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[–]anxietyaccount8 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Yeah, on Twitter, some people had a problem with this article existing, if you can believe it. "What's the big deal, if they discuss kinks beforehand, isn't it a good thing? After all, now they know if they're compatible or not." Well, in some ways, it is a blessing that these men are making their preferences, um, heard loud and clear. But in others...is it really acceptable to say these things ON THE FIRST DATE? Is this supposed to be a replacement for romance or something?

Also, the fact that many are starting to see vanilla sex as something they're not interested in at all is kind of problematic. But many pro-kink people have no problem with that, in fact they think ideally everybody should be involved in BDSM. But they probably don't say that out loud...

[–]Nosce_te_ipsum 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I find most kinks and fetishes deeply disturbing, but what bothers me the most is that people who engage in bdsm tend to have this compulsive need to tell everyone about it. I suspect some of them are trying to convince themselves it's normal when they go into those long-winded descriptions about it, but I also think there's quite a few of them who get off on making people uncomfortable. It's basically part of their many paraphilias.

I would say it is a good thing that these guys are upfront about their sexual "preferences" (instead of unexpectedly starting to strangle women in bed), but I have this nagging feeling that most of them, especially the ones who talk about it so openly ("I want to slap you and spit on you") during their first date, are doing so because they fall under the "getting off on it" category. They probably really enjoy watching the confusion, horror or disgust on women's faces.

[–]BEB[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I used to lurk on that awful Lib Fem site Celebitchy, which is unreadable now. There was one poster especially who would go on and on about how she "genuinely" loved BDSM. The other good little Lib Fems would cheer her on, but if you read other posts by her, she was severely depressed, suicidal, an alcoholic, etc.

So I'm thinking that maybe it's because of the BDSM or maybe the BDSM is because of her mental state? In any case, it was far from healthy, and yet not only was her choosing to be abused endorsed by her fellow posters, it was positioned as the modern way to approach sex.

That was my first introduction to Lib Fems, and I have to say immediately I was WTF? and now I'm here ;-)

[–]adungitit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it was positioned as the modern way to approach sex.

Don't forget "sexually liberating" for women.