BDSM in Mass Culture

Because of my current emotional vacuum I’ve started watching some of the popular forensic TV shows on DVD. Not something I’d ordinarily do. But I want quantity. And the forensic shows fulfill a fantasy of mine: intelligence and technical skill triumphing over bad things. (This was much of the impetus behind very early science fiction.)

Serial killers, especially in the case of Criminal Minds appear. Some of these bad guys put their victims in cages. They blindfold them, gag them and put them in bondage.

Seeing my own desires in this context causes me to become temporarily estranged from my own sexuality. It even leaves me temporarily wishing I’d never read the darker desires of some of my favorite female sadists.

Thankfully that passes. Almost anything can be twisted and mass culture is the last place to look for reality.

Back when I indulged my silly passion of horror movies I never felt that. But I’d not yet started actualizing my masochism.

When I think of movies and kink what comes to mind is women in fascist headgear, PVC, boots and a whip they probably don’t know how to use. But then there is

Hostel

This is sadism as I absolutely don’t want to visualize it: diseased and inhumanly selfish. Immoral.

I won’t be watching Hostel II.

Again this is a passing mood. But I wonder have any of you felt your self temporarily alienated from desires that you normally cherish because of some pop culture presentation of them?