This coming Friday-Dateline NBC

[DVS]

I don't know who can see this show and who can't, and when certain segments are on in different localities, but I just saw a blurb for the show 'Dateline NBC' for this coming Friday night. I guess they are going to look into suburbia homes for sexual appetites, etc. (this might be fueled by the recent fervor from "Fifty Shades of Grey"). I wasn't really listening as closely as maybe I should have, but I'll be watching for the next one.

Anyway, they showed eye bolts in people's ceilings and were talking about whips. So, this sounds like a bit of BDSM. I wonder how they will present it and if it will be good or bad for those who enjoy it.

 

[Azalea]

This has to be in response to Fifty Shades. I am thinking maybe it's a healthy thing that the books have allowed a glimpse, albeit perhaps inaccurate, of a lifestyle which is more common that 'nilla folks think.

I wonder if the "forbiddenness" of it will lose some of its power and attraction when everyone is suddenly experimenting, even in small ways.

 

[DVS]

This has to be in response to Fifty Shades. I am thinking maybe it's a healthy thing that the books have allowed a glimpse, albeit perhaps inaccurate, of a lifestyle which is more common that 'nilla folks think.

I wonder if the "forbiddenness" of it will lose some of its power and attraction when everyone is suddenly experimenting, even in small ways.

Something tells me they will sensationalize the whole idea of it, the whole time completely misunderstand BDSM. That's how the vanilla media is. It's the same way they sensationalize murders and other human tragedies by shoving a camera in the face of victims and family members asking the question, "how does this make you feel?"

I'm a pessimist about the outcome, but it would be nice if this "Fifty Shades" thing actually does BDSM some good.

 

[mojo23]

I'm a pessimist about the outcome, but it would be nice if this "Fifty Shades" thing actually does BDSM some good.

There was an article on the Fifty Shade trilogy today in USA Today as well. I read the first book and posted another comment on another thread here about how I think there are better BDSM novels out there. However I agree if it can do BDSM some good then great! Or if is spices up coulple sex life and they decide to explore more options for the bedroom (or out of the bedroom ) then good for them.

 

[DVS]

Well, I was disappointed with Dateline, tonight. It must be sweeps week or something. The whole BDSM thing was part of a murder investigation. They played out the husband as a nice guy for the first of the show, then they brought out the people who knew him not as the nice rich family guy he wanted shown but as Master Bob, who was very dominant. One lady said he was very dominant in the dungeon scene, so he could have killed his wife because of how dominant he was in the dungeon.

BDSM didn't get a good showing. It was shown as dark and almost evil and some of the people were kind of back stabbing to get their story told. As it turns out, some handy man admitted to killing the wife, but only because he was at gunpoint by the husband ordering him to. Then, the two of them took her body and expensive SUV to a remote alley in the shady part of town.

There is also a side story told by the husband's slave (his wife knew nothing of his alternate sex life) that she and he were looking for another woman and were going to move in together. So, that didn't help the husband's story, either.

So far, the husband is still out of jail, and has not been charged. But, the handy man is sticking by his story, even though it's changed several times. I guess none of this has much to do with BDSM, but because the husband was involved with it, they were shedding doubt on his story. They were trying to say if he could be so forceful in the dungeon, why not with the handy man?

I don't know if it made BDSM look any worse than some see it now, but it sure didn't help it look any better. I almost laughed when the interviewer looked so shocked, when one lady was explaining the furniture in the dungeon. It was laughable.