The BBC’s Sudden S&M Interest
BBC News covers Britain's S&M scene
Our little pastime has attracted sudden interest in the UK. All it takes is for one micro-celebrity to be caught in a little paid submission, and suddenly everyone’s interested in what we do.
The article’s enough to make one laugh out loud, though:
“Most clients I see are submissive - they want me to be in control,” she says. “When a client walks through the door I will have them strip and kneel on the floor in front of me - they will not even question that.”
What follows depends on what has been previously agreed, but Faith is adamant that she offers not just the indulgence of a fantasy, but therapy that helps those who are distressed by their fetish - or disappointed when the reality of their fantasy fails to live up to expectations.
Now, perhaps I’m biased, because I’m very much a relationship-based submissive, and the idea of going to see a pro-domme just does not appeal, but this seems a rather narrow view of a much more complicated subject…
To be fair, the article goes into more depth later on:
In such cases, both people consent to a longer-term master-slave relationship, based on mutual trust, and on the condition that either can pull out at a time of their choosing. But lurid reports of BDSM sessions that have gone wrong - such the brutal murder in 2004 of film agent Rod Hall during an S&M “game” - have helped create a difficult environment in which these relationships can flourish openly.
The first part sounds more like the Femdom I’m used to, but again with the link between S&M relationships and murder? This is a bit like mentioning the fact that people are sometimes stabbed with kitchen knives every time they publish an article about cooking…
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