Love how so many people who claim to be into bdsm seem to be incapable of processing that fiction is no different than the fantasy scenario you're acting out when you do bdsm. Obviously is this manga happened in real life it would be abusive, but it happening in fiction is no different than when you pretend the dom spanking you is "punishing you" instead of it being something you both agreed upon before hand. They're both just a fantasy.
"This gives people the wrong idea of how bdsm is done" it's not a fucking manual, it's scenario porn. Pretend they're both acting out a scene if it helps you sleep at night, I guess.
Anyway this is super hot and I want more.
Yeah, I think there's a real issue with i guess... reading skills that a lot of people have where they don't fully grasp that fictional content is a work of art and thus things taking place there don't have the same moral weight as if they were happening in real life, that things like violence in fiction are not inherently immoral but are rather an artistic element that can be criticized.
That said, I actually think a lot of the specific type of hand-wringing we find on Dynasty when this kind of things comes around originates from another set of frameworks as well. There's a perspective on art that is commonly found in conservative or fascist societies that it's a tool to demonstrate, reinforce, and promote whatever that culture considers to be its cultural values: art that depicts things that align with those values is thought to create and encourage those values in people, and is thus good and pure. In this rigid and simplistic view of the world, art that fails to do this by depicting complexity, or exploring darker sides of the human experience, is degenerate art that is instead promoting bad behavior or incorrect morals, and thus does violence to people that experience it and to the society at large because it is harming their proper moral development.
This view has been made very starkly obvious in openly fascist societies historically, but we also see it in less overtly fascist places like the United States, where there is a long history of broadcast codes and practices intended to prevent the display and distribution of immoral media.
The perspective that media that depicts anything but people with good morals behaving well is dangerous often remains in people who, at least nominally, move beyond conservative social views: this is why you get people hand-wringing about whether, say, depicting abuse or fantasies of mistreatment will cause readers to view those things as normal or good (or outright crusading for its removal(, why you get people who enjoyed the work creating tortured interpretations of why it still falls within the acceptable boundaries of Productive Art ("I liked it, and I wouldn't like degenerate art, so it must not have been that degenerate!"), and why you get people simply angrily or nervously pointing out that the work depicts Bad Things without feeling the need to say more: the recognition that this is a piece of degenerate art is seen as sufficient. Nothing more must be said: everyone knows what is to be thought, what is to be done about degenerate art.
