BDSM has been featured more and more in mainstream media over the years.
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Rika says
It is getting more mainstream, but it still has so far to go. In my opinion, it’s where LBGTQ relationships were (in media) about 20 years ago – the characters in depictions of BDSM dynamics are still either comedic shills, or damaged people. The simple acceptance, without the necessity for a reason, is still a ways off.
Even in the prime example mentioned: Billions doesn’t really depict a D/s power relationship – Wendy Rhodes is a “fixer” and performance coach…she isn’t dominating Chuck Rhodes, she’s enabling him to perform better by giving him what he needs based on his own psychological past (they elude to his relationship with his mother as a “rationale” for his need to bottom). The emotional elements of D/s are not present; this is B&D and S&M for it’s own sake – she is “Topping” Chuck, not dominating him. She does not seem to have an inner desire to dominate, she is clinically helping her husband.
When power dynamics simply exist in a relationship – without it needing to be “explained” by a traumatic event or a psychotic abnormality – as we are just beginning to see with LBGTQ relationships and interracial relationships – we can declare “mainstream” acceptance. Until then, we need to keep pushing the envelopes and insisting on better representation!
– Rika.
submissivesoul says
Yes let’s hope it continues :)
R.D says
very happy kink and poly are getting more exposure in the mainstream