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.

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[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

If I were a writer, and I had deep down proclivities I was afraid and ashamed of, I don't know that I would choose to work through these issues in front of a "viewing" public of several million internationally, complete with my close-up glamour shots, real name, and a daily blog. (Although exhibitionism might very well be part of the fantasy.)

(I'm starting to feel guilty analyzing this woman I don't know. ^___^ And yet I can't stop...)

I have a couple of semi-serious problems with Jacqueline Carey's writing, but the morality of it is never one of those problems. It's POV, or character, or that kind of writerly stuff which is only my opinion and can easily be argued for or against. But her stuff is never exploitative or disturbing to me, even though she gets into some pretty "dark" sexual territory.

Plus she doesn't spend nearly so much time stoking the cult of her own personality with blogs and black dresses and online histrionics (that I know of), which is probably a major part of it.

And I'm totally rambling now when I should be working...*relurks*