What was going on with the significant cultural influence of BDSM on culture from about 1970 to 2011?
I know that covers a significant amount of time but if you think about visuals and media franchises it drove across the decades it left a very powerful legacy that seemed to sputter out with Fifty Shades of Grey which I think people feel was itself very vanilla. In fact all the franchises that were created have also failed.
Did the psychosexual nature of society change or did BDSM just become normalised to the extent that it stopped having any edge to it. I know as someone born in 1989 it doesn't have any appeal to me personally but then I'm not the stereotypical person who likes it. And just for any doubt if you think of influence you have; Hellraiser, Alien, The Matrix, Depeche Mode etc.
I think society wanted a very specific amount of edginess in that time, and it was exactly the amount of edginess that BDSM offers. It's weird and nasty, but in a very predictable and understandable way. Now, society wants things that are stranger and less obviously sexual, and so this is why any jokes about joining OnlyFans always relate to pictures of feet.
If you want a more controversial theory, it's da jooz. Many high-ranking entertainers and TV executives in America have Jewish heritage, famously, and if you were 40-50 years old in 1970-1980, the legacy of the Holocaust will have left an especially serious mark on your psyche. That's if you hadn't personally survived a concentration camp, which some of them will have done. And even if you weren't Jewish, let's face it, the Nazis were all over the news for everyone and they were a real-life BDSM fantasy with their snazzy uniforms and horrible torture experiments.
>Did the psychosexual nature of society change or did BDSM just become normalised
Are you kidding me? With respect to the people, the LGBT extravaganza has worked magic on the west. Thank Elizabeth II for banning psychoactive research chemicals else it'd be a fucking riot.
Pride was called off for rain, biblical don't you think?
Talking from a tightly puckered arse - I'll apply the beads and see if my mind changes in a few days.
Feminism innit. The roles of and power relationships between men and women radically changed from the late 60s onwards, with the key inciting event being the invention of the contraceptive pill. BDSM became a vehicle for people to play out the anxieties that arose from that flux.
Don't do that. If I have to start arguing with one of you about Dworkin I might top myself, and I will make it clear that .gs made me do it in the note.
BDSM used to be a working class underground culture with links to stonewall and that worked until it was wrung dry by wealthy capitalists who sanitised BDSM for middle class sensibilities. That moment peaked with 50 Shades Grey which featured the fantasy of a finance-guy who was only into it because of his trauma that could be fixed with the romantic love of a middling corporate girlie.
>>25696 >BDSM used to be a working class underground culture
Bullshit. If there's anything Sade taught in his terrible book, it's that class makes no difference when it comes to the sexual natures of man.
