white, coastal elites who push this kind of stuff. You need a significant amount of money for all those tools. Perhaps support for BDSM is not just virtue-signalling, but also class signalling?