Curious about this for awhile...

[saucyirishlass.livejournal.com]

It's been said in many places by different people that LKH's portrayal of the BDSM lifestyle is off. I know a bit more than just the basics - ah, the joys of reading - and can sort of inherently pick up that something isn't right with her depiction, but I can't really articulate it. I was just curious to hear from those who participate in the lifestyle, what they personally find offensive, frustrating, or just headdesk-worthy about LKH's portrayal. Perhaps they can help make it clearer to me why it feels amiss.

Comments

[spoiled-saint.livejournal.com]

Well, admittedly, we're talking about a country where oral sex wasn't seen as actual sex by the president himself. There is something in the "American" generalization.

And how about that little episode where there was a wide movement for abstaining from sex until marriage in young adults - mostly as a way to safeguard against STD - and then the average number of cases of STD didn't move an inch... because the "young adults" didn't see oral sex and anal sex as breaking chastity.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

How COULD you go and use logic and valid examples to remind me of the foibles of my countrymen... er, persons!

[spoiled-saint.livejournal.com]

;-) lol