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In reply to the discussion: ‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)I appreciate the support - the belief that porn (not sex scenes in HBO shows, but porn) doesn't affect the guys who watch it, coupled with the rape culture we live in, is baffling to me. How can they not be affected? How can it not warp their view on intimacy, on proper relationships?
Anyone who claims that this is a part of the BDSM culture, conveniently ignore that in said culture it is extremely important with proper communication and negotiation before any such scenes, and that rape porn most usually does not contain that. To claim that a bondage scene is the equivalent of rape porn is completely against what the BDSM culture claims are its main tenets - safe and consensual exploration of kink. If their scenes are the same as the rape porn mentioned in this article - sex where one cannot know whether a participant is being injured or not, dead or not, or is an animal - well, then, they really need to take a good look at what they are really doing, because then they may have more rape happening in their scenes than they are willing to admit.