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In reply to the discussion: Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation [View all]booley
(3,855 posts)in which how good a person you depends on how closely you agree with the OP, the difference between a fantasy and reality is done away, and we all have to pretend there no women could possibly get turned on by a "taboo" subject or BDSM so she must have been forced.
I am not sure why I am even bothering but..
You do know what a safe word is, right?
Some woman actually like rape fantasies, the operative word being "fantasy. These same women would freak out (rightfully) at a rape reality. The same for men
It's a kind of a "safe danger", allowing someone experience and work out a taboo subject in a way that doesn't actually hurt themselves or others. Doing this is not a pathology. When done right it's perfectly healthy.
So maybe people can defend this and still call themselves liberal is because they acknowledge there are different kinds of people in the world. Just because something is strange or hard to understand or even disturbing to some doesn't mean it should be outlawed.
If there is anyone being forced into doing these, that cant' back out when it goes too far then yes, we can say that's wrong.
But I know plenty of both genders that be subjected to what you describe at "torture" for free.
In other words when you deliberately try to conflate a fantasy with a reality as if the two are the same, you do a disservice to everyone.