Wow..so he tweeted. He MUST mean business. I mean it's not like he knows anyone at the federal level who could look into pursuing federal hate crime charges or taking a good look at the Bennington PD.

You’re not worth the time or effort. Sorry.

Peach, if the number of rapes reported isn’t that important, then don’t LIE about it. Easy fix.

The reason no one wants to talk about any of this stuff with you has nothing to do with the topic. It has to do with your toxic, insulting, and clearly already biased attitude. If you showed, even for an instant, a…

Okay, I was ignoring you, but since you’re again misrepresenting the facts:

Rape is down SIGNIFICANTLY. As is all violent crime in the US since 1993. In fact, since 1993, it’s been cut in half, while reporting has gotten better. Unfortunately, it has not fallen as fast as other crimes.

And there has been a very recent…

People die in murder. No one is actually raped in a rape fantasy.

Are we also going to ban any film in which people are killed?

PROVE that it “perpetuates, economizes and fetishizes the systematic oppression of (our) gender.” Because studies of BDSM show that participants, especially female sub ones, are better off psychologically than those who do not partake.

Actually, my best friend (who is gay) and I talk about out shared interest in rape fantasies and he regularly expresses envy that I have a partner who enjoys indulging me in mine. (shrugs)

Oh, and radishes? a kink often IS a sexual orientation in that a person has as little input into feeling the way they do about…

Agreed. Doing that without a lot of serious discussion is not just wrong, it’s asking for all kinds of trouble.

Oh, and to be clear, there are a lot of guys who identify as doms who are not. One of the unfortunate things about people misinforming others about our community is that it let predators know of our existence. One of the things we’ve had to deal with is predatory men who have entered that community pretending to be…

No, I wasn’t saying that the men you were with weren’t doms. Since I have no contact with them, I have no way of knowing.

I was saying that those specific men—not doms as a group—were a problem. If you clearly expressed where your limits were and they trespassed those, they were in the wrong. Their membership in the…

I appreciate you making the distinction. My husband is just about the kindest man I’ve ever known, and having him doubt solely on the basis of what he and I like to do in bed—well, there’s no difference between that and homophobia in my book, really.

Porn that depicts rape is tricky. And that’s because very little of…

In Europe, due to concerns about sex trafficking, reporting of such crimes has been a lot more effective in recent years, and the UN announced improved tracking of crimes against women, especially rape, in conflict zones.

So, yeah, things are looking up all over.

“No one is telling anyone what they should or shouldn’t do in their own bedroom. They are simply saying if you create a product for mass consumption that glorifies misogyny, you are contributing to cultural attitudes that condone misogyny.”

No one in this discussion is creating such a product and yet those who are…

Reporting of sex crimes is up in recent years in the US, so no, that doesn’t explain it either.

Perhaps. But when people try to tell me that my desire to submit comes from societal gender pressure, I cease listening to them because I know precisely where my desires come from, and it has fuck-all to do with gender or society (or even sex, really). It is a very specific result of a very specific childhood, one…

Amen, sister.

For those who would like to learn more about BDSM from a research/professional pov:

Done with you, Peach. You’ve made it clear that you’ve no interest in facts, no interest in actual discussion, no interest in anything but insults and screaming down those who disagree with you. You don;t even pass for a concern troll at this point. I am guessing you’re in it for the attention, so I’m turning mine…

No, it’s not. I teach fallacies in writing. Saying that something happened, that it does happen among the group being talked about (“a very small sample”), but that it does not represent the whole, is not the One True Scotsman Fallacy. To be that fallacy, I would have had to insist that they weren’t really members of…

BTW, for those playing at home (and in an attempt to educate), sensation play usually involves blindfolding the bottom (though it can just be him or her closing eyes), sometimes bound, though that’s not necessary, and the top running various things, designed to created a variety or set of sensations, across the body.…