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15. Their are some factions in the BDSM community

That are definitely working on this, and on speaking out against abuse and raising awareness about it. There are actually topics like this showing up at seminars and conventions now.

Not surprisingly, there is also a lot of pushback within the community about that.

Abusers of any sort really don't like it much when people start to notice that what they are doing actually constitutes abuse, and they are the ones who either minimize the problem, or actively speak out against people's efforts to rein them in.

In that community, questioning anyone's preferred type of kink is frowned on. It is not well received to make any kind of criticism that sounds anything like "I think maybe you are going a little too far with that." There is actually a very strong social taboo against questioning what anyone else does in the context of BDSM. Which makes it an abuser's dream situation.

Unfortunately, some folks really do leave the "sane" part out of "Safe, Sane, and Consensual".