The history of bdsm

[Primalex]

The difference between torture and BDSM as we know it-- is consent. If the slaves in Ancient Rome didn't want to be tortured, it wasn't BDSM.

The question is whether the torturers enjoyed the torture in a sexual sense. De Sade didn't care much about consent either.

 

[shewantsmore]

Im sure they enjoyed there work,

 

[Primalex]

Im sure they enjoyed there work,

I suspect that most torturers were picked by their lack of empathy, much like a butcher doesn't necessarily enjoy to end the life of an animal.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The question is whether the torturers enjoyed the torture in a sexual sense. De Sade didn't care much about consent either.

true, true. And De Sade was not a practitioner of BDSM as we know it. His victims were victims, not masochists.

 

[Primalex]

true, true. And De Sade was not a practitioner of BDSM as we know it. His victims were victims, not masochists.

And yet he enjoyed it.

 

[candeecain]

read the works of the Marquis de sade