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Originally Posted by ecchi
In the 1980s I used to own a video shop, and since I could not compete with the big chains on mainstream movies (people preferred to rent from Blockbuster and buy from Woolworths even though I was cheaper - because they trusted brand names) so 90% of my business came from the "top shelf". I found that the majority of my male customers wanted hardcore SM, which I could not sell (seriously illegal back then) and whenever I had something that looked like it might possibly have a torture scene in it it flew out. For example there is a film called "House Of Whipcord", which was a dull 1970's drama about a woman's prison. In those days it was only available in an heavily edited form (it had been cut down to 59 minutes to fit on a 60 minute video tape) from a minor video company (mom and pop type family company with no major contracts). I was the only person in the area selling it, so I was able to charge over three times the retail price and it still sold as fast as I could put it out, simply because the cover showed a picture of a terrified woman cowering from a whip. The only other films that sold as well was a series of detective movies that inferred on the cover that they held some SM scenes.
Normal is what the majority want; "weird" is what the minority want. And in over a quarter of a century of running various businesses, most of which catered at least in part to the adult industry, I have found that the "majority" of men want to see women tied up and hurt. So those with "issues" are technically those who do NOT like SM !!!
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wow! this is really interesting.
