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....is it really a dominant motive in the S&M scene to heal participants of their trauma?
Doesn't seem like it from the outside. Seems like just another porny, commercialized, ramped-up and now (thanks a bunch from all your adolescent readers, Salon) nearly mainstream practice. I'd so much rather see abuse victims helped by intensively trained therapists than unleashed on each other, or further tormented by sadists.
Soon we'll have 12 year olds cuffing and torturing each other, thinking they're just on the cutting edge of sexuality.
Of course, some will be. We'll just roll our jaded eyes away while they bleed.
